Apple, Samsung to renew patent battle in US court

Apple and Samsung will return to federal court in the heart of Silicon Valley for a new round in their seemingly perpetual patent war.

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple and Samsung will return to federal court in the heart of Silicon Valley for a new round in their seemingly perpetual patent war.

The case concerns smartphone and tablet patents and is just the latest in a long-running feud between the two tech giants, who are battling for supremacy in a multi-billion-dollar market.

"The parties tried hard to accuse each other's latest and greatest products, but US patent litigation is slow, which is why this 2014 trial will be about 2012 and pre-2012 products," intellectual property analyst Florian Mueller said in a post at website fosspatents.com.

The rivals will face off once again before District Court Judge Lucy Koh in the California city of San Jose.

Koh presided over a trial last year that ended with a jury declaring Samsung owed Apple more that a billion dollars in damages for infringing patents with some older model Android-powered devices.

The damages award was later trimmed to $929 million and is being appealed.

If this new trial goes in Apple's favor, it could result in an even bigger award since it involves better-selling Samsung devices built with Google-backed Android software.

This time California-based Apple is taking aim at Samsung's flagship Galaxy line crafted to challenge the iPhone in the high-performance end of the market.

"Both in the United States and globally, Apple and Samsung have established themselves as fierce competitors in the smartphone market and fierce adversaries in the courtroom," Koh said during rulings on injunctions, testimony and other matters ahead of trial.

Under pressure from Koh, the chiefs of Apple and Samsung engaged in mediation to see if the dispute could be settled out of court, but talks failed.

However, the companies expressed a willingness to keep talking, raising the slim possibility trial could be avoided.

Jury selection is to commence on Monday. Koh is allowing each side 25 hours to present evidence to make its case to jurors.

Apple filed the suit against the South Korean consumer electronics behemoth in February 2012 as "one action in a worldwide constellation of litigation between the two companies," the judge said in a ruling.

Patents at issue in the case involve unlocking touch-screens with gestures; automatically correcting words being typed; retrieving data sought by users, and performing actions on found data such as making a call after coming up with a phone number.

Apple argued in filings that a Google Quick Search Box in the Android-powered Galaxy Nexus steals from patented technology used by virtual assistant Siri to answer queries in the iPhone.

Samsung devices targeted by Apple include more than a half-dozen smartphones from the Galaxy line along with the Galaxy 2 tablet.

Samsung is countering with claims that Apple infringes on its patented technology for data transmission, imaging, audio, and video in iPhone, iPad, iPod and Macintosh computer models.

Koh early in March rejected Apple's request to ban an array of Samsung smartphones and tablets found during the blockbuster trial last year to have infringed on patents held by the US tech giant.

Koh reasoned that there was no evidence that consumer demand was driven by the infringing elements.

That point could be raised anew in the coming trial, putting pressure on Apple to show that patented features such as sliding a finger across a screen to unlock handsets were deciding factors in sales.

Apple has maintained publicly that its patent battles are about "innovation and the hard work that goes into inventing products that people love," and not about money.

At a hearing early this year, Apple demanded that Samsung pay $40 per smartphone incorporating its patented technology, according to court records.

Any triumph at trial would likely result in a demand that infringing products be banned from sale in the US.

Rulings that patents were infringed on would also provide legal ammunition to fire shots at newer smartphone models or even those yet to be released, if they contain the same technology
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Philips unveils Android-powered 4K TV

In pic: Philips 7800 4K TV based on Android

Philips has revealed its television family for 2014, having promised new Android-imbued sets back at CES 2014. The top-end 8800 series come in Full HD and Ultra HD models and offer an Android based operating system which means access to Google Play apps. 

They're coming to Europe and Russia sometime between April and June 2014, but there are hefty question marks over whether the sets will make it to the UK. 

Now for the ones you can buy... 

A host of smaller sets are slated to reach the UK, though. The slim and stylish 7009 series is more locked on, but comes without Google's OS. Available in 42-, 49- and 55-inch models, the near-bezelless TVs should hit the UK in June and come with Ultra HD resolution, a quad-core processor, 400Hz perfect motion rate and built-in Wi-Fi. 

