Tracking your gadgets
Perhaps the worst thing about portable devices is that they’re so easy to carry around, we can barely hang on to them. Asurion, a Kansas City company that insures portable devices, says Americans lose about 60 million cellphones every year. Our laptop computers don’t fare much better. A 2008 study by Ponemon Institute LLC, a research outfit in Traverse City, …
Verizon Gets Microsoft ‘Pink’ Phones Big Deal
Gizmodo claims it has bona fide marketing materials for at least one of the phones, a yet-unnamed vertical slider with a lumpy, round shape. Another phone, with a more traditional candy bar form, will…
Microsoft betting company’s future on cloud computing
In his first speech at the University of Washington, Steve Ballmer said Thursday that Microsoft is betting the company on cloud computing. In the strongest language yet, the Microsoft chief executive…
Apple sues HTC for patent infringement [U]
(Update with lawsuit details) Apple today sued HTC for allegedly infringing on 20 patents relating to the iPhone. The simultaneous International Trade Commission and Delaware complaint accuses Taiwan-based HTC of copying elements relating to the iPhone’s interface as well as its hardware and “underlying architecture.” The American firm doesn’t say what damages it seeks but claims HTC is thieving …