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Ask Engadget: best smartphone for the over fifties?

Posted by Gsurface on May 13, 2012 No comments

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is from is from Daniel (no relation), who wants to upgrade his parents cellphones. If you’re looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.

“My parents (aged 52 and 57) are long-time Nokia (dumbphone) users who aren’t savvy at all. I told them about how me and my girlfriend’s Android phones automatically sync calendars and they want something similar. My father’s eyes aren’t the best and he’s a carpenter, so I thought about a dust-proof handset like the Lumia 800 or the Galaxy Xcover, but I’m worried Android’s too technical for them. We’re in Europe, so carriers are no problem, but any help you can give would be great. Thanks!”

We’re all getting older, so let’s try to work out a great handset for those who need a little help. We speak from personal experience when we say it’s probably not going to be the Samsung Galaxy Y — trust us. If you think you’ve got a better idea, throw it down in the comments below.

Ask Engadget: best smartphone for the over fifties? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 12 May 2012 22:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Researcher runs IP network over xylophones

Posted by Gsurface on May 12, 2012 No comments

Vint Cerf once wore a shirt that read "IP on Everything," a wry comment on the versatility of the Internet Protocol he helped invent, a protocol that underlies all Internet communication. Now a University of California Berkeley researcher has put Cerf's maxim to the test, running an IP network over a set of xylophones, played by human participants.
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Visualized: HP’s all-in-one PCs over the years, one from 1983

Posted by Gsurface on May 11, 2012 No comments

HP’s TouchSmart sub-brand and its other AIOs should be no stranger to many PC advocates, but in case you’ve never come across one before, the company’s laid all of them out on one side of its Global Influencer Summit in Shanghai. Models range from the TouchSmart IQ770 launched back in 2007, all the way to the recently shipped Z1 workstation and even the just-announced t410 Smart Zero Client; but the real gem of the booth is that little beige HP 150 right in the middle — it’s one of the first-ever touchscreen PCs, dating back to 1983, powered by an 8MHz Intel 8088 chip, ran MS-DOS and cost a mere $ 3,995.

Whilst on the topic, HP’s Vice President of Industrial Design Stacy Wolff shared some interesting stats: his team found that much like laptops, there are very different screen size preferences across different regions, with the US showing strong interest in 20-inch and 23-inch HP AIOs, whereas China much prefers 20-inch over 21.5-inch and 23-inch. With the big jump in AIO market penetration in each region between 2008 to 2012 (almost doubled in Japan and the US; and an even bigger leap for other markets), HP predicts that these machines will continue to steadily increase market penetration across more price points — this was illustrated with what it conveniently calls the “AIO wedge” on a chart. Feel free to take a gander at our gallery for more tidbits.

Gallery: Visualized: HP’s all-in-one PCs over the years, one from 1983

Visualized: HP’s all-in-one PCs over the years, one from 1983 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 May 2012 16:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HP Shows Off Power Over Ethernet Thin Client

Posted by Gsurface on May 10, 2012 No comments

angry tapir writes “HP has unveiled an all-in-one thin client capable of being powered by an Ethernet cable. The t410 AiO supports the Type 1 Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard, which means it is capable of drawing its power from a network connection, although it can be powered by standard AC power. It uses an ARM-based processor and has an integrated 18.5-inch monitor, and it is capable of being used for virtual desktops through Windows RDP, VMware View and Citrix ICA.”

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US warns over cyber attacks on natural gas companies

Posted by Gsurface on May 10, 2012 No comments

The US Department of Homeland Security identified a series of cyber attacks targeting natural gas companies in recent months, raising a red flag over potential threats to the nation’s infrastructure.

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Moore’s Law Over, Supercomputing “In Triage,” Says Expert

Posted by Gsurface on May 9, 2012 No comments

A dean of high performance computing says silicon is at the end of the line.

High Performance Computing expert Thomas Sterling would like you to know that a computing goal you’ve never heard of will probably never be reached. The reason you should care is that it means the end of Moore’s Law, which says that roughly every 18 months the amount of computing you get for a buck doubles.

