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May

8

2012

Apple and Samsung trim down their lawsuits

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Apple and Samsung have agreed to drop some of their current claims in the California courts. Apple has dropped half of their patent-infringement claims without prejudice, meaning they can refile those claims at a later time. Samsung even dropped five of their claims bringing their total down to just seven. No word on whether Samsung is [...]

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Apr

7

2012

Lenovo to begin Taking pre-orders in China for their New Line of Smart TVs

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  Lenovo has launched a Chinese website detailing their plans to begin taking pre-orders for their new smart TV product. Unfortunately this is only a test for China because Lenovo doesn’t have high expectations for their TVs just yet. Lenovo wants to test the market to see if the demand is there but I’m sure [...]

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Apr

6

2012

AT&T is getting close to launching the Galaxy Nexus

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Andro Rev is reporting they have a source close to the situation and AT&T will be getting a Galaxy Nexus. They also report that an unconfirmed amount of standard AT&T SIM Cards are going out for testing. These are not Like Verizon’s micro SIM’s, which helps the rumor of it being 4G LTE. They have updated their [...]

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Apr

6

2012

HTC’s 2012 Q1 Earnings Are Out and They Aren’t What HTC Wanted

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Taiwanese manufacturer HTC released their  unaudited earnings for the Q1 of 2012. HTC earned a total revenue of NT$67,790 million, which is a decrease on their year-on-year of 34.92%. January 2012 was a bad month for HTC compared to January 2011. They had a 52.55% decrease from year-on-year(YoY). Things are looking up for HTC though. Even [...]

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Mar

31

2012

A Hands on Review of SPB Shell 3D [Video]

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With a plethora of launchers in the Market Google Play Store, it’s not hard to find one that you like. I’ve tried Go Launcher, ADW Launder EX,and the most recent TSF Shell Launcher. However the one I really have come to embrace the most is SPB Shell 3D. It runs flawlessly on my Galaxy S II and [...]

Mar

29

2012

Wall Street Journal: Google Plans an Online Site For Direct Sales Of Google Branded Tablets

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It appears that Google wants to get back into the direct sales department. They reported plan is an online store for Google branded tablets. If you remember, Google tried to sell to the masses with the Nexus One. It had lackluster sales and wasn’t embraced by many. According the WSJ, “people close to the matter” [...]

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