Apple has removed the iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 4 and all 3G-capable iPads from its online store in Germany.
Florian Mueller, writing on the Foss Patents blog, reports that an injuction against Apple granted to Motorola in December is the most likely cause of the removal of the products.
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"At this stage I am absolutely convinced that the removal of those products from Apple's online store is a result of Motorola Mobility's enforcement of a ruling that was handed down in early December, and not related to today's ruling," Mueller said.
"It must be nothing more than a coincidence that Apple's announcement of the removal of products -- which some observers believe already happened last night, prior to the ruling -- comes on the day of a different court decision."
Today's court decision referred to by Mueller also went in Motorola's favour and a Manneheim court granted the company a permanent injunction against the push email service of Apple's iCloud and any devices that can access it.
But the removal of the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and 3G-capable iPads from the German Apple Store is more likely to do with Motorola's victory in the December case and a dispute over patents relating to the GPRS radio communication standard.
However, the iPhone 4S, which uses a Qualcomm baseband chip unlike the other devices which use chips made by Infineon and Intel, doesn't fall foul of the previous injunction.
Germans can still buy the products from Apple Stores and third-party retailers in the country, according to Mueller.
UPDATE 1600GMT: Apple says it will reinstate the products on the German Apple Store website after a court this afternoon lifted the injunction, reports the BBC.
"All iPad and iPhone models will be back on sale through Apple's online store in Germany shortly. Apple appealed this ruling because Motorola repeatedly refuses to license this patent to Apple on reasonable terms, despite having declared it an industry standard patent seven years ago," the company said in a statement.
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Today’s Top Stories: Sprint’s iPhone Sales, Amazon’s Deal With Viacom
Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories.
Amazon and Viacom to Sign Video Deal This Week
Amazon and Viacom are poised to sign a video deal as soon as this week, Reuters reports. If true, this might be another step toward Amazon’s launch of Prime Instant Video as a full-fledged Netflix competitor.
Sprint Reports Strong iPhone Sales
Sprint’s Q4 2011 earnings report is out, and strong iPhone sales are among the highlights. The company reported total net subscriber additions of 1.6 million during the quarter and 1.8 million iPhone sales, 40% of which were to new customers.
Path Uploads Your iPhone Address Book to Its Servers
Social Network Path uploads the entire address book of its users’ iPhone to its servers, Arun Thampi discovered. Path CEO Dave Morin has responded, admitting that Path indeed does this, but only in order to “help the user find and connect to their friends and family on Path quickly and efficiently as well as to notify them when friends and family join Path.”
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Amazon and Viacom to Sign Video Deal This Week
Amazon and Viacom are poised to sign a video deal as soon as this week, Reuters reports. If true, this might be another step toward Amazon’s launch of Prime Instant Video as a full-fledged Netflix competitor.
Sprint Reports Strong iPhone Sales
Sprint’s Q4 2011 earnings report is out, and strong iPhone sales are among the highlights. The company reported total net subscriber additions of 1.6 million during the quarter and 1.8 million iPhone sales, 40% of which were to new customers.
Path Uploads Your iPhone Address Book to Its Servers
Social Network Path uploads the entire address book of its users’ iPhone to its servers, Arun Thampi discovered. Path CEO Dave Morin has responded, admitting that Path indeed does this, but only in order to “help the user find and connect to their friends and family on Path quickly and efficiently as well as to notify them when friends and family join Path.”
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Best iPhone apps: Five free apps for Valentine's Day
Next Tuesday is Valentine's Day and if you feel like declaring your love for your sweetheart, there are plenty of ways your smartphone can help in your quest to shower your beloved with affection. But rather than a text or a phonecall, why not check out the hundreds of Valentine's Day related apps that let you do everything from send personalised greetings cards to find a partner online with your Apple iPhone. Here's our five favourite iPhone apps for Valentine's Day.
Touchnote Postcards
With this app you can print photos from your Facebook or those stored on your Apple iPhone into unique postcards and greetings cards, that you can add text to and then have delivered right to your beloved's door.
