Google Has Had Enough: Files Lawsuit To Ban Multiple Apple Products

 

I knew this day would come. I can’t say that I hoped for it, but in all honesty, it was inevitable. Apple has been very busy lately in doing all it can to ban as many Android devices as it can, and HTC, Samsung, and Motorola have all recently got a small taste of the Apple juice lately. But something has changed: Google now owns Motorola, and aren’t wasting any time in defending their new acquisition, as they are now seeking a sales ban on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers in the US. This time, it’s personal, and contains a twist that could potentially make this particular lawsuit a very dangerous one for Apple.

This is the first case that Google has signed off on in defending their new hardware company, meaning that there’s no more lurking in the background providing support. This is full on Google with their law team directly involved. This isn't Google watching from the sidelines, but instead, they are calling this one play by play. But Google and Motorola were clever, as this isn't a lawsuit that focuses on silly topics such as icons or square shaped tablets.

Google and Motorola are claiming patent infringement for non-standard essential patents. To put it simply, Google-rola has filed a case for a patent that courts cannot legally force companies to license, meaning that if they win this case, Apple could be forced to completely stop using the technology in their devices.

We don’t have confirmation on exactly which patent (reportedly "wifi related") is in question here, but we do know that Motorola attempted to reach licensing agreements with Apple (since 2010), which Apple apparently refused. Motorola stated that:

“We would like to settle these patent matters, but Apple’s unwillingness to work out a license leaves us little choice but to defend ourselves and our engineers’ innovations”.

(UPDATE: (FOSS Patents is reporting that one of the non standard essential patents in question is for a "sensor controlled user interface for portable communication device", but does not directly specify a wifi related patent. There is still one more non standard essential patent in question, but the specifics of this patent aren't clear at this time. I will contact FOSS Patents and ZDNET (source) for new developments).

This is a big one for Google and for Apple. This isn’t just an OEM that Apple is dealing with now. This is one of the most powerful (if not THE most powerful) movers and shakers in the world. If this comes to trial, Apple could really have its hands full, and might even be forced to rely on Microsoft for backup. **shudders**

The patent wars involving Android and Apple have now reached new heights, and with Google in the center, I have a feeling that things could get very very ugly for the companies that have sought to ban Android products. That being said, you never know how this case could go with the state of the current patent system. 

Additional souces: Bloomberg and Mobilenapps

P.S - I still can't believe this article has gone SO viral. We didn't even break this story, and as you can see, I wrote it over a week ago ! Thank you so much for helping spread it around, and I will do my best to update it with more information as I receive it. If you happen to get your hands on information that's not so public yet, let me know so I can update the article!

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RIM unveils slick Porsche BlackBerry phone. Price tag? Just $1,890.

People having a mid-life crisis have been known to get themselves a Porsche in an attempt to feel more beautiful, youthful and cooler. Now, it’s Research In Motion’s turn.

The latest Porsche to hit the market is a marvel of sleek engineering, filled with gleaming stainless steel and hand-stretched leather. It also fits in your shirt pocket.

That’s because it happens to be not a car, but a BlackBerry. Research In Motion unveiled its latest, slickest-looking smart phone yet this week, the Porsche Design P’9981. The phone was co-designed by RIM and Porsche Design, a subsidiary of the German sports car manufacturer.

It retails for a mere $1,890 in Canada, at the Porsche Design store in Yorkville. In other select markets where it’s been released, it’s already got some celebrity fans — Kanye West has reportedly bought fellow musicians Jay-Z and Beyonce Porsche phones.

For that price, you get not only the gleaming new piece of hardware, but a custom Porsche-designed user interface, a unique PIN that identifies you as a P’9981 owner, a 1.2 gigahertz processor, 8 gigs of memory, and a 5 megapixel camera, and a browser that RIM hopes will speed you down the information autobahn.

It’s a project that RIM leaped at when approached by Porsche Design two years ago, said Todd Wood, RIM’s senior vice president for industrial design.

“When they came knocking, it was such a fantastic opportunity,” said Wood.

For Wood’s inner design geek, it was also a thrill to work with Porsche Design, the company started by Ferdinand Alexander Porsche in 1972. The grandson of the auto maker’s founder was the one who designed the company’s iconic 911 sports car.

“I learned about him in design school, so to go over there and work with that company that he created was great. There were a few times I had to pinch myself,” said Wood.

