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Samsung To Apple: You Say "Copyist" We Say "Competition"
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The saga continues, but at least this time we get to giggle at the tech giants’ use of sarcasm.
Entangled in a patent battle with Apple, Samsung has switched up its approach to the copycat case, dropping two patents and adding another four. The South Korea-based company is also snarkily redefining the meaning of the word “copying,” opting for the less leechy term, “competing.” According to the freshly filed paperwork, “the Samsung Defendants admit that they have not ceased competing with Apple, notwithstanding Apple’s efforts to avoid such competition.”
The four new patents Apple is supposedly infringing upon include “portable telephone and method of displaying data thereof;” a “portable com...
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More letters to RIM; employees rally alongside anonymous exec
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BGR published an open letter to Research In Motion yesterday from an anonymous high-level RIM executive who begged for senior management to take notice of all of the issues within RIM. The exec explained how the company should make some changes to focus on the talent and potential within RIM, and also to focus on end users instead of carriers. After we published the article, RIM responded. It wasn’t pretty, and it really didn’t address a single point that was made by the original plea. It wasn’t just RIM that responded, however — we received dozens of emails from current and former RIM employees detailing their stories, and essentially all agreeing with the open letter that was published on ...
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AT&T teams up with Zynga on customized social gaming experience for its subscribers
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The social gaming juggernaut Zynga, which is behind the most popular game ever Farmville, is partnering with AT&T to bring the latest titles to its wireless subscribers.
There will be a dedicated space for Zynga's games in AT&T's section of Android Market, where tailored content will be made available, as well as free game credits, for example. The social gaming developer's titles will be promoted at AT&T-sponsored events, and overall, it seems as quite the deep collaboration.
It goes as far as Zynga and AT&T aiming to optimize the games for better battery life, and the carrier tweaking its network settings to ensure more fluid multiplayer experience. The financial terms of the partnership ...
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Barnes & Noble sweetens the deal for NOOK upgraders
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Barnes & Noble is running a sweet promotion for those who are sick of their old and crusty e-reader and are interested in a new NOOK. Starting today, and while supplies last, those who bring in an old e-reader to the bookstore and buy a new NOOK will get a 2GB microSD card loaded with 30 digital e-books, worth $315. The offer is good for both the new NOOK Simple Touch Reader and the more powerful NOOK Color. The books included cover a variety of genres, so if you were hoping to get the 30 best Danielle Steele novels, you are out of luck. Interested customers can head to www.nook.com/thebest to learn more about the promotion.
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Droid 3 accessories leaked, Moto's new slider gets wireless charging back plate and more
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So, you've read the rumors, scoped out the leaks, and circled multiple dates on your calendar -- just to cover all of your Droid 3 bases. You can now add a catalog of accessories to the stack of intel for this Motorola slider, including an inductive battery door (most likely harnessing the power of Qi), and a smattering of cases and screen protectors. Also thrown in the mix is a 1930mAh extended battery so you can fuel a marathon of South Park reruns and take full advantage of the last week of unlimited data from Verizon. Although knowing about the accessories is nice, we'd prefer to find out the important stuff... ya know, like how much Big Red's new Droid will cost.
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Skype 2 video chat unofficially enabled on the Galaxy S II, Sensation, and others
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The latest Skype update for Android is available to everyone, but it only enables video chat on four specific handsets. Fortunately, impatient modders have gone some way to correcting this profound injustice, by creating APKs that activate video calling on other handsets too. So far we've heard of successful ports on the Samsung Galaxy S II and the HTC Sensation, Thunderbolt and EVO 4G. If you've got some other handset with Android 2.3, a little experimentation with the APK might also be worth your while. However, we just tried it on an Xperia Arc and didn't get very far: the app ran, but efforts to communicate with an Xperia Neo resulted in one-way video, a locked landscape mode and plenty ...
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Marketplace hits 25,000 apps
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Marketplace has just hit another major milestone, crossing the 25,000 app mark in just 8 months and 10 days. It took the Android market considerably longer at more than 15 months after launch to cross the same mark, and took only 4 days longer than the iPhone app store
Leaving aside the concerns about the flood of spam apps, it is still agreat achievement and a sign of confidence in the Windows Phone 7 ecosystem.
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GSM turns 20 today, still rocking the world
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Happy birthday, dear Global System for Mobile Communications! 20 years ago today, on July 1 1991, the world's first GSM call was made by Finnish Prime Minister Harri Holkeri. The historic call used Nokia gear on GSM's original 900MHz band. Today GSM is all grown up and ruling the world -- connecting 1.5 billion people in 212 countries and serving 80% of the planet's mobile market. GSM gave us a number of firsts. It was the first fully digital cellular system using TDMA to cram more information into less spectrum and provide better sounding, more reliable calls using less power. It introduced the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM), the idea of switching handsets at will (something carriers have...
