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Oct 2011 |
Sony Corp. has just announced that it will pay USD1.47 billion for Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson 50 percent stake in the joint Sony-Ericsson mobile handset venture. Based in Tokyo and Stockholm respectively, Sony bought out the Swedish company's ownership of "five essential patent families" in an intellectual property agreement between the two companies.
According to the press release announcing the deal, the acquisition will allow Sony to incorporate its mobile products into its other electronics offering li... |
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Oct 2011 |
Freedom to communicate is a human right as is having a broadband connection, the UN said today. The global organisation, usually hell-bent on achieving world peace, argued that it would be quite nice if 60 per cent of the world had access to the net by 2015.
Governments should lift taxes on ICT services and free up radio frequency spectrum to fuel an expansion of networking, the UN recommends in its Broadband Challenge (2-page/185kb PDF) issued on Tuesday. Businesses should work out some smarter busines... |
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Oct 2011 |
Scottish iPhone users have found themselves lost in translation as the gadget's new voice recognition app can't understand their accent.
Hundreds of frustrated owners of the latest gizmo from Apple claim to have had issues with Siri, the iPhone 4s's key feature, which was launched earlier this month.
The California-based firm boast the function can send texts, arrange appointments, tell you the weather forecast and browse the internet all via voice control.
It even claims the phone can tell users t... |
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Oct 2011 |
A bipartisan group of House members introduced legislation Wednesday that would boost the governments authority to disrupt and shutter websites that hawk or host trademark- and copyright-infringing products, including allowing the government to order sites removed from search engines.
Much of the package is similar to a stalled Senate measure known as the Protect IP Act. Both proposals amount to the holy grail of intellectual-property enforcement that the recording industry, movie studios and their union... |
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Oct 2011 |
Research In Motion has been sued in the United States and Canada by BlackBerry users angry over a recent outage that left them without e-mail, Internet, and IM for several days.
A lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Santa Ana, CA on behalf of all US BlackBerry owners with an active service agreement at the time of the outage, according to Reuters and other news outlets.
The lawsuit accuses RIM of breach of contract, negligence, and unjust enrichment.
Another legal action filed in Quebec... |
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Oct 2011 |
Apple stunned Wall Street by reporting results that missed expectations for the first time in years, blaming rumours of the new iPhone for hurting demand in the September quarter.
Shares of Apple fell 7 percent in extended trading on Tuesday, wiping USD27 billion off the value of the world's largest technology company.
It was Apple's first quarterly earnings under chief executive Tim Cook, who took over from Steve Jobs in August at a critical juncture for the company. Apple is battling Google in the m... |
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Oct 2011 |
Samsung Electronics filed preliminary injunction motions in Japan and Australia on Monday to block the sale of Apple's iPhone 4S there.
The South Korean company is accusing Apple of patent infringements dealing with wireless telecommunications technology.
In the Japan filing, Samsung also wants the court to bar the sale of iPhone 4 and iPad 2.
Apple could not immediately be reached for comment.
Apple announced the latest incarnation of its smartphone -- the iPhone 4S -- on October 4.
The next... |
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Oct 2011 |
Apple Inc's latest iPhone looks set to become its bestselling device ever, and one reason appears to be disenchantment with rival smartphones.
Nearly one in four people who thronged Apple stores from Tokyo to San Francisco told Reuters on Friday they were ditching BlackBerries, discarding Nokias or even giving up Google Android-based phones, hoping for something better.
The majority of the 127 iPhone 4S buyers polled informally by Reuters in the United States, Japan, Australia, France, Germany and Bri... |
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Oct 2011 |
BlackBerry services buzzed back to life across the world today after a three-day outage that interrupted email messages and Internet services for millions of customers.
Research In Motion (RIM) said the system was back to normal early Thursday East Coast time.
The company was flushing through stalled messages in the morning.
Some phones that have been out of touch for a long time may need to have their batteries pulled out and put back in to regain a connection to the network, co-CEO Mike Lazaridis... |
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Oct 2011 |
Millions of BlackBerry users remained without service on Wednesday as a three-day outage spread to North America.
"BlackBerry subscribers in the Americas may be experiencing intermittent service delays this morning," Research in Motion, maker of BlackBerry smartphones, said in a statement. "We are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and we apologize to our customers for any inconvenience. We will provide a further update as soon as more information is available."
The service outage... |
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Oct 2011 |
Strong-jawed rats brought down broadband services in the east of Scotland this week by chewing through fibre optic cables, Virgin Media told The Reg today in a statement.
Virgin Media phone, television and broadband customers in the Kirkcaldy, Glenrothes and Leven areas suffered outages and intermitent coverage for a period of two days between Monday morning and Tuesday evening.
Fife Council was one of the customers affected, according to a tweet, with phone lines down for much of Monday.
Virgin Me... |
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Oct 2011 |
Two of the UK's biggest internet service providers (ISPs) are continuing their battle against the controversial Digital Economy Act (DEA) and have won an appeal against it.
BT and TalkTalk have been given the green light to appeal against a High Court ruling that rejected the majority of their complaints about the law. They argue that the anti-piracy legislation infringes EU legislation by forcing ISPs to contact broadband customers who are suspected of engaging in illegal file sharing.
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Oct 2011 |
Millions of Blackberry owners across Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been left without services following a server crash.
Owners of the smartphones were unable to browse the web, send email or instant messages.
The problem appears to have originated in a datacentre in Slough which handles Blackberry services for the affected regions.
Blackberry UK said it knew about the problem and was "investigating".
In a tweet sent around 14:42 BST, the company said: "Some users in EMEA are experienci... |
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Oct 2011 |
Microsoft Corp is considering a bid for Yahoo Inc, resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the Internet company in 2008, sources close to the situation said on Wednesday.
Microsoft joins a host of other companies looking at Yahoo, which has a market value of about USD20 billion and is readying financial pitch books for potential buyers, they said.
Those companies include buyout shops Providence Equity Partners, Hellman & Friedman and Silver Lake Partners, as... |
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Oct 2011 |
Blockbusters such as The Dark Knight and classics including The Birds can be watched via the site. In total, about 1,000 movies have been made available.
New releases will cost GBP3.49 (R43) to rent and library titles GBP2.49 (R30. Users have 30 days to begin watching a film, and 48 hours to finish it once they start.
The UK is the third territory to get the movie rental service after the US and Canada.
YouTube announced the launch via a blogpost. The partners providing movies for the UK service in... |
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