A court has taken a dim view of YouView, ruling that Lord Sugar’s TV service is guilty of trademark infringement — but YouView “has no intention of changing its name”. The High Court in London upheld an earlier decision that YouView infringed the trademark of a service called YourView. Gloucestershire company Total Ltd registered the name …
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Samsung will unveil an 85-inch Ultra High Definition TV in the new year. It’s not the first 85-inch UHDTV, but it has bagged one of the technology world’s most prestigious innovation awards. The Samsung gigantotelly makes its debut at CES, the technology bunfight that takes over Las Vegas every January. It’s already won the Best Innovation award for the show, …
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This is the first look at the next Samsung Windows Phone. Boasting 4G in the US, the Ativ Odyssey looks set to be a more pocket-friendly phone than the one it’s already unveiled. The first Windows 8 Phone from Samsung is the Ativ S, a giant 4.8-inch beast of a phone. Judging by this picture, shown off by Evleaks, the …
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BlackBerry 10 is coming on 30 January. RIM has announced it will finally unveil its next generation of software and smart phones in the new year — but is it too late? BlackBerry-builders Research In Motion will reveal the new operating system alongside two new phones. One will have a signature BlackBerry keyboard and one — likely to be the …
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The Google Nexus 4 sold out in less than half an hour as bargain-hungry phone fans bagged themselves the latest Nexus smart phone. Google’s new flagship phone, powered by Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, went on sale today from the Google Play online store or from O2. But demand for the £239 phone was so great the site suffered problems and …
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The Surface is off to a “modest” start, according to Microsoft. Looks like all those adverts don’t signal the death of the iPad just yet. Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer admitted that the Surface is off to a relatively slow start to French newspaper Le Parisien. Although he doesn’t quote numbers, it seems those pesky clicky adverts coming at you from …
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Mark your calendars, phone fans: Ofcom has named the dates for the 4G auction. The next wave of 4G services is expected to launch in May or June, and will raise at least £1.3bn. The telecoms watchdog has laid out the rules for the auction of airwaves to be used for super-fast mobile phone Web browsing, setting the reserve price at …
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One of the men who invented Android has declared that phone manufacturers and networks should make more of an effort to change the way Google’s mobile operating system works. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking — is he nuts? But bear with us: he may have a point. Speaking at a conference on open sourcery, Rich Miner said adding extras …
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Movies, music and TV shows land on Google TV next week. If you own a Google TV box, you can get films, tunes and telly from Google Play on 13 November. Er… does anybody own a Google TV? Google reveals today that those treats for your eyes and ears will be available through the Google Play app store for users …
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Big Ballmer is watching you. Microsoft is working on a way of spying on you through your TV, in a bid to charge you for every person watching. Microsoft has been awarded a patent for the “content presentation system and method allowing content providers to regulate the presentation of content on a per-user-view basis”. The system uses cameras to make …
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