As the dust starts to settle on news of Google’s $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility on Monday, the question now being asked is whether the deal will pass muster with regulators and be allowed to pass.
On the one hand, Google has said it...
As the dust starts to settle on news of Google’s $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility on Monday, the question now being asked is whether the deal will pass muster with regulators and be allowed to pass.
On the one hand, Google has said it...
With news on Monday that Google Inc. had made a $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility, many posited the move was a play for patents to shore up the software giant’s Android operating system, though analysts remained decidedly divided.
“It would be a mistake to look...
With news on Monday that Google Inc. had made a $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility, many posited the move was a play for patents to shore up the software giant’s Android operating system, though analysts remained decidedly divided.
“It would be a mistake to look...
Reuters | August 10, 2011 | Hyunjoo Jin, Mayumi Negishi
LG Electronics and Sony said on Thursday that they have resolved patent disputes between the two firms spanning smartphones, TVs and Blu-ray technology, with LG adding that they have signed a cross-licensing deal.
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Smartphone sales may be set to top 420 million units in 2011, but some handset makers are poised to do far better than others when it comes to high-end devices IMS Research has revealed.
Though smartphones currently make up 28% of all handset sales, only...
The Korean Herald | July 25, 2011 | Kim Ji-hyun
Companies fail to lure customers due to lack of killer products.
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Brazilian carrier Vivo has launched its push-to-talk (PTT) service under the name "Vivo Direto." The service started on July 18 in Rio de Janeiro and one month before in Porto Alegre and Curitiba cities. Although similar to Nextel's offering, Vivo's PTT is based on...
Another day another iPad 3 rumor, and this latest one has Samsung and LG competing for main supplier of the high-res displays for Apple's next generation tablet according to Mac Rumors.
With Apple and Samsung at each other’s legal throats, however, we wonder whether LG might...
Google Inc.’s Android OS (GOOG) showed national dominance in a new report released by Reston, Va.-based Comscore (SCOR) that shows Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone overtaking Research in Motion Ltd.’s (RIMM) previous BlackBerry dominance in smartphone markets.
The report highlighted trends in the U.S. mobile phone...
Analyst firm Gartner today released their latest worldwide handset sales figures, including numbers for the first quarter of 2011 from all the big manufacturers. The headlines are that total handset sales have risen 19% year-on-year, with smartphones continuing to accelerate, seeing 85% growth since the same period in 2010.
With all the crowing from PR agencies that their clients' products are "unique", "best in class" and "world's first" it's good to get an official stamp of verification, something LG has just received from the Guinness Book of Records for its (now officially) first dual core smartphone.
Business Standard | April 11, 2011 | Priyanka Joshi
LG Mobile phones is set to expand its smartphone market as it plans to start manufacturing them from its Pune unit.
The unit, with its present production capacity of eight million handsets, mainly entry level and features...
When Apple Inc. launched the iPad the most striking thing about the device, which would go on to define the tablet market, was the price. Five hundred dollars for an awesome browsing slate was quite the bargain, especially coming from a company famed for their premium pricing.
JoongAng Daily | March 28, 2011 | Kim Hyung-eun
Latest spat in war of words over who reigns supreme in new 3-D technology
Is the war of words between Samsung Electronics and LG Display heading for the courts or will it be settled peacefully?
According to industry...
Sony Corp.'s legal team must be a busy bunch at the moment. On the one hand they're battling LG Electronics Co. Ltd. in a Blu-Ray patent dispute that has seen European Union Playstation imports impounded in Holland, and on the other hand they're fighting an increasingly vitriolic battle against renowned hacker George "GeoHot" Hotz, who is in hot water for cracking open the security on the companies popular console.
News reaches us this afternoon of a small legal storm brewing in Europe between Japanese electronics giant Sony and even-more-giant Korean rival LG, centred around Sony's apparent use of patented Blu-Ray playback technology inside the Playstation 3.
Wall Street Journal | February 21, 2011 | Jung-Ah Lee
TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (6503.TO) said Tuesday it has filed a lawsuit against South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. (066570.SE) over an alleged infringement of the Japanese company's 3G mobile communication system patent.
Mitsubishi said it...
There's been a lot of cool stuff shown off at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, over the last couple of days. At this year's event we've seen dual-core smart phones, 3D displays, and caught peeks at the newest iterations of some promising mobile operating systems.
LG | January 27, 2011 | Press Release
SAN DIEGO, January 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — LG Mobile Phones crowned the winner of the second annual LG Mobile World Cup today, naming the sister duo, Cristina Sales Ancines, age 20, and Jennifer Sales Ancines, age 15,...
PapayaMobile | January 26, 2011 | Press Release
PapayaMobile, a leading mobile social platform for Android, today announced that LG will preinstall Papaya applications into LG Android phones shipping in China beginning January 2011. This comes on the heels of Papaya recently releasing China-specific versions...
PapayaMobile | January 26, 2011 | Press Release
PapayaMobile, a leading mobile social platform for Android, today announced that LG will preinstall Papaya applications into LG Android phones shipping in China beginning January 2011. This comes on the heels of Papaya recently releasing China-specific versions...
Yesterday we reported that a leaked roadmap had shown not only Tegra 3 coming down Nvidia’s pipeline, but also a Tegra 2 3D chip, prompting speculation about what 3D devices we might have in store for us in 2011.