Also bound for the UK are the 6609 and 6309 models, in sizes ranging between 40- and 55-inches, and a choice of active and passive 3D. 

Skipping down the spec scale are the 5000 series TVs, ranging from 32- to 55-inches, they don't offer 3D but are full HD sets with 500,000:1 dynamic screen contrast and dual-core processors on board. 

The TVs should be hitting retailers between April and June, with pricing yet to be announced. The company is terming them all "highly affordable", though, which bodes well for your bank account.

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Dhoni pleased to see Yuvraj back among runs

Yuvraj roared back to form with a 60-run knock. His strokeful 43-ball innings set up the 73-run victory over Australia. (AFP Photo)

MIRPUR: Yuvraj Singh's return to form was the biggest positive for the Indian team ahead of knockout stage of the ICC World Twenty20, according to skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. 

Yuvraj roared back to form with a 60-run knock. His strokeful 43-ball innings set up the 73-run victory over Australia as India topped Group 2 with fourth consecutive win. 

"Yuvraj getting back into form was really good. We all know what kind of a player Yuvi is. I think this format ideally suits it (getting back into form). He decided to give himself time to play himself in. In the middle overs he wasn't able to rotate but in the end overs we knew the firepower we had," said Dhoni at the post-match presentation ceremony. 

Yuvraj was struggling in the first two matches of the tournament with scores of 1 and 10 against Pakistan and West Indies respectively. 

Dhoni said the decision to rest Shikhar Dhawan, who hasn't been in great touch, helped the left-handed opener look back at his performances. Dhawan was replaced by Ajinkya Rahane in the playing XI. 

"Rahane opens in difficult conditions. We have seen that in IPL, he is one the most consistent batsman. This (replacing Shikhar with Rahane) also gives Shikhar some free time to think about his game. So both players will benefit," he said. 

Australian skipper George Bailey, on the other hand, rued lack of "match sense" shown by his batsmen in this tournament. 

"I don't think we've been fans of the way we've been playing. We have shown lack of game sense on a number of occasions. There was not much turn in the wicket today. We could have batted better," said Bailey. 

Meanwhile off-spinner R Ashwin, who bagged his second consecutive man-of-the-match award, said the score they were defending was little above par. 

"I though 160 was just above par," Ashwin, who took four wickets and gave away just 11 runs, said. 

On his bowling, he said, "You have to cut the width for the right-hander, the line I'm bowling is not too wide outside off. We were stretched quite a bit while batting but we're playing well the way we are."
 

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Give new players more time like I got: Virender Sehwag

On his own form, Sehwag was startlingly honest, saying that selectors had few reasons to bring him back into the team. (TOI Photo)

NEW DELHI: Exactly 10 years ago today, Virender Sehwag joined the club of India's batting greats when he raced to the first triple hundred scored by an Indian in Test cricket. 

Since that day in Multan, Indian cricket has seen a sea change. And as he battles to get back into the Indian team, a wiser Sehwag doesn't mind conceding he has done little to earn a comeback and that Indian cricket should stick with fresh faces. 

"I was given a lot of chances when I was young. I used to fire in one or two instances out of 10 hits. Yet, the team management stuck with me and only then the consistency came in. The same holds for the likes of Shikhar Dhawan. He shouldn't be under pressure after a few failures. Amit Mishra is also a good bowler and now that he has got his chances, he has started performing. Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara and Rohit Sharma have it in them to break my record of scoring triple hundreds. New faces should be given more time," said the 35-year-old, firm in his opinion during the launch of a junior cricket tournament initiated by the Sehwag International School. 

A survivor of the 2004 side, Yuvraj Singh is struggling in the current set-up. Sehwag was quick to rise to his former teammate's defence. "If you look at the numbers, Yuvi was the man-of-the-match only three T20s ago. He deserves a few more chances and we all know when he gets going he can turn a tournament in India's favour," he said. 

