Google spent $4.9 million yesterday to buy dozens of patents owned by defunct Israeli cellphone maker Modu. Modu had a brief moment in the spotlight when the company showed off its miniature cellphones at Mobile World Congress in February 2008. The company's founder, Dev Moran, was cocky enough to ... Read more...
Twitter made it clear last week that it would no longer support developers making new Twitter client apps, and that it would keep a tight leash on existing third-party clients. Why? Officially, because Twitter wants to own that part of the Twitter experience now -- that's why it has been building... Read more...
NTP Inc, which made it to the headlines after getting a settlement from Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM, RIM.T) over email technology, has said that it had filed lawsuits against various smartphone companies including Apple Inc, Google Inc, Microsoft and Motorola Inc. The NTP recently bagged a USD 6... Read more...
In the music business, they would call it a comeback. Almost a decade ago, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, European technology entrepreneurs, unleashed the Napster-like file-sharing program Kazaa on the Web, allowing millions of users3 bll to freely download songs, movies and TV shows. Kazaa... Read more...
Apple must have put some major pressure on AT&T when they launched the iPhone and were able to roll it out with no AT&T crapware installed or even anything related to AT&T appearing on the phone. I purchased an HTC Fuze and Nokia E71x over the last couple of years in addition to my iPh... Read more...
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO REALIZES THAT GOOGLE IS NOT A COUNTRY??? THIS CORPORATEOCRACY WE LIVE IN IS GETTING WORSE EVERYDAY... China Unicom is to stop using Google search on Android handsets. The second biggest operator in China is believed to be taking the step in reaction to Google's decision t... Read more...
Nextel lives! The Motorola i1 is the first Android smartphone for Nextel and SouthernLINC's iDEN networks, and it's Nextel through and through, down ito its rugged body and super-loud speakerphone. More than 24 million people in 24 countries around the world still use iDEN, so Motorola – the on... Read more...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for developers to create applications for the iPhone or for handsets running Google’s Android OS that can be used in the tactical battlefield, for humanitarian assistance and in disaster-recovery efforts. In a request posted on FedBizOpps... Read more...
Apple is to sue mobile phone manufacturer HTC in a suit that claims the Taiwanese company has infringed 20 of the iPhone-maker’s patents. HTC, which makes a range of handsets including Google’s flagship Nexus One, has declined to comment on the action until it has investigated the det... Read more...