An Entrepreneur’s Guide To Patents: How To Determine Whether They Are Right...
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles by Brad Woodcox that explores the patent system for entrepreneurs. The first examined the basics of the system. Woodcox is a technical...
View ArticleEricsson Files Patent Suit Against Samsung In The U.S. After Nearly Two...
Swedish telecoms kit maker Ericsson has filed suit against mobile maker Samsung in the US for patent infringement. The move follows nearly two years of negotiations to renew a FRAND patent licensing...
View ArticleNokia Wins Tribunal Ruling Against RIM In WLAN Patent Licensing Dispute
More bad news for RIM — which commanded only a 4.3 percent share of the global smartphone market in Q3, according to IDC — Nokia has won a tribunal ruling against the BlackBerry-maker regarding its...
View ArticleMotorola Mobility Sheds Manufacturing Bases In China, Brazil; Singapore...
Google-owned Motorola Mobility is shedding its manufacturing operations in Tianjin, China, and Jaguariuna, Brazil — with long-time manufacturing partner Flextronics agreeing to acquire the factories...
View ArticleWebMD Announces Layoffs; 14% Of Staff, $45M In Total Spending Cuts Coming Off...
WebMD, arguably still the go-to source for medical information on the Internet, today announced that it would be implementing strong expenditure control measures after revealing disappointing Q3...
View ArticleGoogle sells Motorola’s home set-top box business to ARRIS for $2.35 billion
Google originally explained that it purchased Motorola almost exclusively for its wide portfolio of intellectual properties, and today that statement has been validated. Google has officially sold...
View ArticleHTC claims new licensing agreement with Apple will benefit them in 2013 and...
In case you haven’t heard, Apple and HTC have reached an agreement that will finally end their ongoing patent battle. The new 10 year agreement will cover all current, pending and future patents.read more
View ArticleMicrosoft Wins Out Over Apple And Google, Acquires Home Entertainment And...
Late last year, it was reported that Microsoft, Apple and Google were all speaking to id8 Group R2 Studios Inc. about a potential acquisition of the startup, and now the Wall Street Journal is...
View ArticleNvidia Outs Next-Gen Tegra 4 Quad-Core A15 LTE-Enabled Mobile Chip; Also...
Nvidia has outed its next-gen Tegra 4 mobile CPU at CES. As expected, the chip packs 72 GPU cores, offering a 6x bump on the Tegra 3′s graphics processing performance — to make the most of higher...
View ArticleNVIDIA Announces The New Tegra 4 Processor Bringing Even More Quad-Core...
It’s been a long time coming, but NVIDIA has finally unveiled its latest addition to its chipset family and “GeForce Experience” by introducing the world to the Tegra 4 processor.read more
View ArticleIBM files most patents – for 20th year in a row
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: RegulationThe US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued 253,155 utility patents in 2012, the highest annual number on record and an increase of...
View ArticleNadia Heninger Is Watching You
It’s been a bad week for online security. An “extremely critical” Ruby on Rails security hole; a Yahoo! Mail XSS exploit; and yet another Java 0-day vulnerability.read more
View ArticleRumor: Dijit And Miso Are Close To Merging, As Social TV Consolidation Continues
Rumor Friday-Before-A-Holiday-Weekend®?read more
View ArticleApple Rejects Samsung Request To See iOS 6 Source Code In Korea Patent Battle
Apple and Samsung are at legal loggerheads in at least 10 countries around the world. In one court case, in Korea’s Seoul Central District Court, where Samsung has brought a patent infringement case...
View ArticlePerforce: Linux, Open Source Commitment High
Should companies that produce mostly proprietary software invest in Linux development? In one sense, that seems as illogical as the artisanal-organic bread guy from the local farmers’ market buying...
View ArticleThe FSF is hiring: Seeking a full-time outreach and communication coordinator
The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Boston-based 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to protect freedoms critical to the computer-using public, seeks a motivated and organized tech-friendly...
View ArticleApple Exploring Earbud Tech That Can Compensate For Specific Fit In Each...
The USPTO is big on Apple patents this morning, with a new application published around earbud technology spotted by AppleInsider. Apple’s own earbud designs have been mostly underwhelming, even if the...
View ArticleWait, When Did Software Become So Boring?
Maybe I’m just jaded and cranky. But as I wandered through Startup Alley at TC Disrupt this week, and even as I watched many of the Battlefield contestants, I found myself fighting eye-glazing ennui....
View ArticleApple Swipe Keyboard Patent Shows Cupertino Knows Typing On iOS Is “Tedious”
Apple’s iPhone needs a much smarter keyboard. I’ve said it before, but here’s evidence Cupertino itself realises that hen-pecking individual letters is a “tedious task”.read more
View ArticleLXer: Microsoft & Friends Define Commitment to Openness
Published at LXer:The legal papers were filed by Rockstar Consortium, a patent troll owned by Microsoft, Apple, BlackBerry, Ericsson, and Sony. They hold 6,000 plus patents purchased in an auction for...
View ArticleApple Files With U.S. Government For More Information Request Transparency As...
Today, Apple has released its first ever report on government information requests, detailing exact numbers of account information and data requests internationally.read more
View ArticleTalkAndroid Weekly Recap for December 2 – December 8, 2013
We had another busy week at TalkAndroid so here’s a recap of all the top stories. As we head into the winter, all eyes will be focused on the Galaxy S 5 and the successor to the HTC One (M8). What does...
View ArticleThe AllSeen Alliance leaves me with that WTF feeling.
1. First off the name of the foundation and what the project is about, invokes an involuntary FACEPALM.2. Next is the source code license. ------------------------------------ The Alliance will release...
View ArticleSamsung seeks a retrial of the retrial in Apple copycat case
The Samsung vs Apple war is one of those wars that may never end. Last year’s famous copycat trial ended with a $1.05 billion reward for Apple, but $410 million of it was dropped by judge Lucy Koh...
View ArticleMakerBot Patents An Automatic Filament Switching System While Parent Company...
A MakerBot patent shows that the company is working on a dual-filament solution that can change print colors on the fly. By leading the filaments through the heated extruder using a sort of “slider”...
View ArticleTalkAndroid Weekly Recap for June 16 – June 22, 2014
Google I/O is only a few days way, kicking off this Wednesday. What exactly will we see? One thing we probably won’t see is the upcoming Nexus 8 (or 9), but we finally know more information about it....
View ArticleA Tale Of Two Patents: Why Facebook Can’t Clone Snapchat
Facebook released Slingshot, its second attempt at an impermanent sharing app, last Tuesday. The app borrows heavily, in concept and features, from Snapchat, as well as smaller startups like Frontback...
View ArticleRed Hat Assistant General Counsel Analyses Supreme Court's Patent Ruling
Quote: This morning the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important decision concerning software patents and took a small-but-meaningful step in the right direction.In Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, the Court...
View ArticleFree Software Foundation statement on the new iPhone, Apple Pay, and Apple Watch
Today, Apple announced new iPhone models, a watch, and a payment service. In response, FSF executive director John Sullivan made the following statement:It is astonishing to see so much of the...
View ArticleMultiple problems with Sandisk SSD & Samsung SSD on Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0...
I have an odd problem that I don't know how to fix.My PC consists of an Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 motherboard, to which three HDDs are attached:Port 1: WDC 2TB HDD Port 2: Samsung SSD 840 EVO 1TB Port 4:...
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