On his own form, Sehwag was startlingly honest, saying that selectors had few reasons to bring him back into the team. "I haven't scored runs, how can I expect to be recalled? But every match and every tournament is a platform for me now to make a comeback. Just like when I scored a century for MCC recently in Abu Dhabi, people started talking about me coming back." 

At this stage of his career, experience is what the swashbuckler is banking on and not leading Kings XI Punjab doesn't fluster him. 

"For the amount of top-flight cricket I have played, I don't need to worry about words like confidence and moral boosts. I had told coach Sanjay Bangar that I won't mind if I had to lead the team but if they had someone better to do the job then they should go ahead with him. And then he called up to say they had finalised George Bailey and he told me that I will still be a leader in the team. It doesn't matter to me if I am the captain or not," said Sehwag. 

In his efforts to grab the eyeballs of the selectors, the veteran's batting position has been a talking point since he decided to drop to No. 4 when playing for Delhi
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World Twenty20: India will not take Australia lightly

Dhoni and Fletcher would be pleased that India will go into the contest as favourites. (AP Photo)

DHAKA: Was it a change in guard at the top of BCCI which prompted the entire Indian team to turn up for the optional practice session on the eve of their Super 10 clash of the ICC World T20 on Saturday? 

Sunil Gavaskar, the new interim chief of the BCCI, has been a vehement critic of optional practice sessions and Dhoni's boys gave him no reason to complain on his first day in office. 

As promised by skipper Dhoni on Friday, the batsmen who haven't got enough chance to bat in the games, were given an extended net session. 

Apart from the main bowlers, Dhoni himself bowled a mix of medium-pacers and off-spinners at them. His dance after dismissing Yuvraj bowled was not like the one the West Indies team indulged in after beating the Aussies, but it was celebratory nevertheless. 

The game against Australia though is serious business. Probably for the first time in World Cup contests, India will go into the contest as favourites. 

The Aussies have lost two close games and barring a win by Bangladesh over Pakistan earlier in the day, they have no chance of going through. 

However, India are in no mood for philanthropy. They fielded an unchanged side in the Champions Trophy against Pakistan even though they had qualified for the semis and are likely to do the same on Sunday. 

R Ashwin was asked if there was a chance of testing the bench and he said, "I'm not so sure about that because it's pretty much like how we played the Champions Trophy. Take one game at a time. We will do what suits us to win that particular game."

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Apple readying Galaxy Note 3-sized iPhone: Report

The latest rumour is that the company’s first phablet will be nearly as big as Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 in size.

NEW DELHI: Apple is widely expected to launch big-screen iPhones this year and the latest rumour is that the company's first phablet will be nearly as big as Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 in size.

French website Nowhereelse has published an image leaked by a Chinese website showing the dimensions of the upcoming iPhone. The device is 150mm long and 85mm wide, according to the image. This means that the device will be almost similar in size to Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 phablet, which is 151.2mm long and 79.2mm wide.



According to the report, this iPhone's screen size is at least 5-inch. Several reports in the past too have claimed that Apple is working on smartphones with 4.7- and 5.5-inch screens, which are likely to be unveiled in September this year.

Japan Display, a major Apple supplier, unveiled a 5.5-inch display panel with 2K resolution (2560x1440p) earlier this week. This has sparked speculation that the same panel may be used in the upcoming iPhone phablet.

The jump to 2K resolution would be a big one for Apple as iPhones only support 1136x640p resolution. This panel would also mean that the next iPhone would have pixel density of 538ppi, much higher than the 326ppi of Apple's Retina display.

The other rumoured features of iPhone 6 include 10MP camera, scratch-resistant sapphire glass display, bezel-less display, solar charging, health-centric apps and faster Wi-Fi access.

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Caught red-handed, Microsoft promises not to snoop on emails

On Friday, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said the company has decided to change its email policies.

NEW DELHI: Several days after Microsoft acknowledged that it read the personal emails of a French blogger in 2012 to catch an insider who had leaked code related to Windows, the company said that it would change email policies and would no longer read emails hosted on its servers without a warrant. 

