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In early October, we caught wind of Motorola suing Apple over some alleged patent infringements. Later that month, Apple counter-sued Motorola for some patent infringements, too. It’s a patent-infringement-lawsuit extravaganza! This time, the International Trade Commission, or ITC, has agreed to look into Apple’s claims against Motorola. PC Mag reports: “The U.S. International Trade Commission…
You didn’t think HTC and Samsung were just going to get sued and take it laying down, did you? The companies with a large Android portfolio have signed cross-licensing agreements with Intellectual Ventures and are prepared for a mobile patent war now. HTC and Samsung will now have access to the patent portfolio of Intellectual…
We all know that the app world is exploding but as the market grows, will the independent app store providers like Handango, GetJar and others get squeezed out by platform makers and handset providers? That’s the question posed by an interesting story in the Wall Street Journal. Handango, for instance, has been acquired by PocketGear…
Yelp isn’t going to be left behind when it comes to location-based deals, as the company has just introduced check-in rewards for publicly saying you’re at a restaurant, bar or other venue. Yelp added the check-in feature to its app in January, just as the hype around Foursquare began to grow. Since the launch, the…
Japan’s largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo is teaming-up with Evernote to bring the popular note-taking service to its customers. Best of all, DoCoMo’s users will get the Premium version of the service, which otherwise costs $50 a year, for free! As part of the deal, the carrier will pre-install Evernote app on every Android smartphone…
Remember The Milk keeps updating its mobile offering. Their latest product update includes their Android client which has been blessed with push syncing capability. No longer will you have to wait for periodic updates to your tasks from the web to your mobile device – as soon as task is changed or added, it will…
The smartphone market is terribly small compared to the total mobile industry, with roughly 1 out of every 5 handsets sold having some sort of advanced mobile operating system running inside. That figure was provided by Gartner earlier this month; they also said that 33% of those smartphones were using Symbian and 25% used Google’s…
Still pissed that the Xperia X10 may never get some fully functional multitouch capabilities? Well, this may not be the answer to that problem, but those looking for a skinless experience for your X10 now have a stock Android 2.2 Froyo ROM to play around with. That is, if you like playing around with ROMs…
Motorola’s life-proof phone, the Defy, is set to get the Android 2.2 Froyo update sometime in Q2 of 2011. We’ve seen Moto delay updates more than once before, but at least they are giving themselves an ample amount of time to get Froyo out the door. The Motorola Defy is made for those who are…
At this point, we’re considering any date to be the official announcement of Android 2.3, or Gingerbread. We’ve been waiting, and waiting, and waiting for some morsel of information, and once we saw this, it looked like the pieces may indeed be fitting together. Mr. Android, aka Andy Rubin, will be making an appearance at…