Hasbro Sued ASUS Over Robotic Names

Aside from the arrival of stronger, better and faster smart-phones, this season also seems like one for lawsuits. The news of Apple's recent win against HTC in a patent case is no isolated fight. Other phone makers have also been at each other's throats before patent courts, trying to get back what was allegedly 'stolen' from them. And the most interesting yet is Hasbro suing ASUS over Transformer Prime.

In time for the release of the world's first Tegra 3 tablet, Hasbro filed a lawsuit against ASUS for using the 'Transformer Prime' name, and alleged that the said electronics company violated their brand copyright. It added that ASUS misappropriated the famous Transformer and Optimus Prime franchise for financial gain. Hasbro sought for damages and a temporary stoppage on sales and exports of the Transformer Prime tablet. This lawsuit apparently makes a bit of sense.

But even though Hasbro can argue that ASUS is riding on the popularity of the Transformers franchise to sell tablets, it may have a really hard time proving so. US copyright law allows companies to use similarly named products, that is, if they are not of the same industry. For example, a clothing company can use the trademark of a computer company.

However the lawsuit turns out, hopefully the Transformer Prime will not change into some lame name.

Asus Transforms With the new Tegra

Casual and hardcore Android gamers alike should now rejoice. So far Android phones and tablets are still seen only as merely alternative options when it comes to casual and hardcore gaming across different platforms. It wont be wrong to say that Apple games are apparently more preferred than their Android counterparts. But given the increasing number of Android activations everyday and with the recently released Asus Transformer Prime tablet, the game is now most likely to change.

The hottest and the most anticipated Android tablet this season, the Asus Transformer Prime boasts itself as the world's very first Tegra 3 tablet. Gamers and eye-candy maniacs should really rejoice. Tegra 3 is the latest in Nvidia's super processors for mobile devices, and is said to be the world's first mobile, ultra-low power GeForce, quad-core CPUs. Games and HD videos will absolutely look and play like never before.

Aside from carrying an ultimate beast of a processor, the Asus Transformer Prime also features a simple yet classy design and a 1280 x 800 resolution 10-inch LED display. It equips a 1.2 megapixel camera on the front and an 8 megapixel at the back. It packs a 32 or 64 gigabyte internal storage paired with a 1 gigabyte RAM, and runs on Android 3.2 (to be upgraded to 4.0).

Android app tops its Apple version

It has always been reported that despite the sheer number of Android users around the world, there are always far more downloads of Apple apps than Android apps every day. This is most likely because of the flexibility and the uniform interface of the iOS. In other words, software and game developers are given much leeway in developing apps for Apple than for Androids. Hence, casual and hardcore gamers alike prefer the iTouch, iPhone and iPad than the multi-platform droid.

However, there is reportedly one app that is more preferred in Android than in Apple. With an estimated 59 million Android users over around 58 million Apple users, this is the first time that an Android app outmatched its Apple counterpart. And this app is none other than the ever famous and ubiquitous Facebook.

The statistics were gathered by AppData, which tracked the number of Facebook users on both platforms everyday. It mentioned that even though Apple has around 100 million total active Facebook users than Android's total estimated 87 million, the day-to-day usage is a more accurate method to know which is the more popular version.

Because of these impressive statistics, developers are excited about developing more apps for Android users. This is a good sign that there are now more people who prefer Androids than Apple when it comes to smart-phones.