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A counterclaim document has been recently filed by HTC as an answer to the Apple’s Patent Lawsuit. Initially in April this year, Apple has filed a complaint against HTC with International Trade Commission. Apple claimed that HTC has infringed on its 20 patents and Steve Jobs at that time stated that they have decided to do something about the matter. To this HTC has denied the infringement of the patents.

Then in May this year HTC filed a complaint with ITC and requested them to halt the sales and imports of iPhone, iPod and iPad in US. Then again in July, two more patents were added by Apple in the Lawsuit.

And now a counterclaim documents has been filed against the lawsuit of Apple by HTC in the District Court of Delaware. The HTC’s counterclaim has not yet been responded by the Apple so it is yet to be seen that what will be the next course of action that will be taken by the two.

For all those people who are eagerly waiting for the much hyped Apple iPhone 4, there seems to be a good news from Bharti Airtel as Sanjay Kapoor, the CEO of Bharti at the recent CII industry conference stated that “ We are working with Apple…hopefully in the September-October time frame we would launch the phone”

Though much details regarding the talks is not disclosed by Airtel but the company is stating that they will make the iPhone 4 available in the Indian markets by September and October this year.

Earlier, Vodafone has also made an announcement that they will bring in the iPhone 4 in the country but they did not mentioned any time frame for the launch.

While talking about the 3G, Kapoor stated that huge network of the 3G is ready and the company is working on aggressive timeline. On BWA services he stated that “BWA has certain choices and we are looking at options and hopefully in few weeks we will be able to finalise that.”

Apple has recently stated that they have sold 1.7 million units of its latest iPhone 4 in just 3 days since the day when handset went on for sale. The Chief Executive of Apple, Steve Jobs stated that the debut of the iPhone 4 was the most successful product launch in the history of Apple.

Last year when Apple iPhone 3GS smart phone was launched the company was able to sell 1 million units in its first 3 days. The sale of Apple iPhone 4 in UK, US, Germany and France was started on Thursday and many of the stores have run out of stock. No indication has been given by Apple as to when the supplies will catch up.

Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar has previously estimated that the firm will need to produce around 4 million units in a month in order to hit the target and it was also cautioned that it will miss due to the shortage of Retina displays.

The pre-orders for iPhone 4 was opened in US by AT&T and Apple on 15^th of June but all the 600,000 units of the iPhone 4 which were available in the stock were sold by the end of the same day.

Taiwan-based HTC, the Google’s Nexus One smartphone manufacturer, filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission, against Apple to ban their iPhone, iPad and iPod products import to US.

Jason Mackenzie, HTC’s vice president for North America, said, “We are taking this action against Apple to protect our intellectual property, our industry partners, and most importantly our customers that use HTC phones.” coming after Apple sued HTC in March, claims that the iPhone maker dishonored five of its patents concerning mobile devices. Analysts widely assumed that Apple’s actual target was its competitor Google, highlighting a rising tense friction between the two Silicon Valley giants. The ITC is a highly accepted medium for tech companies to resolve their disagreement. Though the regulatory body can’t award financial damages, it does have the authority to block products imported in the U.S market, which usually results in accelerated arrangement taking just 12 to 14 months rather than a lawsuit which can take many years to resolve the matter.

Apple is playing a leading role in Japan as its iPhone sales rising high according to the latest statistics reported by Bloomberg’s Business week. The website states iPhone sales have increased double within the last 12 months with Apple shifting 1.69 million mobile phones across the time. That balance sheet also shows that 72 percent of all smartphone sales throughout the year, which in total hit 2.3 million. Such sales figure reflects something of a major step up for Apple Corp. in Japan. The second biggest mobile manufacturer in Japan is HTC, but according to MM’s figures it is far behind the sales of Apple phones.  Toshiba remains in third position, taking up 6.8 percent of sales, while Apple’s more traditional competitor Google wiped up 5.6 percent with Android handsets.

The earning report of the second quarter of 2010 shows Apple picked up $783 million from Mac computer sales in the first quarter of 2010. Apple COO Tim Cook has announced iPhone sales have increased 183 percent year on year within the last quarter.

After the success of iPhone, Apple Inc. is now aiming to create market for their new device iPhone 3GS in India. To serve the purpose the auction was held in which various companies from India submitted their bid. The biggest mobile brand in India, Bharti Airtel, stated that it has grabbed the contract with Apple sp as to release the new version of this bestseller in the Indian markets.

The company stated that as per the contract, they will be allowed to bring the device in the market but confirm date is not yet declared. The triumphant bidders will be allowed to offer the services of 3GS on commercial basis from September this year. Mobile industry in India is continuously progressing and rising in financial and technological manner. This new device will no doubt provide a boom to this market and will be beneficial to both customers and service providers. Now the time will decide whether this phone will follow tradition of success or not.

The neck to neck competition in the mobile market is increasing the number of legal battles in the industry which is becoming very common. In the same row the top cell phone makers Apple and Nokia will seek a US court hearing for a key patent battle in the mid of the year 2012 as been showed by the court filing.

Nokia, the popular handset leader sued the iPhone makers Apple in last October and accused them of using the Nokia’s patented technologies without making any payment. As per analysts, Nokia is seeking for a payment up to $1.36 billion (1 billion euros).

Apple also filed a countersuit on 11^th December in Deleware and accused Nokia of infringing 13 patents of Apple out of which 4 patents were removed from the list later on. Apple also sued Taiwan’s HTC Corporation last week accusing it of infringing 20 software and hardware patents which are related to iPhone.The International Trade Commission of US has given the approval to investigate both the companies on the basis of each other’s complaint.

Opera Software who are the most popular makers of the mobile Web browser in the world has announced the introduction of its Opera Mini for iPhone which will be easy to use, fast and will offer amazing features of Opera.

The Opera Mini is known for its compression technology that leads to fast loading of web pages and even reduces the data surcharges. The Opera Mini is designed keeping in mind the usability factor as it comes along with favorite desktop features in the arsenal like Speed Dial, tabs, password manager and others.

It will be a big deal by Opera to release its version of Mini for iPhones as it will use the Opera’s rendering engine and server side compression tools and will surely change the experience of iPhone browsing as the browser will be better than Mobile Safari.

If you are a lover of iPod, Mobile Phones and wifi device, then you can explore all the features in the Apple iPhone 3G. You can also consider it “3 in 1”. It provides you a multi touch interface along with a really stylish appearance. You can now experience the voicemail feature in anew style. The wider look of the screen also makes it a bit different from the other. Your favorite music, movies, songs, etc. will be constantly displayed on the screen.

You can select either of them with just the touch of your finger. You can also experience full wifi connectivity in the device. But the best part about it is their highly fascinating apps. Yes Apple iPhone 3G will take you in a different world of apps. The gaming zone which can be found in it is also quite impressing. It is just a supreme option available to you, right now.

The Apple Applications used in over 77 countries has now reached a benchmark of a stunning three billion online downloads. The App has currently 100,000 games and applications, available to iPhone and iPod touch customers over the 77 countries. What is more interesting is that the time it took to make this target. Will you believe it, if I say it is just 18 months?

By September end there were two billion apps downloads done. With that said, we can see how the business picked up and it was just matter of time Apple is going to break its own records and set new ones. Technically speaking, one billion downloads in three months translates to roughly 10.1 million app downloads each day.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs comments as quoted below:

Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months-this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before. The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.