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FeaturesTen tech patents that should have been rejected
Welcome to the wacky world of tech patents – a place where you’ll find not just the crazy-sounding ideas that inhabit any category of patents...
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NewsThe iPhone’s big lead in customer satisfaction is gone
Apple’s dominance in smartphone customer satisfaction in the US faded last year, with rivals like Samsung and Motorola dramatically closing...
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NewsFor first time, quarterly smartphone sales top other mobile phones
Six years after the sale of the first iPhone and 14 years after the first BlackBerry email pager was unveiled, smartphone shipments have outnumbered...
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Features 3Facebook’s Home launcher for Android creates ‘Facebook Phone’
Welcome to your new home on Android. Strangely enough, it looks a lot like Facebook. Facebook’s new launcher for Android, simply called Home,...
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NewsIs this the face of Facebook’s new phone?
The long-rumoured Facebook phone might be real after all. This coming Thursday in the US, Facebook will hold a press event where it’s expected...
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NewsNew smartphone cameras likely won’t help HTC and Nokia, analysts say
HTC and Nokia are separately expected to announce super-high-quality cameras in new smartphones expected to be unveiled the next week. It remains...
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NewsHTC can’t clone Apple ‘user experience’ under patent deal
A patent agreement between Apple and HTC forbids the Taiwanese company from making and selling mobile devices that copy what is described as the “Distinctive...
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NewsCourt orders patents in Apple-HTC deal to be made public
Apple’s patent license agreement with HTC will not be put entirely under seal, except for the pricing and royalty terms, a court in California...
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NewsSamsung won’t follow HTC’s lead, settle Apple patent dispute
Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it has no plan to settle its ongoing patent disputes with Apple, declining to follow in the footsteps of HTC, the...
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NewsApple, HTC settle smartphone patent fight
Well, that’s one less international patent dispute to have to keep track of. Apple and HTC announced Saturday that they have buried the hatchet,...
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NewsHTC, Samsung queue up to sue Apple over 4G in iPhone 5
Apple may be up for a spot of bother with its iPhone 5, and as yet the product hasn’t even launched. Both HTC and Samsung are readying their legal...
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Blogs 1Will Apple go after Google?
The big question following Apple’s win against Samsung is whether Apple now has the scene set to go after Google, in recognition of Steve Jobs’...
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NewsAlleged HTC tablet looks like a mini iMac
Leaked images of an alleged unreleased HTC tablet indicates that the design will not infringe on Apple’s iPad. Instead, it looks rather like a miniature...
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NewsHTC ‘has no intention to settle with Apple’ over patent case
HTC chairperson Cher Wang has insisted that the firm has no intentions of settling its patent dispute with Apple out of court, despite the recent jury...
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NewsApple, Samsung, Google joining forces to buy Kodak patents
Apple, Google, HTC, LG and Samsung are reportedly teaming up in a bid to prevent ‘patent troll’ Intellectual Ventures from buying Kodak patents....
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NewsHTC loses US$40 million from OnLive restructuring
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC said on Monday it will have to book a US$40 million loss from its investment in U.S. cloud gaming service OnLive, which...
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NewsJudge rules HTC v Apple can be heard separately to Motorola v Apple
The judge in the Apple versus Motorola Mobility (owned by Google) case has agreed with HTC’s request that its case should be heard separately...
