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HTC counter sue Apple, asking to ban sale of iPhone, iPod and iPad
May 13th
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.
Palm is up for sales
Apr 12th
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, all parties involved in the news had declined to comment. If the news is true, Palm will end itself as an independent company and whoever bought he company will enjoy a long list of patents that Palm has acquired during the long history in the smart device market.
Google to back HTC in Apple lawsuits
Mar 4th
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 for Android few months ago, Apple fires the first shot to HTC (or Google?) That marks the end of the buddy relationship between Apple and Google.
May be Apple is afraid of Android will destroy their smartphone phone market like how PC destroy the Mac market years ago. And may be that’s why Steve Jobs is doing this to prevent history to repeat itself.
But Apple, please stop suing people around for patent infringement and concentrate on bring better products to the consumers. I like your products and creativities but not the things you do.
[via techcrunch]
Apple declares war with HTC – sues HTC for infringing 20 patents
Mar 3rd
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 original technology, not steal ours.”
Apple has submitted over 700 pages of exhibits to the District Court. The phones from HTC that are on the list: Nexus One, Touch Pro, Touch Diamond, Touch Pro2, Tilt II, Pure, Imagio, Dream / G1, myTouch 3G, Hero, HD2, and Droid Eris. That’s really a full range of HTC phones, running both Android and Windows Mobile, with and without Sense / TouchFLO.
HTC, at the moment, refuses to make further comment about it.
[via engadget]
Pocketgear has acquired Handango – now featuring over 140,000 apps
Feb 24th
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 setup like Android Market, Windows Marketplace, Palm’s App Catalog already in the market and growing, I am not sure whether there is room for player like Pocketgear anymore.
The press from Pocket is after the break.
[via phandroid]
Linus Torvald bought a Google Nexus One
Feb 8th
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 Linux based mobile phone and had tried a few before, and:
I have to admit, the Nexus One is a winner. I wasn’t enthusiastic about buying a phone on the internet sight unseen, but the day it was reported that it finally had the pinch-to-zoom thing enabled, I decided to take the plunge. I’ve wanted to have a GPS unit for my car anyway, and I thought that google navigation might finally make a phone useful.
Welcome onboard, Linus.
[via torvalds-family blog]
Apple announces iPad – the tablet
Jan 28th
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 for a 16Gb and wifi only model. The 3G data model will be unlocked. Making it possible to be use on any carrier.
The iPad will run existing apps designed for iPhone. This makes it to have instant access to more than 140,000 applications already available in the App Store. And Apple has issued the SDK of iPad to developers to take advantage of the big screen.
Will it become another iPhone from Apple that will create another storm in the netbook / tablet market? Only time will tell.
If you want to know more about the iPad, here is the official site.
