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• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, July 3

  Windows 10 close to finished... Intel reshuffles leadership... Microsoft, Kyocera strike Android patent licensing deal... and more tech news

• Microsoft buries hatchet with Kyocera, ending litigation

  Microsoft and Kyocera have put an end to a patent spat that began earlier this year by expanding a patent cross-licensing deal between them.

• Torque G02 smartphone doesn't mind a saltwater dunk

  Many smartphones can stand up to a splash or a dip in fresh water, but they don't go too well in seawater due to the corrosive salt.

• It's a road show for the guys behind PAX East's big, big LAN party

  Among the many other exciting diversions for those of a nerdy bent at the PAX East 2015 gaming convention in Boston this past weekend, there was a LAN party. And as you might expect, it wasn't your average hastily erected LAN, with computers situated around a couple cheap consumer switches nestled between boxes of pizza.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, March 9

  Apple event promises Watch info ... Square pushes into more merchant services ... Google working on VR Android... and more tech news.

• Microsoft asks US court to ban Kyocera's Android phones

  Microsoft has asked a court in Seattle to ban Kyocera's DuraForce, Hydro and Brigadier lines of cellular phones in the U.S., alleging that they infringed seven Microsoft patents.

• Top EU court says printers can be taxed to compensate rights holders

  Europe’s top court ruled Thursday that it is legal for countries to impose a levy on printer manufacturers such as Canon, Epson, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Kyocera and Xerox in order to compensate rights holders for unauthorised reproduction of their work.

• Apple, RIM, US telcos accused of infringing wireless handover patent

  Apple, Research in Motion (RIM) and Motorola Mobility are among 15 companies sued in the U.S. over a fundamental 3G and 4G patent on determining when devices should switch cells in a mobile network.

• Kyocera Echo: Phone that wants to be a tablet

  The Kyocera Echo on Sprint ($200 with a two-year contract) is the first dual screen Android smartphone to hit the United States. With a design reminiscent of the Nintendo DS, the Echo seems to make a better tablet than a phone.

• Sprint's Kyocera Echo meets initial skepticism

  While Sprint's new dual-screen Kyocera Echo smartphone is an industry first, its debut is being met with some skepticism.

• Images and video of the "first dual-touchscreen smartphone"

  When you think of cutting-edge smartphones, "Kyocera" most likely isn't one of the first company names that come to mind. But that could soon change if today's unveiling of the Kyocera Echo, the world's first smartphone with two touch screen displays, at least according to Sprint, is any indicator of things to come.

• Sprint to unveil dual-screen Android phone, report says

  Sprint plans to unveil a dual-screen Android smartphone called the Echo at a New York City event tonight, according to the Wall Street Journal citing an unnamed source.

• Kyocera sells India R&D subsidiary to MindTree

  Kyocera Wireless is selling off its Indian development subsidiary to an Indian services company, MindTree, which will take over development and design work for Kyocera.