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 ...
Tags: Apple, Computer Products, smartphone
CarBuyCo, a national car-buying company that purchases consumer vehicles through an Internet-based mobile buying service, is the first in its field to offer a fully virtual car selling experience using FaceTime. This brand-new service is ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
It's no secret that Samsung is up against Apple in many ways, in products, sales and innovation. However, even in the face of Apple's patent infringement lawsuits, Samsung is still climbing the charts. The electronics giant sold ...
Tags: Samsung, Consumer Electronics, apple
A federal court in Chicago this week granted class action status to a lawsuit accusing comScore, one of the Internet's largest user tracking firms, of secretly collecting and selling Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The second-generation Nexus 7 tablet, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, will be launched around July, according to two unnamed sources in a Reuters report. The Android device will be made by Asustek, and Google hopes to ship 8 ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
There could be big changes coming to the fiddly and sometimes annoying Web browsing experience on cellphones. In apparently uncoordinated announcements on Wednesday, the Mozilla Foundation, the organization behind the Firefox Web browser, ...
Tags: Web Browser, Mozilla, Opera
Today, NZN Labs Inc. (www.nznlabs.com/Indiegogo) announces the launch of their Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for LIT: the first activity tracker designed for Action Sports. LIT is a modular, rugged, water resistant, activity tracker ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, software
More details have emerged about the new "Facebook phone", which is expected to be launched as early as Thursday 4 April. The press event will be held at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California - revealed after invitations ...
Tags: Facebook Phone, Computer Products, Consumer Electronics
Available in six colors with a pen length of 1.85 inches (4.7 centimeters), Wacom's new Bamboo Stylus mini offers smartphone and tablet users a stylish and solid feeling capacitive stylus for imaginative expression. Bamboo Stylus mini ...
An antenna-tuning circuit from STMicroelectronics has a 4-channel output for adjusting up to four tunable BST capacitors in the antenna-matching circuits of multi-band GSM/WCDMA/3G-LTE smartphones. The chip also supports the MIPI Alliance ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Chip, smartphone
Spreadtrum Communications, the China-based mobile phone chipset supplier, has announced the commercial availability of its dual-core 1.2GHz smartphone chipsets for TD-SCDMA (SC8825, pictured) and EDGE (SC6825). This follows the successful ...
Tags: Chips, Consumer Electronics
Industry Dive, a business-to-business digital media company, announced today it launched Education Dive, a free smartphone app serving leaders in education. The app pulls together the best in higher education and K-12 news, social ...
Tags: APP, Mobile, Consumer Electronics
Beginning April 19, AT&T plans to offer the highly-anticipated HTC One? smartphone to customers for $199.99 with a two-year commitment, for the 32 GB memory variant. AT&T is the only U.S. wireless carrier at launch to also offer a version ...
Tags: HTC, smartphone, Consumer Electronics
The Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive will be the first battery-powered electric car the German manufacturer puts into production. Making its debut at the 2013 New York auto show, the new-generation Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive ...
Tags: Benz, Auto Parts, Transportation
The next generation of smartphones could have bullet-proof sapphire-glass screens thanks to improved production techniques and falling prices. One of the many rumours surrounding Google's upcoming X Phone is that it will feature a ...