This Week In Tech - Week 16, 2012
The top technology stories, week starting 16th April 2012.
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19 April 2012 - Japan's camera giant Nikon uinveils the new entry model of digital single-lens-reflex (SLR) camera "D3200" which has a 24. mega-pixel CMOS image sensor on its light weight body in Tokyo . Nikon will put the new digital SLR camera, enabling to connect the newly developed Wi-Fi adaptor, on the market next month. [ Read more ]
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18 April 2012 - Oracle Corp Chief Executive Larry Ellison said the software maker had considered building its own smartphone to compete with Apple Inc and Google Inc , but decided it was a "bad idea" after a weeks-long cost and market analysis. [ Read more ]
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17 April 2012 - In the on-going high stakes trial between Google and Oracle over the Android smartphone software, Google claims that Oracle is trying to obtain a share of Android by asserting its intellectual property rights even though it had nothing to do with its software development. [ Read more ]
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17 April - "No one comes into the store and asks for a Windows phone," said an executive in charge of mobile devices at a European operator. "If the Lumia with the same hardware came with Android in it and not Windows, it would be much easier to sell". [Read more]
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16 April 2012 - RCOM has partnered with Google to offer free 3G data service with the purchase of every Android device in India. This offer will be valid on Google branded Android devices from companies like Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson and LG. [ Read more ]
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16 April 2012 - The Federal Communications Commission censured Google for obstructing an inquiry into the Street View project, which had collected Internet communications from potentially millions of unknowing households as specially equipped cars drove slowly by. [ Read more ]