HTC cannot catch a break with its smartphone business - in another unfavorable development the Taiwanese company is now blocked from selling its phones through major retailers in the United Kingdom after a patent dispute with Munich-based company Ipcom. The R&D entity claims it has licenses over a wireless technology developed for car phones and HTC has agreed to sell its devices with a workaround, but it wasn't implemented. It said the Taiwanese manufacturer had displayed "disregard for the law by contravening a UK court ruling". An HTC spokesperson was quoted that the company...