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The legal back-and-forth between Nokia and Apple over patents, and who might be abusing them, continued Tuesday as Nokia lodged a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission.

In its complaint to the USITC, the Finnish company alleges that Apple infringes seven Nokia patents "in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers."

The alleged patent infringement is connected to key features in Apple products including user interface, camera, antenna, and power management technologies. Their value to Nokia, the company says, comes in allowing better user experience, lower manufacturing costs, smaller size, and longer battery life for Nokia products.

In October, Nokia filed a lawsuit against Apple in U.S. District Court in Delaware regarding 10 patents related to wireless handsets, which Nokia says Apple has refused to license. Every iPhone model since the original, introduced in 2007, infringes on those patents, Nokia has charged.

Apple filed a countersuit earlier this month, charging Nokia with infringing 13 Apple patents related to the iPhone.

"While our litigation in Delaware is about Apple's attempt to free-ride on the back of Nokia investment in wireless standards, the ITC case filed today is about Apple's practice of building its business on Nokia's proprietary innovation," Paul Melin, general manager of patent licensing at Nokia, said in a statement.

"Nokia has been the leading developer of many key technologies in small electronic devices," Melin said. "This action [Tuesday's complaint to the USITC] is about protecting the results of such pioneering development."

Apple was not immediately available to comment on Nokia's filing with the U.S. International Trade Commission. The USITC is an independent federal agency that looks at issues including unfair trade practices involving patent, trademark, and copyright infringement.

Nokia says that over the past two decades it has spent some 40 billion euros ($57.5 billion) on R&D and has amassed "one of the wireless industry's strongest and broadest IPR portfolios, with over 11,000 patent families."

In November, research firm Strategy Analytics reported that Apple had surpassed Nokia in quarterly mobile phone profits, bringing in $1.6 billion from the iPhone, compared with Nokia's $1.1 billion in cell phone profits.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10422670-37.html

Ford Motor just can't seem to get enough lately of high-tech flourishes for the dashboard.

Earlier this month, the automaker unveiled plans to integrate Wi-Fi into its Sync entertainment systems so that drivers can turn their cars into wireless Internet hot spots. On Tuesday, Ford said that starting in 2010, car buyers will be able to get a factory-installed HD Radio receiver with iTunes Tagging capabilities:

"Through the Sync system," Ford said in its press release, "iTunes Tagging will provide Ford customers with the ability to capture a song they hear on the HD Radio receiver for later purchase. With a simple push of the 'TAG' button on the radio display, the song information will be stored in the radio's memory.

"Up to 100 tags can be stored on Sync until the iPod is connected to receive the download of metadata. When the iPod is then synced to iTunes, a playlist of 'tagged' songs will appear. Customers then can preview and, if desired, purchase and download tagged songs from the iTunes Store."

Ford is proclaiming itself the first automaker to offer HD Radio with iTunes tagging as a factory-installed feature, but its announcement comes nearly a year after consumer electronics company JVC began touting its KD-HDR50, an in-car stereo system that comes with a built-in HD Radio tuner that incorporates iTunes Tagging.

For more on HD Radio and the gadgets that get it, see:

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When we talked to AT&T earlier Monday about the unavailability of iPhones for New York shoppers using the AT&T Website, a company spokesman told us that the wireless carrier “periodically modifies [its] promotions and distribution channels.” The company did some more modifying Monday, as the iPhone is once again available to New Yorkers shopping via the AT&T Website.

It’s still unclear as to why the iPhone was unavailable over the weekend via A&T’s online store. A follow-up report on Consumerist as well as comments in Macworld’s user forums indicated that as of Monday morning, AT&T was telling customers that the iPhone was unavailable for purchase online in certain zip codes due to “increased fraudulent activity.” In the original Consumerist post, AT&T service reps were telling customers that the iPhone wasn’t available in New York City because the nation’s most populous city didn’t have “enough towers to handle the phone.”

Source: http://www.itnews.com/smartphones/12368/iphone-once-again-available-att-website-new-yorkers

Computer security researchers say that the GSM phones used by the majority of the world's mobile-phone users can be listened in on with just a few thousand dollars worth of hardware and some free open-source tools.

