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Aereo Offers A "Try For Free" Option In NYC; Android And PC Support Later This Summer
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After a small victory in court this past July, NYC-based Aereo today announced a new set of pricing options and the end of the invitation only rollout for the live broadcast TV over the Internet startup. The service is still only available to those physically residing in New York City...
Apple fails again to ban Samsung tablets
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The ongoing saga between Apple and Samsung over the latter’s Galaxy 10.1 tablets took another twist this week as US District Judge Lucy Koh refused for now to grant a preliminary injunction banning the devices. The companies are tangled in complicated legal proceedings over whether the Galaxy infringes design patents...
Apple denied Galaxy Nexus and Tab ban in Germany
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Samsung is having slightly better luck in Munich than it is here the US in its ongoing legal battle with Apple. The high court upheld a previous ruling that Cupertino's patent relating to "list scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display" was invalid. The end...
No, Xoom tablet doesn't copy iPad, says German court
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A court in Germany has ruled Tuesday that the Motorola Xoom tablet does not infringe on Apple’s iPad design, thus rejecting Apple’s bid to get the tablet banned for sale in Europe, Dow Jones reports. Apple wasn’t the only loser in the ruling, however. The case is ultimately a loss...
Why cops, cameras and the cloud aren’t a panacea for anything
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Although the idea of police officers video-recording their encounters with citizens has some claiming a small victory in the quest for better transparency, the issue isn’t that simple. Yes, video could provide invaluable evidence in some situations, but it could also provide evidence without context and fertile ground for privacy...
Jury decides Google isn’t guilty of patent infringement in Oracle trial
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Google was awarded a small victory today, as a federal jury has decided that the search giant wasn’t guilty of patent infringement claims made by Oracle. The two companies have been wrapped up in a legal battle since August 2010, when Oracle accused Google’s mobile operating system Android of...
Kickstarter Wins Small Victory in Patent Lawsuit With 2000-Era Crowdfunding Site
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Mr. Camelio. (Wikimedia Commons) Kickstarter just had a small victory in a lawsuit filed to shake loose what it calls an attempted patent troll. Last month in a New York court, a judge denied a motion to dismiss by the defendant ArtistShare, a site that was founded in 2000 in order to let...
ComScore: Android's US share dips ever so slightly, iPhone slowly marching up
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Here's a minor surprise: Android slipping at all in US market share. Although it saw just a tiny drop of two tenths of a point from where it was in March, and still saw a gain over January, Google's platform was down to 50.8 percent in April. Nothing dramatic...
Oracle Wins (Tiny) Battle in War With Google
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Oracle scored a victory on Friday in its ongoing battle with Google over the use of Java on the Android mobile operating system. But it was a very small victory. Judge William Alsup ruled that evidence presented during the trial had shown that Google infringed on Oracle’s copyrights by...
Lower Chinese court rules distributors should stop selling iPads in China
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Pictured above: Proview’s iMac-like computer named iPAD, released 12 years ago. The latest in an ongoing iPad trademark dispute in China comes as Shenzen-based Proview claims a small victory in its pursue of a $2 billion compensation from Apple over the use of the iPad moniker in China. According to...
The Real Thermonuclear War For Apple Against Android Isn't Going To Happen In The Court Room (AAPL, GOOG)
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Apple got a Nexus phone banned from being sold in the U.S. because it violated a patent. This is a small victory for Apple in its thermonuclear war against Google. But, it's not going to stop the progress of Android overall. If Apple really wants to wage a war on...
The Real Thermonuclear War For Apple Against Android Isn't Going To Happen In The Court Room (AAPL, GOOG)
Apple saves face, doesn't have to place 'Samsung didn't copy us' newspaper ads... yet
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As the patent war between Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (005930) continues to heat up in the United States, Apple has won another small victory abroad, albeit temporarily. A judge in the United Kingdom ruled last week that as part of retribution for repeatedly relaying damning messages about Samsung products, Apple would...
Chinese court rejects injunction to stop iPad sales at Apple stores
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A request for a legal injunction that would have forced Apple to halt iPad sales in its Shanghai stores has been rejected, giving the U.S. tech giant a small victory as it faces an ongoing trademark dispute in China over the iPad name....
German court upholds Galaxy Tab injunction, EU eyes Samsung’s patent claims
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Apple won a small victory in Germany on Tuesday as the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court upheld its decision against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1. The 10-inch slate is still barred from sale in the country, and the appeals court also determined that the Galaxy Tab 8.9 falls within the scope of...
Samsung loses bid to overturn ban on original Galaxy Tab 10.1 model in Germany
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Samsung has failed to overturn a ban on an the original Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Germany, meaning that the company is still only able to sell an updated version of the device it designed to circumvent Apple’s patents. Reuters reports that a higher regional court in Duesseldorf, Germany, told Samsung...
Microsoft’s First App for Android is Called Tag
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Admit it: seeing Microsoft release an application for Google’s operating system seems a little weird, doesn’t it? Still, it’s true; Microsoft has launched its first Android app, called Tag.We wrote about Tag a couple of weeks ago; simply put, it’s an app that lets you link physical objects with...
German court upholds Galaxy Tab injunction, EU eyes Samsung’s patent claims
gigaom.com
Apple won a small victory in Germany on Tuesday as the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court upheld its decision against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1. The 10-inch slate is still barred from sale in the country, and the appeals court also determined that the Galaxy Tab 8.9 falls within the scope of...
The Pirate Bay, A Year After The Verdict
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Millions of BitTorrent users all around the world followed the Pirate Bay trial with great interest last year. Many had hoped that the court would decide that operating a BitTorrent tracker was no offense and that the defendants would walk free. The ten day trial started off with a small...
Conan O’Brien on “60 Minutes”: The Full Interview [VIDEO]
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Former The Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien sat down with CBS’ 60 Minutes for his first on-the-record interview since he left The Tonight Show and NBC in January. Topics covered included Jay Leno, NBC executives, Conan’s new cable TV show and his beard.When asked why he left NBC, he...
Qualcomm chips complete first successful VoIP-over-LTE to WCDMA handoff
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For now, voice over LTE is but an idea -- one with unrealized potential, as Verizon, AT&T and Metro PCS all still rely on their 3G networks for voice duty. Qualcomm has edged us one step closer to a completely 4G future, though, with the first successful test of...
Waste of a Perfectly Good Airplane
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This all started innocently enough. I shot a funny video making fun of Peter Shankman. He, in turn, called me out, challenging me to go skydiving with him before the end of August. There’s $1000 in charity money on the line here: he pays if I go, and I...
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