Could the iPad be banned? Earlier this week, devices were seized in China over a patent dispute, and the same could happen here in the UK. Chinese company Shenzhen Proview Technology claims it owns the name ‘iPad’ in China, and is trying to ban exports. It’s revealed details of its own iPAD computer it released way back …
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The iPad 3 will feature a retina display, so we’ve been hearing for months now. Well Mac Rumors has got its hands on what it claims is this fabled display, and while it’s not attached to an iPad 3, it is the closest anyone’s come to confirming the screen’s existence. That’s it up there. The ruler is apparently to prove …
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Samsung is focusing on OLED TVs, spinning off its LCD division as a new corporation on 1 April, Bloomberg reports, with the Samsung board approving the plan. Though it still needs shareholder approval, according to the BBC. The first of April is the same day Sony gets a new boss — let’s hope it’s not all some elaborate April Fool’s …
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The iPad 3 will have an 8-megapixel camera. That’s the latest rumour anyway, according to Next Media. The site also claims to have pictures of the device, showing off the larger camera hole. But I’m skeptical. While there are bound to be plenty of rumours and purported leaks ahead of a new Apple launch, we sort the wheat from the …
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The latest in the ongoing patent wars: Apple has called on EU anti-trust regulators to settle a patent dispute between the Cupertino company and Motorola. It’s the equivalent of warring brothers calling on their parents to sort out a long-running argument. Apple is fighting claims that it infringed Motorola’s mobile patents. This is just the latest instalment in the saga that is …
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The PS Vita‘s success as a games system is far from secure, but Sony has just hinted that it might make tablets and smart phones using the Vita operating system. Sony’s yet-to-be-anointed president and CEO Kazuo Hirai told reporters that the company designed the OS to be expandable to other devices, The Verge reports, quoting AV Watch. Sony’s deputy president …
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Google Wallet is safer than using a credit card, Google claims. But with one quite major proviso: that you don’t root your phone. The big G is on the defensive after its wireless payments system (which isn’t available in the UK yet, but is rumoured to launch before this summer’s Olympics) was was hacked this week. A team of developers …
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Apple has rolled out its most powerful legal guns and is taking aim at Google’s biggest target. The iPhone maker filed another lawsuit against Samsung and its Galaxy Nexus, though it’s not the hardware that’s irked Cupertino. Rather, it’s the Android Ice Cream Sandwich software. Apple has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to ban the Nexus because of …
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Acer hadn’t even announced the CloudMobile when it won an iF Product Design Award. And good news it did, as it prompted the company to tell us all about the phone early, ahead of its official outing at Mobile World Congress. The CloudMobile syncs with your PC and stores your movies, music and photos in the cloud, so you can …
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Frustrated the latest version of Android is taking an age to come to your phone? Don’t blame Google, or even the manufacturer for putting its own UI on top of the Android operating system. No, the complexity of modern hardware is to blame. According to a Motorola executive, that is. Christy Wyatt, senior vice president and general manager of Motorola’s …
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