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An Off Switch for Pain; Charging Cell Phones with Fingers

Posted on February 22, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

Discovered: An off switch for pain, a finger-powered cell phone charger, what your ear of choice says about your brain, the clouds are coming for us, and buckyballs in space. An off switch for pain? This sounds too good to be true, because it is. At least, real-life therapeutic applications are ”a long way off,” says researcher Timm Fehrentz. But science has a theory that could lead to a light-activated off-switch for pain receptors

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Summary Box: Microsoft files complaint on Motorola

Posted on February 22, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

THE COMPLAINT: Microsoft has filed a formal complaint in the European Union against Motorola Mobility and its soon-to-be-owner Google, saying Motorola’s aggressive enforcement of patent rights breaks competition rules.

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Microsoft hits Motorola, Google with EU complaint

Posted on February 22, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

Microsoft on Wednesday lodged a formal complaint with the European Union’s competition regulator against Motorola Mobility and its soon-to-be owner Google, saying Motorola’s aggressive enforcement of patent rights against rivals breaks competition rules.

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Microsoft files EC complaint against Motorola Mobility

Posted on February 22, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

Microsoft filed a complaint against Motorola Mobility with the European Commission on Wednesday, accusing it of seeking to block sales of Windows personal computers, Xbox game consoles and other products.

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Microsoft presenta denuncia contra Motorola en la Unión Europea

Posted on February 22, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

Microsoft interpuso el miércoles una denuncia contra Motorola Mobility de Google ante las autoridades que regulan la competencia en la Unión Europea, argumentando que la aplicación enérgica de derechos de patentes en perjuicio de los rivales viola las reglas de competencia.

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Microsoft lodges EU complaint against Motorola

Posted on February 22, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

Microsoft on Wednesday lodged a formal complaint with the European Union’s competition regulator against Motorola Mobility, saying the company’s aggressive enforcement of patent rights against rivals breaks competition rules.

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Microsoft files E.U. complaint over Motorola Mobility

Posted on February 22, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Microsoft called on EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday to investigate Motorola Mobility, saying the U.S. phone maker was trying to block sales of its Windows PCs, its Xbox game consoles and other products. “Earlier today, Microsoft filed a formal competition law complaint with the European Commission against Motorola Mobility,” Microsoft’s deputy general counsel Dave Heiner wrote in a blog post on Wednesday. “We have taken this step because Motorola is attempting to block sales of Windows PCs, our Xbox game console and other products,” he said

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Will Texting Become Extinct Thanks to Free Social Messaging Apps?

Posted on February 22, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

Phone companies missed out on $13.9 billion last year as more people opted to send free texts through SMS (short message service) applications like Blackberry Messenger and Facebook Mobile Messenger, according to a report. This follows a $8.6 billion loss in phone company provided text revenues in 2010.

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LG continues its journey into the third dimension, with the Optimus 3D Max and 3D Cube

Posted on February 22, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

LG has announced two new phones with 3D screens, one for Korea and one for the international market. The devices are essentially exactly the same, but to avoid any confusion we’ll cover them both here so you know which one to look out for come release day.

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ZTE to launch first smartphone with NVIDIA Tegra and Icera processors, ICS Android devices

Posted on February 22, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

Chinese telecommunications company ZTE will be showing off at least three brand new Android smartphones during Mobile World Congress, one of which is the first smartphone to feature both a Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and the (Nvidia owned) Icera baseband processor together.

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Wall St loses steam after Dow crosses 13,000

Posted on February 22, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended little changed on Tuesday, paring gains after the Dow topped 13,000 for the first time since May 2008, and as higher oil prices damped prospects for the economy. Greece’s securing a bailout to avoid a disorderly default provided some support to stocks, but investors said the news had mostly been priced in to the market

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How RIM could learn from Ubuntu, and why it needs to before it’s too late

Posted on February 21, 2012 by droiddude| Leave a comment

Today Ubuntu announced Ubuntu for Android, an app that will sync all your Android apps into a Linux-based interface. The new app is the latest step in the platform’s expanding mobile agenda, part of Ubuntu’s multi-screen agenda. “This isn’t the ‘Ubuntu Phone,” as Canonical’s Mark Shuttlesworth puts it. “The phone experience here is pure Android. This announcement is playing to a different story, which is the convergence of multiple different form factors into one most-personal device.”

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