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RIM Fined $147M in Milestone Patent Infringement Case, Could Affect All Smartphones
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has been asked by the court to pay $147 million in damages to Mformation Technologies for patent infringement. In 2008, Mformation sued RIM for allegedly infringing two of their patents used in the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) – a service used by corporate enterprise customers to manage and secure their ...
Yahoo! Mail App Used in Android “Botnet” Spam E-mails
A Microsoft engineer, Terry Zink, recently stated in a blog post that there’s a possibility that an Android botnet truly is in existence, evidenced by spam e-mails coming from different countries with a “Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android” signature at the end of the message. The spam e-mails contained ads for viagra or weight-loss ...
Microsft-NBC Divorce: A 16 Year History
After 16 years of marriage, Microsoft Corp. and NBC are divorcing. Comcast, the parent company of NBC, has acquired Microsoft’s stake in MSNBC.com and the website will now be known as NBCNews.com. Users of the site will be automatically redirected to the rebranded site. Sources say that Microsoft is getting $300 million for the sold ...
Monday Mobile Roundup: AT&T Halves Nokia Lumia Price
Today’s mobile news roundup features Nokia Lumia’s price drop, Fujifilm suing Motorola over a patent infringement, smartphones being used to diagnose ear infections, Korea’s battlefield apps, and more. AT&T drops Lumia price AT&T halved the already cheap price of the Nokia Lumia 900, from $99.99 with a two-year contract, to now only $49.99 with a ...
Zuckerberg Expects Facebook Mobile Roll Out to be a Breeze
In a recent interview, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed how penetrating the mobile scene proved to be a challenge but it wasn’t that different in setting up Facebook in the first place. Zuckerberg stated that getting married was a greater change than shifting their focus on Facebook for mobile devices. Though the shift isn’t as smooth ...
Can Windows 8 Revive The PC Era?
According to a recent report from Gartner, sales of personal computers declined by 0.1% compared to last year’s. The decline in sales is said to be influenced by a PC saturated market as well as consumers are more interested in purchasing other technologies such as smartphones and tablets. Though there was high hopes for Ultrabooks ...
Is Apple Abandoning All Plans of Going Green?
Last month, Apple asked EPEAT – Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, to remove 39 of their certified desktop computers, monitors and laptops, from the list of environment friendly products. According to some sources, Apple decided to remove the green certification from their products because it was such a daunting task to acquire the certification. But ...
Nokia Closes Two Sales Offices In China
Today’s mobile news roundup features Nokia’s China units closure, Chrome mobile being sued for patent infringement, Apple’s new app category, and StealthGenie the updated cell phone tracker for Android ICS devices. Nokia closes shop in China Nokia Corp. is closing two of their regional offices in China as well as laying off workers. The move ...
Join the Big Data Listening Party: Echo Nest Gets $17.3M Funding
Echo Nest, the music intelligence platform, announced the closing of a $17.3 million financing round led by Norwest Venture Partners with the participation of prior investors Matrix Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Fringe Partners, Jim Pallotta and board member Michael Brown. “We are thrilled to add Jeff Crowe and Norwest to The Echo Nest team,” said ...
Square Feeling Threatened by UK Rival? Sends Cease and Desist to mPowa
There’s a lot of cases being filed lately for patent infringement in the mobile space, or in layman’s terms, imitation. And Square, the mobile payments service provider, just sent a cease and desist letter to mPowa, a UK-based startup that offers similar services as Square. The funny thing about this is that Square is not ...