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RadioShack offers four lucky winners free phone a year for the next 50 years
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RadioShack is organizing a cool sweepstakes, offering four lucky winners free phone every year for the next 50 years! In other words, each of the winners will get $25,000 to spend on phones for the next 50 years – that’s $500 per phone, making sure you have an awesome handset every friggin’ year (almost) until the rest of your life.
In order to participate, you can either buy something (no matter what) from RadioShack store or online; or by signing up at RadioShack.com/FreePhonesForLife. All purchases count as an entry, regardless of value though there’s a limit of one purchase per store per day that can be used as an entry in the sweepstakes.
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16GB Acer Iconia Tab A500 available in the UK for 349.99 GBP
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Acer launched a new version of its 10-inch tablet, Iconia Tab A500, in the UK. Unlike the original model which comes with 32GB of built-in storage, this one rocks “only” 16 gigs. The good news is that the amount of memory is directly proportional to the price of the device and in that sense this version costs 100 GBP less — 349.99 GBP, to be more precise. That’s 50 GBP less than what Apple is asking for the cheapest model of iPad 2 in the UK.
Other than the amount of storage capacity, there are no other differences between this and the original Iconia Tab A500. Both devices run Android Honeycomb, while featuring such specs as dual-core 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, 10.1-inch 1280×800 capaci...
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ZTE Skate coming soon to UK as Orange Monte Carlo
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With a large partner like Orange, ZTE may actually be able to hit its targets and sell over 80 million phones by the end of this year. The France Telecom’s British subsidiary now lists the ZTE-made Orange Monte Carlo in its “Coming Soon” section. The device in question is actually the ZTE Skate, which we know as a cheap, yet decent Android smartphone. If you remember, we’re talking about a phone that comes with a large 4.3-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera, HSPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, while Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread is running the show. In addition, the Monte Carlo will support HD Voice on Orange network.
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Kaspersky: Massive botnet is 'practically indestructible'
Like UnlikeKaspersky security researchers have sounded the alarm over a new botnet that is said to be virtually "indestructible." Known as TDL-4 -- the fourth generation of 2008's TDL botnet/malware -- the latest strain has reportedly infected more than 4.5 million Windows machines in the first three months of 2011 -- and that's not slowing down.
Like previous versions of TDL, the operators of TDL-4 are paying affiliates between $20 and $200 for every 1,000 systems they infect, depending on the location of the victim. Affiliates can accomplish this through any means desired, but they generally prefer to infiltrate PCs via porn, bootleg sites, as well as video and file storage services.
Having developed...
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Microsoft lifts its Mango Developer NDA- open the flood gates!
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On the WP7Dev Podcast Cliff Simpkins, Product Manager for WP7 at Microsoft, has made it clear the earlier restrictions developers faced on sharing information on Mango has now been lifted.
The situation has rapidly evolved from no information at all (“… the developer promises not to publish any content, screen shots or comments in any media…”) to some posting allowed, as long as its cleared by Microsoft (Permission to publish content, screenshots or comments based on this pre-release code can be obtained from Microsoft on a case-by-case basis) to the final climb down now.
Simpkins said the language has been revised, saying the intent was meant for developers to not share the actual code wit...
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Barco Signs Agreement with Empire Theaters
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Today, Barco announced that they have signed a Supply Agreement and Support Agreement with Empire Theaters. Under the agreement, Barco will convert 386 of Empire’s auditoriums to a new digital projection system. This conversion will complete Empire Theater’s conversion process from film to digital projectors. Barco will be providing a variety of projectors from the digital cinema lineup. The projectors will vary between 2k HD (2048 x 1080) and 4K HD (4096 x 2160) resolution. “We are ecstatic to be expanding our digital cinema footprint in Canada with Empire Theatres and committed to continuing their rapid, smooth deployment,” commented Danny Sergeant, VP Sales and Managing Director for Barco...
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BenQ Releases DV-S11 Projector Camera in USA
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BenQ announced last year their DV-S11 projector camera. Today, the company finally released the device in the USA. The DV-S11 is one of the few camera-projector hybrids currently on the market. It looks like a typical pico projector with a 3.5” LCD touchscreen. The camera is able to record full HD (1920 x 1080) resolution video or a 5MP still frame. The projector is capable of displaying a 50 inch screen, but unfortunately that’s all the specifications the company is giving. The DV-S11 is available now through the company’s website or through select retailers for $229.
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