Last week Judge Alsup told Oracle that their $6.1B claim against Google was a joke and that they needed to come up with a more reasonable methodology. Today news has surfaced on how they came up with that number, Oracle assumes that Google makes $10…
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Google vs Oracle: Trial on Hold As Judge Rules $6.1B in Damages is a Joke
While the tech world was busy ogling the latest gadgets at CES 2012 there have been developments in the Oracle – Google lawsuit over Android. Last Thursday a ruling was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California stating that there…
Intel Medfield Tablet Caught in the Wild [Photos]
Intel released an image of their upcoming Medfield smartphone in a hands on with MIT & now a random tipster from Android Community has gone and shot the Medfield tablet in the wild. We have to admit that this reference design looks good, the unique…
Android Battery Life: 5 Tips on Getting the Most Out of Your Phone
I recently returned home for Christmas to complaints from my mother that her Android handset, the Galaxy S, wouldn’t even last the day. Now she’s far from being a tech savy woman so i knew that heavy surfing wasn’t the cause of her battery woes. …
Intel Shows off Medfield Smartphone & Tablet Reference Design
There were more then a few nay sayers claiming that Intel would never release a smartphone and that Medfield would never see the light of day. Last week, MIT’s Technology Review got to go hands on with a brand new prototype smartphone running Intel’s latest…
First Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet Caught on Video, in China
The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime… was officially released today in Taiwan with Honeycomb, but its positioned as the first Ice Cream Sandwich tablet on the market. It looks like this Taiwanese company has been beaten to the punch as one manufacturer in China already
Samsung Exynos Dual Core CPU has 2GHz, 2560 x 1600 Graphics
The first Tegra 3 tablet is about to hit the street and Samsung has just come up with a small reminder that they are a strong competitor in the Android tablet space. The next generation Exynos 5250 chipset comes complete with a 2 gigahertz, dual-core…
Ivy Bridge Leaked Performance Numbers – Faster Than Sandy Bridge?
Moving faster then Moorse Law has been Intel’s moto for a while and we’re eagerly awaiting the successor to Sandybridge, Ivybridge. Chinese website Coolaler has gotten their mits on an engineering sample of Intel’s 22nm-based Ivy Bridge platform. They’ve scored a desktop quad-core chip, and…
How to Sideload Almost Any App on Your B&N Nook Tablet
We all knew that the Barnes & Noble Nook was going to get hacked, we thought a day on the market was just the right amount of time for someone (surprise surprise XDA Forums) to get things working. Go figure it’s actually not too difficult…
How Snapdragon S4 Differs From Tegra 3 [Update]
With Nvidia’s Kal-El or Tegra 3 being released along side Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 the question is how are they different?
The new Snapdragon processors will have a dedicated voltage plane and clock frequency for each core which is called Asynchronous Symmetrical Multi-Processing (aSMP). As the…
Optimus U1 LG’s 1st Android 4.0 Smartphone for Korea Only?
Rumor has it that LG is getting ready to release its first Android 4.0 device. So far all we’ve got is this image and no specifications, but we can see from the photo there is an eight-megapixel camera with a flash. It does look like…
Alive Core ECG Sends Results to Your iPhone
The wonders of mHealth never cease to amaze! When visiting the Qualcomm campus in San Jose we stopped by the mHealth division to check in with their latest developments. What we found was another evolution in the field of biometrics that allows users to keep…
Opera: Tell me Your OS, I’ll Tell You How You Surf
Opera may not be the biggest or most popular browser on the block but it does have an well established user base and some keen insight into how different operating system inspire different usage scenarios. They’ve released the “State of the Mobile Web” which analyses …
How Many Praying Mantis Does it Take to Power a Smartphone?
In a very clever attempt to demonstrate just how low power their new processors are, Qualcomm has come out with a Bug Circus video that actually calculates energy usage in terms of PMU: “Praying Mantis Units.”
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors take up less energy and therefore…
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich SDK Available
Google has finally outed Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest iteration of its mobile operating system. Its got a bunch of new features that we’ve outlined in a full article which you can read here. The easy overview is an improved notifications system, lock…
