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Google announced the Acer C7 Chromebook on Monday, it retails at US $199  – even cheaper than the recent Samsung Chromebook ($249)  – with a 11.6-inch 1366x768p display, Intel processor, 320 GB  hard disk space and of course Chrome OS. Google says it lasts 3.5 hours on the battery and packs Ethernet and Wi-Fi connectivity. There are 3 USB2.0 ports, 1HDMI port and VGA out. C7 Chromebook [...]

The U.K. Court of Appeal’s has ordered Apple to dole out Samsung’s entire U.K. legal fees for embellishing its court ordered statement with additional details In July, UK Judge Colin Birss handed ordered Apple to post a notice on the homepage of its website saying Samsung did not copy the design of the iPad. When the post went up, however, it came in the form of a link to a statement which [...]

Samsung Galaxy S III has now displaced Apple iPhone 4s as the world’s most popular smartphone from the iPhone for the third quarter of 2012, according to data from Strategy Analytics. Neil Shah, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said, “Samsung’s Galaxy S3 smartphone model shipped 18.0 million units worldwide during the third quarter of 2012. The Galaxy S3 captured an impressive 11 [...]

Google has redesigned its search results.  According to Google Search blog, the removal of the left hand sidebar is an attempt “to create a consistent search experience across the wide variety of devices and screen sizes people use today.” The update is only rolled out in  U.S.  for now. Google’s redesigned search page swaps the left sidebar for a horizontal one located at the top to give [...]

SkyDrive is now available to download on Windows Phone 8, the Windows Phone 8 version  allows users to search their SkyDrive files / folders. The app includes new settings for photo upload and download size, as well as updated app icons and visuals.   Features: • Access all of your SkyDrive content including files shared with you. • View recently used documents. • Upload photos or videos [...]

EE has admitted that the launch of its 4G service in the UK has gotten off to a rocky start, in the rush to get 4G out there as quickly as possible has caused some glitches to the customers, who complained they had no service at all, leaving them unable to send or get texts, or take incoming calls. Quite a few people have been vocalising their frustrations on Twitter and Social Media,  with some people [...]

Google said on Monday that a Wisconsin, US federal court has thrown out a lawsuit brought by Apple against Motorola Mobility, now owned by Google. Apple has complained that Motorola is seeking unreasonably high license fees for the use of patents on wireless technology. Apple claimed that Motorola was seeking a license fee of 2.25 percent of the price of devices that infringe on Motorola’s patents, [...]

If you are a observant newspaper reader and subscribe to either The Guardian or The Daily Mail you may have spotted Apple small advertisement stating that Samsung did not infringe on iPad. The statement has been printed in the Guardian in 14-pt Arial font. Apple was yesterday was reprimanded ordered by a UK Court to  correct their apology to Samsung. The statement appears to be the same statement [...]

iOS 6, got it’s first update when Apple released 6.0.1 update to general public and 6.1 to developers,  in this update Apple fixes  few bugs that were plaguing iOS devices that were upgraded to iOS 6. iOS 6.0.1 fixed a few bugs  where horizontal lines were displaying across the keyboard, as well as an issue that sometimes caused the camera flash to not go off, other fixes included a bug that [...]

Apple had complied and published a notice stating that Samsung did not copy its design, as the result of a court ruling, the Court is not happy with the public statement. Appeal Court judges criticized Apple’s statement, in which it inserted four paragraphs including details of ‘similar German lawsuits’ which the court says are not correct. “I’m at a loss that a company such as Apple would [...]