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Korean Lawsuit Seeks $25 Million From Apple For Location Tracking
Kim Hyung-Suk has been busy these past few months. An attorney based out of Seoul, he gained a bit of notoriety for being the first person to receive a cash settlement from Apple for the iPhone’s location-tracking tendencies. He also announced that he and his law firm, Mirae Law, would be looking into the possibility of filing a class-action suit against Apple. According to a report from Bloomberg , with 27,000 Korean complainants on board, that suit was filed today. Credit where credit is due, Kim Hyung-Suk ...
Kim Hyung-Suk has been busy these past few months. An attorney based out of Seoul, he gained a bit of notoriety for being the first person to receive a cash settlement from Apple for the iPhone’s location-tracking tendencies. He also announced that he and his law firm, Mirae Law, would be looking into the possibility of filing a class-action suit against Apple. According to a report from Bloomberg , with 27,000 Korean complainants on board, that suit was filed today. Credit where credit is due, Kim Hyung-Suk ...
HTC files trademarks for Enamor and Rhyme, keeps on hustlin’
We've seen a few leaks from HTC lately, and now we've got the scoop on two more. And get this: one is being developed just for aspiring hip-hop moguls! Okay, not really... but a couple of new names were filed with the USPTO last week, as it keeps spittin' game in the mobile marketplace. Four total trademark applications were filed for the HTC Enamor and HTC Rhyme -- covering smartphones and tablets along with their ...
We've seen a few leaks from HTC lately, and now we've got the scoop on two more. And get this: one is being developed just for aspiring hip-hop moguls! Okay, not really... but a couple of new names were filed with the USPTO last week, as it keeps spittin' game in the mobile marketplace. Four total trademark applications were filed for the HTC Enamor and HTC Rhyme -- covering smartphones and tablets along with their ...
Sony slashes PlayStation 3 prices
To all you folks who haven’t purchased a gaming console yet we’ve got some good news for you. Sony has just announced that it has slashed the price of its latest home video game console: the PlayStation 3. Starting today, you can purchase the 160GB PS3 for only $249, while the 320GB model will only cost you $299. If that’s not good enough for you, Sony will also be selling limited edition inFAMOUS 2 ...
To all you folks who haven’t purchased a gaming console yet we’ve got some good news for you. Sony has just announced that it has slashed the price of its latest home video game console: the PlayStation 3. Starting today, you can purchase the 160GB PS3 for only $249, while the 320GB model will only cost you $299. If that’s not good enough for you, Sony will also be selling limited edition inFAMOUS 2 ...
Nokia’s N9 coming to Kazakhstan on September 9th, gets its own billboard
Well, the list of places that won't be seeing Nokia's N9 seems to be growing larger everyday. And, while it won't bring comfort to the poor souls in the US, UK or Germany, we can confirm that the fine citizens of Kazakhstan should be getting a heaping helping of MeeGo come September. A tipster sent us flyer from Texhodom advertising the Swedish company's foray into Linux-powered smartphones as landing on September 9th ...
Well, the list of places that won't be seeing Nokia's N9 seems to be growing larger everyday. And, while it won't bring comfort to the poor souls in the US, UK or Germany, we can confirm that the fine citizens of Kazakhstan should be getting a heaping helping of MeeGo come September. A tipster sent us flyer from Texhodom advertising the Swedish company's foray into Linux-powered smartphones as landing on September 9th ...
Google / Motorola Deal Doesn’t Guarantee a “Nexus Droid”
One of the burning questions we all have after hearing this morning’s news of Google’s $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility is: what does this mean for the next Nexus device ? Will Google leverage its acquisition to build Android phones that look and function exactly how Google wants them to, a move that would postion the company to compete more directly with Apple? Or will it continue to anoint one handset maker as the temporary “king” of Android devices through the same process it uses now? According to ...
One of the burning questions we all have after hearing this morning’s news of Google’s $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility is: what does this mean for the next Nexus device ? Will Google leverage its acquisition to build Android phones that look and function exactly how Google wants them to, a move that would postion the company to compete more directly with Apple? Or will it continue to anoint one handset maker as the temporary “king” of Android devices through the same process it uses now? According to ...
MeeGo shown off on video
Well since the Nokia N9 won’t be making its way over to certain parts of the world, including the US, not everybody will have the luxury of getting to play around with the MeeGo smartphone; save the handful of people who are willing to get the phone flown in from another country. Well, for those of us who aren’t willing to go through so much trouble – there’s always YouTube. ...
Well since the Nokia N9 won’t be making its way over to certain parts of the world, including the US, not everybody will have the luxury of getting to play around with the MeeGo smartphone; save the handful of people who are willing to get the phone flown in from another country. Well, for those of us who aren’t willing to go through so much trouble – there’s always YouTube. ...
Switched On: TabCo’s tease
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology
Tomorrow, we will find out whether TabCo is a FabCo, a DrabCo, or a skunkworks LabCo, ending the best guessing game to hit the tech industry since the identity of Fake Steve Jobs.
The significant spend on the PR campaign (to quote TabCo's Web site, "That skywriting stuff isn't cheap, you know. Neither are these videos.") as well as ...
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology
Tomorrow, we will find out whether TabCo is a FabCo, a DrabCo, or a skunkworks LabCo, ending the best guessing game to hit the tech industry since the identity of Fake Steve Jobs.
The significant spend on the PR campaign (to quote TabCo's Web site, "That skywriting stuff isn't cheap, you know. Neither are these videos.") as well as ...
Mozilla Firefox to automatically block unwanted add-ons
Don’t you hate it when you install a program, and it unknowingly installs a browser add-on in your browser for you even though you didn’t select the option to? (Skype, I’m looking at you). Well if you’re a Firefox user, we’ve got some great news. Mozilla has announced that Firefox add-ons won’t simply end their way onto your browser without your approval.
Each time the browser starts up, if it detects a new add-on that’s been installed by a program, ...
Don’t you hate it when you install a program, and it unknowingly installs a browser add-on in your browser for you even though you didn’t select the option to? (Skype, I’m looking at you). Well if you’re a Firefox user, we’ve got some great news. Mozilla has announced that Firefox add-ons won’t simply end their way onto your browser without your approval.
Each time the browser starts up, if it detects a new add-on that’s been installed by a program, ... 
