IDG News Service-Motorola does not infringe a Microsoft patent related to technology for monitoring events in mobile phones,the lower regional court of Munich ruled on Thursday,according to a court spokesman. Microsoft sued Motorola ...
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Intel is porting the Android 4.1 operating system,also called Jelly Bean,to work on smartphones and tablets using low-power Atom processors,the company said this week. The company did not provide a time frame for when the Android 4.1 port ...
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Advance demand for Apple's next iPhone is at an all-time high,said a research firm today,predicting huge sales later this year for what most have dubbed the"iPhone 5." A survey of more than 4,000 North American consumers by ChangeWave ...
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Intel isn't actively porting Android to work on tablets based on the upcoming Atom chip code-named Clover Trail,which is purpose built for Microsoft's Windows 8,according to a source familiar with the company's plans. Initial tablets ...
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Apple and Motorola Mobility,now a subsidiary of Google,have separately appealed the June decision of a U.S.federal judge to throw out their patent infringement case,according to reports Saturday. Judge Richard Posner of the U.S.District ...
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Quarterly earnings from some of the biggest tech companies in the world this week were decidedly mixed,but showed some signs of strength,particularly in enterprise IT spending. Tech vendors with exposure to the hardware market have ...
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Google has reported a 10%increase in net income in the second quarter of 2012,reaching$2.79bn,compared to$2.51bn in the same period last year. Revenue from the UK was$1.18bn,representing 11%of Google sales.Total revenue was$12.21bn,up ...
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Nokia shipped 10.2 million smartphones in the second quarter of 2012 – 39% less than the same period last year. The company reported its results for Q2 today, which revealed only four million of the 10 million handsets sold were ...
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Google has reported a profit of $2.79 billion in the second quarter, up 11% over the same period of last year, in the company's first financial statement since it finalized its acquisition of Motorola Mobility in May. Motorola brought in ...
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The full source code of Jellybean, Google's latest and greatest Android version, was released to the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) late Monday night. MORE ANDROID: The 15 Best Android Accessories Developers in the Google Groups ...
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Sharp said Monday it has agreed to pay Dell and two other companies$198.5 million to settle a lawsuit for fixing LCD panel prices in Europe and North America. The company agreed to settle the civil lawsuit,which was first filed in ...
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Amit Rohatgi,principal architect for mobile at MIPS Technologies, considers the Android apps development landscape and offers a positive view of the significant progress that has been made towards unification. We often hear in the media ...
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If you rely on Research in Motion's BlackBerry smartphones, it's time to prep your exit strategy. RIM is in serious decline, and the slide has accelerated dramatically in recent weeks. The company has made massive layoffs, its stock price ...
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating Google's Motorola Mobility unit to determine whether it is stifling innovation in the mobile market by refusing to license certain patents to its competitors, according to published ...
Research in Motion's stock price plunged 19%Friday following RIM's announcement late yesterday of a$518 million first quarter loss and that its BlackBerry 10 smartphone has been further delayed. At the close of markets Friday,RIM's ...
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