Los Angeles: Apple sued Motorola Mobility in a US court on Friday in an attempt to stop Motorola from asserting some patent claims against Apple in Germany, according to the lawsuit. The suit, filed in a San Diego federal court, argues that Motorola's German lawsuit against Apple breaches terms of a patent licensing agreement between Motorola and Qualcomm. Apple and Motorola are engaged in global patent litigation, part of a...
10:59 AM, Feb 11, 2012
New York: A news report says Apple plans to unveil a new iPad early next month. AllThingsD, a website affiliated with The Wall Street Journal, says Apple Inc. is holding an event in San Francisco the first week of March - the same week Apple announced the iPad 2 last year. The report cites unnamed people familiar with the device. Apple declined comment Thursday. It's not known whether the new...
10:43 AM, Feb 10, 2012
Washington: FBI background interviews of some people who knew Apple co-founder Steve Jobs reveal a man driven by power and alienating some of the people who worked with him. In the FBI documents released Thursday, many of those who knew Jobs praised him, speaking highly of Jobs' character and integrity and asserting that he always conducted his business dealings in a reputable manner. They recommended him for a post during...
10:34 AM, Feb 10, 2012
Duesseldorf: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's reworked tablet PC does not look like a copycat version of the iPad, a German court said, affirming a preliminary assessment and dealing another legal blow to Apple Inc. Apple is fighting several rival makers of smartphones and tablet PCs in courts worldwide over intellectual property. Samsung changed the design of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 for the German market - naming it Galaxy Tab 10.1N...
06:32 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Toronto: Apple Inc. is in talks with Canada's two biggest telecom companies about becoming partners in the launch of iTV, a device combining features of the wildly popular iPad tablet with those of a television set, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Rogers Communications and BCE, parent of Bell Canada, are already testing the device in their labs, Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper reported, citing an unnamed source. Cupertino-based Apple has...
10:29 AM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: For a generation that has learnt to articulate thoughts in 140 characters and knows its smartphones and tabs, e-textbooks are only the next step. But some infrastructure bottlenecks need to be taken care of before that education revolution takes place in India, experts say. Technology giant Apple recently launched an app for digital textbooks that saw an astronomical 350,000 downloads globally in the first three days. Educationists agree...
03:51 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Beijing: China has ordered a probe into the alleged iPad trademark infringement dispute between US-based gadgets maker Apple and a local company. The probe came over a month after a Chinese court rejected Apple's lawsuit accusing a local company of infringing on trademark "iPad" that could have resulted in it's having to sell it under a new name or cough up USD 1.6 billion. The Municipal Intermediate People's Court in...
12:23 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Frankfurt: Apple Inc. has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several iPhone and iPad models from its Internet store in Germany, the latest twist in an extended legal duel over patents between the companies. The sale of the devices was briefly halted after Libertyville, Ill.-based Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. enforced a ruling it won against Ireland-based Apple Sales International Inc., from a court in Mannheim, Germany. The...
12:58 PM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: Apple released the Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3, an update to its professional video editing application, which introduces multicam editing that is touted to automatically sync up to 64 angles of video and photos; advanced chroma keying for handling complex adjustments right in the app; and enhanced XML for a richer interchange with third party apps and plug-ins that support the fast growing Final Cut Pro X ecosystem....
01:16 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Frankfurt: Samsung Electronics lost a bid to overturn a ruling barring its local unit from selling its Galaxy 10.1 tablets in Germany, handing a symbolic legal victory to Apple Inc in efforts to keep its lead spot in the tablet computer market. A higher regional court in Duesseldorf, Germany, said on Tuesday that Samsung may not sell the older version of its Galaxy tablet in Europe's biggest economy. Apple is...
07:37 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Beijing: The Beijing Telecom Co Ltd., a subsidiary of the country's third-largest mobile phone operator China Telecom, may launch the CDMA version of the Apple Inc's iPhone 4S as early as February in the country, it said in a statement. It will ramp up the pressure on the company's domestic rivals in the fight to win more subscribers to the third-generation (3G) network service, People's Daily reported Tuesday. The company...
06:04 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Bangalore: Europe's second-biggest electrical goods retailer Dixons Retail said on Tuesday that its chief executive was leaving the company to join the world's most valuable technology corporation, Apple, as senior vice president of retail. John Browett, who is scheduled to leave the company in April, would be replaced by group operations director Sebastian James. James joined Dixons Retail in April 2008 and has held a number of CEO roles for...
05:39 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Brussels: European Union regulators are investigating whether Samsung Electronics breached antitrust rules in its legal battles against rivals, among them Apple, which use its mobile technology patents. South Korea's Samsung, the world's top maker of smartphones, is involved in a patent tussle with Apple in 10 countries including the United States, Australia, France and Japan. Apple is also Samsung's biggest customer. Last year, Samsung sought injunctions in various EU countries...
05:33 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Cupertino: Apple Inc overtook Hewlett-Packard Co as the world's largest vendor of personal computers in the fourth quarter, helped by booming demand for its iPads, research firm Canalys said on Monday. In the fourth quarter, tablet demand helped drive the global PC market 16 per cent higher than a year ago to 120 million computers, Canalys said. Excluding tablets, the market fell 0.4 per cent from a year ago, said...
12:33 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Los ANgeles: Apple's Steve Jobs directly asked former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to stop trying to recruit an Apple engineer, a transgression that threatened one junior Google employee's job, according to a court filing. The 2007 email from Jobs to Schmidt was disclosed on Friday in the course of civil litigation against Apple Inc, Google Inc and five other technology companies. The proposed class action, brought by five software...
02:34 PM, Jan 28, 2012
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