IDG News Service - The foreman of the jury that recently handed Apple a $1 billion patent victory over Samsung Electronics was untruthful and biased, the South Korean company alleged in a filing with a U.S. court. Samsung wants a retrial of ...
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Tizen 2.0, the open-source smartphone operating system, is now available as an alpha release with an accompanying software development kit (SDK), the Tizen project announced on Tuesday. The release lends credence to rumors that project ...
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Apple will not include a YouTube app in iOS 6,the next operating system for the iPhone and iPad,the company confirmed yesterday. The app has been an integral part of iOS since the 2007 launch of the first-generation iPhone.YouTube is ...
Motorola Mobility and Verizon Wireless have scheduled a press conference for Sept. 5 in New York City, reportedly to unveil a new Droid Razr M smartphone. Reports in Engadget and BGR indicate that the Razr M will have a 4.3-in. Super ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft on Friday said it has fully restored its Xbox Live service after problems prevented an undetermined number of users from logging into the online gaming service. At 4:28 p.m. Eastern Time, Microsoft's Xbox ...
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Network World - As of June 2012, there were 237,000 iPad apps listed in the App store, many of them priced at 99 cents or even free. Yet very few of them let companies actually do business -- take customer orders, update inventory, submit ...
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Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it broke ground in China on a NAND flash memory chip factory in which it will invest a total of $7 billion, its single largest investment in the country. The factory will be located in Xi'an, China ...
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Mobility and security hardly go hand-in-hand. But not at the Essar Group. In fact, for this Indian, multinational conglomerate, security was the stepping stone to enterprise mobility and a vibrant BYOD environment. What got the ball ...
Tags: Meridian Infotech, electronical development, wireless solution, security
Lenovo Monday said that its lighter, quicker ThinkPad, unveiled last spring as part of an effort to attract buyers more interested in smartphones and tablets than PCs, will go on sale later this month. Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon. And ...
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IDG News Service-Nokia is testing a new solar charging accessory in Nigeria and Kenya,as the company hopes to make it easier for people without regular access to electricity to use their phones,it said in a blog post on Friday. The ...
IDG News Service-Emerging chip technologies that Arm Holdings announced on Wednesday could help to power mobile networks that are being asked to handle more traffic with more fine-tuned controls. The provider of the dominant architecture ...
Computerworld - Sprint will begin selling the Samsung Galaxy Note II on Oct. 25 for $299.99 with a two-year contract, the carrier announced early Tuesday. If Sprint meets the schedule, the Galaxy Note II will be the carrier's first ...
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IDG News Service-ARM is catching up with Intel on 3D transistors,announcing a new partnership with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to manufacture 64-bit chips that are faster and more power-efficient than current chips in which ...
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IDG News Service - As a nine-person jury begins deliberations in the closely watched patent trial between Apple and Samsung, the companies and their lawyers are left waiting and wondering what the jury made of the three weeks of arguments. ...
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Computerworld - In its 73 years, Hewlett-Packard has had bad quarters, but perhaps none like the one it posted Wednesday. Its $8.9 billion loss was huge, but there was little drama about it. HP's CEO, Meg Whitman, is already deep into a ...
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