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Article link : http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/Uplinq/news.asp?c=30357
Kicking off day two of Uplinq, Qualcomm's developer conference, the keynote from HTC's CEO Peter Chou focused on the company's design philosophy.
"We focus on a holistic user experience, in terms of how people work and live and stay connected," Chou said.
"Which is why we put so much effort into HTC Sense - to make technology work for you."
Pointing to the importance of games, Chou introduced Steve Perlman, CEO of game streaming service Onlive, which has a strategic agreement with HTC.
Saying that he couldn't do a live demo of its streaming gameplay service, because of the amount of internet traffic at the conference, Perlman showed a video of the service running on the HTC Flyer tablet and the wireless Onlive controller to play Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
That vision thing
Agreeing with Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacob's opening keynote, Chou got a little visionary.
"The mobile revolution is putting a computer in every pocket," he said.
"Smartphones are bringing a new era, a new civilisation on a global scale, and it's happening very fast."
Big bang
Of course, as the CEO of public company, Chou had to mention some numbers. HTC sold 25 million smartphones in 2010; it's the fifth largest global phone brand.
In Q1 2011, it's already so 9.7 million smartphones, up almost three-fold.
Yet, even as an phone manufacturer, Chou was keen to point out that it was content developers who really push the market.
"We're entering a golden age of mobile development." he said.
"I like to see how people like you use these technologies to realise what is next. We want to drive what is next and that's mobile."
A helping hand
Building on this, Chou announced HTC Dev, a developers program that includes a web portal, SDK, documentation and source code, including 3D tech - something Gameloft has already used in its Spider-Man game.
HTC Dev will also include HTC OpenSense, so developers can integrate HTC's Sense UI within their applications.
The website (ww.htcdev.com) will go live in future weeks.
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Very good idea of the company HTC!
I thank Xda Devs having me on the Forum.
Cheers HTC ...
Edit: I just saw that link also mentioned: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103049
Thank you.
This thread is about all the challenges Android is going to face in time to come.
What has already been reported on XDA here
Whats taking place now
A patent troll funded by Apple, Microsoft, and a handful of other tech companies is suing Google and a number of its Android partners, including Samsung, HTC, Asustek, and LG.
The lawsuits were filed on Thursday by a tiny company called the Rockstar Consortium, as first reported by Reuters. Rockstar is a new breed of company. It’s jointly owned by five tech giants — Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, Sony, and Ericsson — and it’s chartered with making back the $4.5 billion these companies pooled together to build its patent portfolio. source
(Reuters) - The group that owns thousands of former Nortel patents filed a barrage of patent lawsuits on Thursday against cell phone manufacturers including Google, the company it outbid in the Nortel bankruptcy auction. source
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From XDA Portal POSTED NOVEMBER 3, Google Patent Trolled by Rockstar
Apple, Samsung to face off in court again on patents
Many millions at stake at 2nd Apple-Samsung trial
Anyone come across any NEW developments or anything new, please add to this thread
Google files lawsuit against Apple, Microsoft backed Rockstar patent group
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Last Updated: Friday, December 27, 2013, 11:56
Washington: Google has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Apple and Microsoft backed consortium Rockstar, claiming that its patent campaign is unfairly targeting Google's Android partners and customers.
The search giant has alleged that Rockstar's litigation campaign is placing a cloud on Google's Android platform and threatened its sales of Nexus-branded Android devices.
According to Cnet, the lawsuit stated that among the companies included in Rockstar's patent dragnet are customers and partners of Google who use Android OS in their devices ASUS, HTC, Huawei, LG, Pantech, Samsung, and ZTE. In October, Rockstar filed suits against Google and other companies over a host of allegedly infringing patents.
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Samsung, Google Sign Patent-Sharing Deal
Google CEO Slams Patent Wars
Google Strikes Back Against Apple in Patent Wars
Since 2006, Samsung has ranked No. 2 after IBM in terms of the number of registered patents in the U.S. each year. The Korean electronics giant has around 100,000 patented technologies.
According to market researcher TechIPm, Samsung own 23 percent of the fourth-generation LTE technology patents registered in the U.S.
Google for its part dominates the global mobile OS market. More than 80 percent of smartphones sold around the world are equipped with the Android OS. Google has around 50,000 patents, but though it lags behind Samsung in terms of the sheer number, it is a behemoth in the field of software.
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Check this out! Links to useful Guides and " Banned " Documentaries
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Dear Android Developers,
My name is Molly Taylor. I am a high school senior in my district’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) program, and for my senior project, I’m creating a phone app to improve safety on college campuses. My STEM teachers at school - Mountlake Terrace High - are Dan Lafferty and Penny Lefavour.
If you would be interested in being one of my mentors throughout my project, I would really appreciate it! This would entail five to ten hours of communication over the course of the next few months about topics such as usage tracking and NFC tags. I would like to know your name and credentials; soon after, I would like to talk with you over a Skype video call.
I can be contacted here, or at [email protected].
Thank you so much for your time - I really appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Molly Taylor
Senior, high school graduating class of 2017
Mountlake Terrace High School
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I never asked where the company came from, didn't realize it was a relatively new player in the market. Very cool.