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08/10/2011
All Things Digital
It appears that Japanese consumers will be the first ones to get a taste of Mango — the next version of Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system.
Fujitsu has announced plans for a colorful, waterproof Windows Phone to run on the network of KDDI. The device is expected to be formally launched late this [...]
08/09/2011
Xconomy
Qualcomm, the San Diego wireless technology giant, launched an internal “wireless fitness challenge” almost four weeks ago for a group of its employees—testing the idea of using similar workplace competitions to promote awareness of wireless health technologies.
When vice president Don Jones kicked off the challenge on July 14, he wrote in a Qualcomm blog [...]
08/10/2011
Dow Jones Newswires – San Francisco Bureau
SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Inc. said a German court has ruled that a tablet computer made by Samsung Electronics Co. cannot be sold in most of the European Union, the latest turn in a patent fight between the two companies.
The preliminary injunction bars Samsung from distributing its Galaxy Tab 10.1 [...]
08/10/2011
EE Times – Online
SAN FRANCISCO—Subsidiaries of ARM Holdings plc has asked a U.S. federal court to intervene in a litigation filed in April by Canadian memory IP vendor Mosaid Technologies Inc. against several ARM licensees, Mosaid said Tuesday (Aug. 9).
ARM filed a complaint against Mosaid on Aug. 5 in U.S. District Court for Northern [...]
08/10/2011
CNET News.com
With a lull in the battle of words between Google and Microsoft over patents held by tech giants, Apple today has been granted 20 new ones, including patents that cover integrated touch screens and parts of the visual voice mail tool found on the iPhone.
The full list, dug up today by Apple patent [...]
08/10/2011
Forbes – Online
Skype wants one billion users. Its partnership with Facebook, which was announced in July and will roll out fully over the next few weeks, could give Skype a big boost by granting it access to Facebook’s 750 million members. But Facebook may not be enough to push Skype, which says it has 175 [...]
08/10/2011
VentureBeat
Nokia‘s new superphones will offer a superior user interface and a better, cloud-enabled experience than its chief competitors, the company’s top U.S executive told VentureBeat.
The reliance by Apple and Android phones on the “app” as the central metaphor is “outdated,” he said.
In a wide-ranging interview, Chris Weber, President of Nokia, head of North [...]
08/09/2011
Giga Om
The Federal Communications Commission said it would combine the review of AT&T’s purchase of spectrum from Qualcomm with the agency’s review of Ma Bell’s purchase of T-Mobile. The FCC’s decision on Monday night could be seen as the agency taking a careful view of consolidating so much spectrum in the hands of one company, [...]
08/09/2011
CNET News.com
The U.S. International Trade Commission, which has the power to block imports, will review Apple’s claim that Taiwanese company violated five of its patents, including one used for scrolling operations, another for programmable tactile touch-screen displays, and one for a double-sided touch-sensitive panel.
The decision to review the complaint, which was announced on the [...]
08/09/2011
Reuters
BANGALORE (Reuters) – Visa Inc said it would accelerate the move to chip technology and speed up the use of mobile payments in the United States, as the world’s largest payment processor tries to corner a share in the nascent smartphone payments market.
High-end smartphones are now shipping with “near-field communication” (NFC) technology that allows [...]
