Samsung infringed Apple patent on text selection, says ITC judge
A handful of Samsung smartphones infringe an Apple patent on text selection, according to the initial determination of a U.S. International Trade Commission judge. The patent in question concerns the selection of text on the browser of a handheld device by covering it with a translucent layer, where the layer becomes active for user inputs. Most smartphone users will be familiar with the method or something similar from when they press down on a word to copy or perhaps delete it.
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How long can Microsoft go on like this? Gartner jumped on the post-PC bandwagon yesterday, predicting Microsoft's imminent slide to irrelevance as tablet and smartphone sales eclipse PC sales. Read More ...
Cyber criminals look to cash in on Bitcoin's soaring value Cyber criminals are looking for ways to cash in on the recent surge in Bitcoin prices, which are now valued at around $137 a pop. Read More ...
Mozilla introduces JavaScript API as part of common payments interface Mozilla plans to introduce a common API (application programming interface) to make online payments easy and secure on Firefox OS devices. Read More ...
Amazon Web Services and Google lower cloud pricing Amazon Web Services (AWS) has lowered the cost of running Windows on its cloud, while Google announced a reduction on all Compute Engine pricing. Google has also expanded the number of virtual servers users can choose from and made its cloud more Euro friendly. Read More ...
Samsung predicts operating profit to jump 49 percent on mobile sales Samsung Electronics said today that it expects a first-quarter operating profit of between 8.5 trillion won and 8.9 trillion won ($7.6 billion to $8 billion), a sharp increase of at least 49 percent from a year earlier. Market watchers said the South Korean electronics giants appears to be poised to post better-than-expected results despite seasonally slow first-quarter demand for IT products and costs resulting from a patent dispute with its biggest rival, Apple. Read More ...
PostgreSQL updates address high-risk vulnerability, other issues The PostgreSQL developers released updates for all major branches of the popular open-source database system on Thursday in order to address several vulnerabilities, including a high-risk one that could allow attackers to crash the server, modify configuration variables as superuser or execute arbitrary code if certain conditions are met. Read More ...
Microsoft: No more support for you, Office for Mac 2008 Microsoft today reminded customers running Office for Mac 2008 that support for the suite ends next Tuesday. "Support for Office for Mac 2008 will end April 9, 2013," Microsoft's Mac Business Unit (MacBU), the firm's OS X development arm, said in a post on the team's blog Thursday. Read More ...
Google search dominance may not last in mobile age For more than a decade, Google has become synonymous with search. Despite Microsoft's well-funded efforts to get users to "Bing it," people are still "Googling" with wild abandon. However, there are some signs that the company's dominance may not extend into the mobile age. Read More ...
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for April to address Windows 8 vulnerabilities Windows 8 and Windows RT are subject to critical vulnerabilities that will be addressed on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday next week, both by virtue of supporting Internet Explorer 10. The bulletin for the vulnerabilities addresses similar problems in all versions of Internet Explorer from IE6 through IE10. That means affected operating systems include XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. Read More ...
Phablets don't get no respect Forty years ago this week, Motorola vice president and division manager Martin Cooper made the world's first cellphone call Read More ...
SIP trunking: The savings are there but the transition is complex The merits of SIP trunking have been talked about for years and now it looks like businesses are aggressively adopting the technology, lured by striking cost savings and the promise of new functionality that their old phone networks just couldn't support. Read More ...
Struggling HP shakes up much-criticized board of directors Hewlett-Packard's Ray Lane is giving up his role as chairman amid ongoing shareholder disapproval of HP's troubled Autonomy acquisition. Lane will stay on HP's board as a director but has given up his position as chairman, HP said Thursday. In addition, two of HP's longest-serving board members -- John Hammergren and G. Kennedy Thompson -- have resigned their seats altogether, after being reelected just last month. The news comes after some of HP's largest shareholders tried to have Lane and other HP directors voted off the board at a meeting last month. Read More ...
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