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AT&T has officially pushed back its self-imposed closing date for gobbling up the nations fourth-largest carrier, T-Mobile. AT&T still seems to believe that it will close the T-Mobile deal by the end of next year’s first half despite opposition from the Justice Department and a potential lawsuit from Sprint. If the deal doesn’t go through, the Dallas-based…
Motorola won a preliminary injunction targeting the sales of Apple’s iOS devices in Germany recently. This would ban Apple from selling any devices there that infringe on two of Motorola’s wireless technology patents. Apple isn’t too worried about it, though. Motorola only won by default, since a representative for Apple didn’t even show up in…
The patent war between Samsung and Apple intensifies with investigation under way over in Europe. The South Korean-based manufacturer has been trying to impede the selling of all Apple devices in Europe including the recently-launched iPhone 4s. This is all for naught, because the 3G patent complaints have flagged an antitrust investigation by Europe’s top competition…
Uh oh, Samsung’s being a poor sport. The company is appealing the Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban in Australia. This comes two weeks after a court ruled in favor of Apple effectively preventing all sales of the tablet in the country/continent for infringing on Apple’s patents. The evidence it presented in court regarding Samsung’s two patent…
Update: Now in California, too. Free apps and a heartfelt apology won’t be enough to appease some BlackBerry owners of the massive service outage a few weeks ago. The first steps towards a class-action lawsuit against RIM have been filed in Montreal, demanding direct user-by-user monetary compensation. The initiating plaintiff depended on BBM to keep in…
Earlier this week at DevCon 2011, RIM announced the name and developer framework for their next-gen BlackBerry operating system. BBX was meant to bring the QNX-based operating system on the BlackBerry PlayBook to smartphones, and though we didn’t get a clear picture of what the OS would look like (nevermind what device it would launch…
Like the current legal battle with Apple is not enough for Samsung, they’re looking for even more trouble. Apparently, a page on the Korean company’s website dedicated to the Galaxy Player 50 features maps that are clearly ripped from the iPhone Maps app, as you can see from the image above. I’m saying “apparently” because…
Apple wins another round in the fight against Samsung. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is officially banned from being sold in Australia. Apple originally sued Samsung for infringing two patents regarding multi-touch gestures and controls. Back in August, Samsung had originally agreed not to sell the tablet in Australia anyway until the judge made a verdict.…
We all know that AT&T and T-Mobile will be soon gearing up for its anti-trust trial with the government, and to no one’s surprise, Google wants to protect confidential information about its business plans related to Android smartphone operating system. So in laymen terms, the search giant wants no parts of this merger. So to…
I wonder if anybody reads these articles and thinks “Wow, I’m honestly shocked!” anymore. Yes, Samsung is adding even more lawsuits against Apple to its list. This news comes just ten days after we reported the previous suit. The main goal is to ban Apple from selling iOS devices in the Netherlands, particularly the iPhone…