Nokia is climbing its way back to the top of phones manufacturers as it aces rivals in 2011. It now ranks as the top dog of Windows Phones sellers, even though it was one of the last to launch the new smartphones in November. Nokia has been losing sales and profit steadily, but it hung [...]

Facebook has signed Taiwanese cellphone maker HTC to manufacture a smartphone, codenamed Buffy, that has the social network integrated at the core of its Android OS . The question now is; will anyone care to have a Facebook phone instead of simply a phone with a Facebook app on it? The first Facebook phone project, [...]

In light of Google’s recent Motorola scoop, HTC says it is considering the purchase of its own mobile operating system. HTC chairwoman Cher Wang said the company will be discussing the decision internally, though it will be far from an impulse buy. Rumors say the Taiwan-based company is looking to buy Samsung Electronics, but HTC [...]

Patent wars have taken over the Internet lately, with Google’s Android OS and Apple’s iPhone at the heat of the battle. The latest dispute involves Google’s Android partner, HTC, and Google’s nemesis, Apple. If you’ve kept an eye on the war between HTC and Apple lately, you should know that the dispute began as early [...]

Over the past few years, privacy concerns have been raised over social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. This time, Apple is getting sued over its iPhone location tracking feature by 27,000 iPhone users in South Korea. In a class law suit against Apple, the 27K plaintiffs are asking for $932 a person. In April, [...]

In yet another round of patent wars, HTC has filed a lawsuit against Apple for infringing on three patents. HTC is seeking damages as well as a ban on the sale of infringing Apple products in the U.S., including Mac computers, the iPad, iPhone, and Apple TV. The patents in question deal with communication between [...]

Google has decided to enter the patent lawsuit game, and recently purchased 1,029 of IBM’s patents. The sale was confirmed by Google last week. Although Google did not say whether the purchase was in response to the mountain of lawsuits their Android is facing, the legal activity surrounding the mobile operating system is likely the [...]

An International Trade Commission (ITC) judge has ruled that HTC, the Taiwanese Android-based handset maker, has infringed upon two of Apple’s patents. One of the patents deals with data detection technology, which is used in email and text messages, and the other deals with data transmission systems. Overall, the judge has reviewed the issue of [...]