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Fujitsu, digit of Japan’s highest methodicalness element and IT services providers, could process Apple over the iPad name.

Back in 2002, the Asian interact launched a Windows CE.NET 5.0 “handheld profession amount for wireless networking in a retail environment” in the US, and defined to conceive it iPad.

In 2003, Fujitsu applicatory for trademarking the iPad conceive (see the concealment here), but its letter was suspended by the US Patent and Trademark Office, because there was still added interact that filed for the aforementioned stylemark before (in 2000). Mag-Tek is the company, and its iPads were “keypads for entry of individualized finding drawing in e-commerce” – gaming the concealment here.

Although the USPTO has cade Fujitsu’s concealment at digit point, the Asian interact filed for a revitalisation in 2009.

According to the Financial Times, Fujitsu declared:

“We are alive of Apple’s iPad composition and the doable advise on our trademark. We are currently discussing our options with our stylemark content and effect no boost gaming at this time.”

In scheme you’re wondering, this is what the Fujitsu iPad looks like:

The amount features a touchscreen, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth – just like Apple’s iPad.

We’ll belike encounter discover presently if Fujitsu sues Apple, or if the companies accomplish an agreement.

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Most belike sorry with the avow of popularity reached by Ovi Store until now, Nokia is intellection to mend it and promulgation a new, “refreshed” edition of it in outflow 2010 – when the prototypal Symbian^3 smartphone is plausible to be launched, too.

Introduced in May 2009, Ovi Store is Nokia’s acknowledgement to Apple’s hugely favourite App Store, but it someways not managed to accomplish its success.

Nokia recognizes that Ovi Store has problems: excruciate Linardos, the company’s media assemble nous of products, declared that their accumulation “had been outpaced by Apple after complaints on unchangingness and reliability.”

Nokia has already started to impact on a next-generation Ovi platform, based on suggestions dispatched by users. The papers module reportedly effect infant clog aforementioned a redesigned individual information and in-application payments. politico decentralised noesis and “recommendations based on friends’ app purchases” are also designed to be included in a forthcoming edition of Ovi Store.

It’s said that most 1 meg apps are downloaded lawful via Ovi Store, patch the Ovi Suite (including Ovi Maps, Ovi Mail and another services) has 80 meg active users.

Via Financial Times, Engadget

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BlackBerry users crapper already download penalization to their smartphones in different ways, but wouldn’t it be gratifying if something aforementioned Apple’s iTunes and Nokia’s Comes With Music would subsist for them too?

Well, according to the Financial Times, a penalization download assist module be acquirable for BlackBerry play Sept 2009.

Apparently, RIM is employed for this with 7Digital, a penalization download bourgeois based in the UK.

RIM’s organisation is to remuneration most 6 meg songs that module be acquirable for over-the-air downloads in the US, Canada, UK, France, FRG Italia and Spain.

(BlackBerry Tour, the smart smartphone from RIM)

BlackBerry users prototypal effect to download an concealment via the App World – exclusive then they’ll be flourishing to inbound the infant penalization service.

It’s said that most of the songs “will not effect multiple endorsement software,” communication that they’re DRM-free. Users module be flourishing to clear for a azygos road ($0.99), or for a full job ($9.99).

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Samsung and the Financial Times have recently launched a pretty interesting competition that offers participants the chance to win a trip to Sammy’s headquarters in South Korea, and a brand new Samsung Jet phone.

Unlike many other competitions, this one is open to anyone who is over the age of 18, regardless of his or her country.

To enter the competition, you must write a short paragraph (of 200 to 300 words) about “the key features of the phone of the future”.

You can send the paragraph alongside your name and contact details by e-mail, to digitalbusiness@ft.com (with “FT-Samsung Competition” in the subject field), or by post – to FT-Samsung Competition, Digital Business, Financial Times, One Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HL.

The first prize consists of a Samsung Jet phone plus a 4-day trip to Seoul, South Korea – including a visit to Samsung’s headquarters and 4 nights accommodation in a 4 star hotel. There are also two runner-up prizes: a Samsung Jet each.

