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boeing patents lunar flyby

Techdirt has the tale of a satellite launch gone awry. The satellite in question could still be nudged into its intended orbit, but Boeing has a patent on the process of doing a lunar flyby and returning to earth orbit, and it refuses to license the patent to SES, who launched the satellite.
In other patenting-elementary-math-and-physics [...]

Posted 13 April 2008 † regan § links ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

myths from the cellular front

“Telus is different cause they use towers. Rogers uses satellites, right, so there’s always one around, and if you connect to the roaming satellite instead of the regular satellite, that’s where you get roaming charges.”
And we smile and nod.

Posted 28 December 2007 † regan § words ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: , , , ,