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China court orders Samsung units to pay $11.6 million to Huawei over patent case A Chinese court has ordered Samsung Electronics's ( 005930.KS ) mainland subsidiaries to pay 80 million yuan ($11.60 million) to Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL] for patent infringement, the China firm's first victory against Samsung on its legal challenges over intellectual property. Three units of Samsung have been ordered by the Quanzhou Intermediary Court to pay the sum for infringing a patent held by Huawei Device Co Limited, the handset unit of Huawei, the Quanzhou Evening News, a government-run newspaper, said on its website on Thursday. The verdict is the first on several lawsuits of Huawei against the South Korean technology giant. Huawei filed lawsuits against Samsung in May in courts in China and the United States - the first by it against Samsung - claiming infringements of smartphone patents. Samsung subsequently countersued Huawei in China for IP infringement. A spokesman for...

China’s push to become a tech superpower triggers alarms abroad As Beijing pushes to be self-sufficient, rivals see security and competition threats Tim Byrnes is an unlikely symbol of China’s bid to become the world’s high-tech superpower. For a start he is Australian. Yet the 39-year-old quantum physicist’s decision to swap a research post in New York for Shanghai goes some way to explaining the lengths to which Beijing is going in its efforts to upend the world order. “Quantum physics is very strong in China,” says Mr Byrnes. “The top groups are as good as anywhere in the world . . . and doing some amazing things.” Mr Byrnes is working to develop new technologies that will ultimately, he hopes, help deliver the holy grail of the sector — a quantum computer. His position as assistant professor of physics at New York University Shanghai is the result of a global recruitment drive to hire 10,000 of the world’s brightest minds. Recruitment forms part of a broader strategy to...

Thousands of people oppose the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), including the Obama Administration and Anonymous . The bill, which was recently passed by the United States House of Representatives, looks to give businesses and the federal government legal protection to share cyber threats with one another in an effort to prevent online attacks . Internet privacy and neutrality advocates feel as if the bill does not contain enough limits on how and when private information can be monitored. Numerous technology companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, IBM, Intel and Oracle have voiced their support for the bill. Mozilla on Tuesday, however, took a stand and announced its opposition against CISPA. While we wholeheartedly support a more secure Internet, CISPA has a broad and alarming reach that goes far beyond Internet security, the companys privacy and public policy lead said to Forbes . The bill infringes on our privacy, includes vague definit...

As Microsoft brings its Metro style from the mobile world back to the desktop in Windows 8 , it's also focusing on keeping the smooth animated transitions users have gotten used to on certain mobile platforms intact. A new post on the Windows 8 app developer blog breaks down exactly what devs can do to achieve a consistent and fluid style in their apps even when they're using the new look. Unless you're planning on getting your hands dirty with code there's not much to see other than the (incredibly brief) animation sample embedded after the break. Still, Microsoft says following its animation guidelines should be enough to keep GPU-powered animations flowing smoothly whether they're custom built or based on its own presets. Reactions to the new face of Windows have been decidedly mixed since the Consumer Preview launched , we'll see if this work pays off in third party apps that make the transition worthwhile. Continue reading Microsoft shows devs the secret...

Do you love Instagram and love to travel? Win a Social Media Week contest and youll go on a trip across the world if you can capture the best shot of your city. Social Media Week is looking for the 14 best shots of this years 14 host cities Barcelona, Berlin, Bogota, Chicago, Doha, Glasgow, Hong Kong, Jeddah, London, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Torino and Vancouver taken with smartphones. ! All y ou need to do is tag your contest-worthy photo with #InstagramYourCity and the name of the city youve captured by June 29. You can submit photos filtered by other photo apps, such as Hipstamatic, Camera+ and Lightbox. Theres also no limit to the number of photos you can enter, so feel free to go wild. One photo will be chosen from all applicants from the 14 cities. The winning photographer can chose to spend Social Media Week, which will take place Sept. 24 through 28, in any of the hosting cities. Social Media Week has been hosted by 26 different cities over the last four years. BON...

Fitting a truly quick solid-state drive into a small space isn't easy, and for that reason RunCore 's new Mini DOM (Disk On Module) stands out from the crowd. It's billed as the first single-chip SSD to use a SATA interface (SATA II, to be exact), giving it that much more bandwidth than the pokey IDE and PATA DOMs of old while remaining under half the size of a regular mSATA drive . RunCore's own tests show it hitting about 113MB/s sequential reads and 47MB/s writes. Neither figure will knock the socks off even a mainstream budget SSD like Intel's SSD 330 , but they're more than brisk enough for embedded gear. The drives can survive brutal conditions, too: an Industrial Grade trim level can survive temperatures as chilly as -40F and as scorching as 185F. So, the next time you pry open some military equipment and see one of these sitting inside, in three different formats and capacities from 8GB to 64GB, you'll know exactly what you're looking at. Conti...

Don't feel like having media purchased through Google Play billed directly to your credit card? Well, now you can have those charges simply added to your monthly phone bill, provided you're on T-Mobile here in the US, or NTT Docomo, KDDI, or Softbank in Japan. According to Google's posting about the move, Sprint will soon be offering the option to pay for movies, books and movies purchased through Big G's market along side your voice and data plan. For T-Mobile subscribers that means both apps and content can simply be added to your tab, while AT&T is sticking with carrier billing for apps only at the moment. Conspicuously absent from the whole shebang, however, is Verizon, which has been one of the more prominent Android pushers here in the US. For a complete list of carriers with at least some direct billing features check out the more coverage link. Google Play adds carrier billing for music, movies and books originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 May...