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After taking some time to digest the massive 20-patent lawsuit filed against it by Apple on March 2, HTC (and partner Google) have responded. Their take? HTC says it has plenty of its own patents and isn't infringing on Apple's.
HTC filed an official response to Apple's lawsuit with the Taiwanese Stock Exchange. The company noted that it has been in business for 13 years "and so HTC is not only a mobile technology innovator, [we] also hold a large number of patents." HTC says it has developed its own Smartphone technology, and is not using Apple's patented technology. The company said it will cooperate with the U.S. legal system to defend its intellectual property. Apple is seeking to ban HTC from importing its handsets into the U.S. On the financial side of the equation, both HTC and analysts believe that the lawsuit won't impact the company in the short term, but think the long-term consequences could pose trouble. "If Apple wins the lawsuit, this may potentially affect HTC's revenues and their competitiveness in the long run," said Chia-lin Lu, an analyst at Macquarie Capital Securities. What's interesting is that Google pro-actively reached out to TechCrunch and emailed the blog a statement supporting HTC. It said, "We are not a party to this lawsuit. However, we stand behind our Android operating system and the partners who have helped us to develop it." Many of the patents named by Apple describe how users interact with touch-based devices. Based on the descriptions of the patents, they apply more to the Android operating system itself more so than any tweaks that HTC may have made. Perhaps that is why Google jumped into the fray in support of HTC. This lawsuit is Apple's first -- if tangential -- shot at Android. With the number of Smartphone companies now suing one another Nokia, Apple, RIM, HTC, etc. It's clear that a turf war is well underway. All players are in the game to win, and will take any advantage over the competition they can get.
After taking some time to digest the massive 20-patent lawsuit filed against it by Apple on March 2, HTC (and partner Google) have responded. Their take? HTC says it has plenty of its own patents and isn't infringing on Apple's.
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Intel's Wireless Display technology connects PCs and TVs
Update: Intel's Wireless Display technology has been nominated for the Best of CES Awards in the Computers and Hardware category.
LAS VEGAS--While many media consumers have connected laptops, desktops, and small form factor PCs to their large plasma and LCD monitors for years, these setups typically required either a direct video connection or the use of clunky media extender boxes, with limited functionality and file format compatibility.
Intel aims to radically change this equation with its new Wireless Display technology, also known as "WiDi."
The process involves taking a WiDi-enabled laptop with one of Intel's new Core-series CPUs, and wirelessly connecting it to an adapter box that plugs into the HDMI port of any display.
Intel describes the process as follows:
Intel Wireless Display requires a laptop PC based on select 2010 Intel Core processors, Intel HD Graphics, and Intel Centrino wireless with Intel MyWiFi Technology enabled. In addition, the laptop needs to have Intel Wireless Display preinstalled. Finally, an adapter featuring Intel Wireless Display is required to receive the signals from the PC and display them on the TV. This adapter is connected to the TV via either HDMI (preferred) or standard AV cables.
We've seen the technology in action behind closed doors, and it certainly seems promising, although our early hands-on experiences were a bit laggy, so not ideal for PC gaming, which we can see as major future selling point.
Intel expects WiDi systems from several PC makers to be available in Best Buy stores by January 17. The adapter that connects to your TV is being bundled with select system.
Update: Intel's Wireless Display technology has been nominated for the Best of CES Awards in the Computers and Hardware category.
LAS VEGAS--While many media consumers have connected laptops, desktops, and small form factor PCs to their large plasma and LCD monitors for years, these setups typically required either a direct video connection or the use of clunky media extender boxes, with limited functionality and file format compatibility.
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Ever heard of a small company called Light Blue Optics? Probably not. But it's companies like LBO that make events like CES truly worthwhile. Tucked away in a small suite overshadowed by the million dollar spreads owned by industry giants like Samsung and Sony is a tiny startup looking to attract the attention of OEMs with its full-color holographic laser projection technology.
