It was only a couple of days ago that the U.S. ITC ruled that some of HTC’s smartphones was violating several of Apple’s patents. HTC has already started testing out new phone models that work around technology that was cited in the patent lawsuit that was won by Apple.

HTC has hired Shashi Fernando as the chief content officer of the company. Fernando was previously the Saffron Digital CEO. He will report directly to HTC CEO Peter Chou. “Shashi has tremendous experience in the content industry and I am excited to have him leading HTC’s content strategy,” stated Chou. “Content will continue to be a crucial part of our overall proposition and future success.” Saffron Digital was acquired by HTC in February.

HTC Corporation has acquired 9 year old, Paris-based mobile software company Abaxia for €11 million ($13.2 million). Abaxia will “deepen and broaden our software development capabilities so that we can innovate at an even faster pace,” stated HTC CEO Peter Chou. Abaxia’s flagship mobile product is called Mobile Portal. Mobile Portal is a white label Active Idle Screen application that is embedded on handsets. Mobile Portal focuses on branding the home screen for user interaction. [WSJ]

HTC has just sent out a press release discussing the specifications of the HTC Tattoo. The HTC Tattoo (previously known as the Click) has a 3.2 megapixel camera, 3.5 mm headset jack, microSD expansion, and can be personalized with designed covers (get it? Tattoo?). The Tattoo also has a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7225 processor, 512MB/256MB ROM/RAM, 106×55.2 x 14 mm dimensions and 113g weight. There is an internal GPS, 900/2100 MHz HSPA/UMTS and quad-band GSM/EDGE. The WiFi is 802.11b/g and there is a built in digital compass. The phone also has an accelerometer and Bluetooth 2.0. Full press release after the jump:

We already know that the HTC Magic and the Android Hero have been revealed, but recently HTC CEO Peter Chou announced that the company will ship at least three smartphones powered by Google Android this year.  HTC was the first company to reveal the Android operating system with the G1 last year.

The HTC Magic, known as the G2 is being sold in Europe through Vodafone.  Chou made the announcement at the Merrill Lynch technology conference in Taipei.

This is good news for developers of applications on the Android Market.  More phones equals more sales of applications.

[via Slashphone/PCW]