HTC v Apple, The Battle Continues

Rumbling on in a similar fashion to the Fabregas football transfer, is the HTC v’s Apple patent row.  The latest chapter in this saga see’s HTC turning up the heat.

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has now filed a lawsuit in the US against Apple, accusing its American rival of infringing its patents.  They are going as far as trying to stop US imports of iPhones, iPads, iPods and Mac computers. 

In July, HTC was found to infringe two iPhone patents in a case brought by Apple at the US International Trade Commission (ITC).  However HTC, which is one of the world's fastest-growing smartphone makers, has vowed to appeal against the ruling, which threatens its business model of designing products around the Android operating system.

It is widely thought that Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility (MMI) may offer a greater degree of protection to Android handset makers.

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Big Test for New Internet Address System

In the early 1980’s a way of identifying individual connections to a computer network was devised and called IPv4.  A maximum of 4.3bn addresses were available, but three decades later, we are running out.

The rapid growth in PCs, smartphones and other internet connected devices means those addresses are close to being used up, with only an estimated 80 million still to be allocated.

Thus, IPv6 is facing is now facing its biggest test to date; Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Bing and Facebook are among the companies switching-on IPv6 versions of their websites for the one day trial.  The trial is being used as an opportunity to test the technology but also as an awareness-raising exercise.  

Groups involved in IPv6 day say that everyone will have to make the change eventually.  It is thought that some home users and companies may require new network equipment but users should not worry at this stage if they are not switched over.