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HTC buys Dashwire Inc. to fuel their cloud goals

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  HTC seems to be on a buying spree. After buying S3 Graphics few weeks back, HTC announced their plans to acquire US-based Dashwire Inc. HTC will purchase the company for $18.5m via its American outfit, HTC America Holding Inc. Unlike S3 Graphics, which was a buy just for patent gains, Dashwire’s acquisition will help […]

Google enables tablet-like interface for Gmail

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  Google has added a new feature in Gmail Labs that revamps the user interface of the regular Gmail. Dubbed as Preview Pane, the feature allows users to preview messages, enabling a quick look at the incoming messages. In short, it’s similar to the Gmail interface on the tablet but the desktop version allows you […]

Samsung looking to buy InterDigital patents

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  Samsung is contemplating to buy a decent chunk of patent portfolio to safeguard itself against the current Apple lawsuit. Bloomberg reports Samsung is in the bidding race with Google and Apple to buy InterDigital Inc.’s patent portfolio and are apparently in private talks with the company. About 8,800 patents are up for grabs which […]

Apple takes the top spot for highest number of smartphones sold, Samsung and Nokia follow

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  Nokia’s top smartphone maker position was already come to an end when Apple announced their results few weeks back but apparently it’s going worse. With Samsung’s Q2 results out, analysts estimate Samsung has sold around 19 million smartphones, beating Nokia by over a good 2.3 million units. This however, was unable to take over […]

RIM releases BBM 6 with BBM connected apps support

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  RIM has updated one of the strongest apps (and a service) available on BlackBerry — the BlackBerry Messenger. The Canadian company has bumped the app to version 6 which now supports “BBM Connected” apps. This function integrates BBM service and allows users to chat with their friends from the app itself. For instance, a […]

HTC willing to negotiate with Apple over patent dispute

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  Taiwan-based HTC confirmed that they’re willing to talk to the iPhone maker for patent infringements. HTC’s CFO Winston Yung said to Bloomberg they’re “open to having discussions” provided the terms are “fair and reasonable.” Yung also confirmed that although they’re were having an on and off discussions with Apple, no formal talks have been […]

RIM to lay off 2,000 employees to “optimize costs”

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  Research in Motion today announced some major decisions related to its management and its workforce. To streamline its operations, RIM has brought some management changes like Thorsten Heins to head the new combined hardware and software engineering teams while Robin Bienfait to take on the responsibility of Enterprise Business Unit etc. A major impact […]