Apart from Samsung, Apple has been making enemies with HTC since last year when the former filed a complaint to the International Trade Commission over Android patent infringements. The case has gone quiet, but it has since become news again when Apple filed another complaint to ITC against the Taiwanese company last July 8, this time seeking to block imports of HTC’s “personal electronic devices.̶… Read More » 

Don’t look now, but it’s another round of patent infringement lawsuits. This time, Google and Microsoft are being sued by a company based in Lake Charles, Louisiana, that claims to own a patent that allows online users to navigate maps of towns and cities at a street-level view.
Transcenic Inc. has asked a Delaware District court to stop Google and Microsoft from “continuing to infringe its paten… Read More » 

We have reported back in January that NEC and Lenovo have created a joint venture and now the process has been completed with the introduction of “NEC Lenovo Japan.” Lenovo holds a 51% share in the new company, while NEC holds the rest of it. NEC Lenovo Japan, which now brags itself as Japan’s biggest PC maker with about 25% market share, will be developing computers exclusively for that country… Read More » 

Apart from filing a complaint to the International Trade Commission against Apple, Samsung has dropped its counter-suit against the Cupertino-based company last June 30 in an attempt “to streamline the legal proceedings.” The patent infringement suit was in response to Apple’s allegations that Samsung’s Galaxy devices have copied the iPhone and iPad.
That does not mean Samsung has given up … Read More » 

Looks like it is not over between Apple and Samsung as the latter has filed another complaint against Steve Job’s megacompany. A report on the International Trade Commission website states that Samsung requests an import ban against all the iDevices (iPhone, iPad, and iPod). The investigation on this issue could last for up to 16 months, that is if the ITC decides to investigate the complaint.
In case you a… Read More » 

HP CEO Leo Apotheker has announced that his company is open to the idea of licensing webOS to others. In an interview in Beijing, he says HP is currently in talks with “a number of companies.” He does not elaborate about the specifics of these potential deals, even saying that “there is no time pressure to do this.”
Bloomberg, however, reports that Samsung in one of the companies HP is hol… Read More » 

Judge Lucy Koh has rejected Samsung’s request to inspect Apple’s iPhone 5 and iPad 3. In an 11-page document, she explained that while Samsung is entitled to “parity,” requesting for Apple to hand over unreleased and unrevealed products was a bit overreaching.
While the decision sounds good for Apple, the rejection of Samsung’s motion is not permanent because the court may have to w… Read More » 

Google is out to compete with Skype as the search engine giant is integrating an open-source video chat software into the Google Chrome browser. The plan would go beyond the features of Gmail and Google Voice.
The WebRTC is introduced as an open-source, royalty-free audio-and-video chat software, even promising to work with other browser developers such as Mozilla and Opera. Because it is open-source, any website… Read More » 

A U.S. district judge has had enough of the back-and-forth accusations and legal maneuvers between Apple and Samsung that she told their lawyers to just settle the matter outside of court.
“Can’t we all just get along here,” asked Judge Lucy Koh. “I’ll send you with a box of chocolates, whatever.”
Apple’s lawyer Harold McElhinny then revealed to the judge that “execu… Read More » 

While almost every company in the world scramble to have their products manufactured in China, HP takes on a different route. The Japanese business newspaper The Nikkei has reported that the California-based company is planning to bring part of its notebook production from China to Japan. HP plans to eventually make all computers for sale in Japan in factories in Akishima.
In preparation for such a giant leap in … Read More » 

Want a cheap laptop? Consider taking a vacation in Europe as Acer is about to dump 3 million units of its laptops on the European market to clear out its overstock inventory. The company would sell it at a steep discount, but it is still unknown what kind of deals we could get out of this grand sale. What we do know is that Acer wants to sell them quick.
“Inventory becomes older technology and consumers do… Read… [Read More]

A merger of two large mobile companies may sound a bit threatening to the industry. But in the case of AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile, the atmosphere seems a bit more friendly.
In a one-page, one-paragraph letter sent to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, companies like Microsoft, Facebook, and Yahoo have expressed their support to the acquisition. The three companies believe they would benefit f… Read More » 

Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen (pictured) has made a bold statement that Google’s Android Honeycomb OS would overtake Apple’ iOS in the battle for tablet domination. The reason? Because the iPad does not support Flash, duh?
As you may have long known, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been against the use of Flash on all of its devices, saying that the software is insecure and crash-inducing. It may be Jo… Read More » 

Finally, Microsoft has now confirmed the existence of a “Windows 8” OS as CEO Steve Ballmer (pictured) announced it during the company’s developer forum held in Japan.
Although Ballmer did not dish out the dirt about the upcoming OS, he did indicate that the “next generation of Windows systems” will be released net year. He also teased that “there’s a whole lot more coming… Read More »