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Otellini, Paul

Outside
magazine

Page, Larry; Android as viewed by; at Android launch; Android suggestion of; car of; at conference; iPhone of; Jobs and; limelight avoided by; telephones and

painting on a tablet

Palm; Open Handset Alliance and; PalmPilot; Treo

Pandora

Paramount Pictures

Parker, Sean

Parker, Trey

patent lawsuits;
Apple v. Samsung
;
Bell v. Gray
;
Gould v. Townes
;
Singer v. Howe
;
Wright brothers v. Curtiss

patent pool

patents; on adrenaline; on
Amazon.com
’s 1-Click buying method; on Apple’s slide-to-unlock feature; on drugs; on flight control; on iPhone features; Jobs and; on laser; Motorola; number of applications for; on rubber molding; searching database for; on sewing machine; on software; and speed of technology advances; on telephone

Paterson, David

PC Magazine

PCs,
see
computers, personal

PDAs (personal digital assistants); Newton

Perfect Thing, The
(Levy)

“Personal Computer for Children of All Ages” (Kay)

Philips

Pichai, Sundar

pilots

piracy

Pixo

Plepler, Richard

Portfolio
magazine

Prodigy

Quake

Quake Labs

Qualcomm

Quattro Wireless

Quinn, John

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan

Quittner, Josh

Rabb, Jefferson

Ratliff, Evan

Razr

Research in Motion (RIM); Open Handset Alliance and

“Rise and Fall of the First American Patent Thicket, The: The Sewing Machine War of the 1850s” (Mossoff)

Rokr

Roku

rubber, molding of

Rubin, Andy; at Android launch; deadlines and; gadgets purchased by; Google culture and; Google politics and; and Google’s acquisition of Android; Jha and; Jobs and; in meeting with Jobs on Android; Open Handset Alliance and; and secrecy surrounding Android

Rubinstein, Jon

Rudin, Scott

Rutan, Burt

Ryan, Jim

Safari Internet browser

Sakoman, Steve

Samsung; advertising of; Android phones of; Apple’s lawsuit against; design approach of; Galaxy; Google’s relationship with; Media Hub; Nexus; TouchWiz

Sandberg, Sheryl

Saracino, Joe

Schiller, Phil

Schmidt, Eric; Android as viewed by; Apple/Google fight and; on Apple’s board of directors; in
Apple v. Samsung
trial; iPad and; iPhone given to; Jobs and; Open Handset Alliance and; role at Google; on smartphones

Sculley, John

SEC

Seidenberg, Ivan

Sense by HTC

Sequoia Capital

Sewing Machine Combination

sewing machines

Shazam

Shockley, William

Sholes, Christopher Latham

Showtime

Sidekick smartphone

Sigman, Stan

Silicon Valley; convergence and; entertainment industry and; software copyright law and

Silver Lake Capital

Singer, Isaac

Siri

Skype

smartphones; Android,
see
Android phones; apps for,
see
apps; BlackBerry,
see
BlackBerry; carriers for,
see
wireless carriers; Google applications on; Internet and; iPhone,
see
iPhone; network for; price of; Quattro Wireless and; sales of TVs vs.; Schmidt on; switch from cell phones to; Windows on

Snow Fall project

social media: Facebook,
see
Facebook; MySpace; Twitter

software: copyright law and; patents on

Sony

SOPA/PIPA

SpaceShipOne

Spacey, Kevin

Spindler, Michael

Spotify

spreadsheet programs

Sprint

Stahl, Norman

Stanford University

Star7

Stone, Matt

Stratton, John

Strickon, Josh

Stringer, Christopher

Summly

Sun Microsystems

Symbian

tablets; EO; GRiDPad; iPad,
see
iPad; Microsoft; Nexus 7; sales of televisions vs.

Tandy

Taylor, Nick

TCI (Tele-Communications, Inc.)

tech start-ups

telecommunications industry; Google and; Microsoft and;
see also
wireless carriers

telephone; Google Voice and; patent on;
see also
cell phones; smartphones

television; Aereo and; bundling of services; cable industry’s problems; convergence and; “cord cutting” and; HBO and; iPad and; iPhone and; movie industry threatened by; watching on Internet vs. cable

televisions, sales of

Tellme Networks

Thompson, Nick

Time
magazine

Time Inc.

Time Warner

Time Warner Cable

Tivili

TiVo

T-Mobile; Android and; G1; Sidekick

TNT cable network

Torvalds, Linus

Toshiba

touchscreens; on Android; on iPad; on iPhone; on Nexus One; pressure-sensitive; on Star7

TouchWiz by Samsung

Townes, Charles

TPG investment firm

trackpads

Treo smartphone

Tseng, Erick

Turner Broadcasting

Twitter

Uber

uBid

Universal Studios

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

VCRs

Velo by Philips

Verhoeven, Charles

Verizon; Android and; AT&T’s connection problems and; Google and; iPhone and; Microsoft and; Open Handset Alliance and

Viacom

Vodafone

Vorath, Kim

Wall Street Journal, The

Walmart

Warner Brothers

Web Therapy

WebTV

Weeks, Wendell

Wi-Fi

Wikipedia

William Morris Endeavor (WME)

Williams, Jeff

Wilson, Charles

Wired
magazine

wireless

wireless carriers; Android and; Apple as; AT&T,
see
AT&T; competition among; Google and; Jobs’s view of; T-Mobile,
see
T-Mobile; Verizon,
see
Verizon; Vodafone

Wolman, David

Wozniak, Steve

Wright brothers

writers, payment of

Wyld, Jeremy

Xerox PARC

Yahoo!; Google and

Yanover, Michael

YouTube; on Android; Google’s acquisition of; Google’s proposed partnership with; on iPhone; original content for

Zander, Ed

Zuckerberg, Mark

Zuiker, Anthony

Zyman, Sergio

Zynga

A Note About the Author

Fred Vogelstein is a contributing editor at
Wired
magazine, where he writes about the tech and media industries. He has been a staff writer for
Fortune
,
The Wall Street Journal
, and
U.S. News & World Report
. His work has also appeared in
The New York Times Magazine
, the
Los Angeles Times
, and
The Washington Post
.