The new BlackBerry runs on RIM’s BlackBerry 7.1 operating system. It won’t be able to run the long-awaited BB10 operating system when it’s launched, likely this fall, Wood confirmed.

“It won’t be backwards compatible,” Wood said.

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The Future Of Microsoft Is Sunny With A Chance Of Thunderstorms

The past few years haven’t been kind to Microsoft. (There’s no need to walk down memory lane. We all know what’s happened.) But somehow that’s all changed in the past few days. Surface andWindows Phone 8, along with Windows 8 andXbox prove there’s still some fight left in the old dog. It’s a bit premature to say that the company is back and that the decades long string of mediocrity coming out of Redmond is over but the company is clearly focused and we haven’t seenthat Microsoft in a long, long time.

The shroud of mystery surrounding the Surface announcement earlier this week in LA had the press in a tizzy. We’d all been burned one too many times and the thought of something lame being announced loomed large. It is Microsoft, after all. What they managed to pull off was nothing short of spectacular, though. Microsoft employees were kept in the dark with most finding out at the same time as press. This wasn’t a case where employees were being sheepish with details either. Most simply had no idea.

Rumors surrounding the event swirled with some being sort of right and some being flat out wrong. The reason Surface was kept under wraps so tightly has a lot to do with the company’s horizontal product line. A vertically integrated one can lead to leaks due to the number of folks involved. There’s a reason Tim Cook said at D10 that Apple would be doubling down on security. Loose lips sink ships.

Like any Microsoft announcement though, the detractors came out in full force during and after the Surface announcement. Why have a Pro model? Why not announce pricing and availability? Why not let anyone try the Touch Cover? Couldn’t agree more.

Others, however, decided to scold Microsoft for “screwing” their hardware partners. First of all, Microsoft isn’t screwing the OEMs, they’re simply challenging them to do better. Fact is, both sides have been screwing each other for decades. Microsoft is simply setting the bar and the manufacturers need to put up or shut up so long as Microsoft delivers the software. And that’s still a big if. But the OEMs only have themselves to blame. A sentiment felt by others.

Analysts quoted in a Reuters report were quick to shoot down Surface saying Microsoft needed to undercut Apple’s iPad to be competitive.

“Analysts expect the slimmer Windows 8 tablet to struggle to compete with the iPad, which offers over 225,000 apps, and to a lesser extent with Google Inc’s Android-based tablets, such as the Samsung’s Galaxy Tab.”

Maybe Reuters just doesn’t know what they’re talking about? At best, this is pretty laughable. For starters, the product isn’t finished and hasn’t shipped. And to be honest, the whole app argument doesn’t apply here. The two use-case scenarios are completely different. The Surface may be similar in form to the iPad but it’s geared towards productivity and real multi-tasking. Why do you think they slammed a keyboard into the cover? Yes, Windows 8 and the entire Windows eco-system lack the sheer volume of apps found in iOS and Android but what more do you need than email, a web browser and Office on a device like the Surface?

Whereas the iPad is clearly being used to consume content, not creating it. As hard as Apple has tried at every iPad unveil to convince developers that the hardware can drive amazing software like Garage Band, iPhoto and Pages/Numbers/Keynote, the iPad remains an entertainment focused device. When you’re making billions of dollars off other people’s work why fight the power? Just bask in its glory and reap the rewards, I say.

I enjoyed the teaser video for Surface as much as the next guy/gal but that screamed Droid/Verizon marketing. Verizon killed it with that campaign. There’s a reason why most people assume that any Android device is simply called Droid. Whoever was in charge of that video and marketing as a whole going forward for Surface really needs to think of something distinctive and unique to the Surface brand.

The excitement drummed up on Monday trickled over to today’s public acknowledgement and developer preview of Windows Phone 8. Microsoft says Channel 9 saw more views today than past events. (To be honest, they haven’t had that much exciting news to share anyway.) Some might call that positive momentum.

Windows Phone 8 signals a massive momentum shift for the unification of Windows as a whole. A shared kernel with Windows adds enough incentive for developers to build for both without even thinking about it. But this group still has an uphill battle ahead of them. To date there hasn’t been a single “hero” or flagship device for the platform. Everywhere you look across the lineup you see a blank slate of black slabs. Aside from the Lumia 900, every other device in the lineup looks like every other device in the Android lineup.

