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Friday 09 December 2011

Motorola Wins Apple Patent Suit, Apple Ban Looming In Germany [ 09-12-2011 19:25 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: BBC Translation by: Paul Smith

The ongoing global patent war between some of the world's largest tech companies has taken another twist with Motorola having just succeeded in winning a court case against Apple in Germany. Motorola had alleged that Apple was infringing upon some of its patents and a German court agreed. The ruling means that Motorola could potentially enforce a sales injunction against Apple that would see scores of Apple products banned from sale in Germany.

The devices affected by the ruling include the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad 3G and the iPad 2. Even the iPhone 4S, which was released after the case opened in April might fall foul of the injunction if it is found to use the same patent infringing technology.

Apple has three choices open to it in responding to the ruling; they could stump up a cool £85.3 million. They could alter the various iPhone and iPad devices affected or they could appeal the ruling. The latter is almost certainly going to be the first option Apple chooses though if previous patent disputes between tech companies is anything to go by. Even so it is a setback for Apple in its fight with Android, which has, up until now, largely seen Apple successful in the courtroom. Now it seems Motorola, and by extension Android, has found their claws to fight back.

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Honeycomb Tablets Account For Just 1% Of Android Usage [ 09-12-2011 18:54 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: via BGR Translation by: Paul Smith

New figures confirm that Honeycomb, Android's first release specifically designed for tablets, has largely failed to make any meaningful impact. The figures show that Honeycomb accounts for just 1% of total Android usage. It's hard to spin that figure given just how low it is, but it is important to point out that the figures don't reveal whether users are put off by Honeycomb itself or the hardware using it.

The figures come from Chitika, which analysed hundreds of millions of impressions served to Android powered devices over a week long period. Whilst Honeycomb barely registered with just 1% Gingerbread accounted for around two thirds of all impressions. Froyo wasn't far behind with 28% and other versions made up the difference.

The figures don't show much impact for Ice Cream Sandwich, but that's to be expected given that it is only officially available for one device at the moment, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. As Ice Cream Sandwich takes off it should register a bigger share and crucially it can also be used on tablets.

Of course Ice Cream Sandwich may still not turn around Android's tablet woes if it is indeed a case of the hardware failing to excite customers. There is some indication that this is indeed the case with the iPad still the dominant player in the tablet market and tablets using other platforms failing to make any serious impression either. HP's webOS powered foray into the tablet market never really got off the ground and RIM's PlayBook has proven less than stellar in terms of customer uptake. Neither of those devices were running Android so it isn't just an Android issue, but rather a case of no one having yet come up with a compelling enough device to tempt buyers away from the iPad. Having said that Amazon's Kindle Fire has been garnering a lot of attention and might just be the little Android tablet that could ...

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Video: Untethered iOS 5 Jailbreak A Step Closer [ 09-12-2011 16:55 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: via Gizmodo Translation by: Paul Smith

So far jail breaking your iOS 5 powered iPhone has required the oh so undignified step of tethering the handset to a computer. That is hopefully about to change soon though as can be seen in the video below. Hacker pod2g demos untethered jailbreaking so you know it is possible now. Alas the solution is not yet available for public consumption, but it can't be long now right?