ChuChuTune
If music is the food of love, then it's well worth checking out how compatible you and your sweetheart are based on your musical tastes. To do this, simply download this free app on yours and your other half's iPhone, then press Play and face the screens of the handsets together. The app will then play a random playlist from the tracks stored on your phone and work out if you're compatible.
Of course, if you don't have a partner to shower with gifts and affection this Valentine's Day, why not employ the help of an internet dating service to find one. Unlike of services, such as match.com, PlentyofFish allows you to send emails to potential suitors for free.
Happy Talking Cupid
Not only does this cute cupid repeat anything you say to him, you can also tickle him and even have your photo taken with him, which you can customise with a Valentine's message and share with friends and family.
Romantic Ideas 500
If you're stuck for something romantic to do on Valentines Day, this free app offers hundreds of ideas that are sure to get your in your partner's good books.
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Touchnote Postcards
With this app you can print photos from your Facebook or those stored on your Apple iPhone into unique postcards and greetings cards, that you can add text to and then have delivered right to your beloved's door.
ChuChuTune
If music is the food of love, then it's well worth checking out how compatible you and your sweetheart are based on your musical tastes. To do this, simply download this free app on yours and your other half's iPhone, then press Play and face the screens of the handsets together. The app will then play a random playlist from the tracks stored on your phone and work out if you're compatible.
Of course, if you don't have a partner to shower with gifts and affection this Valentine's Day, why not employ the help of an internet dating service to find one. Unlike of services, such as match.com, PlentyofFish allows you to send emails to potential suitors for free.
Happy Talking Cupid
Not only does this cute cupid repeat anything you say to him, you can also tickle him and even have your photo taken with him, which you can customise with a Valentine's message and share with friends and family.
Romantic Ideas 500
If you're stuck for something romantic to do on Valentines Day, this free app offers hundreds of ideas that are sure to get your in your partner's good books.
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http://noname-ro.com/wiki/index.php/Eliminate_Trojan_Horse_Virus_By_Simply_Following_Easy_Tips
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iPhone 'hero' the big seller, but Android is closing in
An outbreak of iPhone fever made Apple the hottest smartphone maker worldwide at the end of 2011 but handsets powered by Google's Android software were shaping up as true winners in the market.
Worldwide shipments of smartphones soared 54.7 per cent in the final three months of 2011 from the same period a year earlier, with California-based Apple making the most popular models, according to an IDC report released this week.
Smartphone makers shipped 157.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared to 102 million in the same period the prior year, IDC reported.
A total of 491.4 million smartphones were shipped during the year, up a "strong 61.3 per cent" from the 304.7 million units in 2010, according to IDC.
Apple had a 23.5 per cent share of the global smartphone market, followed by Samsung and Nokia with 22.8 per cent and 12.4 per cent respectively.
"So-called 'hero' devices, such as Samsung's Galaxy Nexus and Apple's iPhone 4S, garner the bulk of the attention heaped on the device type," said Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC's Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker.
"But a growing number of sub-$250 device offerings, based on the Android operating system, have allowed Google's hardware partners to grow smartphone volumes and expand the market concurrently."
While Apple tightly controls iPhone hardware and software, Google makes the Android mobile device operating system available free to smartphone manufacturers who have been building it into ranks of handsets.
Android and iPhone smartphones accounted for slightly more than 90 per cent of US smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2011, industry-tracker NPD Group reported.
Android commanded 48 per cent of the market compared to Apple's 43 per cent, according to NPD.
NPD figures indicated that Android handsets were more popular with first-time smartphone buyers in the United States, with its share of that market at 57 per cent compared to Apple's 34 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year.
"Android has been criticised for offering a more complex user experience than its competitors, but the company's wide carrier support and large app selection is appealing to new smartphone customers," said NPD analyst Ross Rubin.
Apple jumped into the third spot in the overall global mobile phone market from fifth place in the final quarter of the year due to a record-breaking quarter for iPhones, according to IDC.
Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter which ended on December 31, giving it a market share of 8.7 per cent.
Nokia remained king, shipping 113.5 million mobile phones in the final quarter of the year to claim nearly 27 per cent of the market.
