Motorola gets sued for Xoom trademark infringement

Today is the release date of Motorola Xoom. This is an important day for Motorola, not only the release of the first tablet of a honeycomb, which are device independent author was able to compete as Android compressed to 10 cm before the beginning of the iPad 2.

It is also the day that Motorola continued to trademark infringement. Online payment of Xoom Corporation, the company has filed a lawsuit against the Motorola brand in the Northern District of California, asked the court for a permanent injunction, but also a "temporary restraining order and / or an injunction."

You will not get - there is simply no way to stop the release roller Xoom - but is an interesting combination of Xoom, because there seems to be in the wrong, or troll. They have the trademark owned by Xoom since 2003. In addition, Motorola has the brand awareness, as they also own and maintain Xoom.com.

Xoom alleges that Motorola trademark infringement is "knowingly and willfully", and it seems hard to believe he is not. Presumably, Motorola believes that the mark is protected, but only in markets that have nothing to do with the tablets ... or felt they could afford to fight against this trial, as he came.

Anyway, is a rare case, since - at least - would have known Xoom Motorola trying to buy the brand. Motorola has changed the name of Xoom? Ultimately, it depends on two things: if the courts rule in favor of Xoom Corporation, and if the Xoom is popular enough to be more than a flash in the pan.

Sony Is Working On Hack-proof PS3 With 300 GB Hard Drive

When pirates Chaos Congress last year announced the method by which they had found the master key for PlayStation 3, which was immediately obvious to most that the PlayStation 3 just irrevocably hijacked. The master key, after all, allows any piece of code to impersonate Sony officially sanctioned code. Worse, the key is encoded on each PlayStation 3, so that Sony can not be changed. This means that all existing PlayStation 3 can jailbreak forever.

Since the master key has been released by Sony have gone through a lot of trouble trying to pee out of the pool, as was known to sue the hackers who have found the master key. All aware of the security, however, knew that the only thing Sony could do was to issue the new system, which uses a new (and better hidden), a master key.

Now it seems that is exactly what Sony is doing. After some recent declines in prices around the PS3, an anonymous source close to Sony said now that the machine console is deep in plans to develop a new test PS3 hackers, probably with a new key.

According to the report, hack-proof SKU will be a PS3 Slim has a 300 GB hard drive. This hard drive is designed to be an incentive to upgrade when the new system will cost about $ 299 when it hits ... which is exactly the same price as the current model 160 GB

Sony's best hope against piracy at the moment is that people replace their PlayStation 3 ... a tactic adopted by Sony with their PSP hacker-friendly. I, however, is a bigger hard drive at the same price that many hackers now encourage their libraries full game for free.

This Violin Of 8 Bits May Be The Best Instrument Ever

Flickr user Ranjit put together an impressive violin 8-bit and took pictures of it. He also recorded a video Bre Pettis (MakerBot and fame) to play. Trust me, you may want to check this.

Wondering what a violin at 8-bit, anyway? No, not playing music chiptune. Rather, the violin was grainy, 8-bit style, using all the angles. In the photo above makes things pretty clear, although some better photos in my Flickr page. The work deck is particularly cool.

The message that explains the work said it was a play violin built both maple and oak. And the sign mentioned the instructions to download thingverse, it seems reasonable to assume that the parts were laser cut or CNC machining of all kinds. Anyway, maybe you can make your own violin to 8 bits, one day before!

HTC to debut their own Facebook phone

Mobile World Congress this year seems to be a strong presence in Facebook. Earlier today we heard about the new Facebook INQ two phones, and now sources say the Financial Times that HTC will release their own mobile Facebook, which have a dedicated button which, at least act as a shortcut to the largest social network.

The phone - which is probably an Android phone due to the scalability of this operating system - can offer greater integration with Facebook in a quick launch button however. Although details are not known at this stage, it is possible that HTC Facebook API used to integrate the state of social networking, photo and video sharing.

One way they could do that is by software HTC Sense, changing the UI, they send all their Android phones. This user interface has a level of integration of Facebook in the way they prefer updates and allows users to post messages to their profile from a central point.

Maybe HTC ways to expand considerably Sense IU to manage more robust feature Facebook, and the new shortcut button is simply an external reflection of modifying the software. Anyway, it works very, very likely that HTC plans to more than balance the second hardware button on each phone with a source told the Financial Times that the Facebook feature remains "one of the main shoot of the HTC the year. "

Smartphones outsell PCs for the first time

Need further proof that the future of computing is mobile and the Internet? Consider the latest figures from IDC indicate that over 100 900 000 smart phones were sold worldwide in just the fourth quarter of 2010 alone. It is not only an increase of 82.7% number from last year's quarter of 53.9 million alone, but it also puts the total number of smartphones sold in 2010 to 302,600,000 ... an increase of 74.4% compared to 2009, and a number, which officially means that smart phones are outselling PC for the first time in history, at least for the fourth quarter.

The number of surprising at first, but it makes sense. For one thing most people already have PCs, and the market is saturated with them, while sales of smartphones are growing. In addition, most smartphones today people still want everything a PC, including email, browsing, and Facebook. Grant is the smartphone on average less expensive than a PC to boot, it is little wonder that so many people avoid buying a new computer when they can buy a new smartphone instead?

It is not to say that computers are sold in 2010. The numbers are also sold pink, but not at the same time an extreme amount. In fact, they increased only by 5.5%, transport for a total of 346.2 million units in 2010.

As for sellers smartphone sold primarily in the fourth quarter, Nokia continues to lead with 28.3 million sold smartpjones as Apple boasted 16.2 million, Research In Motion boasted 14.6 million and Samsung and HTC have been 9, 7 and 86 million respectively. Does anyone else think it reflects the seriousness of Nokia is running its business that it may sell 28.3 million smartphones and still be in danger?