TechStew

So, you made a video, you think it is great and entertaining and want the world to know about it? How do you go viral within a short period of time with your latest visual art-piece? First of all you need to build a strategy and not just sit and pray that your video suddenly takesoff . Most likely this is NOT going to happen. One of the strategies one often finds on the net is to do a ‘video response’ which basically means trying to piggyback on someone’s successful video with a large audience. Just because someone has a large audience, doesn’t automatically make them an ideal partner. This strategy does not pay off for a couple of reasons; you need to be approved by the owner of the said video channel which is highly unlikely, and the second is if you actually do get approved that the viewers of the other video will scroll down and click on your video. There are just to many ‘ifs’ in this strategy to safely rely on it. Viral CAN be created, but it takes some se...

Samsung infringed a key portion of an  Apple   patent by including a text-selection feature in its smartphones and tablets, an International Trade Commission judge said in a preliminary decision. South Korean-based Samsung did not infringe portions of a second Apple patent that allows a device to detect if a microphone or other device is plugged into its microphone jack, the judge said in a decision that was issued on March 26 but kept confidential until late Thursday to allow the companies to redact sensitive  busin ess  information.   The full commission must now decide if they will uphold it or overturn the judge's decision. A final decision is expected in August. If it is upheld, the  ITC  can order any infringing device to be barred from importation into the United States. Apple has alleged that Samsung's Galaxy, Transform and Nexus devices, among others, were among those made with the infringing technology. Apple had fi...