BlackBerry wins ban against Typo Products’s iPhone keyboard

A court order bans Seacrest's company, Typo Products LLC, from selling its iPhone keyboard in the US.

SAN FRANCISCO: Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry has won an early round in its legal battle against an iPhone keyboard made by a startup co-founded by "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest.

A court order bans Seacrest's company, Typo Products, from selling its iPhone keyboard in the US while BlackBerry proceeds with a patent infringement case against the product. BlackBerry contends Typo Products ripped off the design from the physical keyboards used for typing on BlackBerry's phones.

US District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco ruled that BlackBerry is likely to prove its infringement claims against Typo Products and would be damaged if the sales of the $99 iPhone keyboard were allowed to continue.

The ban could be lifted later in the case if Typo Products prevails in its claims that its iPhone keyboard isn't based on any of BlackBerry's patented designs or technology.

"This ruling will help prevent further injury to BlackBerry from Typo's blatant theft of our patented keyboard technology," BlackBerry said in a statement.

Typo Products said it plans to appeal Orrick's ruling. "Typo will continue to make and sell innovative products that busy people can't live without," the Los Angeles company said in a statement.

In court papers, Typo Products warned that it might go out of business if it was not allowed to keep selling its iPhone keyboard.

Seacrest started Typo Products with entrepreneur Laurence Hallier last year. The iPhone keyboard went on sale in January as an alternative to typing on a touch screen.

The physical keyboards on BlackBerry's phones helped reshape the way that people used mobile devices.

But those phones have been waning in popularity since Apple. released the first iPhone in 2007, threatening BlackBerry's survival. As its losses have mounted, BlackBerry's market value has plummeted from more than $80 billion in 2008 to less than $5 billion today.

The Canadian company is trying to bounce back by focusing more on its software than its smartphones under CEO John Chen, who took charge last year. BlackBerry lost $5.9 billion in its last fiscal year ending March 1
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Yahoo in talks to buy online video service NDN for $300 million: WSJ

Yahoo is in talks to buy online-video service News Distribution Network (NDN), according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

Yahoo is in talks to buy online-video service News Distribution Network (NDN), according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources. According to those sources, Yahoo could pay up to $300 million in the deal. 

NDN, a video syndication service, is the fourth-largest video site, with 573 million video views. (Yahoo is fifth, with 384 million.) It doesn't make any of its own videos - it has a collection of 100,000 videos, and makes those clips available to sites such as Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News and Bloomberg. 

The move would help Yahoo expand its videos to thousands of new sites, according to the WSJ. 

An NDN spokeswoman denied that the company is in talks with Yahoo at this time. 

Re/code reported last week that Yahoo was approaching popular YouTube stars and networks, trying to poach them for its own online video service. 

This isn't the first time Yahoo has tried to make a name for itself in the video world. The company hired Katie Couric last year. It also put in a bid to buy Hulu last year, before it dropped out of the bidding. It was also looking to buy Dailymotion last year, before the talks fizzled.

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World Twenty20: MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh rediscover the magic

All of Yuvraj's glory moments in T20 cricket have come while batting with Dhoni. (AFP Photo)

DHAKA: While they haven't spoken much during training, India skipper MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh had frequent mid-pitch consultations during their match-turning 84-run stand in 42 balls against Australia on Sunday. Often, the conversation was initiated by the former.

In the 18th over, bowled by Watson, Yuvraj chased a wide one outside off in a failed attempt at a slash. Dhoni walked down to the striker and asked the left-hander to consider standing on off and middle. Yuvraj did as told and found himself in great position to deposit a full toss on middle and leg over square-leg.

It was constructive feedback from Dhoni, a result of knowing the other person's strengths. With Dhoni, Yuvraj has starred in 164 ODI wins for India and his average, while scoring 5622 runs in those wins, is 49.68. They have batted together 64 times in ODIs and have added 2797 runs with nine 100-plus stands (all resulting in wins) and 13 fifty-plus stands. In Indian wins, they have scored 2080 runs.

They are a rocking pair in T20 Internationals too. They have batted 18 times and aggregated 657 runs with one 100-stand and four 50-plus stands. Yuvraj has played 38 T20Is and has been on the winning side in 22 of them, all with Dhoni. While his career average is 32.37, his average in winning games played with the Indian skipper is 49.78.

All of Yuvraj's glory moments in T20 cricket have come while batting with his captain. Remember who was there at the non-striker's end in Durban in 2007, when Yuvi hit Stuart Broad for six sixes in an over? Check out who his partner was when Yuvi carved Pakistan all over Motera during his 72 in 36 balls in December 2012 or at Rajkot last October, when he belted 77 in 35 balls as India chased down 202 against the Aussies.



