Year: 2010

China Mobile wants to sell the iPad

Posted by | May 12, 2010 | , |

China Mobile, China’s dominant mobile carrier, is interested in selling the iPad in China, the company’s chairman said — as reported by “Reuters” (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64B0PS20100512?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&rpc=22&sp=true)

The company was also talking to Apple about developing a next-generation iPhone that runs on TD-SCDMA, the home-grown third-generation (3G) mobile standard being used by China Mobile, Chairman Wang Jianzhou said at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday.

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Will the iPad go mass market?

Posted by | May 12, 2010 | , |

The iPad is unlikely to reach mass market anytime soon according to Simpson Carpenter (http://www.simpsoncarpenter.com/), a UK research group. All of the iPad’s perceived advantages were seen to be filling a niche or too use-case specific, such as reading eBooks, consuming content on the train, or making presentations, notes “TechCrunch” (http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/05/12/report-the-ipad-wont-go-mass-market-anytime-soon/) reporting on the group’s study.

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Apple sued over Safari on the iPhone, iPod touch

Apple sued over Safari on the iPhone, iPod touch

Posted by | May 12, 2010 | , |

Another day, another lawsuit. Apple is being sued for patent infringement by a company called Softview over the way it displays mobile content on its iPhone and iPod touch devices, reports “The Loop” (http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/12/apple-sued-over-safari-web-browser-on-iphone-ipod-touch/).

According to court documents filed in the District of Delaware, Softview alleges that Apple is infringing on its so-called ‘353 patent, issued to Gary Rohrabaugh and Scott Sherman, and owned by Softview. The patent describes the “Scalable Display of Internet Content on Mobile Devices.”

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