A German court has invalidated an Apple patent for the slide-to-unlock feature on mobile phones, according to a published report. The Thursday ruling by Bundespatentgericht, Germany's federal patent court, is a victory for Samsung ...
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For many of us—especially those with kids—programming the DVR to record shows and movies until it's crammed to capacity is a regular ritual. But how many of those shows do you actually ever watch? Probably not as many as you ...
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Microsoft today launched a searchable list of its complete patent portfolio as part of its defense of the patent system, particularly software patents. The list is currently composed of nearly 41,000 U.S. and international patents ...
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Google will not sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked, the company said Thursday. Google began the pledge with 10 patents relating to MapReduce, a computing model for ...
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Acquity Group a leading Brand eCommerce and digital marketing company, has partnered with C. Wonder to improve its digital experience. A retail shopping destination founded by Chris Burch , C. Wonder engaged Acquity Group to refresh its ...
The land rush for mobile patents is so feverish that about one-quarter of all patents issued in the U.S. this year will be mobile-related, according to a study released on Wednesday. "It just shows, given the number of filings, how ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has filed a new lawsuit in US District Court alleging the infringement of Peregrine ...
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An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against a ban on Microsoft's Xbox as he found it did not violate a patent owned by Motorola Mobility. In a one-paragraph ruling, Judge David P. Shaw gave an ...
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AIM, the industry association and worldwide authority on bar code, RFID, RTLS and mobile computing, is pleased to announce the appointment of two expert consultants from the industry to move the association forward. Ken Koldan will be ...
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Apple's iPhone yesterday again took the top ranking in J.D. Power and Associates' smartphone customer satisfaction survey, the company said. Apple scored 855 out of a possible 1,000 points in the customer satisfaction survey, leading four ...
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Samsung is planning to release a high-end smartphone running on the open-source Tizen operating system in August or September, the company confirmed Friday. Samsung makes half of the Android-based smartphones globally, and Android now has ...
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A company owned by Sony and Philips is suing Apple, alleging it's infringed numerous patents covering digital rights management technology. In the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Intertrust ...
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Samsung tonight took the wraps off its new Galaxy S 4 smart phone, the new flagship for its innovative S brand line whose other models have scored very well in our tests. While the new phone falls short of being revolutionary, it brims with ...
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Google has continued its restructuring plans, with maps chief Jeff Huber following the head of Android, Andy Rubin, out of Google and reportedly into the firm's laboratory project Google X. Huber, who has run Google's Mapping and Commerce ...
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Google has acquired a startup from the computer science department of the University of Toronto to get key researchers in the area of deep neural networks. The Internet company acquired DNNresearch, which was set up last year by Professor ...
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