- ITC preliminary ruling says Motorola’s Droid series doesn’t violate Apple patents
As myriad legal tussles roll on between smartphone manufacturers, Apple’s suffered a knock-back by the International Trade Commission. Apple first lodged its complaint against Moto in October 2010, accusing its Droid family of violating the patents found in its own phones. This was countered by a volley of patent violation complaints from Motorola. Granted, this is still a preliminary ruling, but looks like Motorola may have won this round of legal drudgery.
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Normally the holidays are good to video game sales. This year, though, not so much. According to NPD game sales in December were down 21 percent over the same time last year, to just $3.99 billion. Hardware sales took an even larger nosedive, plummeting 28 percent, and accessories dropped 27 points. For the full year, video game sales were down 8 percent compared with 2010, and even digital sales suffered. Downloadable content, in app purchases, subscriptions and other non-physical media gaming sales totaled between $16.3 and $16.6 billion — down 2 percent from last year. And, in case you’re interested, the best selling game of the year was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 — shocker!
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We knew CES would bring a slew of Ultrabooks, but who could have predicted 2012 would be the year of the franken-gadget? So far this week, we’ve seen Lenovo’s IdeaPad Yoga, two hybrids from Gigabyte and a pair of 13- and 5.5-inch tablet prototypes from Toshiba. And that’s saying nothing of Intel’s Nikiski prototype, and its promise of accelerometer-based gaming on Ultrabooks. With that as our backdrop, we have the Compal QAV20, a reference design sitting in Intel’s booth, alongside all the plain, months-old laptops we’ve already reviewed. From afar, it looks like a Samsung Series 7 Slate with a larger screen, but up close you’ll see it has a larger, 13.3-inch, 1366 x 768 display, along with a keyboard dock. On the inside, meanwhile, it packs a Core i5 ULV CPU — the same guts inside other Ultrabooks.
In our brief hands-on, we were stunned by how light the fiber glass device feels — certainly, it’s much less dense than the similarly sized Yoga. The dock itself is home to a various ports, including Ethernet, dual USB 2.0 sockets, HDMI and a headphone jack. And though it’s no Transformer Prime dock, it’s still light enough that you shouldn’t have problem stuffing it in your bag. No word on what, if any, OEMs will re-badge this, but no matter — we’ve gotten video and photos for you to peruse even if this thing never makes it to market. And no, we didn’t film this in the Batcave; Intel just loves it some blue mood lighting.
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