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After having about a day to look over Oracle’s patent lawsuit against Google Android regarding Java, the search giant has called the complaint “baseless.” This could mean that Google is gearing up for a legal fight. A Google spokesperson said: We are disappointed Oracle has chosen to attack both Google and the open-source Java community…
In a bit of an intriguing move, Dell has opened the doors to its own mobile app store and this will provide programs for Android, BlackBerry, webOS, Symbian and Windows Mobile. The store offers support for at least 11 carriers and it boasts that there are more than “50,000 ways to improve your phone.” The…
It looks like the beef between Apple and Adobe isn’t too bad because Adobe has just released an updated Photoshop Express app for the Apple iPhone and iPad. The app, which has already been available on Android, changes the name from Photoshop Mobile to Photoshop Express. It is the first that’s compatible with the Apple…
Oh San Francisco, you never cease to amaze me. This is the city with probably the highest Apple iPhone-per-person ratio and most of the whining you hear about AT&T reception. Of course, this city is also potentially making it more difficult to put up new cellular antennas based on aesthetics. According to the S.F. Examiner:…
If your life is lacking some epic-ness, you’ll be happy to know that you can now preorder the Samsung Epic 4G from Sprint. The Samsung Epic 4G will be available on Sprint August 31 for $249 and most of the high-end devices this summer have sold out, so you may want to preorder it to…
News Corp. is saying “hello” to the new reality of media and the news juggernaut is embarking on a wide-ranging strategy to bring its content to smartphones and tablets like the Apple iPad. News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch wants to bring digital newspaper content to devices like the Apple iPhone, Android and the iPad in…
It looks like nothing could stop that Android momentum, right? Well, how about a big fat lawsuit from a tech giant? Oracle is suing Google over patent infringements related to Java in the Android platform. “In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property,” Oracle spokesperson Karen Tillman said in a…
That little green robot has proven that it can do some amazing things and now we’re getting word that Android has propelled HTC into the top ten mobile phone makers around the world. This information comes from the Gartner report we covered earlier, but I thought it was interesting to spotlight how far HTC has…
id Software will be bringing its Rage game to the Apple iPhone and iPad and the company is promising some crazy graphics. How crazy? Is 60 frames-per-second crazy enough for you? The company showed off a sneak preview of the Rage game at the QuakeCon conference (check out video at Kotaku) and it said this…
It looks like the folks over at Android Spin got a few spy shots of an upcoming Dell Android smartphone called the Blaze and you’ll be sad to know that it looks to be running Android 1.5. Like the upcoming Dell Streak, the company seems content at releasing devices with the older version of the…