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  The title says it all. Apple has retaliated to the lawsuit filed by Nokia by countersuing them. Apple claims Nokia is infringing on 13 of Apple-owned patents. “Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours,” said Bruce Sewell, Apple’s General Counsel and senior vice president. In [...]

  A perfect timing, I should say. Joo Joo goes on pre-order today and Fusion Garage’s former partners TechCrunch have sued them for Fraud and Deceit, Misappropriation of Business Ideas, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Unfair Competitition and Violatioins of the Lanham Act. The lawsuit was filed yesterday and if we go through the elucidated filing, [...]

  Orange Vallée, a wholly owned subsidiary of Orange UK has announced ON that is touted as new, much simpler and more intuitive way of managing user’s contact. ON gathers all the user contacts from the phone and social networks and allows the user to sort out in different groups like family, friends, work etc. [...]

  This month’s game sales figure are out by NPD and sadly, the start of the holiday season in US doesn’t look good. The figures include the Black Friday sales and despite registering decent overall sales on Black Friday this year, the gaming hardware sales fell by 13.4 percent and software by 3.1 percent. NPD’s [...]

  Peek Inc.’s Peek Email-only device might not justify its worth in US but Peek’s entry to the European market makes some sense. Peek Email device will be launched in partnership with European Wi-Fi operator, Fon as PeekFon. Now according to Fon’s CEO, a device like Peek can be more practical in EU because of [...]

  Seagate will unveil a new ultra-thin hard drive at the CES expo that begins from next month. The HDD will be just 7mm thick as compared to the prevalent 9.5mm or 12.5mm drives. Seagate is keeping rest of the details under wraps but it will be interesting to see how much capacity these thinner [...]

  Wireless Gigabit Alliance aka WiGig have completed their unified wireless specification that will enable high-speed data transfers, even faster than Wi-Fi. The WiGig uses the 60GHz spectrum and claims to give data transmission rates of up to 7Gbps, which is 10 times faster than Wi-Fi 802.11n. Interestingly, the WiGig spec supports Wi-Fi and is [...]

  Eldar Murtazin from Mobile-review has undoubtedly more connects than many of the mobile stalwarts in the industry. So what happens when he writes something about an unreleased device, in this case, the next-gen iPhone? It gets the deserved attention. This is what he tweeted on his personal Twitter account. “Foxconn received order for next [...]

  It’s not only Apple who wants to taste the tablet pie. New reports have emerged claiming both Dell and Asus working on their respective tablet devices. While we have seen Dell’s prototype (known as Streak) in action, there’s not a single trace of Asus’ offering except that it will be known as Eee Pad. [...]

  You gotta love the analysts. If they didn’t tell us their “insights and analysis” about a company, we wouldn’t have got so many rumors to write on. An analyst at Oppenheimer has put his hand up to share something he got from his supply-chain contacts. According to his sources, Apple is trying to stock [...]

  Sony India had confirmed their interest to launch WiMAX-enabled laptops and now here’s a confirmation from the Taiwanese notebook maker. The WiMAX Forum report predicts the WiMAX market in India to reach up to $13 billion by 2012 and capture about 20% of world’s WiMAX user base. MSI sees this as a great opportunity [...]

  After the original DROID, it’s time for its sibling to get the much needed bug squashing and few improvements. The DROID Eris has also been blessed by a software update that will be pushed out over-the-air soon and by Verizon estimates, it could take up to a week to reach every Eris user. The [...]

  Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI), a consortium formed by Amimon, Hitachi, Motorola, Sharp, Samsung and Sony has announced the completion of WHDI specification that will enable users to transmit full HD content without any wires. Amimon, had initially proposed the tech to transmit content only up to 720p but with the latency coming in [...]

  Configuring your wireless router and gaming console is the best way to connect your console to the internet. Bbut if you dread fiddling with the settings, Buffalo might have the solution for you. The WLI-UC-GNT USB dongle goes into the user’s computer and without any fuss he can use the computer’s internet on his [...]

Samsung has extended its Corby family in India with the introduction of CorbyPlus (B3410) and CorbyPro (B5310). Both the phones target avid messaging users with their horizontal sliding QWERTY keyboards and set of other pro-messaging features. CorbyPlus (B3410), cheaper off the two, features a 2.6-inch 262K QVGA TFT touchscreen display, FM Radio with recording functionality, [...]