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Motorola Mobility is suing Apple for infringing on six of its patents. The patents in question are related to wireless antennas, software, messaging, and data management — quite a bit of the entire experience of a smartphone is on the line here. Apple allegedly uses these patents in the iPhone 4S and iCloud. The lawsuit…
Motorola says that moving forward in 2012, it will invest in something it calls “smart actions” for Android. These act as prompts to change your settings based on the different things you do with your smartphone and we liked what we saw when this debuted on the Droid Razr. For instance, if the phone notices…
Samsung got a victory its long legal battle against rival Apple over allegations of patent infringement in the Netherlands. A Dutch court rejected Apple’s appeal to stop Samsung from selling its Galaxy tablet in the country and this is huge because it opens the door for all Dutch subsidiaries to distribute the Tab throughout the…
HP announced on Wednesday that, starting today, it’s making part of webOS available to the open source community. Each month, HP will release major portions of webOS, a few pieces at a time, until the entire code base is made public. HP expects to release the full code base by September and is calling the final release Open webOS 1.0. You can see the release schedule at the bottom of this…
NimbleBit, who are the developers of the hugely popular freemium title, Tiny Tower, has recently taken notice that Zynga has just released a game that’s deeply inspired by theirs called Dream Heights. So, as any rational person would do when their hard work is being completely ripped off by a much larger and more successful…
Last month, SEGA announced it would be delivering the next episode in the Sonic the Hedgehog 4 episodic game on iOS & Android, but in order for Android gamers to genuinely get excited over the next episode in Sonic 4, they need to experience Episode I. The only way they would be able to do that is…
After an incredible earnings report, Apple’s stock has risen and the company has surpassed Exxon once again to become the most valuable U.S. company in the world. Apple’s stock hit $445.29 today and that brought its market capitalization to about $415 billion while the oil giant Exxon had a market cap of $414 billion. The…
Well, it’s that time of the year when rumors begin to run rampant about the next generation Apple device. The latest rumor claims that Apple is holding a handful of sample devices for the next iPhone, and the company could be looking to release a new model this summer, according to 9to5Mac. The new iOS handset is expected…
If you’re a fan of Valve’s Counter-Strike and have confined yourself to your PC in your dungeon-esque basement playing hours upon hours of the game, listen up! You’re days of being confined to your computer are somewhat officially over now that a two man team has ported the game to run on Android devices. The…
Do you like to jailbreak your iPhone or root your Android device? If so, you better enjoy it while you can. According to the EFF, this practice of jailbreaking and rooting may become illegal again. Back in 2010, the US Copyright office said that jailbreaking or rooting of a handset does not violate Section 1201…