Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // August 28, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 28, 2012

Samsung V. Apple And The Obviousness Standard

Editor's Note: Leonid ("Lenny") Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA. Lenny focuses his... read more

Patent Case Aftermath: Samsung Down By $12B (And Still Slumping) While Apple, Nokia, RIM All Gain

We still have to wait and see how the jury's ruling against Samsung over Apple patents will play out for the company in terms of actual fines, injunctions --... read more

Motorola's Droid RAZR M 4G LTE Gets Detailed Ahead Of Official Unveiling

In case you hadn't heard yet, next week is going to be a busy one for gadget fiends — Amazon's got something brewing on the 6th, while Nokia and Motorola... read more

After Removal By Apple, Privacy App Clueful Returns Via The Web

Back in May, security company Bitdefender launched Clueful, an iPhone app that looked at the other apps on your phone and identified what they were doing with... read more

Garmin Announces Thinner, Lighter Garmin 10 GPS Watch

The $129 Garmin 10 is a new GPS watch by Garmin. Designed as a direct competitor to "grab and go" sport watches from Nike and Polar, the new watch offers... read more

Tripbirds Pivots From Social Travel Omnibus To Social Hotel Booking Site

When I interviewed Tripbirds co-founder Ted Valentin before the social travel recommendation site's launch in March, he told me that hotel bookings formed the... read more

Sony's Shape-Shifting, Windows 8-Powered VAIO Duo 11 Caught In Leaked Images

Microsoft's Windows 8-powered surface tablet may be nabbing all the headlines (at least partially because some of Microsoft's myriad hardware partners were... read more

Twitter API Changes Are Already Posing Challenges To Tweetbot Developers

Tapbots has announced on their blog that the alpha version of Tweetbot for Mac will no longer be available. Now that Twitter limits an app's user base to only... read more

MasterCard Inks 5-Year NFC/Mobile Payments Deal With UK's Everything Everywhere, Covers 27M Users

MasterCard is once more extending its reach into mobile money services in Europe in partnership with a carrier -- this time in the mobile-savvy UK market. The... read more

Marissa Mayer Appoints Former Lockerz CEO & Amazon VP Kathy Savitt As Yahoo's New CMO

While the search continues for a new top executive for Flickr, Yahoo and its new CEO have found a new chief marketing officer -- and one with former operations... read more

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