Mozilla CEO pushes for HTML 5 over mobile apps

Posted by Gsurface on May 9, 2012 No comments

At the CTIA trade show Wednesday, Gary Kovacs, Mozilla’s CEO, said HTML could set mobile users free from being locked into a specific smartphone operating system.
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OS X Lion update accidentally outs user passwords in plain text, stumbles over FileVault

Posted by Gsurface on May 6, 2012 No comments

Are you an avid user of OS X’s FileVault encryption and running a recently updated version of Lion? It may be time to consider changing your passwords. According to security researcher David Emry, users who used FileVault prior to upgrading to 10.7.3 may be able to find their password in a system-wide debug log file, stored in plain text outside of the encrypted area. This puts the password at risk of being read by other users or enterprising cyber criminals, Emry explains, and even opens the door for new flaw-specific malware. FileVault 2, on the other hand, seems to be unaffected by the bug. The community doesn’t currently have a way to fight the flaw, so users rushing to change their password now may find it being logged as well. Obviously, we’ll let you all know once we hear back from Apple regarding this matter.

OS X Lion update accidentally outs user passwords in plain text, stumbles over FileVault originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 May 2012 12:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Verizon hard sells LTE Android over iPhone says report

Posted by Gsurface on May 6, 2012 No comments

A look into the trends of salespeople in Verizon Stores has discovered that the company may be training its employees to tout the benefits of 4G LTE on Android so that it makes the iPhone pale in comparison, with some sales personnel even being quoted as calling the iPhone “outdated.” CNN found a notable number

Google FTC fine over Safari breach could be $10 million+

Posted by Gsurface on May 5, 2012 No comments

After the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concluded that Google violated Internet privacy standards in the way that it interacted with Apple’s Safari Web browser, the question is now how much the search giant will have to pay in fines. Based on the huge number of individual instances of privacy violations, Google could technically be forced

Jury nears verdict in Oracle-Google trial over Android

Posted by Gsurface on May 5, 2012 No comments

The jury has reached a partial verdict in the copyright phase of Oracle's intellectual property dispute with Google, and the judge has given them one more day to try to resolve the remaining issue.
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Dogfight over buried WWII Spitfires in Burma

Posted by Gsurface on May 2, 2012 No comments

After a 15-year treasure hunt, a farmer and aviation enthusiast struck gold, uncovering as many as 20 World War II-era Spitfire planes buried in Burma at the end of World War II — a find he may lose to the British Donald Trump.

BlackBerry Music Gateway streams audio over NFC and Bluetooth for RIM-made remote control

Posted by Gsurface on April 30, 2012 No comments

It’s not the QNX-based smartphone you’ve all been waiting for, but it should give crackberry devotees something to bop along to. Outed just one day before the company’s showcase officially kicks off in Orlando, Waterloo’s trotting out its BlackBerry Music Gateway: a car / home stereo accessory that pairs with your BB handset or PlayBook tablet to wirelessly stream audio over Bluetooth or NFC. The $ 50 peripheral, set for a June release, is meant to turn your RIM-built device into an easy-to-use remote at a distance of up to 30 feet. For that convenient near field communication control, however, you’ll need to be packing one of the company’s NFC-enabled phones, like the Bold 9790 or Curve 9360/ 9380. Splashiest news to come out of BlackBerry World 2012? We sure hope not. Consider this the trickle before the eventual PR deluge.

BlackBerry Music Gateway streams audio over NFC and Bluetooth for RIM-made remote control originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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House passes cybersecurity bill despite veto threat over privacy

Posted by Gsurface on April 29, 2012 No comments

The House, despite White House objections, has passed a cybersecurity bill aimed at helping stop electronic attacks on critical U.S. infrastructure and companies.

