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Submission + - Google releasing official Android 4.0 ICS update f (twitter.com)

Submitted by dell623 on Saturday December 17, 2011 @12:18AM

dell623 writes: Google is rolling out an OTA upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich for the Nexus S. GSM versions can already be updated manually. An early review is largely positive and comments on the significant visual and performance improvements. The Nexus S upgrade allows for a direct comparison against Gingerbread on the same hardware, and the likely improvement in current phones that will receive the upgrade.

Submission + - Apple transfers patents to sue all phone makers th (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by dell623 on Saturday December 10, 2011 @12:14PM

dell623 writes: A patent lawsuit by patent licensing firm Digitude Innovations curiously targeted all mobile manufacturers except Apple. A Techcrunch story has revealed that the patents used were transferred via a shell company to DI, and appear to cover features found in virtually all smartphones. The lawsuit even extends to companies that don't make Android phones like Nokia and RIM, and to Android OEMs that Apple have not directly sued yet like Sony. The business model of DI clearly implies that Apple would benefit financially from the lawsuit as a company that contributed patents to DI's portfolio.

Submission + - Apple behind patent troll which is suing all mobil (techcrunch.com)

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dell623

on Saturday December 10, 2011 @04:31AM

dell623 writes: "Techcrunch have posted a story about the patent troll company Digitude Innovations that recently filed suit with ITC suing all major mobile manufacturers except Apple. It turns out DI is a patent accumulating and licensing company and the patents it is using to sue were owned by Apple until recently before being transferred via a shell company. The patents in question are typical software patents that could be said to be infringed by every smartphone."

Submission + - Indian $35 tablet costs $50 to build, inferior to (wordpress.com)

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dell623

on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @08:59PM

dell623 writes: "The actual manufacturing cost of the Indian $35 tablet is almost $50 and the retail unsubsidized price will b $60, putting it close to the cheapest android tablets that retail for around $70. In comparison, it is crippled by even slower and inferior hardware, especially the 366Ghz processor and no camera. It has been suggested that a device designed from ground up, possibly using an e-ink screen would be more useful and cost the same, as compared to a crippled version of a device that is essentially trying to copy an iPad. Questions are also being raised about the availability of promised content to be accessible through this device. There are already concerns about usability with students who tried the device complaining about the unresponsive touchscreen."

Submission + - No one expects the Apple inquisition (wordpress.com)

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dell623

on Monday September 26, 2011 @06:08PM

dell623 writes: "Apple's recent lawsuits against Samsung and HTC are based on patents that are considered trivial and obvious by most people with a working knowledge of software. Apple are not the only company using such patents, but they are doing it blatantly, publicly and dishonestly, and sadly, unlike common patent trolls, they have a unique history of innovation. Such lawsuits can have far reaching consequences. If such patent wars had happened in the last 30-40 years personal computing devices and the internet wouldn't exist as they do today, and similarly, these patent wars threaten to bring about a technological dark age of stagnation or decline, smothering a technological revolution that is still young. We have had an incredible, transformational period of around four decades where powerful computers started off powering expensive military systems and ended up as minuscule devices in our hands that can talk to each other across the world, and we have only begun to explain the possibilities this brings us. These patent wars threaten to brutally strangle a still young revolution that has possibilities we can only begin to imagine."

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