According to a few court documents related to a case that involves former Microsoft employee Alex Kibkalo, who reportedly leaked code related to Windows, Microsoft went through the Hotmail inbox of the blogger who was in touch with Kibkalo to identify the leaker. 

In the wake of uproar and privacy concerns, Microsoft said that its "terms and conditions" for Hotmail accounts allowed it to look into the content of private emails in order to protect its intellectual property. 

On Friday, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said the company has decided to change its email policies. "Effective immediately, if we receive information indicating that someone is using our services to traffic in stolen intellectual or physical property from Microsoft, we will not inspect a customer's private content ourselves. Instead, we will refer the matter to law enforcement if further action is required," Smith wrote on the company's office blog. 

"While our own search was clearly within our legal rights, it seems apparent that we should rely on formal legal processes for our own investigations involving people who we suspect are stealing from us," he added. 

Incidentally, the case of snooping on the French blogger came at a time when Microsoft was running its "scroogled" campaign against Google, arguing that Google read emails of its users so that it could serve them advertisements. 

After the details of the Kibkalo case came out in public, Microsoft was criticised by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a well-known non-profit organization that argues in favour strong privacy on the web. "The search in the Kibkalo case may have revealed criminal activity, but it was also conducted in Microsoft's self-interest, which is an exceedingly dangerous precedent. Combined with the kangaroo court potential of the company's new internal Warrants for Windows policy, Microsoft is playing with fire," said EFF. 

On Friday, Microsoft revealed it is also starting a project that will "identify, flesh out and discuss important issues (related to privacy on the web)". The company said that for discussions on the issue of privacy, the Center for Democracy and Technology has agreed to convene stakeholders and the EFF will be a key participant. 

The interesting bit here is that Google, which runs Gmail, and several other technology companies have policies similar to that of Microsoft when it comes to their own intellectual property. A few days ago Michael Arrington, founder of Techcrunch, wrote that he suspected Google snooped on his Gmail inbox to identify his sources within the company. 

Though Google denied the allegations, it is yet to follow Microsoft in changing the email policies that gives it right to go through the private emails of a user if it is probing theft of its intellectual property
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Caught red-handed, Microsoft promises not to snoop on emails

On Friday, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said the company has decided to change its email policies.

NEW DELHI: Several days after Microsoft acknowledged that it read the personal emails of a French blogger in 2012 to catch an insider who had leaked code related to Windows, the company said that it would change email policies and would no longer read emails hosted on its servers without a warrant. 

According to a few court documents related to a case that involves former Microsoft employee Alex Kibkalo, who reportedly leaked code related to Windows, Microsoft went through the Hotmail inbox of the blogger who was in touch with Kibkalo to identify the leaker. 

In the wake of uproar and privacy concerns, Microsoft said that its "terms and conditions" for Hotmail accounts allowed it to look into the content of private emails in order to protect its intellectual property. 

On Friday, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said the company has decided to change its email policies. "Effective immediately, if we receive information indicating that someone is using our services to traffic in stolen intellectual or physical property from Microsoft, we will not inspect a customer's private content ourselves. Instead, we will refer the matter to law enforcement if further action is required," Smith wrote on the company's office blog. 

"While our own search was clearly within our legal rights, it seems apparent that we should rely on formal legal processes for our own investigations involving people who we suspect are stealing from us," he added. 

Incidentally, the case of snooping on the French blogger came at a time when Microsoft was running its "scroogled" campaign against Google, arguing that Google read emails of its users so that it could serve them advertisements. 

After the details of the Kibkalo case came out in public, Microsoft was criticised by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a well-known non-profit organization that argues in favour strong privacy on the web. "The search in the Kibkalo case may have revealed criminal activity, but it was also conducted in Microsoft's self-interest, which is an exceedingly dangerous precedent. Combined with the kangaroo court potential of the company's new internal Warrants for Windows policy, Microsoft is playing with fire," said EFF. 