Kindle Fire Grabs Over Half of the U.S. Android Tablet Market

Posted by Gsurface on April 29, 2012 No comments

New submitter DillyTonto writes “Amazon got shelled by analysts and the press after releasing a buggy first iteration of the Fire edition of the Kindle e-reader. Three weeks later the Kindle Fire owned 14 percent of the whole market for tablets. Three months later, more than half of all Android tablets sold in the U.S. are seven-inch Kindle Fires, despite a huge bias among buyers for 10-inch tablets. How could a heavily modded e-reader beat full-size tablets by major PC vendors? It’s cheaper than any other tablet or e-reader on the market, for one thing. Also important is its focus on being an e-reader, ‘because people buy hardware to have access to one app or function, then take the other things it can do as an additional benefit.’”

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Continue reading Apple and Samsung set to meet May 21st, hug it out over 48 hours

Apple and Samsung set to meet May 21st, hug it out over 48 hours

Posted by Gsurface on April 29, 2012 No comments

These two brawlers were given until July to come together and mediate over their numerous globe-spanning patent lawsuits, but it appears neither side needs to wait that long. According to Foss Patents, May 21st and 22nd have been circled on the calendar of a certain San Francisco courthouse, where Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero will attempt to arbitrate in a calm, soothing voice for two days straight. Presenting himself as a confidant who sits outside of the main litigation being conducted in San Jose, Spero has already asked both parties to open up and provide “candid” statements about the strengths and weaknesses of their own cases, as a first step towards identifying areas of compromise. Fortunately, he still has a few weeks in which to devise further cunning plans.

Apple and Samsung set to meet May 21st, hug it out over 48 hours originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Olympic athletes sue Samsung over Facebook app

Posted by Gsurface on April 27, 2012 No comments

No fewer than 18 world-class athletes are fuming over a Facebook app that lets users see how closely they are connected to stars of the Olympic games. The app, powered by Samsung, ties in its products and services to the upcoming 2012 games. It is essentially like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but instead of

From giant fireball over Calif., tiny meteorites

Posted by Gsurface on April 26, 2012 No comments

Robert Ward has been hunting and collecting meteorites for more than 20 years, so he knew he’d found something special in the Sierra foothills along the path of a flaming fireball that shook parts of Northern California and Nevada with a sonic boom over the weekend.

Pegatron Corp. Signs Patent Agreement With Microsoft Over Android, Chrome OS Devices

Posted by Gsurface on April 25, 2012 No comments

Microsoft snagged another one. Pegatron is the latest company to sign a patent agreement with Microsoft concerning Android and Chrome devices. The exact terms of this agreement was not disclosed, but according to a press release issued this morning, Microsoft will receive royalties from Pegatron under this agreement.

Microsoft’s aggressive strategy to license its patents for Android devices is loaded subject. On the surface it looks like extortion. Google thinks so. But Google is also the company that built the Android platform, seemingly ignoring key patents held by Microsoft. Sure, Microsoft is trailing far behind in the mobile races, but by licensing patents it holds to competitors, the company is just utilizing its assets to make a few bucks. That’s not cheating. That’s playing smart.
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Asteroid the ‘Size of a Minivan’ Exploded Over California

Posted by Gsurface on April 24, 2012 No comments

astroengine writes, quoting Discovery: “The source of loud ‘booms’ accompanied by a bright object traveling through the skies of Nevada and California on Sunday morning has been confirmed: it was a meteor. A big one. It is thought to have been a small asteroid that slammed into the atmosphere at a speed of 15 kilometers per second (33,500 mph), turning into a fireball, delivering an energy of 3.8 kilotons of TNT as it broke up over California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. Bill Cooke, head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, classified it as a ‘big event.’ ‘I am not saying there was a 3.8 kiloton explosion on the ground in California,’ Cooke told Spaceweather.com. ‘I am saying that the meteor possessed this amount of energy before it broke apart in the atmosphere. (The map) shows the location of the atmospheric breakup, not impact with the ground.’ Interestingly, this event was bigger than asteroid 2008 TC3 that exploded over the skies of Sudan in 2008 after being detected before it hit.”

