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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

The flipside of Tablet technology

Here’s a great one for conspiracy theorists.

I got sent a
link yesterday (thanks Richard) to an interesting article on Engadget that illustrates a law case brought against Acer and other Tablet PC manufacturers.

The gist of it is that just as the Tablet has reached the end of its life (see my post yesterday), a man in Oregon has decided to sue Acer, Gateway, Toshiba, HP, IBM, and Fujitsu for violating his 1996 patent "Hinge Assembly for Electronic Devices".

The strange thing is that this same man appears to have some dodgy friends … Read the
link in the responses section to find out who…

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