On Friday, Microsoft revealed it is also starting a project that will "identify, flesh out and discuss important issues (related to privacy on the web)". The company said that for discussions on the issue of privacy, the Center for Democracy and Technology has agreed to convene stakeholders and the EFF will be a key participant. 

The interesting bit here is that Google, which runs Gmail, and several other technology companies have policies similar to that of Microsoft when it comes to their own intellectual property. A few days ago Michael Arrington, founder of Techcrunch, wrote that he suspected Google snooped on his Gmail inbox to identify his sources within the company. 

Though Google denied the allegations, it is yet to follow Microsoft in changing the email policies that gives it right to go through the private emails of a user if it is probing theft of its intellectual property
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First impressions: Microsoft Office for iPad

What you see in each app is a clean and simple version of the Office ribbon with the Home, Insert and Review tabs plus extra tabs for each app.

There are already several Office apps for iOS, from the OneDrive and OneNote apps to the simplistic Office for iOS (now renamed Office Mobile); Office for iPad is a different and more impressive beast. What you get are versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint designed for iPad.

They don't have anything like all the features of Office 2013 for Windows or Office 2011 for Mac, but they do have a great touch interface that makes the features you actually get, work well with just your fingers whether you're fixing a broken formula in Excel or adding pictures to your presentation in PowerPoint or tracking changes and reviewing comments in Word.

Word, Excel and PowerPoint are free to download from the App Store but when you first install them, all you can do is view existing documents and run a presentation in PowerPoint (complete with a handy on-screen pen that lets you scribble on your slides and a virtual on-screen laser pointer when you press and hold with your finger).



You have to either buy a subscription to Office 365 Home (the individual Office license that lets you use it on up to five devices, including tablets) from the App Store or activate an existing Office 365 subscription (including the new Personal license, Office 365 University for students and the different business plans). Confusingly, to do that you need to open the free version and then tap the activation button.

When you have the right license, what you see in each app is a clean and simple version of the Office ribbon with the Home, Insert and Review tabs plus extra tabs for each app; Word has Insert, Excel has Formulas and both have a View tab that lets you turn on spelling, get a word count or hide headings and gridlines. PowerPoint has specific tabs for Transitions and Slide Show (plus and extra button to start presenting at any time (this works nicely with AirPlay). Other tabs appear when you need them, like when you select a chart, table or picture.

Rich with features
The ribbon and all the tools and controls are clear and simple and work really well with touch. This looks and feels like Office but it also looks and feels and works like a real iPad app (including dictating text into Word). Drag the handles on a photo or chart and you can move or resize it precisely; selecting a range of cells in Excel is easier than it is with a mouse on Windows and the menu for inserting and deleting cells is really helpful (once you spot it on the ribbon).



If the touch keyboard is open, controls open smaller so you see a short list of colours; with the keyboard closed, the colour list stretches down into the keyboard space. When you tap inside your document, a little context menu lets you select, copy, cut, delete, duplicate and so on, depending on what you've tapped. The Undo and Redo buttons are big and obvious, right at the top where you need them. AutoSave is on by default, although you can tap to turn it off and save by hand if you really want.



You get far more than the basics of editing documents and adding transitions to slides. Excel has everything from cell formatting to formulas - there's even a specific formula keyboard with arrow ad number keys plus common formula keys like the Sigma key. Excel also has a handy version of the quick formulas that are in the status bar on the Windows version, letting you see the sum, count, average, minimum or maximum of your selected numbers quickly. Nothing revolutionary, but implemented in a way that's a perfect match for the touch screen.

Not only can you make a chart in Excel and customize the layout, you can copy that into a PowerPoint or Word document - where you can collaborate with other people editing the file, including adding comments and tracking changes so you can see who has changed what. Word has rich text and image formatting, plus a huge list of shape, table and photo formats and you can edit headers and footers. PowerPoint has shapes and smart art.



