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Apple has filed a new “antisuit lawsuit” aimed at unraveling Motorola’s litigation efforts and attempts to block iPhone 4S using standards essential patents. Apple is also asking for damages that could reach multibillion dollar figures. In its patent battles with Apple, Motorola chose to rely upon its standards essential patents that are required to build [...]
This week Apple announced a new textbook App called iBooks 2, as well as iBooks Author, a new book publishing app that allows normal people with little to no coding know-how to create impressive ebooks complete with photo galleries, video, 3-D images and other super cool graphic elements. Nothing too controversial there, right? Wrong. By [...]
Looks like the iPhone 4S is getting its “Shawshank Redemption” moment today. A jailbreak for the new iPhone and its A5-based cousin, the iPad 2, has been spotted. The “corona untether” jailbreak for A4 devices running iOS5 was released in December, and since then a “dream team” of iOS hackers including the iPhone Dev Team, [...]
The Obama administration has joined the ranks of skeptics of the Stop Online Piracy Act. In an online statement released Saturday, three senior White House officials wrote that the administration “will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.” The statement was made in response [...]
The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is all about the latest smartphones, tablet computers and other devices. But what about the old gadgets? Don’t they get any love? Actually, one machine at the show is designed to help recycle gadgets, giving old phones a fitting end, or a better home. Drop your phone [...]
Another day, another rumor about the iPad 3. On Friday, Bloomberg reported that the next-generation iPad will feature a high-definition screen and be compatible with long-term evolution (LTE), a wireless network that gives users access to data more quickly. It will also allow users to move from app to app more quickly, as it will [...]
Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s voice recognition software Siri has prompted owners of the iPhone 4S to use almost twice as much data compared with the handset’s predecessor, placing greater pressure on operators, network firm Arieso said. “Voice is the ultimate human interface,” Arieso Chief Technology Officer Michael Flanagan said in an interview in London. Voice recognition [...]
The world’s three largest television makers — Samsung, LG and Sony — are working on Google TV. LG announced its Google TV move last week. Vizio is also on board. Consumers can expect new TVs packing Google TV at stores in just a few months. All but Samsung will show their Google-powered Internet-surfing TVs at [...]
When Apple unveiled its iPhone 4S in 2011 — and we realized that our dreams of a proper iPhone 5 were at least a year off — the biggest new feature was undoubtedly the built-in virtual assistant called Siri. Siri allows users to simply ask for things like directions, weather reports, or message dictation, and [...]
Lenovo is enhancing its ThinkPad Edge S430 and E430/530 line, as well as its B series laptops with Intel’s latest Core i-processors, codenamed “Ivy Bridge.” These laptops run the gamut from bare-bones budget laptops to slim and sleek premium laptops, but each one is aimed at delivering productivity features for small to medium business (SMB) [...]
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Fly, be free! Jailbreak for iPhone 4S, iPad 2 released