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HTC to 'fully defend' itself against Apple patent suit

2010-03-18T11:16:25Z

<div><p>Taiwan cellphone maker HTC, accused by Apple of infringing on iPhone patents, said Thursday it will "fully defend" itself against the charges.</p><p>"HTC disagrees with Apple's actions and will fully defend itself," HTC chief executive Peter Chou said in a stateme...

HTC says confident can defend against Apple suit

2010-03-17T21:30:14Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cellphone developer HTC Corp said it is confident it can fight off a recent technology patent infringement lawsuit from iPhone maker Apple Inc and promised to issue a formal response in the next few weeks.</p><p>...

Sprint to support Google's Nexus One smartphone

2010-03-17T16:15:18Z

<div><p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's Nexus One smartphone will soon be available to subscribers of Sprint Nextel Corp, the second U.S. wireless service provider to anno...

Mobile 'apps' a $17.5 bln market by 2012: study

2010-03-17T06:16:03Z

<div><p>A study released on Wednesday indicated that the market for mobile device software programs should rocket to 17.5 billion dollars (US) within three years.</p><p>Downloads of mobile applications to handsets will leap from slightly more than seven billion in 2009 to nearly 50 billion in 2012, according to the independent study commissioned by GetJar, the world's second largest app store.</p><p>"It...

Tech startup City Sourced zaps gripes to city halls

2010-03-16T11:16:37Z

<div><p>Technology startup City Sourced is making it easy for folks to complain to city hall about anything from graffiti to drug dealers in their towns.</p><p>City Sourced provides a free application for iPhone's that lets people in hundreds of US cities use the Apple smartphone to snap pictures of neighborh...

Google sees mobile ad rates passing PC rates

2010-03-15T15:45:32Z

<div><p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said that it expects the rates that companies pay for search ads on mobile phones could surpass the rates of its existing PC-based ad business thanks to the growing popularity of powerful smartphones.</p><p>Google SXSW) used location-based services on smartphones to track down everything from panels to parties.</p><p>Foursquare and Gowalla dueled for supremacy here while fresh rivals such as Tweetsii and Toodalu vowed to eclipse them.&...

Internet Marketing/Advertising Via Cell Phones

2010-03-11T22:55:35Z

The new buzz now is focused on Cell Phone Marketing. As early as March 19th 2007 USA Today wrote an article about this. They predicted that the youth of today will bring this type of marketing to a whole new level.<br><br>Cell phones have become very attractive as advertising tools also; a recent Harris survey reports that the cell phone use is increasing while the traditional landline telephone is fast losing customers. The fact i...

How the AP-GfK poll on Obama was conducted

2010-03-10T00:30:38Z

<div id="subtitle">How the AP-GfK poll on Obama was conducted</div><div><p>The Associated Press-GfK Poll on President Obama, the direction of the country and health care was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from March 3-8. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone inter...

LG Elec launches Android-based smartphone

2010-03-09T18:30:15Z

<div><p>SEOUL (Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc, the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, on Wednesday launched a smartphone based on Google's Android operating system in South Korea, as it seeks to boost its relatively weak...

How AP-Gfk Poll on health care was conducted

2010-03-09T16:00:09Z

<div id="subtitle">How the AP-GfK Poll on health care was conducted</div><div><p>The Associated Press-GfK Poll was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from March 3-8. It was based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,002 adults. Interviews were conducted with 702 responden...

Sony developing handheld devices to counter Apple: WSJ

2010-03-04T22:15:53Z

<div><p>Japanese electronics giant Sony is developing a new lineup of handheld products to counter Apple's stable of portable devices, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.</p><p>The newspaper, citing "people familiar with the matter," said the products under development inclu...

Lenovo takes aim at mobile Internet, China market

2010-03-03T19:00:38Z

<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Lenovo, the world's No.4 personal computer maker, said it will develop more products this year for the mobile Internet, attempting to gain ground after a late start into the hot smartphone market.</p><p>Lenovo entered th...

Google backs HTC in Apple patent suit

2010-03-03T13:17:26Z

<div><p>Google on Wednesday threw its backing behind HTC, maker of the Internet giant's Nexus One smartphone, after Apple accused the Taiwan company of infringing on iPhone patents.</p><p>"We are not a party to this laws...

Skype comes to Nokia smartphones, companies say

2010-03-03T10:17:09Z

<div><p>Mobile phone giant Nokia said on Wednesday that its smartphone users could begin making free calls after it teamed up with Internet phone pioneer Skype which permits free calls.</p><p>"Skype for Symbian will allow Nokia smartphone users worldwide to use Skype on the move, ove...

Cisco makes companies more smartphone friendly

2010-03-03T06:15:42Z

<div><p>Cisco has unveiled a way for businesses to feel comfortable about letting workers use whatever smartphones tickle their fancies.</p><p>While hip new mobile devices such as Apple iPhones or Google's Nexus One smartphones have proven popular with the public at large, businesses have been averse to such device...

Apple sues HTC over phones with Google software

2010-03-02T19:16:29Z

<div><p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc sued Taiwan's HTC Corp, which makes touchscreen smartphones using Google software, accusing it of infringing...

Apple sues HTC for iPhone patent infringement

2010-03-02T15:16:03Z

<div><p>Apple filed suit on Tuesday against HTC, maker of the Nexus One smartphone from Google, accusing the Taiwan company of infringing on 20 iPhone patents.</p><p>"We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it,"

Professors highlight threat of mobile device rootkits

2010-02-25T00:30:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Two Rutgers University computer science professors are calling for more research into the detection of smartphone rootkits, which cannot be found in the same as they are on desktops.</div><div><p>Two computer science professors are hoping that their latest research into rootkits will encourage the security community to develop better techniques for sniffing out the stealthy programs if ...

Google scraps China leg of Nexus One event: source

2010-02-24T01:30:08Z

<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - Google Inc has scrapped the China leg of a regional event to show software developers its first smartphone, the Nexus One, in Beijing, its second such move following its threatened pull-out from the cou...