Sunday, June 13, 2010

Patents: RIM and Motorola once again become friends

In January, the U.S. manufacturer Motorola announced it had filed a complaint against Canadian RIM with the American committee in charge of regulating international trade. Motorola had considered that Research In Motion had violated several of its patents in its BlackBerry smartphones.

Motorola claims of intellectual property rights on multiple connectivity technologies compatible with 2G, 3G, 4G, but also WiFi 802.11 and synchronization of emails. The two parties finally signed an agreement and announce that some patents will now be transferred from one society to another. In addition, Research In Motion will have to pay licensing fees to Motorola. The amount of this transaction, however, kept confidential.

This is not the first history of the genre. Last month Nokia had filed a complaint against Apple, accusing the firm of Steve Jobs to have violated five patents related to data transmission technologies. Apple in turn has assigned Justice HTC employment of multi-point in its terminals.

Samsung EX1: ownership of a compact expert

In a few years, Samsung has built a prominent place in the middle of the photo. How the Korean he managed to break away from its image of "goods"? By innovating, in a highly competitive environment where big names in photo beat the long rate, as in the field of digital photography. The EX1 is one example of work done by Samsung. Getting Started as a compact by the other, a direct competitor of the Canon PowerShot G11 and Panasonic Lumix LX3!


Above all, keep in mind that this article is based on a model of pre-production EX1 Samsung, resulted in 80% according to the manufacturer. That's why it's happening is that a grip, not an extended test, the behavior of the compact is not completely optimized. It can be expected by the final changes to the image processing on the software in general and responsiveness. Many unknowns you say ... Yes, but the camera body will not change: we can already get a good idea of what will be the Samsung EX1. Especially since its output is close (approximately mid-June) which leaves little time for major revisions. Note that the testers in their final version will not available until late July .

More than half of smartphones with Flash in 2012

So that Adobe sees its Flash Player installed on more than 95% of computers, the publisher has great ambitions on the smartphone market. Of course, we remember discord with Apple prefers the HTML5 but the Flash version 10.1 is still making its appearance on the Android system.

In one of his dispatches Reuters reported remarks Anup Murarka, director of technology strategy, which Adobe says: "maybe we will not have the iPhone or iPad. Nevertheless, we observe a steady growth in facilities and the use of Flash and we believe it will continue like that. "

Specifically, Adobe believes that by 2012 the plugin will be installed on 250 million smartphones. If you believe the predictions of experts who expect more than 300 million smartphones sold in two years, it boils down to a rate of installation of Flash Player from about 53%. Mr. Murarka says: "You just do not see Flash on Android but also on devices from Palm, the BlackBerry from Research in Motion or those that run Symbian Nokia Phone or Windows 7 from Microsoft.

The iPhone Will it then acts as an exception? Nevertheless, the Adobe seems determined to repeat the success it has on the computer market.