Yuvraj's form and confidence looked shaky after two poor outings and India were in trouble at 66-4 in 11.3 overs as Dhoni walked in to bat. It was Yuvraj, though, who helped him out.

"When I went in, I was the new batsman, so obviously he gave me the feedback on what was happening," revealed Dhoni. "We knew that our partnership was very important. I always prefer that your main batsmen should bat deep," Dhoni analysed.

Deconstructing Yuvraj's knock, Dhoni said, "Yuvraj was brilliant because of the way he paced his innings. An innings like this was needed for him, where he can be expressive and be himself. We all know the kind of batsman he is. He can clear any ground in the world. It doesn't matter if it's a fast bowler or a spinner. He may struggle for the first five-seven deliveries. If you get him out, your good luck. Else, he'll take you out of the game."

If you search for some of the most endearing images or videos of Yuvraj's career, you will find him jumping over Dhoni in Karachi in February 2006 after he had scored 107 not out and added an unbroken 146 with the keeper to help India chase down 287 in 46.5 overs.

In another video, you will find him sprinting from fine-leg and jumping over his skipper in Brisbane in March 2008, after India beat Australia to win their maiden tri-series title. And then, there is the image of the two hugging each other at the Wankhede on April 2, 2011 after India won the World Cup.

Over time, their relationship seemed to have become somewhat cold. In Dhaka, on Sunday, they broke the ice
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Windows Phone 8.1 notification centre, parallax effect leaked

Upcoming features of Windows Phone 8.1 have leaked online, courtesy two videos uploaded by Chinese website Coolxap.

NEW DELHI: Microsoft is set to announce Windows Phone 8.1, the first major update for the company's mobile platform, on April 2. However, upcoming features of the operating system have leaked online, courtesy two videos uploaded by Chinese website Coolxap.

The videos shows the all-new Action Center notification menu of Windows Phone 8.1; notification centre has remained one of the key missing features of the Windows Phone platform till now. Microsoft's Action Center menu can be accessed by a downward swipe from the top, the same way it works in Android. The leaked video shows toggles for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Camera and brightness present in Action Center.

Another key feature revealed by the videos is support for Live Tile background images. Users will be able to select an image from Facebook, OneDrive, photo albums or the default pictures provided in the phone to set as the background for Live Tiles. The particular image will appear as the background for Live Tiles, creating a parallax effect for added depth. Apple's iOS 7 operating system also features parallax effect, which is said to induce motion sickness in some users.

Windows Phone 8.1's leaked videos also show a revamped user interface for the Camera app and the updated Windows Phone Store.

One of the videos features the upcoming Lumia 630 smartphone, codenamed MoneyPenny. The device runs on Windows Phone 8.1 and has on-screen buttons for Home, Back and Search; Windows Phone 8 does not support on-screen buttons and all phones powered by the platform have haptic keys below the display.

Lumia 630 is expected to have a 4.5-inch screen with 800x480p resolution, quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor, 1GB RAM and 5MP camera. It is rumoured that the phone will be available for 1,000 yuan in China. This phone, as well as the rumoured Lumia 930, is likely to be unveiled at Build 2014 by Microsoft. The company is also said to be working on Lumia 1820, a high-end smartphone.

All the above mentioned Windows Phone 8.1 features except parallax effect had been leaked earlier as well. Other leaked features of the operating system update include Siri-rival Cortana, a new version of Internet Explorer browser, improved multitasking, better storage management, VPN (Virtual Private Network) support and common apps for smartphones and tablets.

Greg Sullivan, the public relations director for Windows Phone, in January said that all smartphones running on Windows Phone 8 will get the 8.1 update.

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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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Samsung Galaxy S5 pre-orders start in India

Samsung Galaxy S5 can be booked on the company’s official e-store for a sum of Rs 1,500. 

NEW DELHI: Samsung has started taking pre-orders for the Galaxy S5 smartphone in India.

The device can be booked on the company's official e-store for a sum of Rs 1,500. Samsung has not disclosed the price of Galaxy S5 yet, and has only announced that it will cost between Rs 51,000 and Rs 53,000.

According to the Galaxy S5 listing on Samsung India's e-store, those who book the phone in advance will get 15% cash-back if they pay the remaining amount using a Citibank credit card.

Samsung has not disclosed if it would refund the Rs 1,500 if a buyer is unable to pay the full amount after placing an order. The device is slated to hit the market on April 11 in India as well as in several major markets.

The all-new Galaxy S5 is the top model in Samsung's smartphone portfolio. It features a 5.1-inch Full HD screen, the latest Android version, fingerprint sensor, heart-rate monitor, health-centric apps and water- as well as dust-resistant body. Other key features of the smartphone are 16MP rear camera, eight-core Samsung Exynos processor, 2GB RAM, 16GB internal storage, 64GB microSD support and 3,000mAh battery with ultra power saving mode.
The smartphone competes with Apple iPhone 5S, Google Nexus 5 and LG G2 in the market. Sony and HTC are expected to soon launch the Xperia Z2 and One (M8) smartphones in the same segment.

