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Category: "Controversies"

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  • DataWind CEO responds to an HT article; claims that Aakash tablets are being made on Indian soil

    Hindustan Times on Saturday, 24th November published some words about Aakash tablet. According to HT, DataWind has purchased about 10,000 AllWinner A13 chipset based tablet units from four manufactures based in Shenzhen and Hong Kong between October 26 and November 7 – purportedly, these units are rebranded as Aakash 2 which was unveiled by Indian... 

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  • A consumer forum fined Samsung India Rs. 10,000 over a Rs. 5.3k ‘faulty’ handset

    A complaint registered by Mulk Raj Manchanda with regard to his 2 and a half year old Samsung handset has been resolved by Central Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum and Samsung India by providing him a compensation of Rs. 10,000. TOI reported the story addressing the handset as faulty which neither the retailer nor the company could... 

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  • AMD to layoff 10-30% of workers; according to some anonymous sources

    Just after the preliminary third quarter results that AMD has recently announced, in which the company tells a sequential decrease of approximately 10% in the Q3 revenue, reports are coming in that the company may temporarily cut off 3500 jobs. According to multiple medias like Reuters, All Things D, Cnet and Bloomberg, AMD might layoff jobs from... 

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  • Foxconn admits worker dispute at Zhengzhou plant to WSJ

    Foxconn confirms the dispute on Oct 1-2 at iPhone Zhengzhou plant. After about a week of last month labour riot at Foxconn, factory line workers and quality assurance personnel had a dispute in between. However Foxconn denies workplace stoppage or strike in the facility and took immediate measures. According to certain reports, Apple had demanded... 

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  • Ilari Nurmi, a senior Nokia executive leaves the Finnish company

    Reportedly, investors were disappointed by last month launch event of Windows Phone 8 powered new Lumia line-ups. Nokia had put itself in controversies after it released a video which was supposed to demonstrate one of Lumia 920′s camera feature known as optical image stabilization (OIS). But the fact behind the video is that the demoed recorded... 

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  • Google might not get what it seeks for: U.S. ITC dropped 3 Moto patents out of the fresh Apple case

    Recently Bloomberg reported that Google owned Motorola filed a lawsuit against Apple at U.S. International Trade Commission – yes, this time Apple is directly sued by Google. Moto claimed that Apple infringed seven of its patents that includes in features like location reminders, e-mail notification, video player.. even Apple’s Siri voice... 

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  • Jury’s verdict goes in favor of Apple; September 20th dated for injunction hearing for Apple v/s Samsung saga

    It all ends up in favor of Apple, the jury of nine made its verdict at San Jose, California courtroom. The verdict – Samsung is ought to pay damages of $1.05 billion (precise amount: 1,049,343,540 USD). Samsung phones held for infringing patents could get sales ban in U.S. in next hearing. Apple has been given time to file its requests by 29... 

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  • Apple v/s Samsung saga: Jury to begin the deliberation of the trial tomorrow

    The two giants have made their closing arguments in front of the jury of nine in a federal court in San Jones, California earlier today. Apple attorney Harold McElhinny put forth Samsung’s internal documents to jury as the evidence that Samsung had considered and examined Apple’s devices when designing software icons and creating some features.... 

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  • Apple and Samsung CEOs meeting for mediation over patent litigation

    Reuters comes out with reports that executives of Apple and Samsung are summoned by federal judge of United States of A for mediation. Scheduled at San Fransisco courthouse in front of mediator Judge Joseph Spero on 21st and 22nd May, the two companies could end up the long trailing patent dispute between them through direct negotiations. “…... 

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  • Samsung chairman has been sued again, this time by his nephew’s family

    Samsung’s chairman Lee Kun-hee has been dragged in an inheritance lawsuit filed by his nephew’s family. According to the report from Yonhap News, his nephew’s that is late Lee Jae-chan’s wife has filed a suit demanding 454,847 shares in Samsung Life Insurance Co., 100 Samsung Life stocks, 10 preferred as well as common... 

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  • ITC’s final ruling: Moto didn’t infringe Apple patents

    Back in October 2010, Apple filed a complaint at United States International Trade Commision against Motorola Mobility for infringing its patents. Apple believed that Moto’s Droid family violated its 6 patented technology that included multi-touch and other OS functionality. Earlier this year ITC made a preliminary ruling which tells Motorola... 

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  • [Update] Delhi HC warned Google and Facebook, and threatened to confront ban over the sites in India

    Editor of Akbari, a weekly Indian newspaper filed a criminal complaint against Facebook India and Google India along with 19 other companies for publishing inflammatory images of some Gods and Goddess. Recently, Google India and Facebook India filed a petition to reject the complaint saying that they do not have any control over the accused sites mentioned... 

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  • Apple won import ban on HTC devices in US, however HTC finds a solution

    Quite a bad time for Google. It’s being sued over on various of its services by BT, meanwhile another breaking news surfaces and is something the giant should worry about. Apple wins over HTC Android banning appeal at US ITC – the patent claimed infringed a small UI feature of Android which has always been in the OS since the Cupcake. The... 

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  • British Telecommunications sued Google over patent infringements by almost every products and services

    Big G is sued again, and this time it’s sued for 6 patents infringed by its Android, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, Adsense, Google Music, Google+ and Google Search – heck! BT claims that Google has infringed 6 of its patents. #6,397,040 is one such patent which is infringed by almost every Google mobile services – the technology... 

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  • Mumbai BlackBerry users can now be spied by Indian Government

    RIM finally set up a facility for government to peek into Mumbai BB users’ conversations, only if the user is under surveillance. RIM won’t pass the details unless government has a legal warrant against the user. This is indeed a good solution decided (fair enough for everybody – users, government and RIM) but government wants more... 

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  • Oracle demands 20$ a device with Android, brings woes for Google and OEM’s

    The lawsuit between Oracle and Google have just turned to a newer direction, directly to Android device manufacturers. This doesn’t really indicate any goodness for Google and its Android. Analysts say that Android’s future might be dark if Oracle wins the lawsuit it filed against Google a year ago. Soon after acquiring Sun Microsystems,... 

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  • Samsung demands to see Apple’s upcoming iPhone 5 and iPad 3

    Lawsuit of the year – Apple-Samsung controversy have just stepped to a newer and bigger motion. Roll the time back a little to around April of this year, the folks at Cupertino filed a lawsuit against Samsung for infringing several of their patents for iOS’s UI and hardware design. Finally on 18th May, U.S. District Court allowed Apple... 

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  • China’s Foxconn Chengdu plant explosion caused by iPad’s screen polishing dust, takes 2 lives

    Approximately 18 hours ago, one of the plants owned by one of the biggest Chinese manufacturer – Foxconn – met a huge accident with several injured employees. The iPad 2 production is burnt to doom and pretty much halted for now, and obviously shipments have been delayed. According to MICgadget’s sources, the explosion occurred in... 

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  • Apple sues Samsung for patented iOS UI and hardware design infringement

    This is the era of suing, every mobile device manufacturer is sued from other competitors for infringing patented technology. And this time it’s Samsung who has been sued by Apple for literally “copying” the design of iPhone and iPad. As per Apple the Galaxy S 4G carries a resemblance to the iPhone 3G and 3GS and the Galaxy Tab is... 

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  • Nokia adds more 7 patents infringements in another complaint against Apple

    Nokia’s filed the complaint with United States International Trade Commission (ITC). The Finnish company currently ruled by Canadian Elop has claimed that Apple infringes their “proprietary innovations,” patented obviously, by using those from its “i” products to computers – those are “multi-tasking operating... 

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