In a presentation given Sunday at the Chaos Communication Conference in Berlin, researcher Karsten Nohl said that he had compiled 2 terabytes worth of data -- cracking tables that can be used as a kind of reverse phone-book to determine the encryption key used to secure a GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) telephone conversation or text message.

While Nohl stopped short of releasing a GSM-cracking device -- that would be illegal in many countries, including the U.S. -- he said he divulged information that has been common knowledge in academic circles and made it "practically useable."

Intercepting mobile phone calls is illegal in many countries, including the U.S., but GSM-cracking tools are already available to law enforcement. Knoll believes that criminals are probably using them too. "We have just basically copied what you can already buy in a commercial product," he said.

The flaw lies in the 20-year-old encryption algorithm used by most carriers. It's a 64-bit cipher called A5/1 and it is simply too weak, according to Nohl. Using his tables, antennas, specialized software, and $30,000 worth of computing hardware to break the cipher, someone can crack the GSM encryption in real time and listen in on calls, he said. If the attacker was willing to wait a few minutes to record and crack the call, the total cost would be just a few thousand dollars, he said.

There are about 3.5 billion GSM phones worldwide, making up about 80 percent of the mobile market, according to data from the GSM Alliance, a communications industry association representing operators and phone-makers.

Because even discussing wiretapping tools can be illegal in the U.S., researchers have steered clear of this type of work. But after consulting lawyers with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Nohl and his collaborators set upon a way of conclusively disclosing the flaws in the GSM system without --they believe -- breaking the law.

Last August they kicked off an open-source project to create the cracking tables -- something that would take a decent gaming computer about 10 years to compute -- and they have shown which open-source tools could be used to intercept messages, but they have stopped short of designing a device to intercept the messages. This is, however, something that a technically sophisticated hacker could figure out, Nohl said.

"I don't think anything we did was illegal," Knoll said. However, "using what we produced in certain circumstances would be illegal," he added.

Two years ago, hackers David Hulton and Steve Miller embarked on a very similar project, but they did not complete their work, Nohl said.

Source: http://www.itnews.com/phones/12370/hackers-show-its-easy-snoop-gsm-call

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As multiple publishers and consortiums gear up for an incoming wave of e-readers and other connected devices this year, publishers should be looking more seriously at the emerging app ecosystem for new revenue opportunities. The small branded and media applications that run on social networks like Facebook and mobile platforms will be a primary area of development among advertisers and ad agencies in the coming year.

According to a new study by Quattro Wireless, only 46% of publishers, ad clients and agencies surveyed have already developed some form of application for their brands. (Quattro Wireless, a mobile developer and ad network, performed its research among several hundred advertisers, agencies and publishers.) Of the 54% that have not entered this arena, 65% say they will in 2010. The amount of spending projected for online social media apps will remain relatively flat in the coming year, but tremendous developer energy now is focusing on mobile platforms, specifically the iPhone and BlackBerry. Among those who will be developing apps in 2010, 95% say they will publish on the iPhone, 44% on BlackBerry, 31% on Android and 15% on the Palm Pre.

While mobile is the hot category in application development, the Web social networks and the handheld platforms seem to go well together. Of those surveyed, only 11% are developing solely for mobile and only 20% developed only for social networks. Sixty-nine percent of respondents are deploying apps on both mobile and social platforms.

Increasingly, we are seeing branded apps and publisher apps migrate between Facebook and mobile app environments. The modular application environment is evolving into a device-agnostic platform where publishers and advertisers can maintain a seamless presence across Web, mobile and perhaps the upcoming e-readers. For instance, according to recent reports, Apple has put out a call to select iPhone developers for versions of current applications that will work well in higher resolution environments. Many analysts see this as a sign that Apple is about to announce its long-rumored tablet device, which many expect will run iPhone/iPod Touch applications in larger 7-inch and 10-inch touch-screen format. The next generation of e-readers will likely run on Android or iPhone-like operating systems that can accommodate downloadable programs that look, feel and behave like the add-ons in the Facebook, iPhone and Android stores.

