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Android OS chart: Comparing the major versions [Visual Guide]

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Samsung vs. Apple: 10 more patent infringements

Samsung Electronics filed its own U.S. lawsuit against Apple, accusing the iPad maker of infringing 10 patents in an escalation of the dispute over tablet and mobile technology.

Apple vs. Sumsung in a ping-pong patent lawsuits battle

Samsung Electronics Co has filed patent lawsuits against Apple over the U.S. firm’s iPhone and iPad in a tit-for-tat case after Apple claimed Samsung’s smartphones and tablets “slavishly” copied its products

Microsoft upgrade to let phones connect to Xbox

Microsoft showed a video of three people using an Xbox game console with a Kinect camera. One of them, standing in front of the camera, “dodged” balls that appeared on the TV screen, sent by the two other players from their Windows phones.

Android 2.x now accounts for 83 percent of all active Googlephones

It’s good to see on the GRAPHIC such nice big slices taken up by Android’s most advanced versions, it seems almost a shame that Gingerbread’s arrival will soon disrupt things all over again.

RIM looks forward as India, other challenges loom

Research In Motion, its global growth and its secure-email niche challenged by both rivals and governments, is preparing for a long fight it may yet lose on a shifting battlefield.

First SMS Trojan detected for smartphones running Android

Named Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a, it has already infected a number of mobile devices.

iPhone 4 will make Apple bankrupt

Shares of Apple Inc slid more than 4 percent on Tuesday after a poor review for its iPhone 4 from an influential consumer guide underpinned mounting complaints about the hot-selling device’s reception and spurred speculation about a product recall.

Microsoft claims Android steps on its patents

The mobile phone wars got more interesting late on Tuesday as Microsoft publicly asserted for the first time that Google’s Android operating system infringes on its intellectual property.