Samsung wants to ban iPhone, iPad and iPod sales in U.S

Samsung is escalating its legal tussle with Apple with an ITC complaint aimed at barring the iPhone, iPad and iPod from being imported and sold in the U.S. The move comes about two months after Apple sued Samsung for copying the look and feel of its iPhone and iPad with its Galaxy S line of smartphones and tablets, to which the latter responded with a countersuit that alleges Apple is infringing on five patents relating to wireless networking technology.

The Korean manufacturer is hoping the U.S. International Trade Commission steps into the ongoing battle, requesting the government agency to open an investigation on Apple regarding "certain mobile electronic devices, including wireless communication devices, portable music and data processing devices, and tablet computers."
The ITC first hasn't yet agreed to look into Samsung's allegations, but if the complaint moves forward, the entire matter could still take 15 to 18 months to complete before a ban can be enacted -- or discarded, for that matter. In the meantime, Samsung is not putting its guard down in court. The company has filed a new patent lawsuit against Apple in a Delaware federal court, in addition to the ones in Seoul, Tokyo, San Francisco and Mannheim, Germany.
Despite the legal claims and counter claims, the two companies remain dependent on each other. Apple bought nearly $6 billion worth of Samsung components for its iPhone, iPad and iPod products last year, and according to COO Tim Cook's recent comments, this patent dispute should not affect their ongoing business relationship. That said, there are already rumors that Apple plans to move A6 SoC production away from Samsung in 2012, favoring TSMC instead.

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BitTorrent turns 10 Year Today

Programmer Bram Cohen began crafty the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol in April 2001. On July 2, 2001, he posted the following Yahoo Groups message: "My extra app, BitTorrent, is currently in working order, check it made known at this time -http://bitconjurer.Org/BitTorrent/." Today, the protocol is hence 10 years old.

Cohen wrote the initially BitTorrent client implementation in Python. The early response pro the extra P2P protocol was then to fictional. The single comeback he expected on the message board read as follows: "What's BitTorrent, Bram?..."

Inside the summer of 2002, Cohen collected emancipated pornography to lure beta testers to aid the curriculum. BitTorrent became standard thankfulness to its skill to quickly share generous composition and show records online. Although Cohen by no means supported piracy, BitTorrent would by no means be inflicted with be converted into standard lacking it.

Today, BitTorrent is lone of the generally ordinary protocols pro transferring generous records. Inside November 2004, it was estimated with the intention of BitTorrent accounted pro 35 percent of all Internet traffic. The newest data, from February 2009, puts the digit anywhere from 27 percent to 55 percent of all Internet traffic (depending on geographical location).

The protocol is currently maintained by Cohen's company, which furthermore goes by the first name of BitTorrent. There are numerous BitTorrent clients unfilled pro multiple computing platforms, the generally standard of which is µTorrent. Version 3.0, which adds many extra facial appearance, was released solely continue week.

Inside January 2011, the company revealed with the intention of BitTorrent and µTorrent secure 100 million monthly users. On an mean time, 20 million users from ended 220 countries aid either of the two BitTorrent clients, unfilled in 52 languages, and 400,000 extra clients are downloaded each time.

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