Today Microsoft revealed the roadmap for current Windows Phone device owners to upgrade to a neutered version of the next OS, Windows Phone 7.8. It didn’t have to be that way, though. By all accounts, what we were shown today is a small portion of what Windows Phone 8 is. By announcing that 7/7.5 devices might only see a new Start Screen could be equated to suicide. Why would a potential buyer go and buy a device now knowing the next crop of devices in the fall will carry an updated and arguably better OS that will likely be future proof? Way to alienate your current customers and possibly push them towards another platform this coming fall.

They should have kept mum on the whole thing or declared that every software feature in WP8 would be applicable to existing devices. At least offer developers Native Code support. Wallet is compelling enough that you don’t really need NFC to reap the benefits of what it has to offer. Announcing that the Start Screen might be the only thing that ports over was fucking stupid. Classic Microsoft. Classic.

Still, there’s hope. Microsoft has yet to finalize Windows Phone 8 and what 7.8 could be. If enough developers jump on board and create some killer speech recognition apps like this, then Siri definitely has some competition. You also have hardware partners like Nokia building out and updating apps for current Lumia owners. Future WP8 Nokia devices will also ship with Nokia Maps, which is arguably some of the best turn-by-turn navigation software available and it’s free!

Where the Finnish handset maker fell short with the Lumia 900 was the camera. AT&T and even Nokia marketing touted the Carl Zeiss lens and folks at both Microsoft and Nokia will tell you (maybe not you but I’ve heard it from both sides) how disappointing it’s been. Nokia, however, has proven thatPureView as a technology is more than capable of capturing some amazing images. You won’t see a 41-megapixel camera in the next WP8 device from Nokia but you will see the core technology coupled with Scalado (Nokia is in the process of acquiring the team and IP) in an upcoming device. HTC is also doubling down on camera enhancements so competition will hopefully drive even further innovation. I standby my previous statement that Samsung will only dabble.

What Microsoft showcased today and earlier this week proves the company has finally come to its senses. It also highlights how vulnerable they’ve made themselves by setting such high expectations. Can they deliver? We’ll see but for now I’m excited to see how the rest of this year plays out.

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Windows Phone 8 Is A Great Big, Crazy, Beautiful Mess

The Lumia 900 sold me on Windows Phone. The 900 is a marriage of fresh hardware with a fun operating system. I dig the Start Screen with the Live Tiles. There are some shortcomings. The camera sucks, to be sure, and the phone isn’t yet available on Verizon. Plus, after using the phone for several weeks, it was clear that the phone’s large screen is wasted on Windows Phone 7.5. It’s more of the same concerning the 900′s HTC cousin, the Titan II. Microsoft clearly agrees.

Full disclaimer: I haven’t touched a Windows Phone 8 device yet. That said, it’s hard to look at the several dozen screen shots and demo videos from today’s event and not be excited about the future of Windows Phone 8. Yes, it’s a busy interface. But my oh my the new Start Screen is – if I may – a clusterfuck of goodness.

Windows had some cojones releasing Windows 7 some 18 months ago. It was totally different. It lacked key features. It had poor hardware and carrier support. But clearly ignoring analysts, pundits and ignorant bloggers, Redmond kept at it, steadily releasing updates that solve current issues while introducing new features.

The current release, Windows 7.5, is a solid mobile platform worthy of serious consideration. Admittedly, it’s not necessarily better than Android or iOS, but rather different in key ways that make it special. And now with Windows Phone 8, and in the interim, Windows Phone 7.8, the core system might actually be better than its competitors.

The new Start Screen that will debut on some current devices with Windows Phone 7.8. The Live Tiles are now customizable, allowing owners to completely reshape their Start Screen in a grid of application shortcuts. What’s more, an upcoming SDK will allow app developers to utilize this ability and craft their respective Live Tile for different sizes and functions.

This evolution matches the industry’s trend of supersized phone screens. Why have a relatively standard grid of Live Tiles when there is so much screen real estate on new phones? Short answer: With Windows Phone 7.8 and 8, you don’t have to!

Microsoft is allowing phone owners to totally customize their phone in ways not possible with iOS and Android. All iPhones look the same but no Windows Phone 8 device will look like any other. For better or worse, this organized chaos is a result of a philosophy that has always centered around users getting tasks down quickly. The New Start Screen is just the next step towards this goal – and it’s totally fresh.

