Digital Trends - Due in part to its popular native email system and effective security measures, Research In Motion’s BlackBerry mobile phones were once the must-have device for those working in business. Read more...
Samsung rolls new Wi-Fi HD Skype cam and baby monitor
Samsung has rolled out a pair of new Wi-Fi cameras as CES 2012. The Wi-Fi inTouch camera system is HD Skype-enabled and also includes pre-loaded apps. Read more...
Why Apple Is Winning the Mobile Video Format War … For Now (Mashable)
Mashable - Jeroen Wijering is the creator of the incredibly successful JW Player, which has generated millions of downloads since its release in 2005. In 2007 he co-founded LongTail Video, focusing on a full-fledged online video platform that includes encoding, delivery, syndication and advertising. The mobile video space has begun to consolidate. Read more...
Why Apple Is Winning the Mobile Video Format War … For Now (Mashable)
Mashable - Jeroen Wijering is the creator of the incredibly successful JW Player, which has generated millions of downloads since its release in 2005. In 2007 he co-founded LongTail Video, focusing on a full-fledged online video platform that includes encoding, delivery, syndication and advertising. The mobile video space has begun to consolidate Read more...
Android or iPhone? Ice Cream Sandwich or iOS 5?
I get asked a lot by people ready to move up from a mobile phone to a smartphone: Android or iPhone? Here’s my short and simple answer. First, understand that as different as Protestant to Catholic, or Democrat to Republican, is Google to Apple. Those two brands are the gorillas of technology. It’s not Apple [...] Read more...
Final word on cell phones and cancer: Reply hazy, try again (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - A new long-term study from Denmark’s Institute of Cancer Epidemiology examined the medical histories of more than 350,000 mobile phone users over a period of eighteen years. The study’s conclusion? Mobile phone users are at no greater risk for developing cancer in the brain or central nervous system than people who don’t use mobile phones. The study has been published in the British Medical Journal. Read more...
Microsoft, Samsung expand smartphone partnership (AP)
AP - Microsoft and Samsung Electronics have agreed to cross-license one another's patent portfolios, with Microsoft getting royalties for the mobile phones and tablets Samsung sells that run Google Inc.'s Android operating system. Read more...
The First Signs of Mutiny in the Android Brigade (The Atlantic Wire)
The Atlantic Wire - Despite the billowing success of the iPhone, recent studies show that Android is the number one mobile platform in the world. For companies that depend on it, the Google-powered Android operating system for mobile phones and tablets is free, and given Google's increasingly large war chest of intellectual property, it also serves a shield against stray bullets in the software patent wars. Read more...
Microsoft adds Acer and ViewSonic to Android licensees (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Acer and ViewSonic are the latest companies to execute patent licensing agreements with Microsoft to protect their Android smartphones and tablet devices from litigation in the event Microsoft ever decides to take Google to court for patent infringement. Terms of the agreements were not disclosed, but ViewSonic will explicitly be paying royalties to Microsoft to cover Android tablets and mobile phones. The announcement of a license agreement with Acer contains no language about royalties, potentially indicating Acer may have executed a patent swap with Microsoft that doesn’t involve cash—or maybe Acer is just playing closer to its vest. Read more...
Google’s Already Using Their Motorola Patents to Sue Apple (The Atlantic Wire)
The Atlantic Wire - Patent infringement lawsuits between Silicon Valley companies are as common as muck these days, but a suit just filed by HTC takes a new tack. On September 1, Google transferred nine patents acquired from Motorola, Palm and OpenWave to HTC, who uses Google's Android software for their mobile phones. Read more...
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