Apple has won a major skirmish in its war with Android. A German court has ruled in the iPhone and iPad‘s favour over the ability to unlock your phone by swiping your finger on the screen. Apple accused Motorola of infringing its slide-to-unlock patent, which covers “unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock …
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17 February
Asus Transformer Ice Cream Sandwich update delayed again
Asus has delayed the Android update for the Asus Transformer tablet yet again — and fans are seriously angry. Promised for this month, Ice Cream Sandwich will now land on the popular tablet some time in March. Asus announced the news on its Singapore Facebook page, thanking fans for their patience and understanding. These are qualities sorely lacking in the …
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17 February
Last year’s models, this year’s values: 5 great TV deals (while they last)
Last year in early February we answered the question “Is now the best time to buy a TV?” with a resounding “probably.” Now the answer is closer to “probably not.” This year I haven’t seen the same kinds of drastic post-holiday price drops as TV makers sell off their 2011 stock to make room for 2012 TVs. Most of best …
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16 February
Apple’s Foxconn factories ‘first
The Chinese factories used by Apple to build the iPhone and iPad have been given a glowing initial assessment, despite only opening their doors to inspectors a few days ago. The independent Fair Labor Association is investigating factories in China where Apple products are built to assess the conditions workers are expected to labour under — after reports workers had …
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16 February
Study: European doctors getting iPad fever
Apple According to a new study by Manhattan Research, which surveyed more than 1,200 physicians across Europe, 26 percent of doctors claim they own an Apple iPad and spend more than 25 percent of their professional time using it. Doctors in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, and the U.K. participated in the survey reported by PMLiVE, a medical industry blog (via …
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16 February
Apple’s biggest iPad rival: the iPhone 4S
Apple was its own worst enemy in the fourth quarter. The biggest competitor to the iPad 2 was the iPhone 4S, market researcher IHS said today in a report on tablet sales in the fourth quarter. The firm concluded that despite other tablet options, what curtailed sales of the iPad 2 the most was customers committing their dollars to the …
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16 February
HTC Sensation and XE get early preview of Ice Cream Sandwich
Fancy getting a new sense? Sadly not telepathy, or the ability to sense when an advert break is about to end as you fast-forward a recorded TV programme, but a preview of HTC Sense and Ice Cream Sandwich on the HTC Sensation or HTC Sensation XE. HTC is planning a limited preview of HTC Sense for Android 4.0. If you …
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16 February
Spectrum auction compromise part of payroll tax cut bill
It looks like Congress will finally authorize incentive spectrum auctions. Today, Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate agreed on legislation that will authorize the extension of the payroll tax cuts and the unemployment benefits. And they also authorized the Federal Communications Commission to auction off wireless spectrum as part of the package. Revenue from the …
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16 February
Amazon Kindle Fire climbs to top of Android pack
Three months after going on sale, we still don’t know how many Kindle Fire tablets that Amazon has sold. Sure, analysts have made estimates, but without real figures from Amazon, we’re left to guess as to how the Kindle Fire is faring against devices from Apple, Samsung, and others. Or do we? Issued just today, a new report from IHS …
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16 February
HTC set to launch One X quad
Smartphone maker HTC might go big at Mobile World Congress with a One X handset boasting quad-core horsepower. Time is certainly ripe for HTC to wow the world with new cutting-edge mobile hardware. Its rivals, Motorola, Samsung, and Sony, have been hard at work churning out a number of fresh phones such as the Droid Razr Maxx, Droid 4, Galaxy …
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