After plenty of waiting and programming (with testing all sorts of builds), Windows 8 will be available to everyone at the end of October, according to Microsoft’s Tami Reller during the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Canada on Monday. Windows laptops and desktops will share Windows 8 with Windows RT, the tablet version of the operating system. And since Microsoft and other PC manufacturers will have access to Windows 8 starting in August, preparations will be on-time for the late October launch. Via: The Windows Team Blog
You have to love the High Court of Justice’s Chancery Division. Today it ruled that the Galaxy Tab does not infringe upon the iPad’s design. In fact, UK Judge Colin Biriss said that Galaxy Tab models “do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design,” continuing with the rather entertaining claim that “they are not as cool.” He also went on to say that “the view from the front is really very striking. The Galaxy tablets are not identical to the Apple design but they are very, very similar in this respect.” However, differences in the styling of the backs of the tablets and “the thinness of the Galaxy tablets” overcame all other similarities.
Bang & Olufsen. Not the brand name that comes to mind immediately to one looking for high-quality, over-ear lightweight headphones, but by all logical and statistical means, do not allow brand naming to completely govern technology (well, at least not excessively). B&O have delightful pair of headphones called the Form 2, available in numerous colors (the unit tested is in red), weigh 68 grams, and have a frequency range of 40 to 20,000Hz. The method of distributing sound in the Form 2 is the dynamic drive variant, which according to B&O, “gives you a true and well-defined soundstage, with a good bass, a focused middle and precise highs.”
Following the ban started for Google’s Galaxy Nexus on the 29th of June, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit suspended the injunction. Now with the ban lifted, Samsung and Apple will have to play it all in court, where a decision will be made if the Galaxy Nexus has to stay banned during the entire trial. But with Jelly Bean 4.1 and additional software update to cut out the alleged infringement on Apple’s search system, the Galaxy Nexus’ shelf life seems to be a little more lively than before.
The Twitter team issued an update to their web version: autocomplete search, as well as a less amateur-looking search system. All searches will be handled in a nice little box, complete with autocomplete results by typing only parts of words or hashtags. It’s a quiet update that both the Android and iOS versions have had in some capacity now, but as it currently stands, is a complete and new feature. And hey, it looks pretty useful for those Wimbledon matches this year. Via: 
The HTC One X may be the very one handset to be such a showstopper against the iPhone 4S, alongside the Galaxy S III, but HTC has not converted this into confident results. Due to all of the customs issues for the One series, paired with weak European sales, and statistics like this Q2 if 2012 totaling T$7.4 billion ($250 million), down from T$17.52 billion this time last year. It’s more of the same when you compare the T$30 billion from last month, unchanged from May and 33.4 percent less than June of last year.
It turns out that Google has little tolerance (quite understandably) for not having their flagship Android phone on sale in the States, so without further delay, engineers at the company are busy creating an update that would nullify the charges that put the $96 million bond and injunction by Apple in place — by next week. This would allow for the ban to be lifted and Google to continue selling the Galaxy Nexus on their Google Play Store.
Here is the Motorola Atrix HD, just given its own site page on Motorola’s own website. Much like the other smartphones launching this year, the Atrix HD has a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 4.5-inch Colorboost 1280 x 720 display, and Android 4.0 with Motorola’s own skin that makes use of only on-screen buttons, a rarity among the design and functionality of other smartphones. Additionally, there’s a 1,780 mAh battery, 8MP rear camera with 1080p HD video recording, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage (up to 32GB external) and measures 8.4mm thick.
The deed has been done by the courts and Apple has posted the $96 million bond for the injunction ruled by Judge Koh on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Essentially, it is being struck down and killed due to the fact that it infringes upon one (in some cases, two) patents. Samsung is fighting all over this one, and purportedly Google plans to send out a software that can nullify the charges, but so far they were too late; the Galaxy Nexus 
