Samsung intends to fight Friday's landmark jury award of $1 billion to Apple over smartphone and tablet patent violations -- possibly for years. But while it fights on, Samsung and other cellphone makers are expected to make changes to ...
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BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) has unveiled "beta" versions of its forthcoming smartphones to telecoms carriers. Perhaps aware that time is not on its side, RIM has gone on the offensive, touting its new range of phones ...
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Web usage by iPhone and iPad owners has grown by 35%in North American over the past year,while browsing with BlackBerry smartphones and the PlayBook tablet has dropped by 25%. Those Web usage statistics,gathered by mobile ad network ...
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IBM is considering acquiring RIM's enterprise arm,while the BlackBerry manufacturer is selling off NewBay and other minor acquisitions of its own,according to reports. RIM seems to be avoiding speaking to the media since its Q2 financials ...
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BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has unveiled its new range of PlayBooks, with the devices being launched in Canada on 9 August, followed by rollouts in the US, Europe, South Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Like the ...
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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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Computerworld-Verizon Wireless will sell the Android 4.0 Pantech Marauder smartphone for$49.99,after rebate,with a two-year service agreement starting Thursday. The Pantech Marauder smartphone. The phone joins a growing list of ...
Oracle is hoping to differentiate its cloud CRM(customer relationship management)software from that sold by rivals such as Salesforce.com with a new set of industry-specific capabilities. Oracle CRM On Demand Release 20,which was ...
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The U.S.International Trade Commission has affirmed a prior ruling that an Eastman Kodak patent asserted in a complaint against Apple and Research In Motion is invalid,according to a notice issued late Friday. Kodak said Saturday it would ...
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A jury in California found Research In Motion had infringed a patent relating to wireless device management owned by assignment by Mformation Technologies, a mobile device management technology provider in Edison, New Jersey. The jury ...
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BlackBerry 10 smartphones, slated to come in early 2013, will rely heavily on improved BlackBerry Messenger social networking tools, including new video chat capabilities, Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins told shareholders ...
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Barclays has launched a mobile banking app with similar functionality to its full online banking platform. It follows the mass adoption of its Pingit app, which allows users to make and receive payments with just a mobile number. The ...
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Telefonica Digital today announced partnerships with internet giants Facebook and Google so users can make payments to the websites via their mobile phones. The operator,represented by O2 in the UK,will add any amounts paid to the sites ...
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Facebook says it will fix a software bug that has modified e-mail contacts on users'mobile phones,promising it will be resolved soon. The bug has caused e-mail details stored on smartphones to be replaced [email protected] e-mail ...
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Mozilla rebranded its mobile operating system -- which it's been working on for more than a year -- as Firefox OS to tie it with its best-known product, the Firefox browser. Smartphones powered by the new Firefox OS will be manufactured ...
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