In a move that has set the world of Tech blogging on fire on Wednesday July 30, 2014, Xiaomi’s eternally twitchily nervous but enthusiastic CEO Lei Jun introduced the Mi4 to an unsuspecting world. Within hours, a worldwide mass of techies was pulling no punches […]
Did you invest in a Plasma TV? Well, unfortunately, Plasma televisions are already doomed to join the Sony Betamax, the VCR, the floppy disk, the 8-Track and UMD Video in the tech Boot Hill. Sure, even yours truly trilled and warbled over the wonderful Plasma […]
In a verdict that has stunned American big business from coast to coast, an American jury has ordered Samsung to pay US$119.6m to Apple for smartphone patent violations. Indeed, so small and insulting an amount is this award that it barely pays one-third of the […]
After three weeks defending US$2m infringement claims laid by Apple, Samsung has hit back with its own patent infringement claim, accusing Apple’s FaceTime of infringing on its video call patent. Specifically, Samsung claims that the FaceTime app infringes on a patent for compressing videos before […]
“You get what you pay for!” Old Granny Bagg used to say, and as far as this crustacean is concerned, it still holds true. What constitutes value for money ‘today day’, as the Jamaicans say, really is different to Granny Bagg’s day. The thing is, […]
Like an endless Hatfield and McCoy’s war, Apple and Samsung are bound and determined to keep their war of litigation going. Yet another California court clash over smartphone patents begins again in the first week of March. This is happening because, in a different courtroom, […]
As we all waited with baited breath for the Apple iWatch, the Galaxy Gear, the US$299 Samsung smartwatch, was already out on sale. Jumping the gun on Apple for these guys is old news. It promises much: connects to your smartphone via Bluetooth, takes pictures, […]