For publishers, there are multiple ways to leverage the emerging app ecosystem. Foremost is promotion. Most agencies and brands already know that the application environments in Facebook and iTunes are hopelessly cluttered, and few of them rely on the organic distribution and merchandising systems now in place. Publishers that already attract application audiences to their content can be important promotional vehicles for branded apps. According to the Quattro survey, advertisers and agencies that have used mobile apps, for instance, prefer to use online advertising, mobile advertising (via a network buy) and direct buy mobile advertising to promote their new apps. In other words, media companies should be able to leverage both their online and mobile positions to help clients get into the app market.

The hottest product categories in the app environment now are the consumer packaged goods (CPGs) and retail, where 27.5% of advertisers/agencies say they are deploying programs. Automotive (25%), entertainment (20%) and financial (20%) are the next most popular categories in the ecosystem.

Another area for growth and opportunity for publishers is app development. Just as content providers ultimately became custom online publishers by building microsites and consulting on branded destinations, publishers could perform similar tasks in the app world. For now, the app development economy is dominated by entrepreneurs. The Quattro survey shows that 83.1% of app development is being done by independent shops that consider app development the core of their business. Another 9.6% of development is going on in agencies that also work for multiple clients. Only 2.2% works directly for a specific brand only. But 5.1% in the app field are “publisher developers” who also work for a destination site.

As media companies look to extend their own content brands onto tablets, e-readers and even Internet-connected TVs and set-top boxes, they will need to bring more of app development in-house. These new skill sets could also be leveraged with marketing clients. Earlier this year, for instance, Meredith took a strategic investment in one of the leading mobile marketing companies, The Hyperfactory. The new app ecosystem is already cluttered with small shops that could easily become acquisition targets for ad networks, ad agencies and publishers in the coming year. As publishers contemplate a new world of apps for their own content brands, they need to consider the many ways in which they can turn it into something more than just another ad opportunity for clients. Apps should become a new area for marketing services as well.

Tomorrow at minonline we will drill deeper into the study’s findings regarding publishers' own branded applications.

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NEW YORK – Apple Inc. shares hit an all-time high Thursday after a published report suggested the intensely scrutinized yet secretive company may be getting ready for a major product announcement.

Citing unnamed people familiar with the preparations, the Financial Times reported on its Web site Wednesday that Apple has rented space for several days in late January at an arts center in San Francisco.

The company is famed for its highly staged launches. CEO Steve Jobs has used past events to introduce groundbreaking — and lucrative — gadgets such as the iPod and the iPhone.

Although Apple has not acknowledged working on a tablet computer — the company is notorious for keeping upcoming product plans closely guarded — analysts expect the company's next blockbuster to be something of a cross between a laptop and an iPod Touch, which is essentially an iPhone without the calling features.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request Thursday for comment on the FT report.

In a note to investors this month, Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner said Apple could have a tablet out by late March or April based on checks with contacts in the U.S.

Brian Marshall, an analyst with Broadpoint AmTech, expects the device to launch late in the first quarter, but he said the rise in Apple shares Thursday had more to do with investor behavior at the end of the year.

He said that after cashing in from the rise in Apple shares over the past few months, "people are coming back to the well," betting the stock will head even higher in 2010.

Apple shares hit an all-time high of $209.35 at one point on Thursday, topping the previous record of $208.71, set Oct. 21. The stock was up $6.94, or 3.4 percent, to $209.04 in afternoon trading.

Apple shares have recovered from a 52-week low of $78.20 in January, helped by consistently growing profits.

Even during the worst of the recession, people continued to buy iPods, iPhones and Mac computers. In its most recent quarter, the Cupertino, Calif., company reported a 47 percent jump in net income to $1.7 billion, on revenue of $36.5 billion.

With a market capitalization of more than $182 billion, Apple is now bigger than rival computer makers Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. combined. Dell has a market cap of about $28 billion, while HP is at $124 billion.

