We will always remember you, Steve Jobs – one of the world’s greatest innovator.  

After an unexpected delay about 2 weeks ago, Apple has finally released the long awaited upgrade for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch – the iOS 4.2. The upgrade brings some features that iPad users have been waiting for – multitasking and application folder.  It also brings some new features to all devices like Air Print and Air Play.  Air Print allows users to print over the air and Air Play will stream media over [...]

HTC is reacting to the legal action from Apple (suing HTC for patent infridgements). HTC had indeed filed a lawsuit complaining patent infringement by Apple.  And asking to ban sale of iPhone, iPod and iPad. I guess if you need to survive in the games played by Apple, you have to play its game.

Although this may not be a big surprise to many of you, it is still a surprise because Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein has been advocating that Palm has plans to return to profitability. According to Bloomberg, Palm is working with Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners to find a proper suitor.  As early as this week, Palm will receive bids from the bidders.  And it is said that HTC and Lenovo are among the bidders. However, [...]

Google has emailed Techcrunch and officially stated that they will back HTC against Apple for the patent infringement lawsuits. “We are not a party to this lawsuit. However, we stand behind our Android operating system and the partners who have helped us to develop it,” as stated in the email from Google spokesperson. General believe that Apple action is actually targeted at Google’s Android.  After Eric Schmidt left Apple’s board and Google’s decision to turn on multitouch [...]

Just few months after Nokia case, Apple is doing this again.  Apple has just file a case to sue HTC for infringing 20 patents “related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture, and hardware.” “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own [...]

Pocketgear has just acquired its competitor – Handango, and now it becomes the largest cross-platform mobile apps store on Internet, featuring 140,000 apps in the store.  That’s a figure comparable to Apple’s App Store. We know that the number does mean everything.  Most importantly, whether the customers will find it useful to get the apps from another store rather than getting them from the sources like Android Market and Windows Market place.  With big store [...]

Linus Torvald, the father of Linux kernel, one of the most repected man in open source community, has bought a Nexus One and he loves it.  If you are still wondering why this is significant, let me tell you: without him, there will be no Linux and Android and thus Nexus One, because he is the original creator of Linux kernel, which Android is created upon. According to his own blog, he tries to use [...]

Apple has just announced the much anticipated tablet – the iPad and it will be available later of the year. The iPad looks like a big iPhone, without the phone capability.  It has a 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology (resolution 1024×768) and it has an accelerometer and ambient light sensor.  It uses a 1Ghz Apple A4 CPU and it comes with 16Gb, 32 Gb or 64Gb of flash drive. Price?  USD499 [...]

The new HTC HD2 car kit has a new look.  It looks like the old iMac with the pixar-lamp looking. In my opinion, it doesn’t look as nice as the previous design.  Howver, that’s just my view.  And with the new design, it might have some enhancements that are not found in the old model. What do you think?  Going to get one yourself? [via pocketnow]