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Finally, a governing body is waking up to the reality that a growing number of mobile phone lawsuits are used as weapons against their rivals. According to a report in Reuters, the EU is “concerned” that intellectual property rights are being used to shut down the sales of a competitor’s products and stifle innovation. Speaking…
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has requested an administrative hearing to discuss AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile. The FCC doesn’t often request a hearing like this and such a move is not good news for the two companies. Further discussion by the FCC adds a layer of complexity to the deal and will extend the time…
Hp announced its fourth quarter earnings today and, while the company is doing ok, webOS is at death’s door. In the full report, webOS was mentioned 25 times and each mention was about the loss the company incurred from “the wind down of HP’s webOS device business.” It’s the sad story of a platform that…
Foursquare users love to check-in and share their location with their friends. Whether they realize it or not, they are also sharing their location information with Foursquare, which can use this data to produce infographics like the one above. This timely composition details when and where Foursquare users were shopping on Black Friday last year.…
The Galaxy Nexus will be the first handset to ship with Ice Cream Sandwich and will include all the latest bells and whistles including facial recognition and improved notifications. Owners that snag one at launch may be surprised to discover that Adobe Flash is missing. This isn’t an oversight, but a purposeful delay by Google and…
Clearwire may be in a heap of trouble. The wireless carrier is planning to strategically delay paying a $237 million debt payment that is due December 1st says a Wall Street Journal report. The payment would put a significant dent in the company’s cash reserves and hurt future expansion plans. The WiMAX company currently has…
The Windows Phone Marketplace continues to grow at a steady rate. In little over a year, the Marketplace now has over 40,000 published apps according to an estimate from All About Windows Phone. This number is not the total available to consumers, but the total number that has been submitted to the online store. An…
If you want a Windows Phone handset, now is the perfect time to buy. The holiday shopping season is about to start and there will be plenty of discounts on handsets. To sweeten the deal, Microsoft is also offering a $25 prepaid App card for every person who buys a new Windows Phone handset. The $25 card…
According to a Digitimes report, panel makers are preparing for a Q4 slowdown as Apple curbs its orders for iPad 2 components. Apple is both selling off excess iPad 2 inventory and preparing for the iPad 3. Apple cut back on panel orders in Q3 2011, a move that caused LG shipments to fall by…
After announcing iTunes Match earlier this year, Apple finally rolled out the service to its customers this week. The online service lets iTunes users upload their music library to the cloud and share it across all iOS devices and computers attached to the same Apple ID. The service provides unlimited access to your music and…