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It’s payback time. UK judge who ruled against Apple and made the company to issue multiple statements stating that Samsung did not copy the design of the iPad has been hired on by Samsung to act as an expert in an ITC investigation according to FOSS Patents. According to Foss Patents, Samsung submitted a list of names of expert witnesses whom the company wishes to file Protective Order Subscriptions [...]

Amazon on Wednesday announced that its native Cloud Player app has  been updated and optimized for the iPad. Users can also download or stream their library from the cloud, or play the music they already have on their device. Like the iPhone variant which was released few months ago, Cloud Player lets Amazon Cloud Player subscribers store up to 250 songs for free on the cloud, with support for 250,000 [...]

Microsoft launched its consumer focused version of Office 2013, known as Office 365 Home Premium in last week of January and today almost after a month it came out with the business versions of its Office 365 software. There are three different variants to choose from, Office 365 Small Business Premium, Office 365 Midsize Business, and Office 365 ProPlus, organizations have multiple options for obtaining [...]

Apple has filed a motion in support of gay marriage to the US Supreme Court  according to a report by Bloomberg. The specific group will argue that Proposition 8, a California law banning gay marriage, should be overturned. With this Apple joins the rank of other global companies such as including Intel, Facebook, EBay, Oracle Corp.,  Panasonic, Qualcomm,  Xerox Corp. and Zynga who are  in favour [...]

Samsung introduced “Samsung Wallet” mobile app solution during a developer conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Wednesday. Samsung’s Wallet app is not different than Apple’s Passbook, Wallet lets users store things such as event tickets, boarding passes, membership cards, and coupons in one central location. Wallet also offers time and location-based push notifications [...]

Reports that Google has been looking for real estate for physical stores may not be true after all.  While speaking at the Mobile World Congress Google Android chief Andy Rubin  says that the company “Google has no plans, and we have nothing to announce,” when asked about the retail stores. At the same roundtable discussion Jamie Rosenberg, vice president of Google Play told The Verge that [...]

Adobe Photoshop Touch which was previously available only for tablets has finally made it’s way to the iPhone and Android powered  smartphones. It isn’t a universal app, if you’ve purchased it already for iPad, you’ll have to purchase it again for iPhone. “Much like the tablet version, Photoshop Touch on the phone has core Photoshop features like layers, advanced selections tools, [...]

Twitter will be joining the Firefox OS party. Mozilla announced at Mobile World Congress this week that its new operating system Firefox OS will make its way to a number of mobile operators around the world and it will have a bunch of apps including Twitter. Twitter revealed more information in a Blog post “Similar to our other mobile apps, Twitter for Firefox OS has a rich interface, featuring [...]

Internet Explorer 10 has been available for Windows 8 since the OS released in October 2012, Microsoft today has made the browser available for Windows 7, it will now be available in 95 languages for users around the world. ‘With IE10 we continue delivering the best performance for real world Web sites on your Windows device. As with Windows 8, IE10 on Windows 7 improves performance across the [...]

Google has announced application sign-in and some other  related enhancements for Google+. It is similar to logging on to websites with your Facebook and Twitter IDs. Google seems to have arrived late to the game. Currently there are only 10 developers committed to using Google+ sign-ins. They include Guardian, Shazam, Fitbit and Fancy and USA Today. “If you sign in to Gmail, YouTube or any [...]