Unfortunately, the entries must be received before Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 5PM GMT (that’s tomorrow), so you’ll have to hurry if you want to participate.

The Terms & Conditions of the competition can be found on Financial Times’ website.

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T-Mobile UK isn’t doing well lately and thus its parent company, Deutsche Telekom, is looking for ways to make things better.

One way to solve its problems would be to sell the British carrier. The estimated enterprise value of T-Mobile UK is of €3 billion – €4 billion ($4.2 billion – $5.6 billion), and it looks like Vodafone, one of the UK’s market leaders and one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, is interested in buying the carrier.

According to the Financial Times, Vodafone is also considering setting up a joint-venture with T-Mobile UK.

In both cases, the newly-formed company would become UK’s largest mobile operator ever, with a 40% market share (Vodafone currently has about 21 million customers, while T-Mobile has about 16 million).

It’s not clear yet if regulators will approve a transaction between Vodafone and T-Mobile UK. And since the two companies have not commented on the matter yet, we just have to wait and see how things evolve.

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If you didn’t already have enough electric and plug-in hybrid cars on your shopping list for next year, make sure you add pair of offerings from the reborn Detroit Electric to the running. The company (which, naturally, isn’t based in Detroit) has already announced a partnership with Malaysian automotive group Proton (owner of Lotus, responsible for much of the Tesla Roadster’s underpinnings), and the two are now providing a few details of the offerings set to launch throughout next year in Europe, China, the UK, and the US. Two versions of the e63 model will be available, seemingly distinguished only by how far they can go before stranding you. The so-called “city range” model is rated for 112 miles to a charge and will sell for under $26,000, while the “extended range” version pushes that distance up to 200 miles — and the price up to $33,000. MSRP for that radical ZAP Alias the company has been teasing you with for years? Nowhere to be found, naturally.

[Via Financial Times]
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Plastic Logic’s Reader may not be headed for mass consumption until 2010 (though certain “key customers” should see it in 2H 2009), but at least we’re getting a bit of assurance that said dates won’t slip yet again. Today, the outfit has formally introduced its first partners in crime: Ingram Digital (e-books), LibreDigital (e-newspapers), Zinio (e-magazines) and a direct relationship with Financial Times and USA Today. We’re also told that prospective buyers (you know, ones that skip out on Amazon’s hot ‘n fresh Kindle 2) can expect an e-content store where readers can download all sorts of engrossing material. Speaking of which, the company has also announced the simply-titled Publishers’ Program, which is completely “open” and designed for content creators, publishers and content aggregators to “create, format, sell and distribute content for easy viewing and use on the Plastic Logic Reader.” More details are, of course, tucked away in the read links below.

Read – Content partners
Read – Publishers’ Program

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Nokia has predicted that the mobile phone market segment will see lower profits for all parties in 2009, due to the current worldwide economic crisis. It believes mobile phone companies will experience the first dip in their sales figures in eight years.

At the same time, however, Nokia thinks it will fare better than many of its competitors, especially those who own a significantly smaller market share than theirs. Basically, Nokia sees the economic downturn as a bad thing for everyone, but it knows it won’t be as bad for them as it is for their competitors.

CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told the Financial Times in an interview that Nokia will focus on profit development amid a falling cellphone market in which many competitors are cutting prices. It seems Nokia is still perfectly confident in their old way of doing business, wherein they won’t reduce prices despite having competitors offering phone bargains everywhere.

Additionally, Kallasvuo brought up the fact that their current status as the mobile phone industry’s juggernaut should at least provide them with a bit more armor than its lesser market share owning rivals.

“When times are tougher, people who have stronger positions fare relatively better than the competition . . . So, overall, I believe many of our competitors will have limitations here in terms of their ability to do things.”

A bit cocky, but completely rational. So there we have confirmation that we won’t necessarily see any price reductions on any of Nokia’s upcoming phones for 2009. I guess you’ll just have to cross your fingers for handsets that are worth their list prices and then some, though.

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