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(CNN) -- BlackBerry customers throughout North America were without e-mail and Internet services for more than eight hours after a widespread outage that lasted until early Wednesday.

Customers began receiving e-mails again around 2:45 a.m. ET. Initial reports of outages came from BlackBerry around 6:30 p.m.

BlackBerry did not give a reason for the outage. It was the second such outage for users in less than a week.

At one point, BlackBerry estimated 100 percent of its customers in North America were affected by the outage, according to an e-mail sent to customers.

"BlackBerry subscribers may be unable to send or receive messages. Subscribers may also be unable to register their device, roam in another location, or use other services such as Internet browsing," the e-mail said.

"BlackBerry Internet Service subscribers may be unable to use the BlackBerry Internet Service web site or perform activities such as creating new accounts, integrating third-party email accounts, or viewing email attachments."

Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the devices, said it had about 32 million global BlackBerry subscribers as of the end of August.

BlackBerry phones run on multiple wireless carriers, including AT&T, Sprint Nextel and Verizon.

Source: CNN.COM

Washington, Dec 20 (ANI): Losing an Internet connection or phone service at the time of emergency could spell disaster. Thus, European researchers are trying to develop a technology that allows emergency responders to still use phone or Internet in the most chaotic situations.

They have come up with a router that allows a specially equipped command vehicle to find the best Internet access through any available wireless networks, or even satellite connections, reports Live Science.

The emergency router is capable enough to estimate the bandwidth available on a network and decide whether it should seek out another one.

It will also serve as the centre of a mobile local network for emergency responders to keep in contact with one another.

Emergency responders can boost their small local network by deploying battery-powered nodes on poles, fences or tripods.

The nodes form a wireless relay backbone that widens the local network's coverage, and allows workers to stay in communication across a larger area of any given disaster scene - whether in the rubble of destroyed buildings or in a field strewn with airplane wreckage.

The system, called DeHiGate, allows emergency workers to effectively set up their own private network in a crisis, one that can't be clogged by outside communications.

According to Vidar Karlsen, a manager at the Norwegian branch of the French electronics firm Thales, which is helping develop the system, each emergency worker would carry cell phones or other mobile equipment that allows them to talk with each other and the command vehicle, as well as transmit on-the-scene video of the disaster.

"They also have a GPS-receiver, and their position will pop up on a [digital] resource-area map in the command vehicle," Karlsen told TopTenREVIEWS.

If the command vehicle's router manages to find an Internet connection, it can also link up the command vehicle with an emergency headquarters and relay voice communications or video back to HQ. (ANI)

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New data on the top 10 mobile phones puts Apple on top due to the sheer number of iPhone owners. But both Research In Motion and LG actually control more market share because they sell multiple, popular models.

Nielsen’s data on the top 10 phones in use in the U.S. from January through October shows Apple with 4 percent market share, RIM with 6.3 percent, and LG with 6.4 percent. But the trio lead a very fragmented market. In fact, the top 10 phones account for just over 20 percent of the total devices in use.

With an estimated 271 million U.S. mobile subscribers at the end of 2008, accounting for about 88 percent of the U.S. population, even 1 percent market share is significant.

RIM BlackBerry devices and LG handsets–voluminous in offering compared with the singular iPhone also have the benefit of longer time on the market and of promotion by the carriers that don’t have the iPhone. LG is the No. 3 handset maker behind Nokia and Samsung. RIM and Apple have nowhere the number of models offered by the top three handset makers, yet they enjoy a stronger market share.

The Nielsen data shows both the opportunity and the challenge of creating the next big thing in mobile devices. Just a few years ago, Motorola’s Razr was the belle of the ball, and RIM was firmly fixed as an enterprise device. However, the convergence of voice, e-mail, and browsing, as well as new 3G networks, brought the smartphone to the forefront and helped push both RIM and Apple to the top.

All hope is not lost for currently less popular handset makers, as the market can very quickly change dramatically.

Indeed, there is a big challenge under way from Android-based phones such as the Droid that could thrust laggards such as Motorola back into the spotlight, provided that Google doesn’t stomp all over the developer community that has been building up around the new mobile operating system.

