The complaint comes after negotiations between the two companies over licensing of the patents broke down.
“Pioneer has been negotiating in good faith also with Garmin for a license to Pioneer’s navigation patent portfolio,” Pioneer said in a statement issued on Monday. “However, since the value of the portfolio has not been fairly evaluated by [...]

Sony’s old PRS-500 eBook reader gains a new trick with the addition of ePub format support, says MobileRead. Oh, but it’s quite a trick to get the support. While one would expect this to be a simple firmware update, it isn’t. Well, it’s either that or it’s a way for you to get a [...]

Q: What are these?
A: Well you might recognize the Home Button of your iPhone iPod Touch. They are Home Buttons.
Q: I like those, can I order them?
A: Yes, at powerbookmedic.com they sell these for just around $15. They also have other stuff like earrings made from macbook buttons.
Know an iPhone Enthusiast? Perfect for the [...]

It’s almost as much fun speculating about new gaming hardware as it is playing on current-gen consoles, so color us intrigued at DigitalFoundry’s “credible sources” who are saying that the next-gen Nintendo DS will run NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 and that it’s “not unrealistic” that the handheld will out-grunt the current Nintendo Wii.  Problem is, [...]

Worthy of a sultry Number Six, but priced at a more commonfolk level, the MK 2 Circuit watch from Storm of London is one of those rare gadgety watches that actually displays the time in a meaningful manner.
There’s no chronograph, or really anything else other than time and date, but it’s got a slick [...]

Analog vs. Digital. A battle that has lasted for all time (all the time that matters anyway), and doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. Although a sort of armistice seems to have been called of late, with the rising trend of analog controllers for digital software. algoriddim and Vestax have combined forces to [...]

Yes it can. The reportedly Android-based RAmos W7 MID does run the Android OS. This device is a g00d 4.8-inch 800 × 480 touchscreen PMP with WiFi. It runs on a Rockchip processor and supports 1080p videos. You cannot actually play these 1080p videos on the 4.8-inch screen but there is HDMI out.

I should have been in bed but I got hooked into an excellent Gilmore Gang videocast (below) this evening. Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, P Rangaswami, Kevin Marks, and Saul Hansell talk a lot about the iPhone and Driod war, discuss the differences and then, all of a sudden, at about 39 minutes in, the [...]