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Andy Rubin spars with Oracle attorney over old emails

Posted by Gsurface on April 24, 2012 No comments

Andy Rubin, the head of Google's Android development team, took the witness stand for the first time Monday in Oracle's lawsuit accusing Google of patent and copyright infringement in its Android OS.
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US Charges English Twins Over $1.2m ‘Stock Robot’ Fraud

Posted by Gsurface on April 22, 2012 No comments

peetm writes “Twin brothers from England face US civil charges for allegedly defrauding investors out of $ 1.2m (£745,000) through a bogus stock-picking robot. The twins; Alexander and Thomas Hunter; were just 16 years old when they devised the scam — which fooled around 75,000 people, according to U.S. officials.”

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Google+ expands SMS support to over 41 countries, lets you stay social over text

Posted by Gsurface on April 20, 2012 No comments

On the off chance your cell phone is of the decidedly dumb variety, Mountain View’s engineers have worked out an alternative solution to keep your Google + circles intersecting. Initially available only for the U.S. and Indian markets at the time of the social service’s launch, the search giant’s expanding the reach of its SMS feature to over 41 additional countries, giving users the option to post updates, as well as receive and reply to notifications via text. The feature isn’t standard, so if you want to opt-in, you’ll have to enable it in the settings menu first, provided your carrier is supported. Luddites that like to have their online cake and eat it too, might want to make sure they’re packing an appropriately capacious mobile plan before those thumbs get to banging away. Of course, the rest of you modernists are more than welcome to join the party, but why would you?

Google+ expands SMS support to over 41 countries, lets you stay social over text originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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New York Hits Sprint With $300 Million Lawsuit Over 7 Years Of Tax Dodging

Posted by Gsurface on April 19, 2012 No comments

Sprint’s had its fair share of problems to deal with as of late, but who knew one of them would be taxes? According to a new flurry of new reports, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a $ 300 million lawsuit against Sprint for (among other things) non-payment of taxes, and falsifying official tax documents.

According to Reuters, Sprint failed to collect (and subsequently pass along) over $ 100 million of taxes from their customers over the past seven years. Schneiderman, who is picking up where a whistle-blower lawsuit filed against the carrier early last year, is seeking three times the amount of Sprint’s underpayment plus additional penalties for good measure.

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Europe’s high court says ISPs can hand over alleged pirates’ data

Posted by Gsurface on April 19, 2012 No comments

The European Court of Justice says that Sweden’s laws have no barriers in place that would preclude an ISP from sharing an alleged pirates’ data with rightsholders.
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Eyeless shrimp and mutant fish raise concerns over BP spill effects

Posted by Gsurface on April 19, 2012 No comments

Eyeless shrimp, fish with oozing sores and other mutant creatures found in the Gulf of Mexico are raising concerns over lingering effects of the BP oil spill.

What’s In A Name? Australia Wants Apple To ‘Change The Name’ Of The iPad Over 4G Incompatibility

Posted by Gsurface on April 16, 2012 No comments

Looks like we may see another development today in Apple’s ongoing iPad/4G controversy in Australia. The country’s Competition and Consumer Commission is meeting with Apple in court again today to try to get Apple to officially change the name of the device when it is sold in Australia.

Although many people know it as “the new iPad” since launching the product in March, Apple has also been marketing the product as the new iPad with ‘Wi-Fi +4G’ in the country. But Apple quickly ran into trouble when the ACCC said Apple was misleading consumers: in fact, the tablet is not actually compatible with Australia’s 4G network.

Since then, Apple has agreed to refund consumers who bought the device thinking they were getting 4G; and the company has also been putting up notices wherever the iPad is sold warning them that it didn’t work with Australia’s 4G. But the ACCC, it seems, does not think that this goes far enough.
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Netflix’s Reed Hastings Chastises Comcast Over Net Neutrality And Its Shady Xfinity App

Posted by Gsurface on April 16, 2012 No comments

In the latest battle in the war for living room domination, Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings took to his public Facebook account and called out Comcast’s latest attack on Net Neutrality. As he explains Comcast’s just-launched Xbox 360 Xfinity app does not count against the provider’s ISP data caps. However, if the same exact program is viewed through Hulu, HBO Go and, yes, Netflix, it deducts the data used against the subscribers monthly allotment.

