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Video below President Barack Obama reportedly will meet with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and possibly other business leaders in technology and innovation in San Francisco Thursday night.The meeting, listed on the Presidentrsquo schedule on the White House website as taking place at a private residence, will cover issues such as st stanley italia rengthening the U.S. economy, creating jobs and supporting entrepreneurship. BIG NEWS: Top tech stories of 2011 ndash; so far Topics such as the role of social media in recent protests across Egypt, Algeria and other countries will presumably also be on the table. We also wonder whether the famously BlackBerry-addicted commander in chief will get any sort of Apple iPhone or Google Android smartphone pitchhellip; Obama has been busy on the tech front of late, seeking a big boost in cybersecurity spending and calling for a massive investment in 4G wireless so that the broadband technology will reach 98% of the country.Itrsquo been an hydrojug traveler eventful new year for Obamarsquo guests, with Jobs taking a medical leave from Apple, Schmidt getting bumped upstairs at Google, and Zuckerberg continuing his dizzying rise to fame and power with everythi stanley italy ng from a cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live to major movie awards and nominations for The Social Network film based on the creation of Facebook. U.S. President Barack Obama was in Silicon Valley Jszh Wired Magazine is dead (to me)
A week after being accused of infringing on six pat polene handtaschen ents owned by EMC Corp., Hitachi Ltd. has filed its own lawsuit in a U.S. District Court seeking damages against EMC for the infri stanley mug ngement of eight patents, the company announced today.The complaint, filed in the Western District of Oklahoma, contends that certain EMC data storage systems, including products in both EMCrsquo Symmetrix and Clariion product lines, infringe on patents owned by Tokyo-based Hitachi and Hitachi Computer Products America Inc., Hitachi said.Hitachirsquo suit also includes a request for an injunction to keep Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC from selling the products in question until the legal matter is resolved, Hitachi said. Representatives from Hitachi couldnrsquo;t immediately be reached for comment. But EMC spokesman Mike Orsquo;Malley said, Itrsquo common for defendants to gin up counterclaims after being sued. EMC will respond to Hitachirsquo allegations once it has had the opportunity to review Hitachir polene borse squo lawsuit.Last Thursday, EMC filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Worcester, Mass., seeking damages for copyright infringement and requesting in a separate complaint that the U.S. International Trade Commission block Hitachi from importing the infringing products into the U.S. see story .EMC claims that its patents covering the companyrsquo Symmetrix Remote Data Facility business continuity software and its TimeFinder remote storage software have been violated |
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