Samsung calls for US ban on Apple over patent row

Apple should be banned from selling iPhones, iPads and iPods in the US, according to a technology rival which claims the manufacturer is infringing its patents.

Official fan fest for ‘Call of Duty’ planned for September

Call of Duty XP is the name of Activision’s new two-day Los Angeles festival of all things CoD this September, with a special focus on exclusive reveals for November’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Samsung seeks US import ban on Apple products

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics said Thursday it had asked the US International Trade Commission to ban the import of Apple products into the United States, expanding its patent war with the US giant.

‘Age of Conan’ relaunches as free-to-play

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures relaunched as the free-to-play Age of Conan: Unchained on July 1.

Virgin America partners with Google for in-flight laptop rental

Virgin America has teamed up with Google to offer travelers access to a Chromebook, Google’s new laptop, when they fly with the US airline.

Top tech headlines: Google+, Nexus Prime and iPhone 5 rumors, MySpace sale

Hot topics in the tech blogs for the week ending July 1 include the soft launch of Google’s new social network, MySpace gets sold for a song, rumors about Google and Apple’s flagship smartphones, BlackBerry employee calls to bosses to encourage innova…

Your wallet will be obsolete by 2015: PayPal

Internet money transfer company PayPal has just hit its 100 million active accounts milestone, and with it, the company is predicting that mobile payments will supersede physical wallets in the not too distant future.

Heavy metal baby rocks out: viral video spotlight

A video of a young child rocking out to heavy metal band Pantera has gone viral on YouTube and around the web on July 1.

Tech agenda: Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals, International SINOCES

This week Imagine Cup, the world’s number-one student technology competition will take place in New York and the massive SINOCES consumer electronics show will be held in China. 

Justin Timberlake takes stake in MySpace

Music superstar and actor Justin Timberlake has signed on as a new partial owner of MySpace, along with Specific Media, which bought the service from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

 
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