Thursday, May 24, 2012

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Tablets see surge in use in Millenial Media's latest report

Posted: 24 May 2012 02:01 AM PDT

This morning, Millennial Media released its latest Mobile Mix report, which takes a look at the devices and operating systems that access its ad network. This quarter, non-phone connected devices like tablets and e-readers saw a large increase in usage, and three of the top 20 devices on Millennial's platform were tablet devices.
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Apple denies e-book price fixing allegations

Posted: 23 May 2012 01:46 PM PDT

In a court filing today, Apple has denied allegations that it conspired with book publishers to fix the prices of e-books in its iBooks store. Apple and five major book publishers were sued by the U.S. Justice Department last month over alleged e-book price fixing, with three of the publishers immediately agreeing to settle out of court.
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Jury finds Google not guilty of infringing Oracle's Java patents with Android

Posted: 23 May 2012 11:16 AM PDT

Google won a pretty big victory in its court battle with Oracle today, as the jury has ruled that the search company has not infringed upon Oracle's Java patents with the Android operating system. The jury said that Google was not guilty on all eight claims across two of Oracle's patents.
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Comcast's Xfinity Voice 2go services puts your home phone number on your smartphone or tablet

Posted: 23 May 2012 11:08 AM PDT

Cable and internet provider Comcast has announced a new feature of its Xfinity Voice service that lets users answer and place phone calls on their smartphones or tablets while using their home phone number. Called Xfinity Voice 2go, the service uses call forwarding and VoIP technology to accomplish this feat.
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AT&T begins refarming 2G spectrum for 3G, 4G purposes in New York City

Posted: 23 May 2012 09:47 AM PDT

AT&T has revealed that it has begun refarming its 2G spectrum in New York City for 3G and 4G uses. This plan was revealed back in March when the carrier started to encourage users with 2G phones to upgrade them to newer devices in order to keep their service. AT&T says that its refarming efforts will enhance call quality and reliability of both its voice and data networks, and will give it more capacity to handle the exploding demand for high-speed wireless data services. The carrier is still encouraging those that have not yet upgraded to do so soon, as devices that rely on the 1900MHz band for voice calls will stop working in the New York City area at some point in the future as the spectrum is reallocated.
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Google Search app for iPhone hits version 2.0 with new design, faster performance

Posted: 23 May 2012 09:05 AM PDT

Google released a new version of its Search app for the iPhone today that brings over the redesigned interface first seen on the iPad version of the app last year.
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Apple, Samsung mediation talks fail; battle heads back to courtroom

Posted: 23 May 2012 08:39 AM PDT

It appears that the courtroom battles between Samsung and Apple will continue to drag on, as the two companies seemingly were not able to work out their differences during the court-mandated mediation talks earlier this week.
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AT&T unveils the $149.99 Samsung Galaxy Appeal pre-paid smartphone

Posted: 23 May 2012 07:47 AM PDT

AT&T today announced a new smartphone for its pre-paid GoPhone brand. The Samsung Galaxy Appeal is a side-slider Android phone with a four-row QWERTY keyboard.
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NVIDIA's Kai platform to power $199 quad-core tablets

Posted: 23 May 2012 06:26 AM PDT

NVIDIA has been talking about cheap, quad-core powered tablets for some time, and it now has revealed the platform that it plans to bring them on. Unveiled during an investor call last week, the new Kai platform is expected to be cheap enough for tablet manufacturers to produce quad-core Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablets in the $199 price range. NVIDIA says that the Kai chipset uses some of the "secret sauce" found in the higher-end quad-core Tegra 3 chip, but manages to keep costs much lower. NVIDIA hopes to compete with devices like the Amazon Kindle Fire, but still provide much better performance. There have long been rumors that Google is working on a Nexus-branded tablet that will be quad-core and priced under $200, so Kai may very well be used to power that.
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IBM blocks iPhone's Siri on its networks over security concerns

Posted: 23 May 2012 06:00 AM PDT

Employees of IBM will need to find someone else to talk to other than their phone while at work, as the technology giant has revealed that it is blocking Apple's Siri personal assistant on its networks. The reason is because Siri works by transmitting voice commands to Apple's data center and then processing them there, and IBM is concerned that certain sensitive information may get into the wrong hands as a result.
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OmniVision outs new 16 megapixel, QFHD image sensor for smartphones

Posted: 23 May 2012 05:30 AM PDT

OmniVision has announced the OV16825, a new camera sensor for smartphones that packs 16 megapixels of resolution. The new sensor measures 1/2.3-inches and can capture 4608 x 3456 pixel video at 30 frames per second, 4K2K (also known as ~QFHD, or quad-full HD) 3840 x 2160 video at 60 frames per second, or 1080p full HD video at 60 frames per second with electronic image stabilization. The OV16825 sensor can also record 16 megapixel burst images, and has support for RAW image capture. OmniVision expects the new sensor to hit volume production in Q4 of this year.
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