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Lodsys Requests More Time Before Legal Battle
Just a quick update about the Lodsys suit: recently Apple announced that they would intervene on behalf of the developers to assist them due to their lack of technical and legal knowledge when it comes to these things. Apparently, Lodsys isn’t sure they’re ready to take on the second most valuable company in the world; [...]
Two New Sony Ericsson Phones Announced!
There are few details on the two new Sony Ericsson devices announced – the Xperia Active and the Xperia Ray. The ray seems to be aimed at a sporty demographic whose active lifestyle may not be the best environment for a high-end electronic. Durable and apparently water-resistant, Sony may have a phone that sticks out [...]
Apple Granted New Patent That Might Kill Competition
Depending on how you look at it, the iPhone is either an marvel of inspired innovative or the standard for any future touch-screen phone; in either case, the iPhone has proven greatly influential and Apple has been suing anyone who tries to adopt its innovation as its own (these days, especially Samsung) Well, they’ve recently [...]
What will happen with Textie now that we have iMessage?
About two weeks ago Apple announced iOS 5 at their annual WWDC conference. Aside from a few updates, not much was too groundbreaking in terms of announcements - except for the introduction of their new instant messaging feature aptly called: “iMessage”. This product was what iOS fan-boys had been patiently waiting for and would finally [...]
Samsung’s Request to See Future Apple Products is Denied
The back-and-forth between Apple and Samsung will hopefully begin to conclude now that a judge has denied Samsung’s request to see Apple’s unreleased products. Samsung requested to see these products after Apple demanded to see Samsung’s future products to inspect them for any patent infringements. It will be interesting to see how this all goes [...]
RIM Cuts 200 Jobs in Waterloo, According to Report
I suppose we should have seen this coming. The struggling company needs to slim down, streamline and focus if they’re to revive their brand. This comes on the heels of a lawsuit from Dolby, Seesmic announcing they won’t be supporting the phones anymore and poor sales of their products, specifically the Blackberry Playbook. The playbook [...]
WIND Mobile Officially Launches the LG Optimus 2X
The ink is barely dry on the pricing news this morning, and WIND has decided to go ahead and launch the LG Optimus 2X a day earlier than expected. We had a chance to go hands-on with the dual-cored wonder a little over a month ago at the LG Experience in Toronto and have been [...]
Proposed Bill To Require Carriers to Clarify What is “4G”
4G, we’ve spoken about it numerous times on this blog solely based on how excessively it’s used as a marketing term by carriers - both in Canada and the US respectively. Well it turns out Rep. Anna Eshoo, a Democrat from Palo Alto, Calif., and the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Communications and [...]
LG Optimus 2X WIND Pricing Revealed
Congrats WIND, you have successfully taken a great phone and made it even better, pricing it at $450 outright or $300 on the WINDtab. For the money you’re getting a phone that comes stock with Android 2.2 - but will get 2.3 later this year - and also has a super fast dual-core processor. Although [...]
Movie Buffs, Eat Your Heart Out
Nowadays, the world of phone apps has become saturated to the point of non-originality; everyone seems to be making a better version of what’s already out there, instead of coming up with their own, ground-breaking idea. While I know it’s about the dollars and cents more than originality, us mobile bloggers who have the lovely [...]