Yeah, as Hastings points out, the policy is not very neutral.
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EA’s Mass Effect 3 far outselling on Xbox 360 over PS3

Posted by Gsurface on April 14, 2012 No comments

Mass Effect 3 will hardly be the first video game to have sold more units on the Xbox 360 than the PS3. There are more Xbox 360 consoles in households so that simply stands to reason. But few games are being outsold on the Microsoft platform by a margin as large as this one. In

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Privacy-protective ISP raises over $43,000 in donations in one day

Posted by Gsurface on April 13, 2012 No comments

Privacy may not be quite dead yet: proposal for surveillance-resistant Internet provider, which could become the ACLU’s dream and the FBI’s nightmare, finds some early fundraising success.
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Google Biz Chief: Over 10M Websites Now Using Google Analytics

Posted by Gsurface on April 13, 2012 No comments

It’s Google Q1 earnings day, and because we all know that you have better things to do than listen to executives dryly read prepared statements, we’re taking one for the team and keeping you in the know about the important stuff. Google beat Q1 expectations, reporting revenues of $ 10.65B and a net income of $ 2.9B. During the company’s earnings call, Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora touched on the progress of the company’s top products, in particular sharing one interesting stat about Google Analytics — that more than 10 million websites are now using Google’s cross-platform website stats service.
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DOJ Sues Apple Over E-Book Pricing

Posted by Gsurface on April 12, 2012 No comments

Apple’s plans to take a bigger bite of the e-book market hit a snag today when the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit accusing it of colluding with several publishers in an e-book price-fixing scheme.

US files suit against Apple, publishers over e-book price-fixing

Posted by Gsurface on April 11, 2012 No comments

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple early Wednesday over alleged e-book price-fixing.

US reportedly files suit against Apple, publishers over e-book price-fixing

Posted by Gsurface on April 11, 2012 No comments

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and several publishers over alleged collusive behavior in e-book pricing, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

George Lucas loses NIMBY clash over giant digital arts complex

Posted by Gsurface on April 11, 2012 No comments

The “Star Wars” filmmaker had hoped to build a 260,000-square-foot technology production facility about 30 minutes north of San Francisco. But neighbors didn’t want the project.
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Utah Department of Health loses over 181k records in hack

Posted by Gsurface on April 9, 2012 No comments

If you or someone you know in the state of Utah is on Medicaid or CHIP we have some bad news. Apparently, the Utah Department of Technology Services notified the Utah Department of Health that the server hosting Medicaid claims had been hacked. The extent of the damage was announced last week and Utah’s Department

Utah breach may have compromised over 25,000 Social Security numbers

Posted by Gsurface on April 9, 2012 No comments

A data breach on a server of the Utah Department of Technology Services appears to have compromised the Social Security numbers of 25,096 individuals, the department of health of the western U.S. state said.
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Medicaid Hacked: Over 181,000 Records and 25,000 SSNs Stolen

Posted by Gsurface on April 9, 2012 No comments

An anonymous reader writes “The Utah Department of Health has been hacked. 181,604 Medicaid and CHIP recipients have had their personal information stolen. 25,096 had their Social Security numbers (SSNs) compromised. The agency is cooperating with law enforcement in a criminal investigation. The hackers, who are believed to be located in Eastern Europe, breached the server in question on March 30, 2012.”

