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Monday 19 December 2011

British Telecom Jumps On The 'Let's Sue Google' Bandwagon [ 19-12-2011 17:30 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: FOSS Patents Translation by: Paul Smith

Google is being sued yet again, but I have to admit to not having seen this one coming. The instigator of the lawsuit is British Telecom, the UK's former state owned national telecommunications firm, which is now a private company. BT, as British Telecom is known in Britain, has filed the suit in Delaware in the States and alledges that a score of Google products infringe upon six patents BT holds. The products affected include the likes of Google Maps, Music and of course that old favourite of the patent lawsuit, Android.

For their part Google have yet to comment upon the lawsuit although frankly it wouldn't be a surprise if they didn't say anything. Even if they did it would unlikely be anything we haven't heard before given how often Google has found itself at the receiving end of this type of legal action.

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Your Daily Dose Of Bad News From RIM: £1 Million Worth Of PlayBooks Stolen [ 19-12-2011 16:34 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: The Herlad Bulletin Translation by: Paul Smith

You know it's actually very difficult these days to find a story about RIM that doesn't contain bad news. Case in point is the latest mishap to befall the Canadain manufacturer; 5,000 PlayBooks worth a cool £1 million have been stolen. The theft happened late last week when the driver of the truck carrying the PlayBooks was eating. With no tracking system in place the PlayBooks are pretty much gone. Now £1 million isn't exactly pocket change to you and I, but for a big company it isn't quite the major loss it might first appear to the average guy on the street. Still the negative publicity is probably more damaging to RIM at this point since it seems they just can't catch a break these days. Between executives throwing tantrums on planes to revenue falling to product delays to global service outages, the loss of a few thousand PlayBooks hardly seems to matter.

One last point though; perhaps RIM might get the last laugh here. As some commentators have wryly pointed out, if RIM itself can't give Playbooks away, what the hell are the thieves going to do with them?

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Video: Galaxy Nexus S Multi-Touch Bug [ 19-12-2011 12:49 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: RootzWiki Translation by: Paul Smith

What sort of bug could be more annoying on a multi-touch device than a bug with the multi-touch control system itself? Well plenty actually, but a recent bug found on the Galaxy Nexus S does just that, screws with the handset's multi-touch input system. The bug only appears in landscape mode apparently and essentially makes it difficult to impossible to use multi-touch input. For example, in the video below you can see that when the left hand is used to convey one input the right hand side of the screen becomes rather tempramental when it comes time for it to accept input. Turning the screen on and off apparently rectifies the problem, albeit temporarily, but even so it isn't a proper fix.