Smartphone maker HTC Corp sued Apple Inc, claiming infringement of three patents through Apple’s sale of Macintosh computers, iPads, iPods, iPhones and other devices.
Back and forth, back and forth. Repeat.
Apple on Tuesday made the OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive available from its online store. (more…)
Fusion Garage, the company behind the ill-fated JooJoo tablet, is back again. This time the company has unveiled two new products – the Grid 4 and Grid 10 – a smartphone and tablet, respectively. (more…)
Unless Google’s partners are completely stupid, they spent most of the day figuring out which mobile operating system they will use next. (more…)
The Loop reader, Mike Defrancesco, sent in a few pictures of Apple’s new retail location as workers begin construction. He also put together a nice panorama, so you get a better view of the store’s location.
“We are supportive of Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility as this is a positive development to the Android ecosystem, which we believe is beneficial to HTC’s promotion of Android phones,” an HTC spokesperson told BGR on Monday. “The partnership between HTC and Google remains strong and will not be affected by this acquisition.”
Bullshit.
One of the things we all admire as designers is typography. Some love the clean and crisp lines of sans-serif typefaces while others are passionate about the sophisticated and stylish curves of serif fonts. This showcase rounds up a collection of website designs that all feature some kind of sexy serif heading or title.
I’m not a Web designer, but I love looking at what good designers come up with.
“We welcome today’s news, which demonstrates Google’s deep commitment to defending Android, its partners, and the ecosystem.”
– J.K. Shin
President, Samsung, Mobile Communications Division“I welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.”
– Bert Nordberg
President & CEO, Sony Ericsson“We welcome the news of today‘s acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem.”
– Peter Chou
CEO, HTC Corp.“We welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.”
– Jong-Seok Park, Ph.D
President & CEO, LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company
Seriously? Sounds like they have a gun to their head.
Motorola Mobility spun off as an independent company from Motorola back in January, and at that time it announced it had over 24,000 patents ‘granted and pending’, though it’s thought its actual existing portfolio is around the 17,000 mark. These will now belong to Google.
Should Apple start crying about how unfair it is that they get all these patents like Google did last week with the Nortel patents?
Google Inc said it will buy phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion in cash to bolster the adoption of its Android mobile software.
The mobile wars heat up a little bit.
The city is currently in the midst of its review process of Apple’s plans. The first step of the review involves an environmental impact assessment that will evaluate traffic, noise, air quality and will provide the public with an opportunity for comment. Apple’s proposal would then undergo a development review and public hearings at the Planning Commission and the City Council.
Wow.
Millennial Media has published its quarterly S.M.A.R.T. report, which shows that Apple’s iPhone has been at the top of the smartphone platform for three years running when it comes to mobile advertising, at least. The iPod touch and iPad both ranked well in Millennial Media’s list, also. (more…)
The decision means the device hasn’t yet found any support from the three largest U.S. wireless carriers, which includes AT&T and Verizon Wireless. Without their backing, RIM will have to bear the burden of sales and marketing support for the device, as well as application development.In contrast, Apple’s market-dominating iPad is advertised and supported by both AT&T and Verizon Wireless, and the tablet is displayed prominently in stores.
And that’s what happens when you rush a product to market without the features that people want. Nobody will touch it.
Reports began to surface yesterday that Apple would hold a special event on September 7 to launch the new iPhone, but that’s not happening. (more…)
U.S. retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories took a 20 percent nosedive in July to $707.7 million, hurt by a combination of less demand for video game consoles and no major game title released during the month, according to market research firm NPD Group.
Is anyone actually surprised? Consumer confidence is in the toilet. People can’t find jobs, people who have jobs are terrified they’ll lose them, the dollar is taking a beating, and Congress and the President are faring incredibly poorly in polls. No one has an incentive to spend money, especially on discretionary items like games.
Dell has stopped selling the Dell Streak 5 inch Android tablet/smartphone. The original Streak launched last year as Dell’s first Android product. It blurred the lines between a tablet and a phone by pairing a reasonably large 5 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display with cellular capabilities.
Apple just keeps putting the smack down on Dell.
Authorities in China’s southwestern city of Kunming have identified another 22 unauthorized Apple retailers weeks after a fake of the company’s store in the city sparked an international storm.China’s Administration for Industry and Commerce in the Yunnan provincial capital said the stores have been ordered to stop using Apple’s logo after Apple China accused them of unfair competition and violating its registered trademark, state media said on Thursday.
In July an American traveling in China exposed stores in Kunming as fakes despite their realistic looks, straight down to the blue t-shirts worn by the employees. Apple only operates four stores in the country – two in Beijing and two in Shanghai. Those stores were ordered closed. Apple responded by suing operators of fake stores, as well.
Kunming is the capital of China’s Yunnan province. It’s home to more than 6.8 million people – almost twice the population of Los Angeles, Calif. – and serves as an important commercial hub for people traveling throughout southern China and into neighboring Southeast Asian countries including Vietnam, Burma and Laos.
