volve Scaling new Alone and battling heights We support the use a state within a state of recycled newsprint DAY KOLKATA NEW DELHI SILIGURI BHUBANESWAR www.thestatesman.net e-mail: [email protected] 26 AUGUST 2012 12+4+12 LC Rs 3.50 Short Takes MEDIA HOUSES PAYING PEOPLE TO MANUACTURE CANARDS Judges should not seek to rule: CJI Apple winner in NEW DELHI, 25 AUG:Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia today said CM attacks media judges should not govern the cou- ntry or evolve policies, and should patent battle apply the enforceability test on statesman news service some verdicts, such as making the right to sleep a fundamental KOLKATA, 25 AUG: Chief minister right. The CJI, who was delivering a Mamata Banerjee today alleged that a with Samsung lecture here, also wondered what would happen if section of the media was paying money to the executive refused to comply with the judiciarys some people to manufacture canards NEW YORK, 25 AUG: In a massive victo- g The jurors directives that may not be enforceable. pti about her government. ry in its patent case against Samsung, details on page 5 found that Miss Banerjee who was speaking at a technology giant Apple has been award- Samsung had resh flare-up in lower Assam Trinamul Congress Yuva programme said: ed more than $ 1 billion in damages after infringed upon GUWAHATI, 25 AUG:3ive persons were killed in fresh Now media is run by business houses. a jury in California found that the South six of the violence in lower Assam's Chirang district today They instruct their journalists to spread Korean firm violated a series of Apple's Apple taking the toll to 85 since ethnic trouble erupted last canards. I have been told by Mr -irhad patents related to the software and patents, month. The five were stabbed to death at around Hakim (the state urban development design of mobile devices. including 5:30 pm at Chaoudharipara at Bijni in the district, minister) that he has heard that sums of The nine jurors in the case reached patents covering the physical Assam IGP (law and order) L R Bishnoi said. between Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh are a verdict after answering more than design of the iPhone and the Additional security forces were rushed to the spot being paid (to participants of talk shows) 700 questions in a verdict form over pinch-to-zoom feature in and the area sealed, Mr Bishnoi said. pti for making such statements on television. three days of deliberations in a San Apple products that details on page 5 These people even go further to lodge Jose court in California. magnifies an image diaries with police if necessary and then According to the verdict, Apple's g All seven of Apples patents ive killed in Purulia accident were found valid; PURULIA, 25 AUG:A man was beheaded and a withdraw it. patents were valid and the company Just because you own a channel, you did not violate any of Samsung's Apple did not woman had her legs torn off when two vehicles sma- violate any of shed into each other this morning. 3ive people were cannot incite rapes and suicides. Speak the patents. truth. Do not incite crime, the chief min- An Apple spokeswoman said in a Samsungs killed and 10 seriously injured in the accident in whi- patents ch a pickup van carrying newspapers from Kolkata ister thundered. Now they have picked statement that the verdict sends a up rapes to highlight. -irst there is break- clear message that stealing isn't right. g Apple had to Purulia collided head-on with a lorry on 60A, the listed 28 Bankura-Purulia highway, this morning at Joynagar- ing news. Then there is a contradiction. The mountain of evidence presented Samsung Hutmura near Purulia town. sns (details on page 3) This carries on for two days. Do not treat during the trial showed that Samsung's products in Missing girls body found, rape alleged politicians like guinea pigs, she said. copying went far deeper than even we the case BARRACKPORE, 25 AUG:The body of a 10-year-old If the complaints are genuine, the knew... We make these products to girl who had been missing for two days was found administration will take steps. I'm the first delight our customers, not for our patents, including patents covering the today. Her family members say she was raped and person to take stringent action against the competitors to flagrantly copy. physical design of the iPhone and the then murdered. The body was recovered from crime. But if you lie, police will lodge Reacting to the verdict, Samsung pinch-to-zoom feature in Apple Panihati Ghat by area residents, police said. They diaries against you. Certain things can be said it would ask the court to overturn products that magnifies an image. say they found the mark of a noose around the little tolerated for a certain time, but not all the the verdict and also plans to appeal in They found all seven of Apple's girl's neck. sns (details on page 3) time, Miss Banerjee said. a higher court. Samsung said the ver- patents valid and also decided that She said a section of the media is work- dict should not be viewed as a win for Apple did not violate any of the five Neil Armstrong is dead ing hand-in-glove with the CPI-M to vilify Apple, but as a loss for the American patents as alleged by Samsung. WASHINGTON, 25 AUG:Neil the state government. Mamata Banerjee speaks at the Trinamul Yuva programme. sns consumer. It will lead to fewer choices, Samsunghad sought over 422 mil- Armstrong, the US astronaut This section of the media, she said, is less innovation, and potentially higher lion dollars from Apple for violation of who in 1969 became the misleading the people by dishing out half- "During the Left -ront regime only six Territorial Administration election. prices. Samsungsaid the verdict isits patents. first man to set foot on the truths and falsehoods about alleged inci- six newborn care units were set up but She asked the youth brigade of her not the final word in the case or in The closely-watched trial provided a moon, died today at the age dents of rape and molestation. within one and a half years we have creat- party to disseminate information about battles being waged in courts and tri- rare glimpse into the workings of the of 82. Armstrong had Miss Banerjee complained that these ed 22 such units,'' she said. the performance of her government bunals around the world, some of companies, particularly Apple, which undergone heart surgery days the media hardly takes up the issues "Anyone committing suicide, they will through social networking. which have already rejected many of has remained secretive about is opera- just weeks back, and his of the downtrodden. She said that Press project as the farmers committing suicide. She also instructed state finance minis- Apple's claims. tions. family said in a statement Council chairman Markandey Katju had And now these media houses are doing a ter Amit Mitra to lodge police -IRs over Apple had listed 28 Samsungprod- The companies had to divulge sales that he passed away also written to her about it. roaring business by dishing out false cases the disappearance of a number of govern- ucts in the case and had accused the figures, business negotiations and following complications Mr Katju had earlier criticised us. He of rape and molestation,'' she charged. ment files from the state finance depart- South Korean company of infringing internal memos. resulting from cardiovascular procedures, according to US media reports. He had celebrated can do so. But now he has written a letter Miss Banerjee claimed that no other ment. She said these files had gone miss- seven patents. Later, Samsunghad Apple executives also revealed his 82nd birthday on 5 August. Armstrong comma- to me on the present-day media to which I state government has achieved the level of ing at about the time the previous Left alleged that some models of the never-before-heard stories about the nded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the will reply, the Trinamul chief said. progress that her government had done in -ront government was voted out of power. Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch things going on at Apple, including moon on 20 July 1969. Armstrongs words ~ She said a section of the media first tried only 16 months. She listed as her govern- She said there was uncertainty over the had infringed on five of its patents. that designers huddle together around "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap to say that her government will divide West ment's successes the restoration of peace continuance of the UPA government and Jurors decided in favour of Apple a kitchen table at the company's head- for mankind" ~ as he first stepped on the moon Bengal and when it proved to be false, they both in the Hills and also in Junglemahal, the Trinamul Congress was trying its best and found that Samsunghad quarters to come up with new prod- endure as one of the best known quotes in the raised false propaganda over crib deaths. highlighting the recent Gorkhaland to ensure that it does not collapse. infringed upon six of the Apple ucts and designs. pti English language. Armstrong and his wife, Carol, whom he married in 1999, made their home in the Cincinnati suburb of Indian Hill, but he had largely stayed out of public view in recent years.