However, Samsung, in its cross examination, sought to poke holes in expert John Hauser's methodology. Its attorneys said features such as brand and operating system factor more prominently in consumers' purchase decisions. Hauser, the Kirin professor of marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management, is key to Apple's argument that it deserves about $2 billion in damages for Samsung's alleged infringement. The company argues that Samsung copied Apple's iPhone as it tried to figure out how to react and compete with the device. It realized it "simply did not have a product that could compete successfully against the iPhone," Apple attorneys said during opening arguments last week. Samsung, however, argues that many of the patented items are features Google had earlier created for Android.

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Meier said he's interested in the next-generation consoles, but didn't say whether he would create any games for that platform. "It depends on what's suitable," he said. With the constant improvement in the PC arena, he understood the need by the console makers to up their game in terms of graphics and performance. He said the console makers also understand the need to make their hardware more relevant, acting not only as a gaming device but the entertainment hub of a living room. On Civilization, the game that brought him such acclaim, Meier said he no longer has an active role in the development of the games. Instead, he praised folks such as Civilization V lead designer Jon Shafer, who he said grew up on the franchise.

The new NBC Universal joint venture will include NBC's broadcast TV stations, several cable channels, including MSNBC, USA, E! and Bravo, and the Universal movie studio and theme parks as well as Comcast's 23 million video subscribers and nearly 17 million Internet broadband subscribers, Comcast and NBC are officially hitched, The companies announced their $37 billion deal has been finalized, It's official, Comcast has completed its acquisition of NBC Universal, On rugged polymer case for iphone 8 Saturday, the cable giant announced that the transaction is complete, Comcast now owns 51 percent of NBC Universal, General Electric still owns 49 percent of the media conglomerate, The new company, which will be called NBC Universal, is valued at $37 billion..

For our testing, we set a tape measure out across a table, and moved a labeled box closer and closer to the phone's camera, until it reached an optimal focus. For the iPhone, that length was 2.5 inches on the dot. A centimeter closer, and it lost a noticeable amount of sharpness. The Nexus One was able to pull in just a tad (and we do mean a tad) closer than the iPhone, coming in at 2.4 inches. To take it a step further, you can pull in both phones to about an inch of a subject and still have details such as text be legible. It's just not anywhere near as sharp as it is from 2.5 inches and beyond.