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Apple’s legal actions against Samsung — which in Europe have escalated into a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 — also pose a considerable risk to its own business, an intellectual property lawyer tells Reuters. Nathan Mattock of Marque Lawyers warns that if Apple loses, it will owe Samsung a "considerable amount" in damages, based on months or years of legal struggle and lost business. Reuters adds that Apple still has to provide more substantial evidence of patent or design infringement to have a chance at making any bans permanent….

Apple could “double or potentially even triple” it share of the cellphone and computer markets in the next several years, argues Sterne Agee’s Shaw Wu. In a new memo the analyst remarks that for all of Apple’s success, the company still has only 4 to 5 percent of the cellphone market, and a similar share of computers, although that number jumps to 12 to 13 percent if counting the iPad in the cate…

Sony picked Wednesday to revamp its in-car head units with a much heavier influence on digital sources in eight new devices. The CDX-GT565UP, DSX-S210X, and DSX-S310BTX all stream Pandora’s Internet radio from a connected iPhone and go beyond just basic USB or Bluetooth audio. At least on the S210X and S310BTX, all the Pandora controls shift to the receiver, including the thumbs-up/thumbs-down to tune the recommendations….

Amazon has quietly provided an end-run around Apple’s App Store rules. Kindle Cloud Reader brings a touch-friendly reading app that provides all the settings, highlights, bookmarks and other features of native apps in a device-independent form. The page takes advantage of HTML5 to work entirely offline and thus can keep going even during a flight or another moment where no Internet connection ex…

Vudu on Wednesday began offering its streaming movie service on the iPad over the web. The strategy uses HTTP Live Streaming to push the movie while adapting the bitrate to match the connection. Video is limited to standard definition when seen on the iPad, but only due to “restrictions by content providers,” Vudu said….

Vudu on Wednesday began offering its streaming movie service on the iPad over the web. The strategy uses HTTP Live Streaming to push the movie while adapting the bitrate to match the connection. Video is limited to standard definition when seen on the iPad, but only due to "restrictions by content providers," Vudu said….