Apple, Sony and four other companies were reportedly being sued by Graphic Properties Holding Inc, formerly known as Silicon Graphics Inc, for allegedly infringing a patent over their sale of mobile phones and other electronic devices. The lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware. According to the lawsuits, the defendants’ infringing devices include Apple’s iPhone and the HTC EVO4G, LG Thrill, Research in Motion Torch, Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy S II, and Sony Xperia Play smartphones. The patent...
The BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has delayed its annual presentation to financial analysts, which usually take place during the BlackBerry World Conference in May. A date and location for the meeting have not yet been decided, reports Reuters. “We decided to make BlackBerry World more focused on customers, developers and partners,” RIM spokeswoman Tenille Kennedy said on Tuesday. “We will hold a separate session targeted at the interests of the investment community later this year, once BlackBerry 10 is...
Over yesterday we reported that The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will be making an application to the Federal Court in Melbourne for orders against Apple for alleged contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) following by which today the Cupertino-based iPad maker is offering its new iPad buyers in Australia the opportunity to get a full...
China Telecom and Nokia today announced the Nokia 800C, the first CDMA Windows Phone in China and Nokia’s first Lumia phone for the world’s largest smartphone market. China Telecom will launch the Lumia 800C with CDMA support in April through Tianyi FlyYoung shops and Nokia brand stores. “We’re excited to introduce our first Lumia smartphone, the Nokia 800C, to this important market with our exclusive launch partner, China Telecom. Working closely together, we’ve created a compelling, locally relevant experience...
Microsoft in order to fight against Google over its mapping service, Google Maps, the software giant is backing up lending big support and money to develop an open source map project OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is run much like Wikipedia, in which volunteers provide mapping information to build a free, open mapping service. People, sites, and companies can then use...
Google Drive, the long-rumored search giant cloud storage service, may be appears to be launching next week, reports GigaOm. Cited “well placed” sources told the publication that Drive is on the urge of launch and will make its debut very soon; it will be released to consumers in April first week. Google Drive allows users to stores pictures, documents and videos...
Sony has announced that it will make no further investment in liquid-crystal-display panel joint venture with Sharp. Sony also has the right to sell its current stake to Sharp, the companies said. The news comes following Sharp entering into a manufacturing agreement with Foxconn taking a stake of around 10 percent in the Japanese manufacturer. Foxconn will also take over up to 50 percent of the LCD production at Sharp’s plant in Sakai, Osaka. The Sakai plant will now be owned 46.5 percent by Sharp, the same amount by Foxconn, and 7...
US President Barack Obama has always trying to adapt the modern technology in order to achieve his political aims and in the latest to add, he’s joined Pinterest into his social media portfolio. Obama’s new Pinterest account includes boards like “Obama-inspired recipes,” “pet lovers for Obama,” “Just the fact”, “Obama 2012 in...
The Dow Jones reports that Sprint CFO Joe Euteneuer said today at an investor conference that the company is free to offer a potential future Apple iPhone using 4G LTE, though he didn’t say explicitly whether Apple had such an iPhone planned. The carrier plans to introduce the 4G LTE network in only six cities by midyear. “If you make the assumption that...
If you’ve ever sent or received pictures or videos on your Sprint phone, they may be stored on our sprint.com/picturemail website. It’s time to keep a track and download them on time as Sprint has announced that it will soon be discontinuing its online storage capability asking users to keep the data to their PC or to their favorite photo management or social...