If you use OneDrive or OneDrive for business, you can open Office documents from there, although they still start as Quick Look previews; you have to tap the Edit button to open the document in Office itself. If you open Word, PowerPoint or Excel, you can choose a file from Recent Documents (as usual that includes ones you've only worked with on other devices using the same Office account), open a file from your iPad, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business or SharePoint (you can also save new documents in all those places) or create a new document.

The selection of PowerPoint themes is reasonable, the 15 Excel templates include a project planner, marketing budget and expense report and you get 14 Word templates for brochures, flyers and resumes.



There are plenty of things you can't do in Office for iPad, like cropping images (but there are plenty of iPad tools that do that already). There are some features you'll have to know where to look for; to find and replace in Word, first you tap the search icon, then you tap the Settings gear to switch from 'Find' to 'Find and Replace' (it's worth spending some time with the Office guide hidden on the menu you get by tapping the Autosave button).

But the beauty of this being Office is that even the features you can't edit on the iPad still display and update correctly. You can't create the conditional formatting for a heat map that makes big numbers green and negative numbers red in Excel on the iPad but if you've done that in Excel on your PC or Mac the formatting displays correctly; and if you change the number in a cell, the colour-coding updates to match the new number. You can open complicated documents without worrying that you'll be losing information or messing up your formatting.



Early verdict
Even if you've moved on from Office to other iPad tools, you'll want to take a look at Office for iPad for nice touches like the custom keyboards for numbers and formulae in Excel and it's nice to see Microsoft taking advantage of hardware acceleration for things like rotating images in PowerPoint. But you'll get the most from Office for iPad if you also use Office on your Mac or PC and want to take documents with you. Since you need an Office 365 subscription to get the editing features at all, that makes sense.

Office for iPad has pixel-perfect document viewing and while you only get a selection of the Office 2013 features, they are features that make sense, implemented in ways that work beautifully on the iPad.

— Mary Branscomb
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Motorola in talks with retailers on Moto G, Moto X

Motorola Mobility is banking on a strong brand recall and its online sales model for success in India.

NEW DELHI: Handset maker Motorola Mobility is banking on a strong brand recall and its online sales model for success in India, a market which it had quit in August 2012 and re-entered with Android smartphone Moto G and which could hold the key to the company's rebound globally. 

The company that will soon be owned by Lenovo has had discussions with retailers who want to sell Motorola phones in India, where the brand still has strong consumer recall, said Magnus Ahlqvist, corporate vice-president, EMEA and APAC at Motorola Mobility. 

"I have an open dialogue with many of the key players in the industry on the large format retail side and also with the operators. All of them are showing a lot of interest because they're all seeing that Motorola is a highly relevant brand for Indian consumers," said Ahlqvist. 

The company is getting a lot of interest from retailers to stock its products - Moto G and Moto X, said Ahlqvist, adding that though it may consider options in the future, it will continue with its present strategy to sell online, which is working extremely well. 

Motorola is the only handset seller in India which sells exclusively through online retailer Flipkart. It's first launch Moto G was sold out within hours of launch, prompting it to sell Moto X on the leading e-commerce portal last week, establishing a successful online-only sale model. 

According to industry insiders, Motorola has sold tens of thousands of Moto G devices, the 16 GB variant of which is priced at Rs 13,999 and the 8GB at Rs 12,499 on Flipkart, making it one of the most attractive purchases. Ahlqvist declined to share the sales figures of Moto G and Moto X, which is available for purchase priced between Rs 23,999 and Rs 25,999. 

The company was absent from India most of last year when smartphone sales exploded and cornered over 15% of the Indian mobile phone market. Indians bought over 41 million smartphones in 2013, according to research firm IDC. 

The smartphone market is expected to rise to 60 million devices in 2014, which will make up about 40% of total mobile phones sales from the country, offering huge potential for Motorola Mobility. 

Ahlqvist said that the company underwent a huge transformation in August 2012, after Google acquired Motorola's mobility business for $12.5 billion. "It required tough decisions in terms of reducing the number of products and business to a small number of markets but the forced change has helped it build business for the long term", he said, explaining Motorola's move to pull out of the India market
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