And mobile phones are not just for those on the run. Nielsen’s Convergence Audit (PDF), an annual survey on voice, video, and data products, “shows a rise in households who have ‘cut the cord’ by trading their traditional landlines for wireless cellular services and an increase in mobile media device usage among a diverse set of households.”

In the second quarter, the report said, 21 percent of households were using wireless cellular service only–compared with 18 percent a year earlier. “This increase comes from…households who have dropped their landlines as well as from young adults that started new households with just a wireless phone service,” the report said.

Odds are that these percentages will continue to climb as young mobile users reach adulthood and as adults look to their mobile devices to do more than just make calls.

source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10420114-62.html

Apple issued a firmware update today for all 27-in. iMacs that is designed to fix display problems, including flickering screens, that have been reported by hundreds of recent buyers.

“The 27-inch iMac Graphics Firmware Update applies to the graphics firmware on ATI Radeon HD 4670 and 4850 graphics cards to address issues that may cause image corruption or the display to flicker,” Apple said in the typically-terse description of the hotfix.

Display issues have plagued Apple’s 27-in. iMac desktop computers since the new machines were Oct. 20 . Users have reported cracked screens, a yellow tint in part of the display, and irritating flickers that come and go.

The problems prompted one Canadian Web developer to collate the complaints on a specially-built Web site, and may have been one of the reasons why Apple slapped a two-week shipping delay on 27-in. iMacs earlier this month.

A thread on Apple’s support forum dedicated to the flickering screen problem boasts more than 1,500 messages and has a view count of over 244,000, making it the most-read of those on the iMac forum.

Apple didn’t promise that the 638K update would solve everyone’s display issues. “If your screen remains black after applying the updater or if you continue to experience image corruption or display flickering after successfully completing this update, contact AppleCare or an Apple Authorized Service Provider,” the Apple advisory read.

In fact, just hours after the firmware update’s release, user reports were mixed. Several reported that the update had not done the trick. “I have only experienced a mild flicker or two, but I can confirm that the firmware update does not seem to have solved the problem,” said a user identified as “OSXAlex” on the support forum. “I noticed a flicker within 5 minutes of restarting after the update.”

“Applied the update about an hour ago hoping it would fix my flickers,” added “Paul_31″ earlier Monday. “Sorry to report that it hasn’t — they seem to be less than they were but not cured.”

However, others said that the flickers were now gone. “Just updated now, since then I didn’t find any flickering/tearing of screen,” countered “Ianod” this afternoon. “[But] it needs more time … can’t say anything at the moment.”

The firmware update can be downloaded from Apple’s site, or retrieved using Software Update on a 27-in. iMac equipped with one of the two ATI graphics cards.

Even after the update’s release, Apple’s online store continued to show a two-week shipping delay for all 27-in. iMacs.

Source: http://www.itnews.com/mac/12261/apple-firmware-update-aims-fix-imac-flickering

The latest version of the revolutionary Java based mobile development tool MobiForms 5.0 now offers support for Google Android smartphones. MobiForms is the first rapid application development tool in the world specifically designed for Google Android.

Up until now developing for Android required in depth professional programming skills with mandatory learning of Java, the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and the Google Android SDK (Software Development Kit). MobiForms replaces all of these tools with one simple, intuitive, drag and drop interface. No Java or XML programming is required.

MobiForms now makes it possible for novice or experienced programmers alike to quickly create mobile business application for Android Google smartphones.

MobiForms for Google Android supports JDBC database connectivity to a range industrial standard databases including Oracle and SQL Server. MobiForms also includes a free copy of the JDBC compliant HSQLDB database engine for off-line mobile database storage.

MobiForms offers all the tools in one "box" for the creation and deployment of any type of mobile application - from surveys to field service, from signature capture to bar coding.

One MobiForms application supports multiple device types including Tablet PC, Pocket PC, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Symbian and now Google Android. One MobiForms licence includes an unlimited runtime licence for any number of mobile devices.

