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Aron Schatz
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February 2, 2006
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Will RIM be shutdown. Patents in this country are becoming insane.

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As its patent-infringement defense against NTP winds down, RIM is scheduled to argue on Feb. 24 against an injunction on the sale and support of BlackBerry devices in the U.S. After a jury trial in 2002, NTP won an injunction against RIM that was stayed in 2003 pending an appeals process.


Duke Nukem Forever still kicking.

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I think it'll be out when pigs fly. But it's definitely going well now. Things are together; we're in full production. We're basically just pulling all the pieces together and making the game out of it. There's a lot that's finished. All the guns are finished. Most of the creatures are finished. And as I said, we're just basically pulling it all together and trying to make it fun. We've kind of got all these disassociated elements that make up a game, and you put them together and things happen. And then you just tweak it and polish it until it's fun, and that's kind of the phase we're in now, just trying to make something that is really fun to play and interesting.


Comcast's profits take a dive.

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The big decline resulted from a drop in investment and other income and an increase in the effective tax rate, the company said. Investment and other income fell to $58 million in the fourth quarter from $553 million in the same period a year earlier.

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