HTC Android handset sales banned in US

Apple wins patent case, but HTC has until April to fix infringement

Apple has won a legal case which, in theory, bans the sale of some HTC Android phones in the United States from April 2012.

According to the International Trade Commission's findings, the Taiwanese smartphone titan has infringed upon an Apple patent.

Nook Color gets multimedia upgrade, further blurs the tablet battle lines

Barnes & Noble's Nook Color is getting a piece of that promised multimedia upgrade. This round features video content from the likes of Netflix and Flixster, access to comics from the true believers at Marvel and a few other tweaks, like the ability to read books in landscape mode, to fully take advantage of that seven-inch display. The update further blurs the lines between the Color, which began life as little more than a color screen e-reader and the recently introduced Nook Tablet, which features souped up internals but an otherwise similar design. The Color is currently priced at $199 -- $50 less than the Tablet -- and will be getting more software upgrades in the future, including access to music services like Pandora and Rhapsody. Press info after the break.

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iPhone 4S Rival Alert : HTC Rezound Will Run Ice Cream Sandwich

HTC announced that its newest top of the range Android handset, the HTC Rezound, would be upgradable to Google's newest operating system, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, by early next year.

Peter Chou, the CEO of HTC, made the announcement at the event to mark the launch of the device. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is currently the only smartphone on the market to come with ICS and will be launched in the UK in the second half of November.

PowerDVD 11 outed, brings lots of love for smartphones and tablets

CyberLink has today introduced the 11th version of its PowerDVD software which can be used to play Blu-ray/DVD movies, videos, view photos and listen to music. The content seen with PowerDVD can come from a hard drive, an optical drive, the internet, or from mobile devices like phones and tablets.