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In its case against Google, Oracle took the controversial stance that APIs are copyrightable and argued that Google infringed 37 Java APIs. Judge William Alsup considered Oracle’s argument and ruled it does not apply under current copyright law. This is the second setback Oracle has suffered in this case. In an earlier decision, a jury ruled…
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) announced today that it has selected a design for the new fourth form factor (4FF/nano-SIM) standard. The 4FF card will measure 12.3mm wide by 8.8mm high, and 0.67mm thick, and can be packaged and distributed in such a way that it will be backwards-compatible with existing SIM designs. The adoption of…
RIM was in a bit of trouble for its use of the BBM moniker for its BlackBerry Messenger service. The BBM name is trademarked by a Canadian company, BBM Canada, that measures television and radio audiences, and the company obviously wasn’t too keen on RIM freely using the BBM name as its own. BBM Canada filed…
We’ve been already reporting on Samsung’s Galaxy S and Galaxy S II sales figures in the past. Today we’ve found out that the Korean company managed to move a total of 50 million Galaxy S and Galaxy S II units. The original Galaxy S, launched in June 2010, accounts for more than 24 million devices,…
Orange’s big press day is over and now we know that the first Intel Atom-powered smartphone will launch in Europe on June 6th. Previously we knew this device as Orange Santa Clara, but it will sold as Orange San Diego, which is still in line with the carrier’s “policy” to use city names for its…
HTC is working on a special version of its flagship One X smartphone for China Telecom. Marked as X720d, it doesn’t come with NVidia Tegra 3 nor Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 CPU — rather it uses Qualcomm’s last-year Snapdragon S3 (MSM8660) SoC which two cores clock at the same (like Snapdragon S4) 1.5GHz while ensuring supplies…
Toronto-based Juice Mobile released some Canadian mobile stats based on their publisher ad impression levels. From the infographic we got, you can see that RIM is dominating the picture, accounting for 45% of all the traffic. Apple’s iOS took the second place with 34% of users (3% less than last month) and finally Android is…
LG has announced that three of its phones — including the Optimus LTE, Optimus LTE Tag and Optimus Vu — will be getting their servings of Ice Cream Sandwich starting from June 4th. Aside from the latest version of Android, this trio will also get a new version of LG’s own UI layer, as well…
In its new report, Juniper Research is looking at the prospects of contactless mobile payments, forecasting that more than 1 in 4 of US and Western European users will use their NFC-enabled mobile phone to pay for goods in-store by 2017, which is up from 2% this year. Worldwide, more and more NFC payment pilots…
RIM will soon launch a new version of its tablet OS to select users willing to experiment with the beta software. According to PlayBook product manager Michael Clewley (his tweet is here), PlayBook OS 2.1 will be pushed into beta within the next couple days. We’ve no idea what the new version of the platform…