HTC Desire now available from US Cellular
US Cellular has acted on its promise to ship the HTC Desire smartphone. The carrier is the first in the US to offer the Android 2.1-powered device, which utilizes a 3.7-inch, 800x480 LCD touchscreen (opposed to the AMOLED of early versions) along with a five-megapixel camera with autofocus and flash. The device is based on the Nexus One, sharing many of its hardware specs but based on HTC's Sense UI rather than pure Android.
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Facebook sues Teachbook because of the book in its name
Social networking giant Facebook is suing a new website called Teachbook, which is designed to help teachers, administrators and parents share classroom resources with each other. The suit alleges that in misappropriating the distinctive BOOK portion of Facebook's trademark, defendant has created its own competing online networking community in a blatant attempt to become Facebook for Teachers .
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Intel claims it will soon beat ARM chips in power usage
Intel's Chief Technology Officer has recently said that power usage in the company's next-generation wireless chip will equal processors created by rival ARM Holdings, with Intel pulling away with the generation after that. Intel thinks that with their Moorestown processor, they equal ARM on standby power, and in the next generation Medfield they will equal them on active power.
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H.264 is now royalty-free
The MPEG-LA video standards group has revealed their overhauled AVC License this week, and in a somewhat surprising move, the group has made H.264 and AVC video use on the Internet permanently royalty-free. MPEG-LA had planned to begin charging companies to use streaming H.264 in 2016 but now it will be free indefinitely, as long as the viewers aren't being charged. Pay-for video, and corporate use, will require a paid license, of course.
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