Sony Corp. has filed patent infringement complaint against LG Electronics Inc. and its American subsidiaries of U. S. International Trade Commission, saying the LG mobile phones and modems stepped on patented technology, including photographs based caller ID. Among the seven proprietaries, Sony cites is a one in which it describes how to link pictures with numbers, so if someone calls any contact, for example, the caller’s photo appears on the phone, according to the documents made public Wednesday. Sony also has a lawsuit against LG U. S. District Court in Los Angeles. Filing is available online on Wednesday and it was not known if Sony made identical claims. LG did not immediately replied with messages seeking comment. Growing smartphone market. Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., HTC Corp.and Nokia Corp. and others have taken legal action against intellectual property [...]
Published on December 31, 2010 |
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Egyptian army, which is the largest recipient of U.S. military aid after Israel, is in decline, according to American diplomats, the Arab nation’s top brass to blame for not modernizing and adapting to cope with new threats. U.S. diplomatic memo leaked this month of a previously unknown friction between the two allies and military aid to the strategy. The military support has always been seen as staunch ties with Egypt and the U.S., even if the political party Union has gone through ups and downs of the pressure off the public and reform in Washington and human rights. Disagreements, memos show, over a wide range of issues, which the U.S. military focus of the Egyptian press towards terrorism,stopping cross-border smuggling and help out with regional crises. “The United States has sought [...]
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The rate of teenage births in the U.S. is at its lowest level in almost 70 years. Still, the sobering context is that the teen pregnancy rate is much lower than in many other countries. The most convincing explanation is that contraceptive use is much higher among teenagers in most Western European countries. Last week, the United States health officials announced a new government figures that showed 39 births per 1000 girls aged between 15 to 19 - the lowest rate since records have been kept on this topic. It is close to the teen birth rate in Romania, Turkey and Bulgaria in2007 the World Bank’s latest available data, which assess a variety of international developments in data collection. [...]
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The flood waters rose over a large area of north-eastern Australia on Friday, flooding 22 cities, forcing 200,000 people from their homes and making the closure of an important sugar export port. Flooding has already closed coal mines in Queensland state and its largest coal export port, which allows miners such as Rio Tinto and Anglo American to slow down or suspend operations. The worst floods in 50 years caused by ”La Nina” weather pattern, which cools the waters of the eastern Pacific and heavy rain over the past two weeks, the north-east of Australia. In the southern states of Victoria and South Australia, meanwhile, with high temperatures and tinder dry conditions have fanned fires. The authorities warned of possible ”catastrophic” if the conditions deteriorated and the passengers were asked to prepare evacuation plans. Andrew Lawson, [...]
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The top-ranked Rafael Nadal defeated Tomas Berdych with 6-4, 6-4 Friday to enter the final of World Tennis Championships. Nadal, who won the tournament last year, struggled against the 6th position in the Czech’s serve at the start before taking charge in ninth game. He hit a forehand corner and go on to break Berdych 5-4. He won the second set with another forehand corner. Nadal cruised to another 4-1 lead, breaking Berdych twice before the 25-year-old Czech took the next two games to make it 4-3. But Nadal Berdych comeback fell short and ended the game in the Czech forehand return on the net. In the finals Saturday, Nadal will be facing Roger Federer. He beat Robin Soderling with a score of [...]
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At least 39 people have died of torture in prisons of Uzbekistan this year amid a spiraling crackdown on government critics and religious groups, a respected human rights organization said Thursday. The Independent Human Rights Defenders group said the figure was based on information from the victims’ families and former prisoners. It added that the [...]
Published on December 30, 2010 |
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The Srikrishna committee that was established in February 2010 to investigate the Telangana state demand issue on Thursday, submitted its report to Home Minister P Chidambaram. The report is now being discussed with political actors of Andhra Pradesh before dawn on the public stage. After going through a two-volume report delivered to Chidambaram, he said the recommendations of Srikrishna commission on Telangana will be discussed with political parties and added that the disclosure is on 6th of January 2011. Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam Party (PRP), and the former leader of the Congress for Jagan Mohan Reddy of [...]
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According to the Reuters report obtained from New York – The Baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrewwas was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, the former Washington Senators and Minnesota Twins slugger said Thursday. ”I have begun preparing for what is perhaps the most difficult battle of my life,” Killebrew, who are treated with the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, said in a statement. “While my condition is very serious, I have confidence in my doctors and the medical staff, and I anticipate [...]
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The Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav was held guilty Thursday of raping a worker when he was a Cabinet minister, the most serious criminal charges against senior officials in Israel. Katsav, 65, faces four to 16 years in prison for crimes, including the rape of two employees in the year 1998, when he was Minister of Tourism and lesser counts of indecent acts and sexual harassment involving two other women who worked for him. It was a stunning fall from grace of a man who rose from poverty to the high power. He was a model of success for Sephardic Jews -those of Middle Eastern background - who for decades has been the sub-class ethnic society. Conviction of rape for a former [...]
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Thousands of Ivory Coast’s refugees have fled across to the border in neighboring Liberia due to tensions that emerged in the country after last month’s disputed presidential election. Fresh wave of Ivorian refugees in addition to the 14,000 people who have been registered with UNHCR in eastern Liberia last week. “With their numbers growing, the humanitarian needs are increasing for the mostly women and children refugees as well as for the villagers hosting them,” the UN agency said, adding that it produces more [...]
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