No more sleepless nights for Apple’s lawyers, at least not until the Nokia and HTC suits begin to heat up. The company is now the proud owner of a slightly used trademark: iPad™, as of March 17, is no longer a Fujitsu mark and has been assigned to Apple. Much speculation had surrounded the trademark process for [...]

It looks like the crafty folks over at MacRumors have figured out how to snake their way into the not-yet-public listing for top revenue iPad apps. Now, we’ve got a flood of information coming out about software for the device that’s not coming out for another week or so. As you can see above, quite a few rumored [...]

Nokia said today it has purchased Novarra, a maker of mobile web browsing technology. The companies didn’t disclose the purchase price.
Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, currently builds its own mobile browser, so it can incorporate the Illinois company’s technology into its own future browsers. Since data service usage is skyrocketing, having a good [...]

Acer’s aspirational laptops have a new Ethos to them now, and it clearly has something to do with entertainment. The newly revealed 18.4-inch 8943G sports a 1920 x 1080 resolution and a true 5.1 surround sound setup, meaning that somewhere within its shell reside five miniature speakers and a sub. Processor options range all the way [...]

The Army uses Apple products for a host of reasons. They’re durable, easy to use in the field, tough to hack, and readily available (unlike many specialized computer hardware items). They’ve been known to use iPods Touch as simple translation tools (they can translate and say “get down!” in Arabic–useful in our worldwide exportation of freedom!). So [...]

Sprint may finally have the “hero” device it has been lacking: The EVO 4G, a feature-packed handset that will be the first to run on the company’s 4G WiMax network.
Designed by HTC, EVO runs Google’s (GOOG) Android 2.1 operating system and boasts some killer features: A 4.3-inch touchscreen display, a 1GHz Qualcomm (QCOM) Snapdragon processor, an [...]

Apple enjoyed its most profitable quarter ever, as the company set sales marks for both Mac and iPhone sales. The company announced earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter on Monday. For the quarter ending September 30, Apple reported a net profit of $1.67 billion, or $1.82 per share, on revenue of $7.9 billion. Those [...]

A student who sued Amazon for deleting George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four from his Kindle ebook, rendering his notes useless, has won $150,000 along with protection for other Kindle users.
The agreement (pdf), which was spotted by Seattle’s TechFlash, effectively prevents Amazon reaching out and deleting or modifying works in future. However, as a negotiated agreement it doesn’t [...]

It seems O2 is throwing its toys out of the iPhone pram, and is sitting on the fence as to whether it will provide users with iPhone unlock codes to move to other networks.Previously the network had refused to unlock handsets based on the grounds that it had an exclusive deal with Apple. Now that [...]

Perhaps Sony knew something we didn’t when it launched its e-book Readers in August, with rumours suggesting that the e-book industry’s 500-pound gorilla, Amazon, will launch the Kindle in the UK far sooner than initially thought.
Amazon is all set to launch the Kindle in the UK as soon as next week, if new reports are to [...]

Back in July, Apple stealthily acquired Placebase, a mapping company that provides a service similar to Google Maps, but with more robust customizations and set of APIs, called Pushpin, for layering data sets over maps.
Google and Apple have been steadily moving from friends to frenemies of late, with the advent of Android and CloudOS, the whole Google [...]

Computer maker Dell will acquire information-technology company Perot Systems for $3.9 billion in cash, as the PC giant looks to expand beyond its core hardware business, the companies said Monday.
The move marks a strategic shift for Dell, which has stuck with its personal computer and server sales even as its rivals like Hewlett-Packard (HP) and [...]

We’ve seen price cuts from both Xbox 360 and PS3, and so it’s only right whispers should start about a price drop for Nintendo’s Wii – especially when it’s rumoured to have come straight from Ninty HQ.Nintendo fan site Nintendojo has reported it did some eavesdropping on a conference call between Nintendo and some big name retailers, [...]

Sony has slammed a report on the BBC’s consumer show, Watchdog, which claimed the PS3 is dogged by technical failures. It denied that the Sony PS3 suffers from a technical fault known as the “yellow light of death” (clearly a cousin of the Xbox 360’s red ring of death). In an episode screened on Thursday night, Watchdog [...]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc ships a lower-power version of its Opteron server chip on Monday as it tries to expand its offerings for Web hosting companies. The company declined to give its projections for revenues from the new chip.
AMD said the new chip is aimed at companies that use servers for tasks like cloud computing, and [...]