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Apple seeks severe punishment for Samsung lawyer's actions
Thu,2 Aug 2012 07:28 PM PDT
Reuters -  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc asked a U.S. judge on Thursday to punish Samsung Electronics Co Ltd for a Samsung attorney's conduct by ordering that the South Korean company has infringed Apple's phone design patents, according to a court filing. However, Samsung called Apple's demand "frivolous" and "unprecedented" in a legal brief filed later in the day. Trial began this week in a high stakes litigation between the two companies. Apple sued Samsung last year in San Jose, California federal court, accusing Samsung of copying the iPhone and iPad. Samsung has countersued. U.S. ...
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Samsung to unveil new Galaxy Note in late August
Thu,2 Aug 2012 07:26 PM PDT
Reuters -  SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics is set to take the wraps off a sequel to its popular Galaxy Note smartphone at an event on August 29, about two weeks before the possible debut of Apple's new iPhone. The two arch rivals are bracing for a full-blown battle with the expected rollouts of the two key models coming as they lock horns in a high-stakes patent trial in the United States. "We plan to unveil the next Galaxy Note at the Samsung Mobile Unpacked event in Berlin on August 29," a Samsung spokesman said on Friday, without elaborating. ...
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SAP agrees to pay Oracle $306 million in damages
Thu,2 Aug 2012 06:19 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Business software maker SAP agreed to pay rival Oracle Corp $306 million in damages over copyright infringement allegations against a SAP unit, avoiding a new trial. The proposed agreement requires court approval, and would clear the way for Oracle to ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to restore a $1.3 billion jury award in this case, according to a joint filing with a federal court in Oakland, California on Thursday. ...
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RIM to launch new PlayBook line next week
Thu,2 Aug 2012 12:09 PM PDT
Reuters -  TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's Research In Motion has chosen its home country to launch a PlayBook tablet with built-in support for cellular networks, a crucial feature missing from its poor-selling initial models. The BlackBerry maker said on Thursday it would launch the new tablets in Canada next week and roll them out in coming months in the United States, Europe, South Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. ...
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Sharp to start shipping iPhone screens to Apple this month
Thu,2 Aug 2012 06:58 AM PDT
Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp. will start shipping screens destined for a new Apple iPhone that is widely expected to be released in October ahead of the pre-Christmas shopping season. "Shipments will start in August," Sharp's new president, Takashi Okuda, said at a press briefing in Tokyo on Thursday after the company released its latest quarterly earnings. He declined to give a more specific date for shipments beyond this month. ...
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Rovi signs patent licensing pact with Google
Thu,2 Aug 2012 06:02 AM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Rovi Corp signed an agreement with Google Inc to allow the technology giant to use its interactive program guide patent portfolio for set-top boxes, sending its shares up 4 percent in premarket trade. The agreement also allows Rovi's patents to be used for online and mobile platforms. Rovi's software is used in home entertainment devices to play various digital media formats such as DivX. Google bought Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion last year and got access to its hardware business, which builds phones and television set-top boxes. ...
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Sony stumbles as demand wanes; slashes profit outlook
Thu,2 Aug 2012 12:40 AM PDT
Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp slashed its forecast for 2012/13 operating profit and lowered its sales expectations for key products including its handheld PSP and PS Vita devices as new boss Kazuo Hirai battles to revive the fortunes of the electronics giant. Sony reported on Thursday that operating profit for April-June fell a much steeper-than-expected 77 percent to 6.28 billion yen ($80 million) compared with a year earlier. Analysts had penciled in a 36 percent fall in profit. ...
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Sharp posts first-quarter earnings loss, slashes annual forecast
Wed,1 Aug 2012 11:13 PM PDT
Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp, which posted its worst net loss in a century in the last financial year, reported a first-quarter loss as waning TV demand and an overcapacity at its main liquid crystal display plant continued to weigh on earnings. In the three months to June 30, Sharp swung to an operating loss of 94.1 billion yen ($1.20 billion) from a 3.5 billion-yen profit a year earlier. That was deeper than the average 44.4 billion-yen loss estimated by five analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. ...
