Archives: 2007 December

Cell phone maker again delays debut of N-Gage service under the Ovi brand due to finding “one more issue,” company says. Nokia has again pushed back the launch of its game service N-Gage due to delays in software testing, a company representative said on Thursday, in the latest…

News Corp. division to rent movies via iTunes Store, according to unconfirmed reports from Financial Times and Journal. Apple and News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox Film are set to announce a deal that will enable consumers to rent movies through Apple’s digital iTunes Store, media reports said Thursday….

Company President Ryoji Chubachi says demand for flat-panel TVs may prompt Sony to move beyond partnership with Samsung. Sony will look beyond its current flat-panel partnership with South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and may tie up with other firms, the Mainichi newspaper reported Thursday. “If you look…

Company says it will countersue Sharp in the United States and in Tokyo. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, the world’s top maker of large-size liquid crystal display panels, said on Thursday it was countersuing Japan’s Sharp for patent infringement. “We are countersuing Sharp in Delaware in the…

Judge rules that wireless chipmaker Qualcomm can keep selling some chips whose designs infringe patents held by rival Broadcom. A federal judge in California ruled on Monday that wireless chipmaker Qualcomm can keep selling some chips whose designs infringe patents held by rival Broadcom through January 2009….

The two companies had been in a dispute over patents related to bar-code scanning and mobile computing since 2002. Cell phone maker Motorola and Metrologic Instruments have settled all outstanding patent infringement disputes, the two companies said in a joint statement on Monday. Metrologic and Motorola…

The over-hyped console wars are so last year. In 2007, a bounty of actual games finally mattered more than nerdy debates over each system’s technological merits. For the first time since Pong bounced its way into our living rooms, it seems as if video games are again being relished by all sorts of folks. That […]

On Sunday, the Washington Post ran a story entitled “Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use.” The story reported that in the case of Atlantic v. Howell, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) maintains that it is illegal for someone to transfer a CD’s music to a PC.

Post reporter Marc Fisher wrote that […]

In a move to begin the New Year with a clean slate, Vonage took a major step toward settling another patent suit against it. Vonage and Nortel Networks said they have agreed to end the litigation between them.

The settlement involves cross-licensing three Nortel and three Vonage patents, and does not include any monetary payments. The […]

In the weeks leading to Christmas, an online wine retailer gave 15 percent discounts to anyone who sent in a photo of its newspaper ad snapped with a camera phone.
SnapTell Inc., the company helping Wine Enthusiast and other merchants offer such services, uses image-recognition software to determine what offer, video clip or other content to […]