Bryan Chaffin

According to AllThingsD, Apple revealed in court that it has a cross-licensing agreement in place with erstwhile mortal enemy Microsoft. That agreement specifically covers the same design patents that Apple is contesting with Samsung, but Apple has in place an “anti-cloning” provision. That provision stipulates that the companies, “can’t copy each other’s products,” according to…

Original Mac 128K Credit: Image published under Wikimedia Commons Mr. Hertzfeld posted the video to YouTube and then linked to it on his Google+ account (and noted by 9to5Mac). According to that post, “Here’s a rare commercial for the original Macintosh that Chiat-Day made in the fall of 1983 , featuring snippets from interviews of…

And just like a real-life train wreck, you simply can’t look away. The train continues pumping forward, creeping towards its eventual doom. Destruction is its fate, and the only question remaining is finding out if anyone survives. At this point, I fear the answer to that question is no. That’s what I feel like when…

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper is supervising Kodak’s bankruptcy proceedings, and those proceedings include the sale of more than 700 patents that Kodak wants to use to pay off creditors. In addition to bidding on the overall portfolio, Apple has claimed ownership of 10 of those patents, accusing Kodak of misappropriating technology jointly developed by…

Sir Jon, who doubles as Apple’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design when he’s not being a knight, made the comments during a presentation at the British Business conference. The event is being held in London alongside the 2012 Olympics to help promote British business and culture. “We nearly shelved the phone because we thought…

The ruling covered the ‘218 and ‘335 patents, two of the key patents that Kodak is trying to sell as part of its bankruptcy proceedings. Apple has claimed that the patents are based on technology that Kodak misappropriated from a technology sharing agreement between the two companies dating back to the 1990s. Judge Gropper essentially…

  Cirrus Logic announced results for the June quarter on Monday, and Mr. Um noticed that the company is, “anticipating a solid ramp and guided September quarter revenues to increase roughly 70% sequentially.” The company, “expects a further ramp into the December quarter.” More specifically, the firm guided investors to 70 percent sequential increase in…

Grand Central Apple Store Credit: Apple Apple leased the space in mid-2011 in a deal that included Apple buying out the then-current leaseholder, restaurant Metrazur, for US$5 million. That price was negotiated between the MTA, Apple, and the restaurant long before the bid process was opened to the public. The state’s comptroller’s office announced the…

Shin Nishibori Source: COVO Mr. Nishibori is at the center of a tempest in a teapot stirred up by Samsung over some 2006 design work he did for Apple. He was reportedly tasked by Apple’s designer-in-chief Jonny Ive to show what an iPhone designed by Sony might look like. Samsung wants to use that to…

TMO’s Artist Rendition of Possible Apple Ad Judge Colin Birss issued a ruling on July 18th ordering Apple to post notices on its site and in UK newspapers stating that Samsung hadn’t copied Apple. This followed an earlier ruling where Judge Birss said Samsung’s devices simply weren’t cool enough to be considered copies of Apple’s…

“We are really excited to be here,” Mr. De Atley said during his opening remarks at what AFP described as a packed Caesars Palace ballroom. He added, “When we were developing the iPhone we realized there were aspects that make it different from computers.” The Black Hat conference is an annual gathering of security professionals…

 TMO Artist’s Rendition of Apple’s Argument “Samsung’s documents show the similarity of Samsung’s products is no accident or, as Samsung would have it, a ‘natural evolution,’” Apple argued in a court briefing uncovered by AllThingsD. “Rather, it results from Samsung’s deliberate plan to free-ride on the iPhone’s and iPad’s extraordinary success by copying their iconic…

The stock opened at $570, and then traded in a fairly narrow band throughout the day, as shown in the chart below. Investors were punishing the stock for a miss on both gross margins and earnings per share ($9.32 EPS reported vs. consensus of $10.35). In addition, Apple offered much lower than expected guidance for…

Concept Mockup of “iPhone Nano” Watch “The concept was to keep the dimensions of the iPod nano with a Retina Display for a screen,” Mr. Demangel told The Mac Observer in an email. “You have all the features of an iPhone on your wrist, including a camera, a speaker and a microphone.” Doubting Thomases will…

“We believe that iPhone upside in the June and September quarters is less likely due to lower supplier build plans,” the analyst wrote in a research note obtained by The Mac Observer. “While we are pleased to see consensus estimates being cut over the last few weeks as analysts aim to be more responsible, we…

APU stands for accelerated processing unit, or SOCs that combine a CPU and a GPU on the same die. His expertise i likely being put to work on Apple’s in-house ARM-based chip design that has so far produced the Apple A4, A5, and A5X processors for its iOS devices. TheNextWeb said that Mr. Bruno designed…

“[Samsung’s tablet designs] do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design. They are not as cool,” Judge Birss said. TMO’s Rendition of Possible Apple Ad At the time, that seemed like a hollow victory for Samsung. On the one hand the company was cleared of patent infringement…

The company’s data was focused on total smartphone usage, as opposed to new sales. In that light, the company showed that in in June, Android had 51.8 percent of the market, while Apple’s iOS had 34.3 percent of the market. That left RIM with 8.1 percent, while everything else was fighting over table scraps. The…

Former Apple Exec Andy Miller “I’ve been fortunate to work with some of the most influential figures and companies in the technology industry, and I’m as excited about the Leap as I’ve ever been about a technology,” Mr. Miller said in a statement. “The potential for the Leap is limitless, as it is going to…