Microsoft pulled out all the stops on today’s Windows Phone 8 event. Plus, this was just a preview of the Windows Phone 8 and 7.8. More info will come later. It was a media bonanza complete with pre-briefings and the like. Microsoft is clearly proud of its new baby and wanted to show it off — just like it did two days back with the Surface unveiling. It’s also clear that Microsoft has found a new swagger. Microsoft might be back.

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#neverseconds: How a school lost to a nine-year-old on Twitter

Friday’s Twitter meltdown in the UK is going into the public relations textbooks, you can be assured of that.

It was a perfect example of how to not only fail to adhere to your own strategy, but also to aggravate and make the situation worse.

And this whole thing erupted over school dinners. Amazing.

The short version of the story is, nine-year-old Martha Payne, a pupil at Lochgilphead Primary School in the west of Scotland had started a blog taking photos of her school meals and rating them. This became a worldwide hit, apparently, and prompted one of Scotland’s national papers, the Daily Record, to run a playful article about Martha meeting celebrity chef Nick Nairn and laughing over flaming dishes in the kitchen.

But the headline, “Time to fire the dinner ladies”, was taken the wrong way by local authority Argyll & Bute Council, who banned Martha from taking photos of her meals.

That was their first mistake: censoring a nine-year-old who probably has more popularity on the web than many newspapers these days.

There's nothing wrong with encouraging that level of technical skill in a child, at all, nor the creativity involved. AFP

So that prompted the first part of the Twitter backlash, using the hashtag #neverseconds, the name of Martha’s blog. And then, just before 11am, came the council’s second mistake – a press release so ill judged, I’m sure every PR instructor on the planet now has a copy, though it has been taken down off the council’s website.

Their reaction was clearly against the newspaper article, but looked as though it was against Martha. And it was full of basic grammar mistakes.

They even managed to spell “dessert” wrong. So, the authority in charge of local education, in defending their school meals, can’t spell the words for those meals? Priceless.

It started: “Argyll and Bute Council wholly refutes the unwarranted attacks on its schools catering service which culminated in national press headlines which have led catering staff to fear for their jobs.

The Council has directly avoided any criticism of anyone involved in the ‘never seconds’ blog for obvious reasons despite a strongly held view that the information presented in it misrepresented the options and choices available to pupils however this escalation means we had to act to protect staff from the distress and harm it was causing. In particular, the photographic images uploaded appear to only represent a fraction of the choices available to pupils, so a decision has been made by the council to stop photos being taken in the school canteen.”

As everyone online pointed out, this is a nine-year-old girl.

At this point, #neverseconds was trending top in the UK, with “Argyll and Bute” and “Martha Payne” hovering nearby. Throughout all this, Martha also had a charity page set up to raise funds for Mary’s Meals which provides meals in African communities and helps build kitchens.

Martha (officially, though certainly with parental help) set a goal of £7000, the cost of one school kitchen in Malawi or elsewhere. Within hours, she had enough for more than five. Currently there’s enough for 10.

By 1pm, the elected councillor who is leader of Argyll and Bute was on BBC Radio 4 and said he ordered a reversal of the ban on Martha taking photos. It tried to praise her and her “entrepreneurial” spirit, but mostly the council had become a laughing stock. The Twitterati claimed victory for Martha, who was silent throughout the day because she was at school, presumably oblivious to what was going on. Plus, nine-year-old tend not to tweet that much. If she did, it would no doubt put the council to shame in maturity, and spelling ability.

What conclusions can we draw from this textbook example?

1. Never turn a nine-year-old girl into your opponent. Even if the problem was her dad, for example, you don’t allow public attention to go to the child. You’ll never win public sympathy that way.

2. When being bombarded by critical tweets, don’t react with a link to a press release you’ve not properly thought out.

3. When in doubt, refer to your own social media policy, presented at a conference the year before.

An alleged slide from the council’s chief communications officer on responding to blogs states that, in reaction to “unhappy customers”, you should “restore reputations – rectify the situation, respond and act on a solution”. You can see the chart here,  and background on that officer here —she reportedly had staff set up secondary social media accounts to “spy” on critics of the council.

I’m always skeptical when people declare that social media won revolutions in the Arab world, or helped the Occupy movement, etc. It suits people who use the technology to believe they’re personally to thank for, helping something half a world away.

