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Movies offered in Japan through the iTunes Store

Published on: 17th November, 2010

Apple began to offer movies in Japan through the iTunes Store. This expansion gives local customers translated versions of English-language movies such as Toy Story 3 and specific Japanese titles like Ototo, Odoru Daisousasen The Movie 2. Local viewers will get the extended rights that are available in some countries, i.e. the usual thirty days [...]

Motorola files a countersuit against Microsoft and menaces Windows and Xbox

Published on: 17th November, 2010

Motorola has recently filed a lawsuit as a response to Microsoft’s own lawsuit over Xbox 360 patent copyright. Its complaint suggests that Microsoft would violate sixteen patents. The lawsuit is targeting Windows, mobile platforms, the H.264 video related to Xbox, Wi-Fi and password patents. The most direct of all are the claims referring to Windows, [...]

While Android and iPhone go up, BlackBerry and Symbian share crashes

Published on: 17th November, 2010

As Gartner says, Symbian has lost an important part of its smartphone market share, precisely more than a sixth. The platform is almost exclusively used by Nokia and fell to 36.6 percent this year, from 44.6 percent a year before. The BlackBerry platform of Research in Motion, although having record high sales, dropped sharply from [...]

US Supreme Court expected to determine if class-action limits are legal

Published on: 15th November, 2010

The Supreme Court of the United States is now hearing arguments in a case with possibly significant implications for filed class-action lawsuits against cellular carriers as well as other companies. Judges will try to determine the lawfulness of contract language which blocks customers from pursuing class actions against companies. The current lawsuit involves AT&T and [...]

About $1 billion estimated in the e-book business this year

Published on: 14th November, 2010

The e-book business is worth about $1 billion and is expected to triple in size, as a new forecast of Forrester says. The business is supposed to reach a $966 million value of e-books sold this year and should triple to about $3 billion in 2015. Analyst James McQuivey says that book reading would be [...]

Windows Phone 7 – only 40,000 devices sold on launch in the United States

Published on: 14th November, 2010

It seems that Microsoft has sold only 40,000 Windows Phone 7 devices on launch in the United States. A market research tracker claims that figures represent sales for all devices across both T-Mobile and AT&T. none of the two carriers has confirmed the numbers, although a representative of T-Mobile claimed “strong interest”. At least the [...]

Plastic Logic gets funds to produce e-readers in Russia

Published on: 14th November, 2010

Some talks between Plastic Logic and the Russian company RUSNANO have been rumoured and are now known to be true, as the two companies had announced their partnership. According to the agreement, they will make a factory to produce the next generation of Plastic logic’s plastic electronic displays, as the e-book reader called QUE ProReader [...]

Motorola Droid Pro is Verizon’s iconic device and not iPhone

Published on: 10th November, 2010

Rumors of an early iPhone launch at Verizon were contradicted by a recent leak. According to a memo that an “iconic device” was expected to start pre-orders at Verizon a few days ago, some speculation appeared that this had to be an Apple device. However, the device has been revealed to be Motorola’s Droid Pro. [...]

Microsoft Windows executive accuses iPad of cannibalizing netbooks

Published on: 10th November, 2010

Gavriella Schuster, general manager of Windows product management launched a surprising accusation towards the iPad, claiming that Apple’s tablet was taking away an important part of netbook sales. When she was asked about the trend in the industry, Schuster said that netbooks were effectively cannibalized by tablets, the iPad being nearly the only model among [...]

Sharp releases Android 2.2 handsets, with glasses-free 3D displays, in Japan

Published on: 10th November, 2010

A pair of 3D glasses-free handsets has been launched by Sharp in Japan for Softbank’s network. The 003SH and 005SH Galapagos models have both autostereoscopic displays and Android 2.2. The 003SH model has a candy bar/slate form factor, while the 005SH has a sliding QWERTY keyboard. Both include a 3.8-inch display with a resolution of [...]

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