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Continue reading Nokia takes over Times Square for Lumia 900 launch event (video)

Fear and loathing over Facebook apps

Posted by Gsurface on April 9, 2012 No comments

A Wall Street Journal report stirs up the app privacy debate, but is it all much ado about nothing?
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Nokia takes over Times Square for Lumia 900 launch event (video)

Posted by Gsurface on April 8, 2012 No comments

We’re still not exactly sure what Nicki Minaj has to do with Nokia’s new Lumia 900, but the company put her at the center of its promotional efforts in a launch event Friday night that took over Times Square. Oh, you missed it? For just the visual effect of what went on including CGI dancers on massing LED displays and coordinated effects on the tourist destination’s many video boards (been there, done that) you can check out our gallery of pics from the event, or look below for the video. If you’re all about the phones, Nokia is pushing its Windows Phone 7 flagship with new “the smartphone beta test is over” ads — there’s also one of those embedded after the break. So, is anyone concerned Nokia might not be doing enough to promote this new phone?

Gallery: Nokia Lumia 900 in Times Square

Nokia takes over Times Square for Lumia 900 launch event (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ford Focus recalled over wiper problems

Posted by Gsurface on April 8, 2012 No comments

There is an insane number of intricacies when it comes to building a car. Even something as seemingly innocuous as the windshield wipers need to be assembled perfectly or there could be reasons for concern. Case in point – the latest automobile recall that targets more than 140,000 Ford Focus cars on the market. It’s

UFOs swarming over Las Vegas? Video is for the birds

Posted by Gsurface on April 7, 2012 No comments

If there’s one place where extraterrestrial spacecraft might not seem out of place, it’s the Las Vegas Strip, and it just so happens that a new video shows a host of UFOs swarming over Sin City.

HTC’s Rough Q1: Profits Down 70% Over Last Year, Revenue Dips 35%

Posted by Gsurface on April 6, 2012 No comments

HTC released their unaudited Q1 2012 earnings earlier this morning, and the results aren’t pretty [PDF]. The Taiwanese company managed to pull down NT$ 67.8 billion ($ 2.3 billion) this past quarter, a nearly 35% dip year-over-year.

What’s more, HTC took an even bigger hit when it came to net income after taxes — in Q1, they only raked in NT$ 4.4 billion ($ 149 million), compared to the NT$ 14.8 billion ($ 501 million) in profits earned this time last year.

Ouch. Just… ouch.
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My wallet is open, Google, now hand over Project Glass

Posted by Gsurface on April 4, 2012 No comments

Project Glass has opened my eyes and my wallet: Google, please, come help yourself to my credit card. The much-rumored wearable augmented reality system has emerged from the Google[x] skunkworks and it’s even more than we hoped for. No clunky headset like a bad pair of swollen sunglasses, but a sleek slice of transparent display

EU Targets Motorola In Antitrust Investigation Over Standards-Essential Patents

Posted by Gsurface on April 4, 2012 No comments

Fluffeh writes “Motorola Mobility has found itself on the receiving end of an antitrust investigation by the European Commission due to its alleged abuse of standards-essential patents related to WiFi, H.264, and 3G wireless networking. The EC investigation comes shortly after it launched a similar investigation of Samsung, which has been attempting to leverage its 3G-related patents against Apple. The investigation could be especially worrisome for Google, which was recently granted approval of its planned merger with Motorola.”

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Groupon sued by shareholder over financial revisions

Posted by Gsurface on April 4, 2012 No comments

Complaint claims the daily deals site misled investors about the state of its financial health.
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Facebook Countersues Yahoo Over 10 Patents

Posted by Gsurface on April 4, 2012 No comments

An anonymous reader writes “As expected, Facebook today filed its own patent infringement lawsuit against Yahoo. The social networking giant is claiming the online giant infringes on 10 of its patents. This is a countersuit and will likely lead to some sort of settlement between the two parties. Facebook says Yahoo is infringing on a wide range of its services, including its homepage, content optimization, relevance engine, Flickr photo-sharing service, and advertising throughout the service. Two months ago, Yahoo threatened Facebook with patent war. Last month, the online giant sued the social networking giant over 10 patents and the technology industry made sure to criticize Yahoo like never before.”

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