Nokia blames apple for patent violation
Carrying on with it’s legal fight with the American giant apple, Nokia alleged on Tuesday that Apple’s almost all the products violate Nokia’s patents and not just their iPhone.
On Tuesday, Nokia also said that the company has filed a complaint against Apple with the US International Trade Commission.
The Finnish phone making giant Nokia, said that Apple’s iPhone, iPods and also the computers, violate its intellectual property rights.
Earlier, Nokia has sued Apple over the massively popular iPhone, claiming it infringes on 10 of its patents related to phone calls and Wi-Fi access.
Later, apple countered with a fresh lawsuit alleging that Nokia has copied aspects of the iPhone in its own phones.
Google plans to launch its own phone
According to the latest press reports, the internet search giant Google is aiming to strengthen its presence in the world of mobile telephony with its plans to introduce its very first high-tech phone sometime soon with the dawn of the New Year.
According to the Wall Street Journal reports and other sources close to Google, the Mountain View, California, based giant is expected to release a phone called ‘Nexus One’ that runs Google’s Android operating system.
It also added that the company is aiming to sell the phone directly to consumers, skipping mobile service providers.
Until now, Google has always been dependent on other companies, like HTC, Samsung or Motorola, to provide network support and hardware.
According to the reports, the new phones will be manufactured by Taiwanese phone maker HTC. Incidently, this company has already produced a lot of phones that use Android.
Holiday cell phone shopping up threefold: eBay
According to the figures release from eBay, in this holiday season, more and more shoppers have used their cell phones to make purchases than in past years.
The largest online marketplace operator announced on Monday that people used cell phones to buy 1.5 million products in the past several weeks of the ongoing holiday season. This figure is three times the figures obtained last year.
eBay also said that the holiday mobile purchases included a 1966 Chevrolet Corvette that was sold for USD 75,000 and a 23-foot boat that sold for USD 19,108. Combining both the mobile and the traditional online purchases, eBay users bought more than 500,000 Zhu Zhu Pets robotic hamsters.
eBay said that about 6 million people have eBay’s applications on iPhones and people use their mobile application to visit its site more than 2 million times each day.
Google plans Android event in January
Amid wide spread speculation that Google plans to release its own smartphone, the internet giant announced its plans on Tuesday to hold a press event next month about its Android mobile phone operating system.
The Mountain view, California based internet giant Google has sent invites to the press, asking them to attend an “Android press gathering” on January 5 at the company’s headquarters.
The invitation said, “With the launch of the first Android-powered device just over a year ago, we’ve seen how a powerful, open platform can spur mobile product innovation. And this is just the beginning of what’s possible.” However, it did not provide any further details about the event.
This invite, however, comes amid all the speculations that Google is prepared to release its own brand smartphone called “Nexus One”. This phone is expected to be sold directly to the customers without any tie-up with any of the telecom carriers.
The device is also being tested by the Google employees internally.
AT&T suspends online sales of iPhones in NYC
For unspecified reasons, AT&T has stopped selling iPhones to the New York customers from its Web site.
The company failed to explain the reasons behind the unprecedented suspension, which started a few days ago. The company only mentioned on Monday that, it periodically “modifies” its distribution channels.
On AT&T Inc.’s Web site, the New York customers, identified by their New York City ZIP codes, are told, “Please shop for another phone.”
AT&T also acknowledged that its data network has been overburdened with iPhone users in New York and San Francisco.
The iPhone, however, are still available in New York retail stores and from Apple Inc.’s Web site.
Amazon Christmas day e-book sales beat print sales
In a statement released on Saturday by the internet retail giant, amazon.com, the company saw the sales of electronic books rising much sharper than the hard-copy books this Christmas.
As published in the statement released, Amazon said, “On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books.”
The statement also revealed that the company’s own e-book reader, the Kindle, “has become the most gifted item in Amazon’s history.”
The Amazon e-books can also be read on Apple iPnone and iPod Touch devices. It’s Kindle online store boasts a library of 390,000 digitized books.
According to estimates in October, Kindle has a nearly 60 per cent share of the US market followed by Sony Reader with 35 per cent.
Another close competitor is Nook, a new device by the US bookstore giant Barnes & Noble.
Apple to launch new products in Jan
According to a Financial Times report published on its blog, Apple Inc has reserved space in late January at a venue in San Francisco to announce the lauch of its new products.
The electronics giant is expected to make some major announcement related to the laucn of its new products on January 26th, Tuesday and has also booked a stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the reports said.
The report comes amid expectations about Apple’s rumored plans to release a tablet computer.
Microsoft issues Word patch
In order to comply with the US court’s ruling that it infringed on patents relating to the use of XML in its flagship word processing software, Microsoft Corp. issued a patch for its Word software.
Earlier, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word programmes containing the infringing code from Jan 11, 2010. The court also ordered Microsoft to pay USD $290 million in damages.
The ruling came when Microsoft appealed against a Texas jury verdict last August that found Microsoft guilty of violating the patents owned by Canadian software company i4i Inc.
In the court documents, the three-judge court panel said, “A small company was practicing its patent, only to suffer a loss of market share, brand recognition and customer goodwill as the result of the defendant’s infringing acts.”
It added, “The district court found that Microsoft captured 80 percent of the custom XML market with its infringing Word products, forcing i4i to change its business strategy.”
Microsoft made the patch available to the computer makers to install on new machines preloaded with the Word software and strips Word and other Office programs of custom XML editing capabilities.
Facebook COO nominated to Disney board
The Walt Disney Co. announced on Wednesday that chief operating officer of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg has been nominated to serve on the board of directors of the US media and entertainment giant.
In a statement released by the company, the vote on Sandberg’s nomination and the re-election of the other 12 Disney directors by the Disney shareholders is due at the company’s next annual meeting, to be held in San Antonio, Texas, on March 10, 2010.
Robert Iger , the Disney president and their chief executive said, “Sheryl has been at the forefront of a technological revolution that’s opened up a world of new possibilities for consumers and which has greatly affected the way we do business.”
He added, “Her unique insight, born of great practical experience, will be of considerable value to Disney’s shareholders.”
Sandberg, 40, has served as COO of the social networking giant, Facebook since March 2008. Earlier she was the vice president of global online sales and operations with Google.
Microsoft banned from selling Word
Upholding the patent-infringement charges by a small Toronto firm against Microsoft, the US appeals court ordered the world’s largest software giant to stop selling MS Word by Jan 11, 2010. Microsoft Corp. was also asked to pay $290 million in damages.
The world’s largest software giant, Microsoft said it will introduce the copies of Word 2007 and Office 2007 without the offending technology before the ordered deadline.
This ruling from the court upholds an earlier ruling that found Microsoft guilty of infringing patents and ordered the giant to stop selling its Word software. This ban was imposed by a Texas court in August when a Toronto software firm i4i accused Microsoft for stealing its patented technology. The court also ordered Microsoft to pay USD 290 million in damages to the firm.
Microsoft soft challenged the ruling in the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals which upheld the verdict and gave Jan 11th 2010 as the deadline to the software giant.
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