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A judge from the International Trade Commission gave a preliminary ruling on March 26th that Samsung is infringing on yet another Apple patent. The patent is for a “method and apparatus for providing translucent images on a computer display.” As always, it’s quite broad. Samsung infringes on Apple’s patent with its text selection feature in…
According to a study released today by Gartner, the tablet market is set to conquer PC sales by 2015, with worldwide mobile device sales expected to reach 2.4 billion units this year. With the proliferation of cheaper and more powerful tablets being released to the market over the last couple of years, the sales of…
Last week, Niantic Labs introduced the Ingress Report on its YouTube channel. The report covers the world of the “game” Ingress, including player achievements across the world, as well as information pertaining to the ever-unfolding story at NianticProject.com. This week’s report covers a few interesting tidbits. While only briefly discussed and currently unusable until the…
If you’ve yet to see Sony’s Xperia Z ad, you should first watch it here before proceeding. It’s a powerful ad that we wish Sony would push everywhere, as it’s quite effective. In a recent Sony Mobile blog post, the director of the ad, Tarsem Singh, shared his journey in India, equipped with an Xperia…
After a long wait, T-Mobile is finally selling the iPhone 5. Today, the wireless carrier started accepting pre-orders for the Apple handset. The 16GB iPhone 5 costs $99 upfront with a payment plan that requires you to pay $20 monthly for 24 months. T-Mobile is also selling the 32GB and the 64GB model for $199…
We’ve already told you about BlackBerry’s plans to launch a total of 6 devices this year, one of them being the R10. Well, that device — or at least some phone from the “R-Series” — has been caught in the wild as you can attest from the image above. We don’t have all the details…
Looks like Nokia is preparing a new version of the Lumia 920 that will be available in select markets. The Finnish company’s flagship device in Spearmint green has surfaced on Nokia Jordan’s Facebook page and we like it a lot. As far as we know, there won’t be any changes under the hood and the…
SamMobile ninjas are striking again. This time, they’re bringing us the Samsung Galaxy S4 shipping dates for Eastern Europe. From the document they managed to get, the Korean company will only offer the 16 and 64 GB models in countries like Russia and Ukraine, though the 32GB version may also be launched at some point…
Jolla, which hopes to enter the smartphone market later this year with the MeeGo-based Sailfish OS, made its SDK available for developers. Windows, OS X, 32- and 64-bit Linux versions can all be downloaded from the company’s website though you should know the SDK is just a minnow and there are already some issues caught…
Your brand new BlackBerry Z10 is by default telling your BBM contacts what you’re listening and watching. While that can be cool, it can also be dangerous as you may not want to tell everyone when you’re watching some NSFW material. Everything’s cool as long as you’re visiting YouTube, but once “Tube” is turned into…