[LINK] More on OS advertising patents

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 10:23 +1100, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Kim Holburn wrote:
> >  I seem to remember Eudora had a mode that effectively did  
> > this.
> and Google/Amazon and other Advertising
> programs - which insert content into
> webpages and presumeably Google Apps.

You are all missing the point. This is not an application advertising at
you, or ads overlaid on other content delivered via an application. This
is the *operating system* delivering ads. That is what's new in this
idea.

On PCs, splash screens are about the closest we've come, though that is
prior art of a sort. I wonder if other areas, like mobile phones, PDAs,
MP3 players etc, might not show more prior art.

Regards, K.

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