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Google, Apple to fight over Nortel’s patents

Nortel is a Canadian telecom company once a giant in its field with more than 90000 employees has now come to auction due to its bankruptcy. The company is auctioning its patents, there are more than 4000 patents coming into auction which are grouped into six categories so that many companies can buy their patents instead of a single company getting all their patents.

Apple and Google are participating in the bid. The auction also contains the 3g and 4g patents which draws these companies into the bid yet they have not disclosed their bidders. There is also an estimation that the patents are of a billion dollars worth.  Since Apple is facing lots of litigations this auction might be a useful thing in this time. The 4g is a cellular wireless standard which is fully secure Internet protocol based mobile broadband for laptops, smart phones and etc, it has a downloading speed of  100 Mbps for fast mobility communication and 1Gbps for slow mobility communication, previous versions were the pre-4g  mobile WiMAX and first release 3g long term evolution. Norton was also one of the first firms to have this WiMAX technology.

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Apple iPad in Europe and Japan – Review and Price

Apple iPad is ready for preorder as well as sales in 9 European countries.They are U.K., France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Germany, which will be followed in July in Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.Earlier the date was getting postponed but now there are many APPle shops selling iPad.Many plans for iPad are introduced in UK.Following are the plans in UK
pay £7.50 a month for 1GB of data a month on Hutchison Whampoa’s 3 network
pay £25 for 10GB a month on Orange
Pay-as-you-go and daily price plans will also be available.

Price of iPad seems to be very similar to that was in US but only difference is in US it is dollars and in UK it is in Euro but the numbers are same
The tariffs are similar around Europe.
£429 for the 16GB
Wi-Fi-only model £599 for 64GB,
between £529 for the 16GB Wi-Fi/3G rising to £699.

Much awaited device in Japan is iPad and there also it got released and there were many people standing in front of Apple store in Queue.There were around 1200 peoplr standing in front of the store.Japanese people have craze over iPad mainly to read magazines and to play games.

Apple Japan is selling both the Wi-Fi only and 3G versions, starting at 48,800 yen and 61,800 yen, respectively.

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Another Green heart mobile from Sony Ericsson – Hazel

Sony Ericsson has many new models to release this year and its turn of Hazel getting released which is falling under the category of Green heart.So as the name its denotes that mobile is going to be eco friendly but with enormous features and some could also be a new one when compared with its other models or even with other mobiles.You need to compromise on cost but sure not on the features.Though mobile is going to be eco friendly but its not going to be weather proof.
One simple information which denotes the eco friendly feature is there is not going to be a User Guide as everything will be available inside the phone memory.But not sure how this feature is going to convince novice users.

Hazel is made of recycled plastics and uses waterborne paint.It also has a power efficient charger which would in turn minimize electric consumption.Hazel even concentrates on eco friendly option with its display screen as it is designed with 2.6” mineral glass but covered with scratch-resistant display outer to it.

Price of Hazel is around $340 and in India it is around rs 12000

Features of Hazel

Less Noice More Voice.So with Hazel even if you are surrounded with noise Hazel would filter out the unnecessary noices around you

Screen Resolution

240 x 320 pixels (QVGA)
16,777,216 color TFT

Available Colors

Black
Passionate Rouge

Available Browsers

WAP 2.0/xHTML
HTML (NetFront)
RSS reader

Sizes
102.0 x 49.5 x 16.0 mm
4.0 x 1.9 x 0.6 inches

Weight
120.0 gr
4.2 oz

Memory
Internal Memory Up to 280 MB
External MicroSD™ support (up to 16 GB)

Battery

Standard battery, Li-Po 1000 mAh (BST-43)
Stand-by time – 430 h (2G) / Up to 450 h (3G)
Talk time – 10 h (2G) / Up to 4 h (3G)

Others
Noice Cancellation
Splash resistant
Support for Wi-Fi,GPRS,Bluetooth
3G Support