IDG News Service - Microsoft told the U.S. International Trade Commission that it expects Motorola Mobility to withdraw claims relating to two patents it says are essential to the H.264 standard in its complaint against the Xbox, in view of ...
Tags: Microsoft, Motorola Mobility, software, Xbox, Google
One Laptop Per Child is back in the tablet race, announcing a new 7-inch tablet with the Android OS that will be sold commercially and include its learning software. The XO Tablet was announced at the International CES show in Las Vegas. ...
Tags: OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, tablet, Android OS, learning software
After Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance during a Qualcomm keynote at International Consumer Electronics Show(CES),some analysts wondered how married the company is to Snapdragon chips and the ARM-based ecosystem. ...
Tags: Microsoft, Intel-based Windows Phones, CES
To review the year of 2012, we can see that both mobile phone products and mobile phone markets changed a lot. The configuration of smart phones developed much while the price dumped into thousand RMB. A year ago, the situation was beyond ...
Tags: mobile phone, smart phone, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Nokia, phone market
IDG News Service - Apple, Research in Motion (RIM) and Motorola Mobility are among 15 companies sued in the U.S. over a fundamental 3G and 4G patent on determining when devices should switch cells in a mobile network. The suits were filed ...
Tags: Apple, RIM, US telcos, mobile network
IDG News Service - The patent injunction portion of Google's antitrust settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this week won't mean an end to patent disputes between Google and mobile device makers, but it does take away one major ...
Tags: Google, patent, mobile device, computer information
The first CES was held in June 1967 in New York City. It was a spinoff from the Chicago Music Show, which until then had served as the main event for exhibiting consumer electronics. The event had 17,500 attendees and over 100 exhibitors; ...
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Google has agreed to change some of its business practices, including allowing competitors access to some standard technologies, to resolve a U.S. Federal Trade Commission antitrust complaint against the company. Google has also agreed to ...
Tags: Google, US FTC, antitrust case
Google Android was the top smartphone platform with 53.7% share Samsung was reported as the handset manufacturer with the highest market share of 26.9%, an increase of 1.2% compared to August 2012. It was followed by Apple and LG, which ...
Tags: Google Android, smartphone platform, Samsung, November, 2012
Pick up your smartphone. Touch its screen. It's smooth, crystal-clear, and amazingly resilient. Chances are your smartphone is protected by a sheet of Corning Gorilla Glass. But what exactly is this Gorilla Glass? How is it fabricated and ...
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US regulators have closed a lengthy antitrust probe into Google, saying there is not enough evidence to show the internet giant manipulated its search results to harm its competitors. The Federal Trade Commission said it lacked a legal ...
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New sales and services directors as firm aims for 'Bull 3.0' Bull UK & Ireland announced the appointment of sales director, Nayan Kotecha and services director, Jackie Raybould to its senior management team. Both took up their new posts ...
Tags: Bull 3.0, Bull, UK, Ireland, management team
Google-owned Motorola Mobility's acquisition of Viewdle this week, a jump in the number of visitors to the insideAR conference and Nokia's recent launch of the City Lens application all illustrate growing interest in augmented reality. ...
Tags: Motorola Mobility, Viewdle, acquisition, augmented reality
Five months after its release,Apple's Mountain Lion became the most widely-used version of OS X,a Web measurement firm said Tuesday. According to California-based Net Applications,OS X 10.8,better known as Mountain Lion,accounted for ...
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A former Motorola employee, charged with the theft of trade secrets from the company, was sentenced by a federal court in Illinois on Wednesday to four years in federal prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Hanjuan Jin, 41, a ...
Tags: Motorola, employee, imprisonment, trade secrets