RIM loses a dispute against Nokia in Swedish courts over the use of wifi patents-- and risks a sales ban of BlackBerry devices should it fail to reach a new royalties deal with the Finnish mobile maker. 

In other words, nothing too new in the world of mobile titans slugging at each other in courts around the world... 

The Nokia patents cover a number of crucial WLAN technologies (wifi, IEEE 802.11). The dispute follows a 2003 agreement (amended in 2008) allowing RIM to use a number of Nokia-owned patents, but since 2011 the two companies failed to Read more...

Research in Motion (RIM) announces the date for the global BlackBerry 10 launch-- January 30 2012, with the date marking the launch of the new BlackBerry platform and 2 new BlackBerry 10 smartphones.

BlackBerry 10 is the last great hope for a RIM struggling against the iPhone and Android devices. The company promises "a truly unique mobile computing experience" through BlackBerry Flow, a system allowing easy navigation between apps and a "hub" containing messages, notifications, feeds and events.

RIM also says the platform has FIPS 140-2 certification, Read more...

UK-based ARM reveals two processor cores for use in the smartphones, tablets and even servers of the near future-- the Cortex-A53 and Cortex A57.

Both carry the 64-bit ARMv8 architecture launched back in October 2011, and are compatible with 32-bit ARM applications.

ARM calls the A53 "the smallest" 64-bit chip yet, as well as the most power-efficient ARM application processor. Meanwhile the A57 is the "most advanced" applications processor from the company.

Like the earlier Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7, vendors can link the two processors in what Read more...

Fujitsu has a number of Windows 8-ready devices for enterprise customers-- the Esprimo X913-T AIO PC, the Lifebook T902 convertible notebook, Stylistic Q572 tablet and Styistic Q702 laptop-tablet hybrid. 

While all the above ship with Windows 8, Fujitsu insists customers can also go for Windows 7 licenses. 

The Esprimo X913-T is a 23-inch AIO PC with an ultrasound sensor detecting when a user is sitting at the screen. The PC automatically locks and switches to low-power mode (or shuts down) once the user leaves their desk.

A facial recognition sensor Read more...