Apple-Samsung Case Shows Smartphone as Legal Magnet
The smartphone in your hand is a marvel of innovation, packing sophisticated computing and communications technologies into a sleek digital device. It is also a litigation magnet. In the last few years, the companies in the smartphone industry have spent billions of dollars buying patents and hundreds of millions suing…
Research In Motion begins showing new BlackBerry’s new mobile phone carriers
KITCHENER, Ontario Canadian phone maker Research In Motion has begun showing its new BlackBerry smartphones to wireless carriers around the world, but the struggling company says it is still months away from starting to sell them. The smartphones running the new BlackBerry 10 operating system are critical to RIM’s survival. It…
Facebook 5.0 for iOS brings speed enhancements and a new design. (Facebook)
If you’re an iPhone or iPad owner and a heavy Facebook user, you know the Facebook app has been slow. It can take time to get to a friend’s profile, see updates on your newsfeed, see comments and photos. You get used to tapping your fingers. But today Facebook is…
Will FaceTime on coming iPhone 5 crash LTE networks?
Computerworld – Are the nation’s LTE wireless carriers prepared for the video chat data crunch expected to come with the next-generation iPhone and other devices that are expected to launch this fall? The answer: It depends on whom you ask. Both AT&T and Verizon Wireless decline to say whether they…
The death of the netbook
Within the next few years, when you say “netbook” to someone, they will wonder what you are talking about. The term is a rapidly disappearing one and indeed, I’ve almost forgotten it myself. Although popular for a few years, the netbook was a failed experiment as far as I am…
South Korean court rules Samsung didn’t copy Apple’s iPhone design, but both …
However, the judges also said Samsung violated Apple’s technology behind a feature that causes a screen to bounce back when a user scrolls to an end image. Both sides were ordered to pay limited damages. The Seoul Central District Court ruling called for a partial ban on products from both…
Facebook’s iPhone App is New, Improved; Android, Not So Much
Facebook has completely rebuilt its iPhone app, making it much faster at loading status updates and scrolling through news feeds. Android users, however, will have to wait for a better Facebook experience. The key difference in the new Facebook iPhone app is that it’s written in native code, rather than…
iPhone and iPad banned in South Korea with Samsung GSII
In one of the more extreme case endings we’ve seen thus far in the near-global mobile patent court battle between Apple and Samsung, South Korea has banned nearly every device up for trial. The Seoul Central District Court has ruled that both Samsung and Apple must remove major products such…
Apple’s Smartphone Share in China Nearly Halves
Apple Inc.’s smartphone market share in China almost halved in the second quarter as Chinese seller such as Lenovo Group Ltd. and ZTE Corp. gained ground, according to research group IDC Friday. Apple’s market share fell to 10% in the second quarter from 19%, but IDC analyst T. Z. Apple is…
Wall Street Journal Blanketing Most of Manhattan with Free Wifi
These days, newspapers will seemingly stop at nothing to boost their bottom line. Those Weekender ads are notoriously obnoxious, and we’re getting awfully tired of deleting the identification key at the end of a New York Times URL to get around the paywall. But the Wall Street Journal has finally…
