Microsoft isn't fooling anyone by hiding behind a trade group to complain to European antitrust regulators about Google and its Android mobile operating system, a legal expert said today. "FairSearch.org is seen by many observers here as ...
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After spending some time with Facebook Home and the HTC First smartphone, I now have a better understanding at what Facebook is trying to build with its new app designed to replace your phone's home screen. In a nutshell,Facebook Home and ...
South Korea's Samsung Electronics says it expect to earn an operating profit of 8.7 trillion won ($7.4 bn) in the first quarter of 2013, up 52.9 per cent from a year earlier. Samsung, the world's largest technology firm by revenue, was ...
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Two Waste Management natural-gas powered trucks featuring custom EKOCYCLE graphics, along with representatives from several non-profit organizations, will encourage and educate fans to recycle. Now one person's recyclable item truly will ...
Microsoft has registered its first strong gains in share in the smartphone operating system market following the launch of Windows Phone 8, with the UK and Italy registering some of the biggest increases in market share. According to ...
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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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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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Zinio today announced a strategic partnership with Nokia to launch the world's largest digital newsstand exclusively to Nokia Lumia smartphone customers. The Zinio Windows Phone 8 app debuts a new look and feel that has been optimized ...
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The HTC One smartphone will be released in the UK, Germany and Taiwan this week, its Taiwan of China manufacturer has announced, claiming "unprecedented demand" for its new product. The 4.7 inch screen device will eventually roll out ...
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Apple has acquired mapping startup WiFiSlam, which is developing an indoor location service for smartphones, Apple said Monday. An Apple spokesman declined to comment on its purpose in making the acquisition or its future plans for the ...
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Nokia said on Monday it is not prepared to license any of its patented technologies that might be essential to the VP8 video codec that is backed by Google. VP8 is a video compressing technology that was acquired by Google in 2010 from ...
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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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Apple's iOS has had its "revolutionary" moment, and now faces only "evolution" as carrying legacy and expectations decreases the opportunity to innovate. So says Richard Kinder (pictured), technology VP of mobile software management firm ...
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Nokia has won an injunction against the sale in Germany of some HTC handsets that infringe on a power-saving technology for mobile phones. The District court of Mannheim ruled on Tuesday that HTC infringes on a Nokia patent for power ...
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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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