USITC to investigate Apple’s complaint against HTC
A U.S. trade agency will investigate Apple’s patent-infringement claims against Taiwan’s HTC Corp. to determine if its phones using Google’s Android operating system should be banned from the U.S.
A U.S. trade agency will investigate Apple’s patent-infringement claims against Taiwan’s HTC Corp. to determine if its phones using Google’s Android operating system should be banned from the U.S.
VMIX (http://www.vmix.com), an online video platform provider, has announced plans to be the world’s first video platform to take advantage of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML version 6 video standards.
Support for HTML6 builds on the company’s adherence to HTML5 video standards, which enable the VMIX platform to deliver video to mobile devices like the iPhone, iPad and Google’s Android.
Read MoreHere are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
“It’s About Time Products” has announced mini apps — an iPad application which allows you to access and utilize multiple “mini apps” with different, customizable types of information. It will be available soon at a special launch price of $0.99.
Read MorePiper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told clients he thinks there’s a 70% chance that Apple will develop its own search engine within five years.
“We believe the company needs to develop its own search technology to protect the data generated on the iPhone,” he writes. “We believe Apple could utilize data unavailable from ,Google, data generated by the company’s App Store, to create a mobile centric search engine.”
Read MoreAccording to research firm Canalys, Apple’s iPhone OS accounted for about 15% of smartphones sold last year, running third behind phones using Nokia’s Symbian OS and Research in Motion’s OS.
Those own 47% and 21% of the market, respectively, according to “TheStreet” (http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/story/10713461/1/google-not-apple-to-rule-smart-phone-world.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA). While Apple has grown much faster than those two brands, it still lags by almost 10 million units, the article adds.
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