In this case however, Twitter fed a backlash, which prompted the press release, which added fuel to the backlash. The web could react far quicker than any other media in such a situation. In fact, there was no point writing much about it all until the U-turn within hours. This story largely operated within the Twittersphere and the PR attempts to react failed miserably.

Should all schools be at the mercy of blogging nine-year-old girls? No.

They are still young and impressionable and may not be able to understand complexities such as education budgets, the food supply, or even the potential risks of being a global attraction as a child.

By all accounts, the school worked very well with Martha on this blog.

There’s nothing wrong with encouraging that level of technical skill in a child, at all, nor the creativity involved. Teachers, parents and others can work with the young person to see the different aspects of being a blogger, and still being a pupil.

Argyll and Bute’s PR machine and administrators didn’t seem to do that, or didn’t do it very well. Perhaps someone will send them a textbook on public relations and they can read up on the chapter about #neverseconds
— and never repeat their mistakes again.

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Sergey Brin Shows Off His Google Glass Prototype

I would totally embed this video but WordPress won’t let us, so here it is. It’s essentially a quick run-through of Google Glass thanks to Sergey Brin. He even gave them to California Lieutenant Governer Gavin Newsom who got to try them on.

The verdict? They’re pretty cool and they’ll be available sometime next year. There is apparently a touch sensitive pad on the side. This is part of a longer video that will air on June 1.

I’m really conflicted when it comes to these things. On one hand I’m really excited about usable wearable computing and, on the other hand, I’ve never, ever seen it work well. Here’s hoping Google has the chops to pull it off.

via BGR

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Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Release Preview

Microsoft just announced that the Windows 8 Release Preview, the company’s final pre-release version of Windows 8, is now available for download. With this release, Microsoft is also making new versions of its Windows 8 apps for Hotmail, SkyDrive an Messenger available, as well as hundreds of new and updated apps from third-party developers in the Windows Store.

Other new apps in this release include a Bing Travel app, as well as Gaming and Music Xbox apps that integrate with Microsoft’s Zune music service.

Microsoft says that it will focus its resources before launching the final version of Windows 8 on improving the installation process, security and privacy, as well as device and software compatibility. As Microsoft’s president of its Windows Division Steven Sinofsky noted, his team “will still be changing Windows 8, as we have done in past releases of Windows.”

We will be giving the Release Preview a good spin soon, but we already know that Microsoft hassignificantly improved multi-monitor support in Windows 8, for example. While this new version still features the Windows 8 Aero theme, we also know that this will be gone in the final release.

Microsoft also says that it has increased personalization options for the Start screen and refined the way “the way people find and download apps through the Windows Store.” The touch-friendly Metro version of Internet Explorer now also supports Adobe’s Flash player and features a Do Not Track feature that is turned on by default.

You can download the Release Preview installer here. If you prefer to get the Preview Release as an ISO, you can find there here.

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FB Launches Facebook Camera – An Instagram-Style Photo Filtering, Sharing, Viewing iOS App

Insta-who? Today Facebook begins rolling out Facebook Camera for iOS to English-speaking countries, a standalone photos app where you can shoot, filter, and share single or sets of photos and scroll through a feed of photos uploaded to Facebook by your friends. Developed by Facebook’s photos team without the help of Instagram because the acquisition deal hasn’t closed yet, Facebook Camera looks a lot like the app TechCrunch leaked images of a year ago, and is designed for quicker publishing than Facebook’s multi-featured primary mobile app.

Facebook Camera lets you rapidly pick one or more photos, apply filters, tag friends and locations, add a description, and post. While its 14 filters, batch uploads, and streamlined interface are a big step up from Facebook for iOS, the design isn’t as beautiful as Instagram and neither are the photos you’ll see in it. When asked if Facebook Camera would become a direct competitor to thephotosharing network it bought last month, a spokesman told me “As Mark asserted, we’re committed to building and growing Instagram independently, so I anticipate some healthy competition.”

Though for now Facebook Camera is just for iOS in English-speaking countries (and will become available as soon as Apple can populate the App Store with it, if you don’t see it already) it will roll out internationally over the next few weeks as Facebook gets it translated. As for versions for Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone, I’m told “While we don’t comment on future products we are carefuly looking at what might make for agood Facebook photos experience across other platforms.”

But now Facebook has three apps for consumers — its primary app, Facebook Messenger, and now Facebook Camera (plus Facebook Pages Manager for Page admins). That means users might have to choose which to keep on their home screen, or could end up sticking all three in a folder and become less likely to use any of them.

