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  • July 4th, 2012

    Google wades into Samsung/Apple patent battle 

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    wraggster
    Published on July 4th, 2012 00:28
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    2. Apple iPad

    The ongoing patent dispute between Samsung and Apple has stepped up a level as Google has entered the fray.

    Last week, the US District Court for Northern California granted Apple an injunction against Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus, which appears to have been the catalyst for Google’s involvement

    A Samsung insider was reported as saying: ““It’s too early to comment on our game plan [with Google] in the legal battle; but we will do our best to get more royalties from Apple, which has benefited from our technology”

    Samsung is demanding Apple pay 2.4 per cent of the retail price of iPhones and iPads to use its technology. However, the Cupertino-based company claims the rate is excessive.

    Apple is also seeking injunctions against Samsung’s products for copying the design of the iPhone and iPad.

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    eyeSight to bring gesture UI to Windows 8 

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    wraggster
    Published on July 4th, 2012 00:23
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    2. PC News

    eyeCan product lets users control windows, apps, media, the Metro UI any more by passing the hand over the screen.
    Israeli firm eyeSight already offers its hand-waving tech to app developers on Android, iOS, previous Windows versions and even TV makers.
    Now it's prepping the tech for Microsoft's radically re-imagined new Windows OS.

    Its software-only technology has been designed to be simple to integrate. It offers OEMs an SDK to quickly gesture control into the features and applications at a code level. But there's also a solution for Windows 8 that requires no code at all.
    “The Windows 8 user-interface has been designed beautifully for touch,” said Gideon Shmuel, CEO, eyeSight Mobile Technologies, “and OEMs are now hungry for a simple-to-integrate, mass market answer to touch-free control. And as hardware-based solutions incur significant costs, time and real-estate issues, software is clearly the best way to achieve this.”

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    US consumers spent $1.38 billion on digital gaming in Q1 

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    wraggster
    Published on July 4th, 2012 00:22
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    2. DCEmu

    European figures are equally impressive, totalling $959 million.
    US consumers $1.38 billion spent on digital game content in the first quarter of 2012.

    On top of the $1.5 billion spent on new physical video and PC game software, The NPD Group has found that US consumers spent a further $1.38billion on digital content.

    This includes full games and add-ons, subscriptions, mobile games and social network games.

    Anita Frazier (pictured), industry analyst at The NPD Group, said: “The declines in the physical market for new physical software are well documented…. While the growth in digital format sales does not yet offset the declines in physical format sales, clearly the changes occurring within the industry are reflected in the trends we are seeing in the research."

    Similar research in the UK, France and Germany shows that digital format sales in those three countries generated an additional $959 million in sales during Q1 2012. Outside of new physical retail, sales totalled $300m.

    Frazier said: “Relative to the spend in the US, we find that the consumer spend on mobile games is still developing in the three European countries we are covering, while the spend on full game and add-on content digital downloads and subscriptions is more highly developed.”

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