"It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners...Consumers have the right to choices,and they know what they are buying when they purchase Samsung products.This is ...
Tags: Apple-Samsung verdict, Consumers, patent infringement, Tim Cook
Foxconn International Holdings(FIH),the world's largest contract producer of smartphones,has seen shares fall 3.5 per cent after its worst-ever first-half net loss. The manufacturer posted a$226m loss for the January to June ...
Tags: Foxconn, FIH, smartphones, mobile device
Apple has won its high-stakes intellectual property infringement suit against Samsung. The court in the US state of California,where Apple is based,found that Samsung infringed six out of seven Apple patents,while backing Apple's claim ...
Tags: patent infringement, wireless technology, android-phone, HTC and Motorola
Google has filed a new patent-infringement case against Apple, claiming that the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch infringe seven of patents inherited through the acquisition of Motorola Mobility. The complaint filed with the US International ...
Tags: Google, Apple, patent-infringement, Motorola Mobility
IDG News Service - Google-owned Motorola Mobility has filed yet another claim against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission, this time asserting that devices including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch infringe patents related to ...
Tags: Motorola Mobility, patent, Apple, FRAND, Google
Trading in Google shares was halted today on Nasdaq after poor earnings figures were released-apparently prematurely. The search firm blamed financial print service provider RR Donnelley for releasing its quarterly earnings figures a few ...
Tags: Nasdaq, Google, RR Donnelley, Motorola
Hans Camenzind,designer of the 555,has died at the age of 78. Born Swiss,he moved to the USA at the age of 24 to take an MSEE and MBA.He worked in R&D at PR Mallory and,after six years,decided he wanted to join a company which made ICs ...
Tags: Hans Camenzind, designer of the 555, top linear companies, Interdesign
IDG News Service - Android continued to increase its dominance of the smartphone market during the second quarter, powered by Samsung's success. Competitor Apple in contrast struggled somewhat as consumers held out for the next iteration of ...
Tags: Android, Smartphone, consumers
The Motorola Photon Q features a slide-out Qwerty keyboard and a 4.3-in.touchscreen display.Computerworld-Sprint today announced it will sell the Motorola Photon Q smartphone for$199.99 and a two-year service plan starting on Sunday. ...
Tags: Motorola, smartphone, touchscreen
Google is to lay off 20%of the Motorola Mobility workforce with 4,000 redundancies worldwide,two-thirds of that number coming from outside the US. The company said it intends to ditch its standard phones as part of the move."Motorola ...
Tags: Google, Motorola, cut staff, mobile product portfolio—shifting
Google is to cut Motorola Mobility's global workforce by about 4,000,or 20 per cent,and will look to close about a third of its 94 worldwide offices. A Motorola spokesperson confirmed the job cuts in a statement and stated that the ...
Tags: Google, job cut, Motorola Mobility, acquired the mobile phone company
The last few months have seen a number of developments in the ongoing patent disputes between the major manufacturers in the mobile phone industry. Motorola Mobility has been found to infringe Apple's"slide-to-unlock"patent.Apple ...
Tags: Mobile Patent Disputes
Computerworld-The Nexus 7 with 16GB of storage reappeared"in stock"on Wednesday in the Google Play online store after it was unavailable there and in many retail stores in the U.S.for about a week. Google launched its Nexus 7 tablet at ...
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In a deal that should help Apple boost its enterprise security offerings, the iPhone maker is planning to buy mobile security company AuthenTec for $8 per share or a little over $356 million, AuthenTec said on Friday. AuthenTec provides ...
Apple and Samsung Electronics won't be able to keep certain pieces of information from the public during their high-profile jury trial that begins on Monday, a judge in California said Friday. But what will be public and what won't still ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, jury trial, US