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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs feels that Google “violated the alliance” it had with Apple when the search giant began producing cellphones that resemble the iPhone, according to a The New York Times piece that details the bitter rivalry between the two technology giants.

Analyst Charlie Wolf with Needham & Company said Friday he believes the open source community, which has backed Google's Android mobile operating system against the iPhone, has the wrong take on Apple's patent lawsuit against rival handset maker HTC.

Ah, it must be good to be a lawyer specialized in intellectual property in the United States. One day, they will be certainly be more numerous than the computer specialists.The company Wireless Ink announced to be suing Google and Facebook. It accuses them for violating its patent concerning the access to social networks from a [...]

Worldwide smartphone shipments stormed back last quarter with 37.2 percent in growth, and Apple’s iPhone led the way with a 97.9 percent year-over-year surge in shipments. But the real coming battle in the mobile market, according to one analyst, lies between Microsoft and Google.

Many factors likely fueled Apple’s lawsuit against mobile handset manufacturer HTC. Patent suits have become a competitive weapon — one that any company dare not allow its rival to use without using it as well. Lawsuits are sometimes filed because a firm believes it’s about to be slapped with one. There’s a case to be [...]

A declaration by the Vice President of operations of Google is likely to light a fire between Google and the providers of traditional OS, Microsoft and Apple. He thinks that in 3 years time the desktop machines such as they are conceived today will be obsolete. The future would belong to smaller devices, in a [...]

Even hough HTC is directly targeted by the complaint of Apple accusing them of violating 20 of their patents, Google is also targeted via the devices that use Android and especially Nexus One manufactured by HTC. The two companies reacted to the announcement by Apple. HTC announced or rather declared to the Taiwan stock exchange that [...]

Although Google makes the Android mobile operating system, the search giant's chief competitor, Yahoo, will be the default provider on AT&T's first Android-powered handset, due to be released March 7.

Apple’s patent lawsuit against handset maker HTC is predicted by one analyst to be a major clash between the two corporations, with Apple having better than 50-50 odds to come out victorious in protecting its iPhone-related inventions.

A study reported by AdMob indicates that iPhone owners are downloading in average 8.5 application per month. This figure is now identical for Android-based mobile phone owners. The iPod Touch gives Apple the lading position with 12 application downloaded in average per month.Without much surprise, 90% of those apps are downloaded from the huge catalog [...]

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