The U. S. International Trade Commission has said that it will impose a ban on the sale of smartphones from Taiwanese manufacturer, HTC that infringed an Apple patent on data detection.

Apple had accused HTC of infringement on a patent on data detection, which includes features such as touching a phone number or an address in an e-mail to dial or find the address on a map.

A senior HTC executive has said that the Taiwanese manufacturer is confident that it will defeat rival, Apple in the ongoing patent infringement battle.

HTC has filed a lawsuit against the company for in a federal court in Delaware arguing that Apple infringed upon four of the patents it has obtained from Google. The patents were first issued to Motorola before its spit into Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions.

Taiwanese smartphone maker, HTC has launched a new thinner and sleeker smartphone called, the HTC Rhyme in New York aiming to improve sales in the US market.

The HTC Rhyme smartphone features a 3.7-inch screen and will be powered by Google' Android software. HTC said in a statement that the device will come with several complementary accessories such as a docking station, sports armband and tangle-free headphones. It will come in a unibody design in a total of three colors.

Taiwanese smartphone maker, HTC ahs field a lawsuit against Apple for infringement after it obtained patents from Android maker, Google.

HTC filed the complaint in in a Delaware court alleging that Apple has infringed on eight U. S. patents related to wireless communications and mobile phone displays. Five of these patents have been allotted to HTC by its partner, Google last week, according to documents filed with the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office.

A smartphone retailer in the Netherlands has reportedly revealed a screenshot of the HTC's upcoming Vigor smartphone, which is expected to be released in October.

Dutch retailer The Phone House says that the smartphone will be the first HTC smartphone to integrate the Beats technology offering improves sound quality compared to company’s other devices.

Taiwanese smartphone maker, HTC has announced that it has acquired a majority 51 percent stake in Beats Electronics, according to reports.

HTC has reportedly agreed to pay more than $500 million for acquiring the stake in the company, which produces headphones and loudspeakers. The Beats headphones are very popular among the young music lovers in various markets.

The acquisition will allow HTC to integrate the Beats sound system into its handsets. HTC is expected to allow Beats to continue running as a separate autonomous entity.

Taiwanese handset maker, HTC has filed an appeal against a U. S. International Trade Commission preliminary ruling favoring Apple.

The HTC Sensation, which was launched on May 19 in major European markets including the UK, has emerged as a serious contender in the hotly contested Smartphone market in the British Isles.

The HTC Sensation features a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen with 540x960-pixel resolution and runs the latest version of Google's platform, the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). The device is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and has HTC's Sense UI Version 3.0.

According to a new study, almost a third of the browsing in the UK is done through smartphones from the likes of Samsung, Apple, HTC, Nokia and others, which provide easy access to internet.

The Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing (IDM) noted that around 28 per cent of internet browsing is done on these devices. IDM mobile consultant and digital trainer Rob Thurner said that the use of smartphones for accessing internet has increased as the customers are able to benefit from cheap data plans.

The shares of smartphone maker, HTC crashed in the Taiwanese market after the U. S. International Trade Commission said in an initial ruling that the company had violated two patents belonging to Apple.

HTC’s shares were trading 4.1 percent down at NT$870. The shares had earlier dropped to NT$848, the lowest since January 14 and the company’s shares have fallen 11 percent since Apple filed its second complaint on July 11.

The U. S. International Trade Commission has said in an initial ruling that HTC had violated two patents belonging to Apple.

Apple alleges that HTC’s phones are using features that are patented by the company and are offered on its iPhone smartphone. The ITC administrative law judge said in the initial judgment that HTC infringed upon two of 10 patents Apple had filed a complaint over in March 2010, according to HTC.

HTC, a Taiwan–based handset manufacturer with its new Flyer enters the world of competition with companies like Apple iPad, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, Blackberry Playbook with its “tablet”. The tablet inspite of being small in size had the qualities of PC.

The seven- inch HTC Flyer was being launched in India and was priced at Rs 39,890. The tablet market had received a boom with the launch made by Apple‘s iPad. The tablet PC section in India was expected to touch 1 million units as per the analysis of financial experts.

Mobile handsets manufacturer, HTC Corp. has launched its smartphone, HTC Sensation in Indian market. Sensation has become the third dual-core smartphone to be launched in India after Samsung Galaxy S II and LG Optimus
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An unknown Verizon-branded handset has come up in a range of images linked to HTC's all new Sync software. Mysteriously though, the unknown device seems to have no buttons on its facade.

The never before seen image has started speculation that HTC might be trying to develop an Android smartphone for the purpose of Honeycomb, the tablet-optimized version of the mobile OS of Google which will not need a similar button layout like in the cell phone versions.

The rendering might as well be a simple placeholder, despite the Verizon branding being seen as an improbable feature for a generic picture.

HTC HD3 supposedly is claimed to be the latest Android tablet on the cards.

It is hinted that HTC might soon be releasing a new set of brand new phones at an event to be released on September 15, at London.

Of the new models which supposedly will be offered is the HTC HD3. It is tainted to be the heir to the HD2, also claimed to be a major release under the brand name of Windows Mobile.

After the much hoopla surrounding the HTC, the company has finally given a green signal to the phone in India. As the handset maker has launched the phone in the country in association with Tata DoCoMo.

The much awaited phone is a similar take of Google's nexus with some minor changes. The phone which was first showcased in Mobile World Congress 2010 has finally landed on the Indian soil today.

HTC, the handset maker based in Taiwan, agreed to an exclusive partnership with the cellular operator Reliance Communications with the aim of launching a smartphone enabled with the latest 3G technology in the Indian market, at a price of Rs. 16,590.

This new 3G Android phone, called the HTC Wildfire, is slated to be released at authorised HTC stores and sellers all over the country.

The phone will have the Android operating system which is usually useable on mobile devices like tablet computers and netbooks, besides cellular phones.

HTC soon will be offering six new smartphones in the latter half of the year indicating a boost in sales upto 8.5 million, as reported by Chinese-language Commercial Times.

It was further stated that the devices will come for the U. S. and Europe markets. Precisely speaking the industry sources claims that HTC will be releasing the HTC Vision in Europe later in the year (possibly October), which is an Android based device that is powered by dual 1.2GHz processors.

This is expected to come with another offering based on Windows Phone 7, named "Mondrain."

As per the leaked specs of HTC's first Windows Phone 7 smartphone has come up online through a XML database from HTC' official MMS setup webpage. The phones would likely be HTC Mozart and HTC Mondrian.

Reports do not reveal much about the phones but the touch-ups on the same states that both offerings come with physical keyboards, Bluetooth and capable of displaying 800x480 pixels.

Mondrian is supposedly deemed to be the smartphone that has a large 4.3-inch touchscreen boasting of a Qualcomm QSD8650A/B Snapdragon processor that runs with a speed of 1.3GHz.

HTC has pronounced a 41 per cent increase in overall sales over the first six months of 2010, reports BBC.

The company has supposedly made money out from the success from its Android-based smartphones. It was stated that the year round revenues that got over in June 2010 has increased to £2 billion, up from the £1.4 billion units considering the 2009 sales.

The Taiwanese maker stated that other handset has recorded sales in the last three months with the highest sales records ever.