Friday, February 27, 2015

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, February 27

Ericsson seeks to block sales of Apple products in US, stepping up patent dispute

Social discovery app Vurb keeps your favorite apps in one place

IT News Daily
February 27, 2015

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, February 27

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Issue highlights

1. Ericsson seeks to block sales of Apple products in US, stepping up patent dispute

2. Social discovery app Vurb keeps your favorite apps in one place

3. Fresh from $532.9M win, Smartflash sues Apple again

4. 'Ride-share' and 'unboxing' added to Oxford dictionary

5. For Attensity's BI parsing tool, emoticons are no problem

6. Twitter adds more reporting tools to curb abuse and improve safety

7. IBM to pump $4 billion into cloud, mobile and analytics

8. LTE can mooch off of Wi-Fi spectrum with new Qualcomm chipset

9. Republican bill would overturn FCC municipal broadband decision

10. Grassley's position on H-1B called 'protectionist'

11. Facebook improves tool for suicide prevention

12. Google shares code to help server software digest HTTP/2

Ericsson seeks to block sales of Apple products in US, stepping up patent dispute

Some Apple products may be banned from sale in the U.S. if Ericsson gets its way after filing a barrage of patent lawsuits. READ MORE

Social discovery app Vurb keeps your favorite apps in one place

It's Friday night--time for you and your buddies to hammer out your plans for the evening. You know the drill: you start with a group text, then you launch Yelp to find a restaurant or bar nearby. Oh, there will be eight of you? Better make a reservation; switch to Open Table. Joe suggests you catch a movie first, so now you launch Fandango. And the app-switching cycle continues until your plan is finalized. READ MORE

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Fresh from $532.9M win, Smartflash sues Apple again

Shortly after a jury in Texas awarded it US$532.9 million in damages in a patent dispute with Apple, patent company Smartflash has sued the iPhone maker again, this time to focus on newer Apple products. READ MORE

'Ride-share' and 'unboxing' added to Oxford dictionary

Ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft looking to promote the "sharing" aspect of their service have scored a victory of sorts. READ MORE

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For Attensity's BI parsing tool, emoticons are no problem

For enterprises seeking to monitor the conversations going on about them in the world, the sheer volume of data is just the beginning of the challenge. Even more daunting is making sense of it all -- a task that can test the resources of the largest organization. READ MORE

Twitter adds more reporting tools to curb abuse and improve safety

Twitter has added new reporting tools to help it fight abuse and protect users on its site. READ MORE

IBM to pump $4 billion into cloud, mobile and analytics

IBM will dedicate $4 billion in spending this year to the cloud, analytics and mobile technologies, as it struggles with seismic shifts that are changing the computing landscape it once dominated, READ MORE

LTE can mooch off of Wi-Fi spectrum with new Qualcomm chipset

A chipset Qualcomm is introducing at Mobile World Congress next week is likely to make mobile operators happy and some Wi-Fi fans nervous. READ MORE

Republican bill would overturn FCC municipal broadband decision

It didn't take long for congressional Republicans to attack the Federal Communications Commission's vote to strike down two state laws that prevent municipal broadband networks from expanding. READ MORE

Grassley's position on H-1B called 'protectionist'

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Facebook improves tool for suicide prevention

Facebook is adding new features to its site to provide better information and support to people at risk of suicide. READ MORE

Google shares code to help server software digest HTTP/2

Potentially offering a boost for web server software worldwide, Google has released as open source a framework for HTTP/2, the newly updated standard for transmitting Web pages and Web applications over the Internet. READ MORE

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