Apple and Microsoft have something in common: a patent infringement case
Tsera is suing 23 companies including both Apple and Microsoft over a patent regarding interfacing with a touchpad. In plain English, if a touchpad tries to make sense of your gesture-based input, Tsera may have the patent on that. The patent looks like it is broad enough to cover the… Continue Reading »
Samsung and Kodak fight again over patent issues
Patents are a big issue and there is a lot of money to be won if you can win your case. In today’s global money which company wouldn’t like to win a case against a competitor? Recently, Samsung submitted a complaint against Kodak over mobile phone camera technology. Cameras in… Continue Reading »
Toshiba decides to hold on to the HD DVD patents
Well despite the fact that HD DVD is now a dead format, Toshiba is not yet willing to part with those patents. A recent report coming from the Economic Daily News, a Chinese-language newspaper is claiming that the Taiwan Information Storage Association’s (TISA) has contacted Toshiba in an effort to… Continue Reading »
Judge orders YouTube to hand user histories over to Viacom
Your right to privacy is no longer as private as you once thought or hoped. By court order, Google is being forced to hand over all the records of every video watched by YouTube users. This information will include users’ names as well as IP addresses, and the request has… Continue Reading »
Microsoft asks EU Court to overturn, reduce 899 million euro anti-trust fine
$899 million euros or $1.4 billion is definitely a huge sum of money and it seems like Microsoft would not just want to lose that amount over an anti-trust ruling that the EU has slapped Microsoft in February 2007. The fine was a result of a case filed against Microsoft… Continue Reading »
New Nike+ iPod patent reveals interesting new features
“Athletic Performance Sensing and/or Tracking Systems and Methods” is the title of a new patent applied for by Nike, in relation to its collaboration with Apple on something called Nike+iPod. While you probably thought that Nike finally ditched Apple when it released the Nike+ Sportband, this new patent reveals that… Continue Reading »
New Sony Ericsson patent for “portable electronic device with multiple input interfaces”
Sony Ericsson’s newest patent comes afloat, and it shows us a new type of device allowing up to three input interfaces. The electronic device has a main body, a flip attached to the main body and multiple input interfaces (it says here), so basically this will be some kind of… Continue Reading »
Newly unearthed Sony Ericsson patent reveals plans for a mighty iPhone killer
All the major players in the tech industry are starting to get really serious about touch screens, if they haven’t been already in the past year. One such company is Sony Ericsson, one of the leading mobile phone manufacturers in the world. A newly discovered patent application it’s filed back… Continue Reading »
10 All Time Useless Inventions
We all have some gadget or other tucked away in a drawer that we really shouldn’t have bought. In fact many argue that is the definition of a true gadget - something that you just have to have but don’t need. Well you can console yourself that it could be… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
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