The app’s homescreen includes a camera button for shooting new photos, and quick access to the last few images in your camera roll for instant uploading. By default you’ll see a feed of photos from your friends that’s basically your news feed but only photo posts. You can also view a feed of just photos you’ve taken or been tagged in. The feeds update in real time, you can Like with a single click, and the comment button pops up as an overlay rather than forcing you to load a separate screen. The browsing experience is smooth, though browsing can only be done in portrait mode so standard photos appear square with their sides or top and bottom cut off. You have to click them and sometimes turn your device to view them in full.

How It’s Better Than Instagram

The best feature of Facebook Camera and its one real selling point over Instagram is multi-photo uploads. This helps you tell a story or share the best photos from a day’s outing in a single post. It’s great for if you can’t decide which shot is best and don’t want to go through the sharing flow over and over. The feature basically steamrolls Batch, a photosharing app specifically designed for uploading sets. Browsing multi-photo stories is smooth too, as they appear as one story in the feed showing the first photo, but you can swipe side to side to view the rest of the set.

Rather than having to wait for a photo to load when you browse by like on Instagram, it appears as a blurry placeholder at first and then sharpens up, which is nice. Facebook Camera’s 14 filters are also more sensibly named with titles that describe how they change photos, such as Bright, Emerald, and Copper, rather than Instagram’s less indicative Hudson, Sutro, and Brannan. Facebook’s photos product manager Dirk Stoop tells me “We do hope to bring the best stuff from Facebook Camera to the other app” so filters, cropping, and batch uploads could appear in the main Facebook app soon.

How It’s Worse

Unfortunately, there are several flaws in the current version of Facebook Camera that seem especially glaring compared to Instagram. Like and comment icons and counts are overlaid on the photos, disturbing their appearance. When you click to view existing comments on a photo they take a few seconds to load, which can fool you into thinking they aren’t there. Instagram also has more filters, 17, plus light adjustment and tilt-shift that Facebook’s new app lack.

But the first thing you might notice is the photos are decidedly less beautiful than what you’ll see on Instagram. Most weren’t uploaded with Facebook Camera but rather through Facebook’s web interface, primary app, or other third-party apps, so they’re unfiltered, and weren’t necessarily taken with artistry in mind.

While Facebook may be late to the standalone photo app scene, you have to remember that while Instagram has hit 50 million downloads, Facebook has over 500 million mobile users, and somewhere around 220 million on iOS and Android. As the social network’s user base shifts to mobile, the app will be crucial to keeping people engaged.

Facebook Camera may not be perfect, but for those who don’t want to start a whole new social network for photosharing on Instagram, and want an app that sucks in photos shared by their Facebook friends from anywhere, including Instagram and Path, Facebook Camera could earn a spot on the homescreen.

Download Facebook Camera here

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Facebook Browser Is Imminent [RUMOR]

Are you ready for a Facebook browser that integrates the social networking behemoth into your online life more than ever? That’s exactly what could be on the way soon, according to one report.

A Friday Pocket-lint report cites a “trusted source” that Facebook wants to buy Opera Software — manufacturers of the Opera web browser, which claims more than 200 million users worldwide. The Facebook browser would include default menu bar plugins, further permeating Facebook into users’ general web experience, according to the report.

A Facebook spokesperson declined Mashable‘s request for comment.

A custom browser would be a significant step toward Facebook becoming your web, as opposed to just an Internet site you visit and service you use. Opera’s mobile browser has received strong reviews online, meaning a functional Facebook browser using it could be even more powerful. Facebook has struggled to penetrate mobile use as deeply as many think it should be able to — and will need to in order to sustain long-term growth.

A Facebook browser would also bolster the newly public company’s competition with Google. Google Chromerecently became the web’s most-used browser, but Facebook’s gigantic user base of more than 900 million people would present a potential serious threat down the line. It would be interesting to see Facebook try to battle Google for browser dominance as Google+ struggles to play catchup in social networking.

We’ll see if the Opera rumors are true, but if Pocket-lint‘s “man in the know” is even remotely hooked in, it’s not hard to imagine the arrival of a Facebook browser being only a matter of time.

How could a Facebook browser help the company take over the web — or can it? Share your perspective in the comments.

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Reliance Internet Hacked By Anonymous India

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