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iTV rumors continue to swirl around the shady backwaters of the internet, but it’s not often national papers of record decide to wade in — Canada’s, no less.
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Globe and Mail reveals early details on Apple iTV: Siri wants to hear you shout at the big game
New details have emerged about the ongoing Apple-Motorola drama in Germany, courtesy of a court document uncovered by FOSS Patents . The two companies have been engaged in a patent battle of swelling proportion these past few months, with the most recent wrinkle unfolding on Friday, when Apple promptly removed (and returned) its 3G / UMTS-enabled iPads and iPhone 4s from its online German store, in response to a court ruling. At issue in this particular case is a Motorola patent that Apple wants to use under FRAND obligations, but Moto apparently isn’t willing to license its technology for free.
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Motorola wants 2.25 percent of Apple sales, in exchange for patent license
Google appears to have scored another coup in its ongoing rivalry with Apple, having reportedly lured one of the company’s senior directors to its Mountain View headquarters. Simon Prakash, pictured above, has worked at Apple for more than eight years, most recently serving as the firm’s senior director of product integrity. According to VentureBeat , however, that tenure has come to a close, now that Google has hired Prakesh to work on a “secret project.” The report speculates that this project could be helmed by co-founder Sergey Brin, and that it may be mobile-related, though declarative statements were few and far between
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Report: Google hires Apple exec to work on ‘secret project’
We’ve waxed lyrical about iBooks Author at the technological level, but a good self-publishing platform counts for nothing if authors are put off by its terms and conditions. A particular source of antagonism so far has been the notion that, if an author decides to charge a fee for their iBook, then Apple will claim exclusive distribution rights and prevent them from publishing their work anywhere else. Check out the More Coverage links below and you’ll see that a number of writers tore up Apple’s licensing agreement and flung it into the proverbial overflowing trash can.
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iBooks Author gets new EULA, aims to clear writer’s block
Within an 11-day period last fall, Engadget published reviews of two different Samsung Galaxy tablets.
We’ve been speculating that Verizon’s latest Droid would be arriving on February 10th , but we lacked any official word from the carrier to back it up. Not to worry anymore, as Big Red has finally made the phone’s release official for the predicted date
Gianfranco Lanci may be gone from Acer, but the PC maker’s former chief is not forgotten — not financially, at least. The company is suing the exec over non-compete violations, after he jumped ship around this time last year. The exec recently landed a gig at Lenovo as head of its Europe, Middle East and Africa division, after doing some time as a consultant for the company .
So your compact digital camera manages to pack in a whopping 16-megapixels for each image?
