Apple Sues HTC for iPhone Patent Infringement,Legal battles for patent infringement continue with the latest lawsuit slapped against HTC by Apple on behalf of the iPhone.
Apple filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware.
The lawsuit was filed concurrently with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in U.S. District Court in Delaware.
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
“HTC values patent rights and their enforcement but is also committed to defending its own technology innovations,” and HTC spokeswoman said in a statement. “HTC only learned of Apple’s actions this morning via media reports, and therefore we have not yet had the opportunity to investigate the filings. Until we have had this opportunity, we are unable to comment on the validity of the claims being made against HTC.”
This is one of many lawsuits between smartphone makers, making a big legal tangle of who designed and patented what technology first. » Read more: Apple Sues HTC for iPhone Patent Infringement
Apple Sues HTC for iPhone Patent Infringement
March 3rd, 2010 by maxall No comments »Windows Mobile 6.x No Updates or Upgrades to Windows Phone 7
March 2nd, 2010 by maxall No comments »Windows Mobile 6.x No Updates or Upgrades to Windows Phone 7
Owners of the Windows Mobile 6.x phones will not be able to upgrade to Windows Phone 7.
Microsoft will continue to support Windows Mobile 6.x and call it Windows Phone Classic.
The new specs for Windows Phone 7 requires 3buttons(Home Back and Bing Search) Windows Mobile 6.x smartphones may have different buttons.
“Because we have very specific requirements for Windows Phone 7 Series the current phones we have right now will not be upgradable”, Natasha Kwan, General Manager for Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business in the Asia-Pacific region, told APCMagazine.
Microsoft will not rebrand » Read more: Windows Mobile 6.x No Updates or Upgrades to Windows Phone 7
Error Blocked PlayStation 3 From Using Its Network.
March 2nd, 2010 by maxall No comments »Error Blocked PlayStation 3 From Using Its Network.
A software error prevented users of some Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles worldwide from gaining access to the PlayStation Network, which offers downloads of video games and movies, the company said Monday.
Users trying to log in had received a cryptic error message. Some games could not be played even when the console was taken offline, several users in Tokyo said.
Sony said the network had been restored by late Monday in the United States, over 24 hours since the first connection problems were reported.
On Monday night, Sony said the failure had been caused by a flaw in the system’s clock, and warned users not to turn on their consoles until a fix was found.
The error appeared as the date changed from Feb. 28 to March 1. The problem appeared to cause the date on the consoles to reset to Jan. 1, 2000.
“The bug caused the clocks inside the PlayStation 3s to think that the date, February 29, 2010, existed when it didn’t,” said Makiko Noda, a spokeswoman at Sony Computer Entertainment, the company’s gaming arm. “The problem was resolved naturally when the date changed to March 1 GMT,” she said.
Sony said newer, slimmer versions of the PlayStation 3, which went on sale in September 2009, appeared to have been unaffected by the problem.
The PlayStation Network is central to Sony’s strategy to better integrate its gadgets with online content and services.
Howard Stringer, the chief executive, has said that Sony hopes to build on the PlayStation Network to offer content like games, movies, music, applications and digital books on Sony gadgets. » Read more: Error Blocked PlayStation 3 From Using Its Network.