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Samsung on Thursday announced that Galaxy S5, its new flagship smartphone, will star selling in India at a price between Rs 51,000 to Rs 53,000 from April 11. Like the top Galaxy phones launched earlier, Galaxy S5 too comes packed with some unique features and top-of-the-line hardware.

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Silicon Valley is no country for old men

The home of technology has been called the most ageist place in the world.

Dr Seth Matarasso is a cosmetic surgeon in San Francisco. When he started his practice two decades ago, his patients were middle-aged and female. Today, most of his patients are from Silicon Valley, and in their twenties. 

Tech is young people's business. This is an impression that has been reinforced by the images of a young Jobs and Wozniak, beaming over their prototype Apple II, or by Mark Zuckerberg telling a Stanford audience that "young people are just smarter" and companies saying that they want people who have "Their Best Work Ahead of Them, Not Behind Them."

The New Republic's Noam Scheiber looks at the extreme ageism of Silicon Valley. He quotes an engineer in his 40s who met a tech CEO who was trying to acquire the company he worked for. The CEO looked at him and said: "You must be the token graybeard." The engineer responded that he was the token grown-up . 

Snappy comebacks apart, Silicon Valley is notorious for its prejudice against older people. "In 2011, Google settled a multimillion-dollar claim brought by a computer scientist named Brian Reid, who had been fired when he was 54. Reid said colleagues and supervisors had frequently referred to him as 'an old man' and 'an old fuddy-duddy' ... ". 

Scheiber follows the attempts of Nick Stamos, a 40-something techie and former CTO of a billion -dollar tech company, to raise venture funding for his idea. Stamos gets steadily frustrated as VCs happily fund companies founded by pimply kids with half-baked ideas, throwing in good money after bad. The funders he talks to believe that his idea is good, and his grasp of technology is excellent, but when it comes to funding, they say nothing. 
Ultimately, the idea of young innovators may just be a mirage. About 15% of the winners of the Nobel prize in scientific disciplines are in their 20s - and the percentage holds good for 50-somethings as well.

Source: New Republic.com 

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Apps that help you avoid people

Social media expects us to be, well, social. Constantly telling people what we're doing, where we are, where they could meet us for a cup of coffee — and that that can be bothersome. There are, after all, lots of people we do not want to meet, no matter how many times we might "like" what they post on Facebook. 

Thankfully though, somebody has finally begun to understand. The result being apps that instead of forcing us to be social, allow us to do the exact opposite — avoid people. 

The app Cloak works by pulling in data from people's Instagram and Foursquare accounts, thereby pinpointing exactly where those people are posting from. The next bit is simple, once you know where they are — you make certain you don't go there. 

The app, perhaps expectedly, came about after one of its creators, Brian Moore, bumped into an exgirlfriend four times in six months. He finally developed the app with a friend, Chris Baker. 

It is probable that a number of other people have had the same problem as Moore because in the two weeks since the app launched, it's collected over a 100,000 users. 

Commentators obviously immediately latched onto that, wondering whether the impressive numbers were a sign that the world had been crying out for a Cloak. And whether, contrary to what is told to us every other day, a lot of people actually do like their privacy? 

Whatever the answer, said the commentators, what Cloak does for us is give us an excuse to stop pretending like we actually like interacting with other people and instead allow us to retreat into the socially awkward bubbles we've never quite shed. Or, as the commentators asked: "Let's be honest, who really enjoys running into the boy who used to pull your hair in third grade?

Or your ex-boyfriend's creepy work buddy? The answer, if we're being truly honest with ourselves , is nobody. Because if you don't care enough about somebody to willingly keep in touch with them, having them thrust upon you in the middle of a crowded street won't be a particularly enjoyable experience." 

Udi Dagan certainly knew what Moore had to go through for his app, Split — it does the same thing as Cloak — pulls in information from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Foursquare to help users avoid people they do not wish to see. Dagan's reasons for being anti-social ? Exactly the same — he bumped into two ex-girlfriends in a matter of hours on a night out. 

Split allows you to check locations in advance to make certain they're clear of any "undesirables" , see which venues they tend to frequent . The app will even alert you should an undesirable begin to close in on you and, best of all, it will even suggest an escape route. 

Like with all technology though, there is always the fear of misuse. In this case from stalkers. Dagan says that the same features that help users avoid people can also be used to track them. Or that instead of avoiding an ex, if you want to know what is happening with her, where she is, who she is with — people could use it to do that too. 

But still, say the experts, only a handful of Cloak and Split users — say about 1% — will use the apps for that purpose, rather than what they were put out there for
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