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Operating Systems Solutions Sued Apple For Quck OS Boot Up Patent Infringement

Operating Systems Solutions is suing Apple over OS X’s fast booting operation using a patent originally owned by LG Electronics, a method of utilizing boot configuration information from earlier booting processes to speed the system startup process and the assignment on the patent has changed hands multiple times dating back to 2004. There is still some speculation as to how Operating Systems Solutions acquired the patent andApple has been a lightning rod for lawsuits over the last several years……………..

Exploit In iOS And Android Games Discovered By A 10 Year Old Girl Hacker At DEFCON

10-year-old girl discovers age old flaw in iOS and Android games, she discovered a zero day exploit in iOS and Android games that would allow her to speed time in game thus growing things faster. The 10 year old girl CyFi revealed this exploit at DefCon Kids and this zero day exploit is related to the clock in games which are used to measure the time it takes for a crop to grow, much like farmville. CyFi’s discovery has since been verified by independent security researchers and the exploit has been found to work in versions of games for both Apple and Android gadgets………….

HTC Bought Dashwire For User Data Backup Service

HTC purchases DashwireHTC has announced the purchase of Dashwire, a Seattle-based company that provides cloud services for Android, Windows Mobile, and Symbian smartphones and the purchase ould be worth as much as $18.5 million, which is said to strengthen HTC’s cloud services, but could also provide much-needed patents to the Taiwanese company. Dashwire’s technology will make its way to the company’s HTCSense.com cloud service and Dashwire is paying Intellectual Ventures for access to patents that it can use to defend itself from further patent litigation…………..

SD Card Functionality Is Coming For The Motorola Xoom Customers

Verizon has started rolling out the Android 3.2 update for the Motorola Xoom 3G and this HTJ85 update brings some subtle, yet nice features associated with the new OS. You get the Screen Scaling Compatibility Mode with which you can switch to double pixel mode for selected applications and the update patches up the microSD card support, which is for enabling you to use a file manager to view important files, pictures, music, videos and all that’s stored on your SD card, as well as write content to your SD card via connection to a PC or Mac.The new screen-scaling option will let you switch to double pixels mode for selected applications………….

DirecTV Interested In Buying Hulu

DirecTV confirmed Thursday that the satellite TV company was among many potential bidders for online video service Hulu and buying the company from its parents — The Walt Disney Co., News Corp., Comcast Corp. and Providence Equity Partners, could bolster DirecTV’s efforts to allow its customers to watch their video packages on mobile devices. DirecTV wasn’t committed to a deal and said a deciding factor would be the kinds of programming agreements that come with any deal and there is other interested bidders have included Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Apple Inc……………

Amazon Estimateting 3 Million Tablets This Fall

New information emanating from China and Taiwan point out there might be about 3 million Amazon tablets for the taking during fall and production at Quanta Computers Inc. is already on at full steam and it has been so since the beginning of July with production figures pointing out eight hundred thousand to a million of the Amazon tablets being churned out on a monthly basis. Little is currently known about the mooted Amazon tablet with recent rumours suggesting the online retailer was planning to launch both 7-inch and 10.1-inch tablets, both of which are likely to run Google’s tablet centric Android 3.2 Honeycomb OS and it is widely predicted that any 10-inch Amazon tablet would boast an LCD display…………..

Happy Birthday To Web

The world wide web is 20 years old today and it seems like just yesterday we were hearing the pitter patter of little dial-up, delighting at the words you got mail and getting frustrated when calling our friends and receiving that dreaded busy signal. Many of us who regularly used the Internet before there was a World Wide Web to remember that there was a time when the two terms weren’t considered nearly synonymous by the general public, so please join us in saying “Happy birthday!” to the World Wide Web!

DollyCam App Lets You Automagic Video Stabilization For iPhone 4 And iPad 2

Scientists at Linkoping University in Sweden has just introduced DollyCam an app for iPhone 4 and iPad 2. With DollyCam you can record videos and then stabilize them to remove camera shake. DollyCam also corrects wobble caused by the camera’s rolling shutter. The resulting videos are much smoother than the original recordings and are more pleasant to watch. The app does crop your footage slightly, as can be expected. You’ll also need to remain in the app as it’s processing, though you can also stabilize videos later, after completing your shoot. Anyways you might be happy with this app, especially considering the $2.99 price tag. Checkout the press release bellow for more details.