MobiForms 5.0 with Google Android support can be downloaded from the MobiForms web site at: http://www.mobiforms.com.

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By STEFANIA MORETTI, QMI AGENCY

Globalive's Wind Mobile opened its first Canadian store in Toronto yesterday, promising cheaper prices but with limited coverage.

The company becomes the first new wireless provider in the country for more than a decade after the government last week overturned a decision by the broadcast regulator that had denied it access to the market.

Wind is aiming to take on incumbent phone providers Bell, Rogers Communications and Telus, which together control 95% of the market.

"The big three set the bar low," Globalive and Wind Mobile chairman Anthony Lacavera said at a press conference inside the company's flagship store facing the Toronto harbour.

The company opened shop at 18 locations throughout the Greater Toronto Area, most at kiosks inside Blockbuster video and game rental outlets.

The crux of Wind's pitch is that it has no contracts, no activation fees, no system-access fees, no cancellation fees and no enhanced 911-service fees.

But as the 50 or so eager customers who lined up in Toronto's Queens Quay Terminal yesterday quickly discovered, there are a couple of catches.

Customers who don't already own a GSM phone operating on AWS frequency will have to purchase one at full price.

Wind offers four devices ranging from $150 to $450 including the BlackBerry Bold 9700. The company won't be offering Apple's iPhone.

With other carriers, phones are usually thrown in for free or at a discounted rate when customers sign long-term contracts. In order to do away with contracts, Wind said it would sell hardware at cost instead.

Wind's limited coverage area is another catch, and will be well into 2010 and perhaps beyond.

The company has established networks in select Canadian cities but calls are ready to be placed in Toronto and Calgary only. Ottawa, Edmonton and Vancouver are in the works, the company said, without providing any specific dates.

One shopper drove about an hour for the chance to be one of Wind's first customers, only to find out the carrier doesn't have service in his region.

For others, Wind's limited coverage is just a temporary setback.

"That's one of the downsides of being an earlier adopter. But this is an enthusiastic company with a lot of potential," Toronto resident Austin Moore said while waiting in line to pick out a phone.

Wind's Toronto "home zone" coverage spans a distance of approximately 5,200 square kilometres -- covering just to the outskirts of the Greater Toronto Area.

The company said it's considering sharing roaming capabilities with other carriers.

stefania.moretti@canoe.ca
source: http://www.edmontonsun.com/money/2009/12/17/12184631-sun.html

iPhone users can now search the web using Microsoft‘s proprietary mobile search engine, Bing.

The Bing for iPhone app brings the best features of Microsoft's "decision" engine to the iPhone platform. A slick-looking home screen features a new image every day and provides access to maps, directions, location-based searches, image search and voice activated searches.

"Let's talk about some cool stuff you can do with the Bing App," wrote Microsoft on their Bing Blog on December 15. "Our investments in voice search (you may have played with them on Windows phones or BlackBerry already) continues in our iPhone App and works great for map locations as well as old fashioned web search," outlined the posting.

Additional features include daily facts and detailed search results for movies, news, weather and flight statuses.

Microsoft's Bing is already available on Windows Mobile, RIM's Blackberry and various other mobile platforms, in the US but the company has yet to release a dedicated Android app. The mobile search engine enters a market where Google dominates, ahead of rival mobile search engines Yahoo Mobile and Apple's Safari.

Microsoft is bumping up its mobile applications releases and is rumored to be working on both a Twitter and Facebook application for its Zune HD music player.

Microsoft's Bing application is available in Apple's App Store and can be downloaded for free.

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bing-mobile-search-application-appears-in-the-app-store-1843062.html

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Two videos have emerged of Google's first ever phone called Nexus One.

The mobile is still unofficial but reports suggest it will be launched in the New Year in a bid to take on Apple iPhone.

A technology website has released two short teaser clips of the phone in action. The first video showed the animation on the start up screen, incorporating the colours of Google's logo. The second appeared to show an animated wallpaper.

The phone, also nicknamed 'Passion', will feature Google's own Android 2.1 software and will be manufactured by Taiwan-based manufacturer HTC.

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