AMSTERDAM: Apple won an injunction in a Dutch court on Wednesday to stop Samsung Electronics from marketing three smartphone models in some European countries after alleging a breach of patents. Apple and Samsung are locked in a bruising patent fight in the United States, Europe and Asia, as they jostle for the top spot in [...]
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Samsung gets boost from Dutch court, Jobs resignation
(Reuters) – Samsung Electronics shares rose sharply on Thursday, amid a rally in South Korean large cap stocks and analysts said it received a boost from a Dutch patent ruling and the decision by Apple’s Steve Jobs to step down.
Apple and Samsung are fighting a series of legal battles over patents with U.S. market leader [...]
New Control Over Privacy on Facebook
Privacy worries have bedeviled Facebook since its early days, from the introduction of the endless scroll of data known as the news feed to, most recently, the use of facial recognition technology to identify people in photographs.
At the nub of all those worries, of course, is how much people share on Facebook, with whom and [...]
Force Motors introduces sports utility vehicle
Force Motors announced its entry into the personal vehicles space by launching its new sports utility vehicle (SUV), Force One in Mumbai on Friday. The vehicle is priced at Rs. 10.65 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).
The SUV was unveiled by Abhay Firodia, Chairman and Prasan Firodia, Managing Director, Force Motors, and Force One brand ambassador Bollywood star, [...]
5 Features That Shouldn’t Die With the HP TouchPad and WebOS
Barely two months after the HP TouchPad launched, and we’re already writing its obituary. Even RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has survived for longer than that. I was among the reviewers who took HP to task on the TouchPad–but even so, I’m saddened by the news that the tablet world has one fewer competitor. After using [...]
HP: Tablets and phones may be gone, not WebOS
HP’s decision to shut down the phone and tablets division might have surprised many, but the acquired Palm WebOS will live on, says Senior VP, Stephen DeWitt. In an interview with Businessweek , he said that WebOS would continue development and continue to live on. HP is looking out to make deals with other phone [...]
Profile: Autonomy
The UK’s largest software company, Autonomy, has been bought by Hewlett-Packard (HP) as part of the US firm’s plans to refocus on software.
Autonomy was founded in 1996, when it grew out of the specialist software research group Cambridge Neurodynamics.
It develops software that can extract useful information from “unstructured” sources such as phone-calls, emails or video.
That [...]
Lenovo’s Net Profits Close to Double
Lenovo reported strong earnings for the quarter ended June 30, with the company’s net profits nearly doubling year-over-year.
Profits grew by 98 percent to US$108 million, while revenue increased 15 percent to $5.9 billion, the company said on Thursday. The quarter is the first in the company’s current fiscal year.
The Chinese company reported that both desktop [...]
Google, Motorola Deal Will Impact Apple`s Business: 10 Reasons Why
News Analysis: The early signs are that investors don’t believe that a Google buyout of Motorola Mobility will significantly hurt Apple’s business. But is that really the case? Once the Google-Motorola partnership gets going, Apple may find it has to work even harder to maintain its position in the mobile industry.
Google’s blockbuster deal to acquire [...]
Analysis: Apple going after Google in tablet spats?
(Reuters) – Apple Inc’s increasingly effective patent war against rivals like Samsung Electronics may mask its real target: arch-foe Google Inc.
The maker of the iPad and iPhone has sued three of the largest manufacturers of Google’s Android-based devices — Samsung, Motorola and HTC — for multiple patent infringements across multiple countries, pointing out “slavish copying” [...]
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