Our iPhones and iPads have more than enough original apps to keep us obsessed with mobile gaming. Some of the greatest games on iOS, though, are ports of PC or other portable titles we can get on the cheap. iOS ports have the benefits of easier portability than a PC, a sharper display than, say, aNintendo DS, and cheaper prices all around. Poking around iTunes with a bit of gaming knowledge will undoubtedly lead to the discovery of a familiar game, a famous brand, or a beloved character from elsewhere. These are the best of that lot–and they’re a good lot, indeed.
In two short pages, GamePro covers a pretty broad swath of games, ranging from the adult-oriented Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars to Telltale adventure games. Check out the list to get some ideas for fun stuff to play on your iPhone or iPad this weekend.
A headline on a Bloomberg story written specifically to garner page views offer a prime example of how sloppy reporting and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) manipulation can converge to generate a veritable rumor storm in the Mac blogosphere. (more…)
Mark Dean, the chief engineer of IBM’s original IBM PC, says that his main computer is now a tablet – though he failed to disclose which model he uses. (more…)
HP has cut the price of its entry-level TouchPad tablet from $499 to $399. The news comes on the heels of a weekend promotion knocked $100 off the original price. (more…)
Cloud gaming service OnLive has announced that it is set to launch its UK service on 22nd September at Eurogamer Expo 2011.It goes live with over 100 “top-tier” games available to try, rent or buy over a broadband internet connection.
OnLive, which is already available in the US, works on Macs and PCs, and also on special micro-consoles through a TV connection. It lets you play popular PC games without having to download them – essentially, you stream them to your device. OnLive has even demonstrated the service working on an iPad.
Market research firm Forrester predicts that Apple will dominate the European tablet market, despite strong competition. (more…)
Walmart announced Wednesday support for the iPad with its VUDU streaming movie service. What’s intriguing is that it’s doing this through a Web app rather than a native app that runs on iOS. (more…)
Quark, developer of the desktop publishing software QuarkXPress, has been acquired by Platinum Equity, a Los Angeles merger and acquisition company, for an undisclosed sum.
Quark dominated the desktop publishing market for years until Adobe ate its lunch with InDesign. Quark has tried to come back and has reshaped its products and the way it does business. Here’s to hoping that Platinum Equity can help move the company in a direction that the Ebrahimi family was either unable or unwilling to.
The District Attorney of San Mateo County is moving forward in the case of the iPhone 4 prototype we posted about last year. Fortunately, nobody from our team is being charged.Here’s our parent company, Gawker Media’s official statement on the matter:We are pleased that the District Attorney of San Mateo County, Steven Wagstaffe, has decided, upon review of all of the evidence, that no crime was committed by the Gizmodo team in relation to its reporting on the iPhone 4 prototype last year. While we have always believed that we were acting fully within the law, it has inevitably been stressful for the editor concerned, Jason Chen, and we are glad that we can finally put this matter behind us.
Background for those with short memories: Gizmodo came into possession of an iPhone 4 long before its release. They made hay about it, and they also went so far as to ridicule the Apple engineer who allegedly lost the phone. It was tacky. Even if the D.A.’s office doesn’t take action against them, Gizmodo still acted like jerks.
GameFly is best known as the video game industry’s alternative to Netflix – it’s a service that lets you rent games for your video game console, mailing them back once you’re done, in return for a monthly subscription fee. Now the company has announced plans to offer Mac and PC games for sale, via download. (more…)
Amazon has introduced an HTML5-based Kindle Cloud Reader. The software lets you read Kindle e-books online or offline. It works with Mac or PC paired with Chrome or Safari browsers, and the iPad using the Safari browser. (more…)
“When we launch Windows Phones we will essentially be out of the Symbian business, the S40 business, etc., ” Nokia Inc. President Chris Weber said in an interview. “It will be Windows Phone and the accessories around that. The reality is if we are not successful with Windows Phone, it doesn’t matter what we do (elsewhere).”
Nokia is in partnership with Microsoft to develop and market Windows Phone 7-based devices. The question is whether anyone will care, and that’s still a mighty big “if.” The company is planning a resurgency in the US once Windows phones are ready to go. What’s more, Nokia has a big reach in parts of the world that still aren’t able to buy Android or iPhone devices.
The leading German news agency, dpa, just reported that Apple has been granted a preliminary injunction against Samsung’s Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1, barring distribution of the product in the entire European Union except for the Netherlands on the grounds of an alleged infringement of Apple’s iPad-related [European] Community design no. 000181607-0001. I can confirm that Apple has a separate lawsuit underway in the Netherlands as well, asserting the same Community design.
Apple’s complaint involves the design of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, according to FOSS Patents. Apple and Samsung – which Apple uses as a parts supplier – have been at odds for months, with each company filing suits and counter suits in countries around the world.
Hat tip: Daring Fireball