Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has taken a swipe at rival Apple, claiming that its lead over Apple in the mobile operating system market compares with flocks of consumers opting for Microsoft's desktop software in the 1990s. Google's ...
Tags: Eric Schmidt, Apple, mobile operating system, Android
WiLan,a Canadian patent licensing firm,has filed a round of new patent infringement lawsuits against Research in Motion,Apple,HTC and Sierra Wireless. WiLan filed a patent infringement lawsuit against RIM late Monday in U.S.District ...
Tags: WiLan, patent lawsuits, RIM, Motion, Apple, HTC, Sierra Wireless
The company shipped 141 million chips in the quarter Chipmaker Qualcomm has reported 18% rise in its revenues to $4.87bn for the fiscal fourth quarter of 2012, compared to $4.11bn it recorded during the corresponding period last year. ...
Tags: chips, Chipmaker Qualcomm, net income, operating income
CBR talks to desktop GPU-cum-mobile 'system on a chip' maker NVidia about the major players in the mobile space, and what we can expect from the company in 2012. CBR talks to the maker of the Tegra 3 quad core system on a chip (SOC) ...
Tags: NVidia, chip'maker, Google Nexus 7 tablet, transition
Thanks to the solid support of HTC and Sony,AU Optronics(AUO),Taiwan's leading flat panel display(FPD)maker,announced that yield rate of its AMOLED(active-matrix organic light-emitting diode)panel has exceeded 50%,paving the way for its ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA, which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, says that it is powering several smartphone platforms that are leveraging Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system. With the addition ...
Tags: Skyworks, analog and mixed-signal, semiconductors, smartphone, Windows 8
A US court is to review a jury's decision to award Apple$1bn in damages in its patent dispute with rival Samsung. Samsung wants the verdict overturned or the damages reduced,while Apple wants to increase the amount and ban some of ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, patent dispute, Galaxy Tab, Smartpgone
Were we not promised super-thin bendable, flexible and rollable organic LED (OLED) displays? Phones like Samsung's Galaxy and HTC's Desire have shown us that the rigid versions can deliver stunning images. So where are those flexies? It ...
A patent agreement between Apple and HTC forbids the Taiwanese company from making and selling mobile devices that copy what is described as the'Distinctive Apple User Experience,"according to a redacted version of the agreement filed in a ...
Tags: Apple, HTC, Distinctive Apple User Experience, design patents
MediaTek Inc.has recently received notification to send the sample of its MT6589 quad-core processors to be tested at Sony Mobile,likely breaking Qualcomm Inc.'s monopoly in the Sony Mobile supply chain. Although Sony Mobile has not yet ...
Tags: MediaTek, Sony Mobile, smartphone chips, smartphone
Established Taiwanese enterprises with AEO(authorized economic operator)status,such as HTC,will enjoy the preferential treatment of minimum inspection and fast customs clearance for goods shipped to the U.S.in three months,at the longest,as ...
Tags: AEO, customs clearance, Taiwan, U.S.
Pfizer has granted exclusive development and marketing rights to ChemRar group company SatRx for their DPP(1)-IVi compound, PF-00734200 for type 2 diabetes (T2D). T2D is one of the most burdensome chronic non-communicable diseases, which ...
Tags: Satrx Exclusive License, epidemic proportions, R&D portfolio
Taiwan’s HTC Corp. sold 2.8 million smartphones in mainland China in the third quarter of 2012, nearly double the amount it sold a quarter earlier in the mainland, according to market consulting firm Canalys, Meanwhile, the sale ...
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Nokia continues to expand its line-up of advanced feature phones with the Asha 205,with a dedicated Facebook button allowing users to more easily access the social networking site. While Nokia is trying to revive its fortunes in the ...
Tags: Facebook, Nokia, Nokia's Asha 205 phone, Smartphone
The number of devices that allegedly infringe patents held by Apple and Samsung continues to grow,with Apple adding six more products to its case against its South Korean rival. The rival companies are fighting cases against each other in ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Patent Battle