NetAppVoice: Crowdsourcing: Great For Your Business (A Handy Primer) – Forbes

Apple-Samsung Case Muddies Future of Innovation – NYTimes.com: Oh boy, this is gonna get ugly. Especially if you are in the habit of ripping off other companies technology. Samsung, just got smacked down hard. A $1B verdict is just the beginning. Apple will of course, try to get treble damages for “willful” infringement of Apple’s technology. But the $1B is only the beginning. On September 20, the hearing (resumes) related to an injunction of the…

Fuel cell cars from Toyota, Honda, Hyundai set to debut at auto shows – latimes.com: We’ve been waiting for decades (50 years?) for a fuel cell car. It looks like Toyota will come out fist with a Fuel Cell car next year. The fuel cell being announced this next week are coming from Honda and Hyundai. Unfortunately, it seems, these will be hydrogen fuel based. Other versions of Fuel Cell generators use liquid fuels, not…

Supreme Court Makes It Easier for Patent Holders to Win More in Damages – WSJ: The unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court brings back the serious damages — up to 3 times — for willful patent infringement. Recent lower court rulings were making it virtually impossible to go after big, treble-the-losses, damages. That is the BIG STICK in patent infringement cases. Some companies strategy is to just keep infringing and simply let the lawyers do…

How much should a hip replacement cost? Study raises more questions than answers – CBS News: Paying cash for a procedure can get wild in terms of the prices. (They did this for a similar ailment and got similar results.) Offering to pay cash, and pay up front will result in serious discounts, say 70%. But this is still a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world of medicine. What’s missing is transparency. If you can’t figure out how much…