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Microsoft plans to spend $9.5 billion on research and development this year, which a senior executive said Thursday is more than any competitor.
The figure is $3 billion more than the next closest technology company, said Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, who gave a keynote speech on Thursday at the Cebit trade show. Much of Microsoft's investments center around "cloud" services, or online computing provided to users from hosted data centers.
"Especially in light of the tough difficult macroeconomic times that we're coming out of, we chose to really lean in and double down on our innovation," Turner said.
Turner contended that Microsoft has more cloud services than any other company, ranging from its consumer e-mail service to hosted enterprise products such as its Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management) system to its Azure cloud operating system.
"We're going to change and reinvent our company around leading in the cloud," Turner said.
However, Turner said Microsoft will still have a significant on-premise software business. Microsoft has come under increasing pressure from companies such as Google that sell office productivity suites that are entirely online rather than installed on PCs. Microsoft has argued that there will always be a need for client software, which can deliver more features.
Turner defended the company's forthcoming Windows Phone 7 Series operating system, which will be available on phones later this year. Microsoft faces heavy competition from vendors such as Apple, Nokia and other manufacturers using Google's Android operating system.
Turner said the mobile OS is a complete overhaul from previous ones and is tightly integrated with other Microsoft products such as its X-box gaming and Zune music products. Windows Phone 7 Series is "not a 'me too' product," Turner said.
Microsoft plans to spend $9.5 billion on research and development this year, which a senior executive said Thursday is more than any competitor.
The figure is $3 billion more than the next closest technology company, said Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, who gave a keynote speech on Thursday at the Cebit trade show. Much of Microsoft's investments center around "cloud" services, or online computing provided to users from hosted data centers.
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The device will be developed and built by the Intel Corporation and the SGI, and will be installed at NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at the Ames Research Center.
It is expected to become operational by 2009, when it will have a computational power of one petaflops. Then, until 2012, the new supercomputer will receive upgrades that are supposed to bring it to a computational power of 10 petaflops. By comparison, NASA's fastest computer, Columbia, operates at only 88.88 teraflops.
One "FLOPS", or Floating Points Operation Per Second, represents the measure of a computer's power and is similar to the Operations Per Second measurement used to estimate the power of personal computers. The "Floating Point" term refers to the most common format of numbers used in scientific calculations. Basically, the term Flops defines the speed at which a computer performs simple arithmetic calculations - such as adding or dividing.
The 'peta' term stands for one quadrillion, while 'tera' means one trillion. To put it simply, a one petaflops supercomputer can perform 1,000 trillion basic calculations per second. NASA will use its new supercomputer to model and simulate various events such as the landing on celestial bodies other than the Earth, or to design hypersonic aircrafts and spacesuits.
According to the TOP 500 list of world's most powerful computers, the supreme title is currently held by the BlueGene/L system, developed by IBM and the US National Nuclear Security Administration, that operates at 478.2 teraflops per second.
"Achieving such a monumental increase in performance will help fulfill NASA's increasing need for additional computing capacity and will enable us to provide the computational performance and capacity needed for future missions," said Ames Research Center director Pete Worden. "This additional computer performance is necessary to help us achieve breakthrough scientific discoveries," he added.
"Intel, working with SGI, is proud to play an important role in helping NASA expand the pursuit of scientific discovery. Systems such as Pleiades challenge the imagination, and guide our exploration of Earth, space, and beyond. As we approach performance that was once thought impossible to achieve, our eyes are opened even wider to the vast possibilities enable by supercomputing," says Diane M. Bryant, vice president of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group.
The device will be developed and built by the Intel Corporation and the SGI, and will be installed at NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at the Ames Research Center.
It is expected to become operational by 2009, when it will have a computational power of one petaflops. Then, until 2012, the new supercomputer will receive upgrades that are supposed to bring it to a computational power of 10 petaflops. By comparison, NASA's fastest computer, Columbia, operates at only 88.88 teraflops.
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