Apple accused of faking Galaxy Tab picture

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tabsApple used a doctored image of a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to make it look more like the iPad 2, in the court hearing which saw the rival tablet banned, reports have claimed.

Dutch website Webwereld.nl took a closer look at Apple’s legal filing to the German court that barred the device from sale across Europe.

The site found a picture of the two devices next to each other and, in comparison, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 appears to have been doctored to make the aspect ratio appear more like the Apple iPad.

The Galaxy Tab, like most Android tablets, has a widescreen aspect ratio of 1.43, whereas the iPad 2 has a squarer aspect ratio of 1.3.

In the court fling, the Galaxy Tab’s has been altered to give it an aspect ratio of 1.36 making it look much more like the iPad than it actually does.

The Webwereld site claims: ‘Apple and its lawyers have, perhaps inadvertently, misled the judge of a Düsseldorf court by filing flawed evidence of the similarity between the iPad 2 and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets based on an inaccurate picture.’

Apple made no mention of the respective aspect ratios of the devices during the hearing, which saw the Tab pulled from UK shelves following a strong opening week of sales.

Apple successfully convinced the German court of its claim that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 ‘blatantly copied’ the iPad’s form factor, UI and even the packaging.

Samsung, which was blindsided by the impromptu court hearing at which it did not have representation, is currently in the process of appealing the ban.

The company has a hearing on August 26th at which it will attempt to get the Tab back on to shelves across Europe.

Google Acquires Motorola Mobility

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Google aquires motorolaGoogle Inc. and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.  today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion, a premium of 63% to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday, August 12, 2011. The transaction was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies.

The acquisition of Motorola Mobility, a dedicated Android partner, will enable Google to supercharge the Android ecosystem and will enhance competition in mobile computing. Motorola Mobility will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. Google will run Motorola Mobility as a separate business.

Larry Page, CEO of Google, said, “Motorola Mobility’s total commitment to Android has created a natural fit for our two companies. Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers. I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers.”

Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility, said, “This transaction offers significant value for Motorola Mobility’s stockholders and provides compelling new opportunities for our employees, customers, and partners around the world. We have shared a productive partnership with Google to advance the Android platform, and now through this combination we will be able to do even more to innovate and deliver outstanding mobility solutions across our mobile devices and home businesses.”

So not only are Google getting 1000 patents from IBM, they are getting 17500 with this deal frm Motorola, not to mention another 7500 pending patents! Its a sad sad day for patent trolls(read Apple).

Another thing is Motorola has more patents than Nokia and Nortel put together. Microsoft, Apple, Sony and Ericsson out bid Google for the Nortel patents, now Google has passed them all. They should be sitting on over 26000 patents by the end of this year.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 730 and 750 launched in India

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galaxy tabSamsung India launched the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 (10.1 inch) and Galaxy Tab 730 (8.9 inch).

Both, the devices carry the same hardware profile. The only difference we could figure out is the display screen. Otherwise, both are similar to the extent possible. The Galaxy Tab 750 and 730 powered with 1GB RAM and 1 Ghz Dual Core processor. The device sports a rear camera with 3 Megapixel resolution and the front panel carries a 2 Megapixel camera.

Samsung in association with Vodafone offers a better data plan for the Galaxy tab owners. Customers can get 2 GB of data per month for a period of six months by paying Rs.3000. Galaxy Tab 750 will be available by the end of August, while Galaxy 730 will be made available from September. Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 is priced at Rs 36,200 and the Galaxy Tab 730 at Rs 33,990.

RCOM unveils Reliance 3G Tab

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Reliance Communications, well known as RCOM announced the launch of operator branded Android powered slate Reliance 3G Tab. This tablet runs on latest version of mobile Android OS v2.3 Gingerbread. Interestingly and amazingly, the tablet is priced at a much affordable price Rs.12999

Announcing the device in Mumbai, Mr. Mahesh Prasad, President, RCom says, “We believe the unmet demand of a fully-loaded tablet at an aggressive price point will now fuel the aspirations of the evolved customers.”

Reliance 3G Tab designed with a 7-inch display screen with Capacitive touch inputs. The device appears to be like the classic version of Samsung Galaxy Tab. However, the stuff inside well differentiates the product. Reliance 3G Tab powered with 512 RAM and micro SD slot for an external storage with a threshold of 32 GB. This tablet weighs 389 grams and pretty lesser in mass when compared to the other tablets existing in the market. The tablet sports two cameras, one with a 2.0 megapixels appearing on the rear view and the other VGA camera in the front.

Reliance 3G Tab will be available in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata at Reliance World and Reliance Mobile stores. Soon, the company is planning to launch in the 13 circles where Reliance operates the 3G services.

Reliance offers some free goodies with the purchase of the device. This includes a 4GB Micro SD card with the sales pack and exclusive bundled data service plans and discounts up to 50 percent.

Google+ to beat Twitter, LinkedIn

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google plusGoogle+ Inc’s new social-networking service may grow to claim 22 per cent of online US adults in a year, passing Twitter and LinkedIn to be the second- most-used social site after Facebook Inc, a survey found.

Google+ has signed up 13 per cent of US adults and will add 9 percent over the next year, according to the survey from Bloomberg/YouGov. In the same period, Facebook will lose about 2 percentage points of US adults to keep 69 per cent of that population, while Twitter and LinkedIn continue to grow their portion of users.

Started in late June, Google+ is growing faster than Facebook and MySpace Inc. did in their early days. The service, which lets people connect with and manage groups of friends on a website, gained about 25 million users worldwide in less than a month, estimates market researcher ComScore Inc Facebook has more than 750 million active users.

“Google+ is tracing a path similar to Facebook’s initial growth — building excitement in a core group of early adopters,” said Michael Nardis, head of YouGov investment products, in a statement about the survey.

Katie Watson, a spokeswoman for Mountain View, California- based Google, declined to comment. Jonathan Thaw, a spokesman for Facebook, and Matt Graves, a spokesman for Twitter, also declined to comment.

India remained most popular source of spam in June

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spamIndia remained the most popular source of spam or junk mail in June while Brazil returned to second place with an increase of 4.4% compared to May, a new study has said.

According to Kaspersky Lab’s spam report for June 2011, the most noteworthy changes saw South Korea fall from second to fourth in the rating that tracks where spam originates, while Russia dropped two places to seventh.

The volume of spam in mail traffic increased slightly compared to May and averaged 83.3 per cent.

The most popular topics were Osama bin Laden’s death, the last Harry Potter movie the anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death, the report said.

Meanwhile, Japan was the latest world power to combat the distribution of unwanted emails at the legislative level.

As of June, the creation, distribution, purchase and storage of malicious programs as well as the distribution of pornographic spam is a criminal offence in the country.

The amount of phishing emails remained unchanged and accounted for 0.02 per cent of all mail traffic.

However, there was a considerable increase in the amount of phishing attacks on social networks Habbo and Facebook, increasing by 6.25 and 4.07 percentage points respectively, pushing the sites up to third and fourth places in the list of organisations attacked most.