Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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RIM Could Lose Top People As Shareholders Revolt

Posted: 30 May 2011 01:50 PM PDT


Reuters is reporting that wonder twins, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, could be out at RIM as shareholders continued to watch the company falter in the smartphone and revenue race. The expectation is that an group of activist investors could make a move to control the company and make changes at the top. On investor saw the pair as “taxed for time” and under pressure to perform even as they were left behind.

As a I wrote a few weeks ago, RIM is caught. They want to be “popular” but they are perceived as straight-laced and uptight. Even as Lazaridis rants about “unfair” lines of questioning shareholders are more than likely to hold him to an even higher standard and, as he fails to deliver, knock him out of the driver’s seat.

Here’s hoping.

Rumor: Is This The (Buttonless!) Nexus 3?

Posted: 30 May 2011 12:27 PM PDT

This story is about as shaky as they come, but we figured we’d pass along the details for anyone out there lookin’ to get a quick fix of Memorial Day mobile news.

Here’s what we know:

  • According to TechHog, the device up above is the one floatin’ around in the Android team’s labs as the mobile hardware test design for Ice Cream Sandwich
  • As you can see, this device appears to lack any sort of button on its face. The latest tablet build of Android (Honeycomb) ditched all hardware buttons in favor of on-screen navigation controls; is the mobile build taking the same route?
  • Some are referring to it as the “Nexus 3″; according to the guys over at Droid Life, the name “Nexus Prime” is also floating around.
  • This handset, they say, is made by HTC — but HTC isn’t alone in their hopes to be the manufacturer behind the next Nexus. According to the original tipster, LG also has something in the works
  • An unspecified party has supposedly asked TechHog to removal details/photos, and they’ve complied

To be honest, the whole thing rings up a bit strange. From the questionable source and blurry photo to the take down request (which almost never, ever happens in this industry; companies generally play dumb and publicly ignore leaks, as acknowledging them legitimizes them), I wouldn’t get too attached to this device just yet.

What Is This Mysterious HTC Windows Phone 7 Handset?

Posted: 30 May 2011 11:10 AM PDT

It sure looks a lot like the HTC Trophy (really — pretty much identical), but given the little mention of a 12 megapixel photo option (the Trophy tops out at 5) in the picture behind the jump, this is definitely looking like something new.

In most cases like this, we’d call “Photoshop!” — but this one comes from the notorious Eldar Murtazin, which is a name we’ve come to mostly trust for things like this.

Samsung Ups The Ante In Apple Patent Dispute, Requests iPhone 5, iPad 3

Posted: 30 May 2011 07:40 AM PDT

"Anything you can do, I can do better," is the tune Samsung's whistling this Memorial Day weekend, as its legal team has requested that Apple hand over some upcoming products as a part of its ongoing patent battle with the Mac maker. Just last week, Apple asked the same of Samsung, and a federal judged agreed, ordering Samsung to hand over five products from its Galaxy and Infuse lines.

For those of you who are new to the case, the issue essentially comes down to the fact that Apple's iPad and iPhone 4 look suspiciously similar to some of Samsung's Galaxy tablets and Infuse phones. After Apple sued Samsung in April over the lookalikes, Samsung immediately followed suit and counter-sued Apple for copying its products.

This time around, however, Apple has much more at stake, as Samsung lawyers have asked to see the iPad 3 and the iPhone 5: products that have never seen the light of day. The products that Apple got its hands on last week included the Galaxy S II, the Galaxy Tab 8.9 and 10.1, the Infuse 4G, and the Infuse 4G LTE. Two of those devices have already hit the market, and the remaining three have been spotted in leaked photos or product announcements across the web. In other words, everything Apple's legal team had a look at, we've seen, too.

The next-gen iPad and iPhone, on the other hand, are two tightly kept secrets. Nevertheless, Samsung believes it has a valid argument to check out these devices. In court documents posted by This Is My Next, Samsung needs the devices to "evaluate whether a likelihood of confusion exists between the Samsung and Apple products that will be in the market at the same time."

Apple, of course, rejected the request, claiming that future devices bear "no relevance" to the issue at hand, which concerns products currently in the market. There's no telling how this will end up for either manufacturer, but one thing that seems clear is that this patent battle is far from over.

[This is my next via PC World]
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