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RIM says has not compromised BlackBerry security in India
Wed,1 Aug 2012 08:31 PM PDT
Reuters - TORONTO (Reuters) - Research in Motion refuted on Wednesday a new round of Indian media reports, which claim that the BlackBerry maker has granted the Indian government the encryption keys to its secure corporate email and messaging services. India is one of the Canadian smartphone maker's few growing markets, where it is expanding aggressively. The company is facing falling sales elsewhere as customers abandon the BlackBerry in favor of Apple's iPhone and a slew of devices using Google Inc's Android software, leading to RIM's shares falling by more than 50 percent over the past one year. ... Full Story | Top |
Nokia links up with Groupon to promote deals on phone maps
Wed,1 Aug 2012 06:26 PM PDT
Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nokia is promoting Groupon Inc offers on the maps on its Lumia smartphones as it tries to stand out in a crowded field vying for the attention of U.S. cellphone owners. The partnership with Groupon, announced on Wednesday, shows Groupon Now! offers on Nokia maps with a green "G" icon. U.S. users can buy offers from their phones and get directions to the locations to redeem the offers using Nokia's navigation system. Nokia is not sharing financial details of the partnership with Groupon. ... Full Story | Top |
Sharp considering cutting 5,000 jobs worldwide: source
Wed,1 Aug 2012 06:03 PM PDT
Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp is considering cutting 5,000 jobs globally, or just under 10 percent of its consolidated workforce, a source close to the matter said on Thursday. The job cuts will be sought through early retirement and will also include reductions resulting from a plan to hive off ownership of its underused Sakai LCD factory in western Japan to Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry, the source said. The maker of Aquos TVs posted a record net loss in the year ended March 31 on a plunge in demand for its TVs that left it saddled with a glut of LCD panels. ...
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U.S. court revives InterDigital lawsuit against Nokia
Wed,1 Aug 2012 01:40 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court revived a patent infringement complaint filed by InterDigital Inc against Nokia, sending InterDigital's shares sharply higher on Wednesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said that the U.S. International Trade Commission erred in how it defined critical terms in the two patents in the complaint, and sent the case back to the ITC for reconsideration. InterDigital's shares closed up 14.2 percent to $31.18 on Wednesday. Both of the patents involve wireless cellular technology. ...
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California judge rules in favor of HP in Itanium server case
Wed,1 Aug 2012 01:21 PM PDT
Reuters -  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California state court judge ruled in favor of Hewlett-Packard and against Oracle Corp in a bitter lawsuit over Oracle's decision to end support for HP's Itanium-based servers. Santa Clara Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg wrote on Wednesday that a contract exists between HP and Oracle, and that Oracle is required to continue to offer its product suite on HP's Itanium server platform. Oracle is required to port its products to HP's Itanium-based servers without charge to HP, the judge ruled. (Reporting by Poornima Gupta and Dan Levine; Editing by Gary Hill)
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Analysis: Amazon pushes digital content on many gadgets
Wed,1 Aug 2012 11:26 AM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is trying to get its digital music and video on as many gadgets as possible as the world's largest Internet retailer replicates a strategy that paid off for its Kindle e-book business. The theory is that if customers can play and watch Amazon music and video on all their existing devices, they are more likely to purchase the content from Amazon rather than competitors like Apple Inc's iTunes and Netflix. ...
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Zynga shakes up top management
Wed,1 Aug 2012 10:06 AM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Embattled Zynga Inc has shuffled its top management following a calamitous second quarter that left its stock in the gutter and spurred shareholder lawsuits. The game publisher said Chief Operating Officer John Schappert will no longer oversee game development. Those responsibilities have been shifted to Chief Mobile Officer David Ko and Executive Vice President of Games Steve Chiang, who will now report directly to Chief Executive Mark Pincus, the company said in a statement. ...
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