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Microsoft is suing Motorola over alleged patent infringements on its Android phones like the Droid X. Microsoft said Motorola is infringing on multiple patents “that are essential to the smartphone user experience, including synchronizing email, calendars and contacts, scheduling meetings, and notifying applications of changes in signal strength and battery power.” In a blog post,…
We’ve heard a lot about the rapid ascension of Android, as Google’s mobile operating system recently outsold Apple iPhone and BlackBerry in the United States and many are predicting Android will be the second-largest mobile OS in the world. But part of this growth is because it was coming from no market share and a…
Samsung confirmed today that the Galaxy Tab will be available on November 1st in the UK. The Galaxy Tab carries on the tradition of the Galaxy S-series of smartphones with a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor, 7-inch LCD with 1024×600 resolution, 3-megapixel rear-facing camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for vide calling, 16/32GB internal storage, microSD expansion (up tp 32GB),…
Since the year is 2010, AT&T has finally decided to do something it should have long ago: deliver your home voicemails to your smartphone. Right now, the service is only available to U-Verse customers. Those customers can view and manage their home messages as visual voicemails on their smartphones. Personally, I take all my calls…
Well, that didn’t take long. The Apple TV has been jailbroken and you can look forward to getting around some of Apple’s restrictions. That’s right folks, we should see some apps on the device soon. Prior to the introduction of the Apple TV, there was speculation that it would be a full iOS device which…
BMW has officially unveiled their in-car iPhone and iPad accessory docks at the Paris Auto Show today. We first caught wind of the official BMW iPhone and iPad in-car accessory docks from concept mockups not too long ago, so this isn’t exactly a surprise, but it’s still good to see an automaker embracing new tech…
Android users in the U.S. have been rather spoiled now with access to the Android Market, not realizing that other parts of the world don’t have access just yet. Google says that it is continuing its global expansion of the Android Market so that others can get apps for their handsets. Countries included are Brazil,…
India said that it now has manual access to the BlackBerry messenger service and it wants more hooks into the system. “We have manual access to the messenger services. We want automated access and we are hopeful of getting that from January 1,” G.K. Pillai, India’s home secretary, told Reuters. India is just one of…
Eniac Ventures, which touts itself as the “world’s first mobile seed venture capital firm,” announced that it has closed its first fund, which will focus on investing in the mobile software and services space. The partnership also announced that they have already invested in 6 promising young companies out of the fund – including Localytics,…
According to the Nikkei Daily, Toshiba is scrapping its plans to mass produce OLED displays. Toshiba and Panasonic joined forces in 2008 to form Toshiba Mobile Display and began laying down plans to add OLED manufacturing to a Toshiba-run production plant in northern Japan. After investing almost 16 billion yen ($191.6 million), those plans were…