Ian Sherr

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Microsoft Banks on Mobile Apps

Shira Ovide and Ian Sherr, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 6 at 7:00 am PT

Microsoft Corp., struggling to dent the dominance of Apple Inc. and Google Inc. in the smartphone market, is stepping up efforts to court app makers like Hemi Weingarten.

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Apple Seeks Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Ian Sherr and Jessica Vascellaro, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on February 11 at 3:36 pm PT

Apple is asking a California court to issue a preliminary injunction to block sales of Samsung Electronics’s new Galaxy Nexus smartphone, alleging the device infringes four Apple patents.

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Apple Sues Motorola in Latest Legal Spat

Ian Sherr, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on February 10 at 7:23 pm PT

Apple filed a lawsuit against Motorola Mobility on Friday, saying Apple’s iPhone 4S is protected under a license agreement from Qualcomm.

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Justice Department Poised to Clear Google-Motorola Deal

Thomas Catan and Ian Sherr, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 8 at 3:48 pm PT

The U.S. Justice Department is poised to clear Google Inc.’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, giving Google a powerful armory of technology patents to deploy in the smartphone wars.

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Apple Asked Standards Body to Set Rules for Essential Patents

Ian Sherr, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 8 at 5:30 am PT

Apple Inc. has asked a telecommunications standards body to set basic principles governing how member companies license their patents, an increasingly contentious topic for rivals in the smartphone industry.

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Take Zap! Tech Geeks, Starved for More Battery Power, Give Themselves a Charge.

Geoffrey A. Fowler and Ian Sherr, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 7 at 10:49 am PT

Any geek can tell you that battery life hasn’t kept up with gadget innovations. But not to worry: Inventors are figuring out how to turn geeks into batteries.

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Vizio Jumps Into PC Fray

Ian Sherr, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 7 at 9:57 am PT

Vizio Inc., which shook up the market with inexpensive high-definition televisions, now wants to become a computer manufacturer.

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Judgment Day Looms for Apple, HTC

Ian Sherr, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on December 11, 2011 at 7:58 pm PT

Apple Inc.’s claims that some smartphones running Google Inc.’s Android software copy its inventions are approaching their first big judgment day in the U.S.

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Steve Jobs Memorial Held

Jessica E. Vascellaro and Ian Sherr, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 16, 2011 at 10:48 pm PT

Hundreds of Silicon Valley’s elite streamed into Stanford University’s Memorial Church on Sunday evening for a service commemorating Apple Inc.’s late co-founder Steve Jobs.

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Sellers of Lost iPhone 4 Prototype Get Probation

Ian Sherr, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on October 11, 2011 at 8:21 pm PT

The long saga of a lost iPhone prototype has finally come to an end.