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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

Originally, patents had a simple purpose: By filing a patent, an inventor or company showed how their new technology worked, in exchange for legal protection for the duration of the patent. billion , predominantly for the approximately $4 billion worth of patents it possessed around smartphone technology. Does this system still work?

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. When I left the company three years later, more than 150 teams at that company were using Scrum for developing both infrastructure and product features.

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Augmented Reality: The time has come

etventure

Thereby, the technology provides helpful context information or adds features to an existing application. AR, in general, requires a combination of hardware and software tools to connect the different levels. One reason is that one third of the world’s population already uses the technology behind it every day in smartphones.

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The Engineering Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

If there are no design engineers, a system architect and GUI lead may be the best option for software expertise. However, any technical group’s reluctance to give up control over design is usually due to the fact that so far, they’ve been the most competent to do it. Programmers and engineers may initially be wary of designers.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Over the next ten years Apple sold over 320 million iPods and as they introduced more products such as the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2009 which, at the time of publishing this article, have both respectively sold 421 million and 170 million units their annual revenues grew from $5 Billion to an eye watering $171 Billion. mgriffin_uk .