12Feb2012
Apple asks for US preliminary injunction of Samsung’s Android 4.0 Galaxy Nexus
Apple is leveraging four recently granted patents to seek a preliminary injunction against sales of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus smartphone, Google's Android 4.0 flagship device, as part of a new federal lawsuit that also involves other patent claims. General details of the new suit were published yesterday, but according to a report by Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents, Apple's latest suit targets the Galaxy Nexus, parallel to a separate complaint last fall, but differing in several key respects.
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RIM says BlackBerry App World has 60K apps, 13% of publishers earn more than $100K
Research in Motion announced on Tuesday that its BlackBerry App World is the second most profitable mobile application store behind Apple's App Store, beating out Google's Android Market. At a developer's conference in Amsterdam, new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins was joined by vice president of developer relations, Alec Saunders, who declared App World to be the second-most-profitable mobile platform. He said that's based on the fact that RIM has more paid downloads available than the Android Market,
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Nikon just Releases Firmware Updates for 1 Nikkor Zooms
Nikon has released firmware updates for the three VR lenses in its new 1 Nikkor line-up. Version 1.01 for the 1 Nikkor VR 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 superzoom resolves an issue that in some rare cases caused images to be blurred when shot immediately after the camera was shaken or moved quickly. Version 1.02 for the 1 Nikkor VR 10-30mm f/3.5-5.6 standard zoom (read review) and the 1 Nikkor VR 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 telezoom (read review) fixes a bug related to the recording of the aperture value in the
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Tiffen Dfx 3.0.5
Tiffen has updated its Dfx filter suite to add compatibility with Avid Media Composer v6, Symphony v6, and NewsCutter v10, as well as support for a number of new (and older) Sony digital cameras. The newly supported models include the A550, A580, A700, A850, A900, NEX-3, NEX-5, NEX-5N, NEX-C3, SLT-A33, A35, A55, A65 and A77. There is also a new adjustable brush slider that covers large areas, and new blur controls for theDfx Paint Mask tool that gives more control over blending and
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CyberLink Review “Video and Photo Creative Collection”
CyberLink has launched its new Video & Photo Creative Collection. This bundle includes both the award-winning PowerDirector 10 video editing software and the new PhotoDirector 2011 raw converter and image editor, which offers native rendering of raw files from Canon and Nikon cameras. The CyberLink Video & Photo Creative Collection is available today and can be purchased from the CyberLink online store for £114.99. Website: CyberLink Store Cyberlink Press Release CyberLink Releases
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Review : Kingston Data Traveler HyperX 3.0
The new Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 features the fastest speeds and largest capacities that Kingston has to offer in a USB Flash drive. Its high-speed eight-channel architecture provides USB 3.0 data transfer rates of up to 225MB/s read and 135MB/s write. The DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 will be available in 64GB (£110.76), 128GB (£199.44) and 256GB capacities. The suggested retail price of the 256GB version – which can store as much data as ten Blu-ray Discs or fifty-four DVDs –
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Lullabelly Maternity Musical Device
We live in an extremely competitive world, and parents these days want their kids to get ahead of the rest even from the womb itself, hence you see many of these “baby aids” that intend to help the development of the foetus in the market. ThinkGeek does not want to get left behind as well, hence their $ 59.99 Lullabelly Maternity Musical Device, which is actually a pre-natal music belt which allows you to play tracks of your choice so that your future geek-to-be will also be able to rock
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Retailers ready BlackBerry PlayBook fire sale for holiday push
Retailers are getting ready to slash as much as $ 300 off the price of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook in hopes of clearing out inventory this holiday season. Big-box retailer Staples will begin a sale on Friday for RIM’s PlayBook tablet in the BlackBerry maker’s home country of Canada. The 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models of the device will sell for $ 199, $ 299 and $ 399, respectively. According to a photo of an advertisement sent by an AppleInsider reader, the sale
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Apple, Chinese environmental groups meet to discuss supplier pollution concerns
Apple recently met with five Chinese environmental protection groups to address concerns over domestic supplier pollution after reports had criticized the company for using loopholes in the system. The Cupertino, Calif., company held the meeting on Tuesday at its offices in Beijing with representatives from five Chinese environmental groups, Penn Olson reports. The three-and-a-half hour meeting included nine representatives from the groups and five Apple employees. According to the report, Li
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Hercules Dualpix HD720p for Notebooks
Aww, Hercules! Hercules! Yes, the company has given us this Dualpix HD 720p webcam for notebooks. So if you are an owner of an laptop that doesn’t have an integrated webcam, this might be your thing. According to the company site, this is the first 720p high definition (1280 x 800 pixels) webcam fro the PC, and it comes with a wide-angle autofocus lens. It can shoot at up to 30 frames per second, with a photo resolution of 5 Megapixels. I found that it has a wide viewing angle, which means
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