German court tosses second Samsung suit against Apple

From CNET News.com: Samsung Electronics suffered another legal blow after a German court today rejected its lawsuit against Apple, the second such dismissal in a week.

The claim, similar to another lawsuit, alleged Apple infringed on Samsung's patents related to 3G wireless...

Hewlett-Packard to Make WebOS Open Source by September

From X-bit Labs: Hewlett Packard said this week that it had begun executing its plan to deliver an open webOS by committing to a schedule for making the platform’s source code available under an open source license. The company aims to complete this milestone in its entirety by...

Nvidia: We Expected More from AMD Radeon HD 7970

From X-bit Labs: Perhaps, the launch of the Radeon HD 7970 graphics card powered by Advanced Micro Devices’ latest Southern Islands/GCN (graphics core next) was not the most impressive one as it was a rush announcement two days ahead of Christmas. But AMD does have a next-gen GPU on...

Google stirs up privacy hornet's nest

From InfoWorld: Google has whipped up a privacy brouhaha with a blog post announcing that the company is rewriting its privacy policy, consolidating user information across its services.

What has the blogosphere and some users in an uproar is that Google isn't offering users an opt...

Amazon aiming to rival Netflix with new video streaming service

From CNET News.com: Amazon may be looking to cut into Netflix's action by launching a new video streaming service.

Citing information from industry sources, The New York Post said that the new service would expand beyond Amazon's current Instant Video by launching as a standalone...

Intel pays $120M for RealNetworks video patents, software

From CNET News.com: Intel is buying video patents and software from RealNetworks for $120 million, giving the chipmaker new muscle in a market that's increasingly important but filled with intellectual-property obstacles.

RealNetworks is selling about 190 patents, 170 patent...

Netflix Q4 2011 Revenue $19 Million Above Analyst Expectations

From DailyTech: Despite the turbulent year much of 2011 turned out to be for Netflix, the video streaming giant reported impressive fourth-quarter earnings with a nearly 50 percent revenue increase since Q4 2010.

In the three months ended December 2011, Netflix posted a revenue of...

Nintendo Aims to Release Wii U This Year Across the World

From X-bit Labs: Nintendo plans to release its next-generation Wii U game console across the world by the end of this calendar year. The company intends to make Wii U available for the year-end shopping season, but it is likely that the console will still be launched in Japan earlier...

AMD Quietly Adopting Tick-Tock Model for Micro-Architectures

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp.'s so-called "tick-tock" model of transitioning to new manufacturing processes and micro-architectures has proved to be very efficient in making Intel the maker of the highest-performance microprocessors. Apparently, its smaller rival Advanced Micro...

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