Samsung was second with 22.8 per cent of the market, or 97.6 million handsets shipped.
South Korea's Samsung, a star producer of Android smartphones, hit a new milestone in the final quarter of the year, more than tripling handset shipments to top the 35 million mark for the first time.
Nokia and Canadian BlackBerry maker Research In Motion saw shipments drop by 30.6 per cent and 11 per cent, respectively.
Nokia hopes to reverse the losing trend with a new line of smartphones based on mobile gadget software crafted by US technology colossus Microsoft.
A total of 427.4 million mobile phones were shipped in the final months of 2011 in a 6.1 per cent increase from the same quarter a year earlier, IDC said.
IDC warned that the growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2011 was weaker than the 9.3 per cent seen in the prior three-month period of the year.
"The introduction of high-growth products such as the iPhone 4S, which shipped in the fourth quarter, bolstered smartphone growth," Restivo said.
"Yet overall market growth fell to its lowest point since the third quarter of 2009 when the global economic recession was in full bloom."
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Worldwide shipments of smartphones soared 54.7 per cent in the final three months of 2011 from the same period a year earlier, with California-based Apple making the most popular models, according to an IDC report released this week.
Smartphone makers shipped 157.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared to 102 million in the same period the prior year, IDC reported.
A total of 491.4 million smartphones were shipped during the year, up a "strong 61.3 per cent" from the 304.7 million units in 2010, according to IDC.
Apple had a 23.5 per cent share of the global smartphone market, followed by Samsung and Nokia with 22.8 per cent and 12.4 per cent respectively.
"So-called 'hero' devices, such as Samsung's Galaxy Nexus and Apple's iPhone 4S, garner the bulk of the attention heaped on the device type," said Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC's Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker.
"But a growing number of sub-$250 device offerings, based on the Android operating system, have allowed Google's hardware partners to grow smartphone volumes and expand the market concurrently."
While Apple tightly controls iPhone hardware and software, Google makes the Android mobile device operating system available free to smartphone manufacturers who have been building it into ranks of handsets.
Android and iPhone smartphones accounted for slightly more than 90 per cent of US smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2011, industry-tracker NPD Group reported.
Android commanded 48 per cent of the market compared to Apple's 43 per cent, according to NPD.
NPD figures indicated that Android handsets were more popular with first-time smartphone buyers in the United States, with its share of that market at 57 per cent compared to Apple's 34 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year.
"Android has been criticised for offering a more complex user experience than its competitors, but the company's wide carrier support and large app selection is appealing to new smartphone customers," said NPD analyst Ross Rubin.
Apple jumped into the third spot in the overall global mobile phone market from fifth place in the final quarter of the year due to a record-breaking quarter for iPhones, according to IDC.
Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter which ended on December 31, giving it a market share of 8.7 per cent.
Nokia remained king, shipping 113.5 million mobile phones in the final quarter of the year to claim nearly 27 per cent of the market.
Samsung was second with 22.8 per cent of the market, or 97.6 million handsets shipped.
South Korea's Samsung, a star producer of Android smartphones, hit a new milestone in the final quarter of the year, more than tripling handset shipments to top the 35 million mark for the first time.
Nokia and Canadian BlackBerry maker Research In Motion saw shipments drop by 30.6 per cent and 11 per cent, respectively.
Nokia hopes to reverse the losing trend with a new line of smartphones based on mobile gadget software crafted by US technology colossus Microsoft.
A total of 427.4 million mobile phones were shipped in the final months of 2011 in a 6.1 per cent increase from the same quarter a year earlier, IDC said.
IDC warned that the growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2011 was weaker than the 9.3 per cent seen in the prior three-month period of the year.
"The introduction of high-growth products such as the iPhone 4S, which shipped in the fourth quarter, bolstered smartphone growth," Restivo said.
"Yet overall market growth fell to its lowest point since the third quarter of 2009 when the global economic recession was in full bloom."
Read also
http://www.utpl.edu.ec/ecc/wiki/index.php/Usuario:Aloter
http://coworkinginitiatives.com/wiki/index.php/Utilisateur:Lobster
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