Just two weeks since its U.S. debut, the popular European music service, Spotify, has already gotten a big American "welcome" complete with bear hugs and a patent lawsuit. The company has just been sued by multimedia software company PacketVideo for patent infringement. And oddly, the patent is essentially for music streaming, or some verbiage that resembles that.
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Archive for July, 2011
Spotify Gets Sued For Patent Infringement
iPhone 5 To Hit Second Week Of September, iPad 3 In November?
Speculation continues for the iPhone 5 as we get closer to its rumored September launch. A new report from China Times now pinpoints the next-gen iPhone's arrival to be in the second week of September. It also adds that an initial order for 4 million units has been placed and that suppliers are already preparing 400,000 trial run units.
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Motorola Triumph Review [Virgin Mobile]
Today I have a sleek Motorola phone you’ll want to check out. This is the Motorola Triumph and he learned most of his simple edges and design from the Droid X. In a way that is what we have here, a slimmed down, simplified yet nice version of the Droid X. This is the first Motorola Android phone carried by Virgin Mobile and it aims to be the best too. For a no contract phone this is a pretty solid buy for only $299 considering many phones of this level sold for $499 in recent months.
Hackers Can Unlock Cars Via Text Messages
So we've all seen those commercials lately where the integration of new technology with automobiles lets a person unlock and start his or her spiffy new BMW remotely with a cellphone app. It's convenient indeed and may also make it more convenient for hackers to hijack your car. According to two security researchers, hackers can do just that via what's called "war texting."
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Google Answers G+ Privacy Questions, Declines Others
Dan Gillmore, writer, teacher, and Google+ member has been in communication with Google over the past few weeks, asking questions about security and safety of information as it pertains to Google+. As he says in his own words, “I find Google’s responses (and non-responses) disappointing.” As you’ll see below, Google answered some key questions and uncovered a few rocks we’re sure you’ll be interested in seeing under. There’s also a list of questions they did not reply to, and assuming Gillmore actually DID send these questions in and Google DID decline to answer, the implications are immense.
Can We All Just Pay Netflix And Move On?
The Netflix price hike for those who want DVD rentals and unlimited streaming just won’t go away. Everywhere I turn, someone I know or an article I read mentions the 60 percent hike, and soon after that, complaints arise.
iBUYPOWER Launches Pro Series Line of Workstations
Complete with 2nd Generation Intel Core i7 processors, RAID cards and NVIDIA Quadro graphics cards, iBUYPOWER keeps their title as a leading innovator of integrated solutions as they launch this new Professional Series line of workstations. Each of these workstations are fully customizable and tuned to just the right combination of gear to meet your needs as a creative professional. The best possible components, says Darren Su, Executive Vice President of iBUYPOWER, have been chosen in designing this Professional Series so that each industry's specific needs can be met.
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Dear Nintendo: How low can you go?
Nintendo tried to sweeten the news of its dramatically disappointing financial results, announced earlier today, with a pre-emptive price cut of the 3DS, but the outlook for the company is still grim. Adoption of the 3DS has been underwhelming, with a mere 830,000 sold in the US since its March 2011 launch. The specter of the PS Vita has been name-checked by many already today as one potential reason for consumer reticence, but there’s more to Nintendo’s struggle than Sony’s incoming uber-handheld.
HTC EVO 3D UK launch delayed until September
HTC has confirmed to SlashGear that its European version of the EVO 3D will arrive in the UK in September 2011, two months after initially expected. No reason for the smartphone's delay was available, though it fits in well given UK carrier Vodafone announced earlier this week that it no longer planned to range the glasses-free 3D smartphone.
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Apple top US smartphone manufacturer; Android pulls ahead of iOS
Apple is the top smartphone manufacturer in the US, according to the latest Nielsen statistics, despite iOS not having the biggest share of the OS ecosystem. According to the stat company's June figures, iOS is running on 28-percent of smartphones, in second place behind Android with 39-percent. However, because multiple OEMs use Android, no single manufacturer has the scale to rival Apple.
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Aliyun OS leans on the cloud for core services and runs Android apps
I'm not sure the smartphone market needs a new OS, but in China, a new choice might go over better than it would elsewhere. A Chinese ecommerce company called Alibaba has announced that at the end of the month it will launch a new mobile OS called Aliyun. The new Os is the result of three years of work and 1,200 engineers according to the company.
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Logitech dumps Revue to $99 amid dire Q2: loses $30m and CEO
Logitech has reported $30m in losses for Q2 2011 [pdf link], further slashed the price of its Revue Google TV box in a desperate grab at an uninterested public, and lost its CEO who has bowed out amid the company's dreary financial showing. Moving forward, the Revue will be just $99 as Logitech attempts to "remove price as barrier to broad consumer acceptance"; meanwhile, company chairman Guerrino De Luca is resuming his former role as CEO after Gerald P. Quindlen stepped down.
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