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Word that the two companies are negotiating came from Proview attorney Ma Dongxiao, according to Macworld.Apple and Proview negotiating iPad trademark ahead of court rulingThe negotiations are part of the legal process in China ahead of a court ruling. The negotiation phase is voluntary, and in this case it seems both sides agreed to the…

  Writing for Fast Company, Mr. Schlender described the newly discovered tapes as, “some three dozen tapes holding recordings of extended interviews—some lasting as long as three hours—that I’d conducted with him periodically over the past 25 years.He added, “Many I had never replayed—a couple hadn’t even been transcribed before now. Some were interrupted by his kids bolting…

Twitter announced the “Innovator’s Patent Agreement” on Tuesday as a way to keep innovators in the picture and to change the way patents are wielded. The company voiced concern about the way patents may be used to actually stifle innovation rather than promote it. It also wanted to keep some control of the patents with the actual innovators -…

PCs, laptops, and tablets running x86 processors will get “Windows 8” and “Windows 8 Pro,” while ARM-based tablets will receive “Windows RT.” The RT version will only be available pre-installed on ARM tablets and, while it includes a touch-optimized version of Microsoft Office, will not run existing Windows-compatible applications.The Windows 8 Metro UI will be…

To remedy this and satiate our appetites for awesome Mac setups, we’ve decided to launch “TMO Workspaces,” a new weekly segment in which we’ll highlight a user’s workspace, provide all information on equipment, and give tips on what is useful and what isn’t. Our goal is to go a bit deeper than what we’ve found…

The Samuel L. Jackson ad displays a Verizon logo at the end of the commercial, while the Zooey Deschanel ad displays a AT&T logo (other versions of the ad feature Sprint). The similar style of the ads with interchangeable carrier logos suggests a joint production between Apple and the respective U.S. carriers. As noted by…

Valve is a large game publisher with titles like Half-Life, Portal, Counter Strike, and Team Fortress in its portfolio. The company also developed the Steam gaming platform that offers an App Store-like way of buying, managing, and playing a variety of games for Mac and Windows. So, when Tim Cook is reported to be visiting…

In the brokerage firm’s Q1 survey, some 4.9 percent of respondents said they intended to buy a Kindle Fire tablet. In the Q2 survey, which was just conducted, that number had declined to 4.5 percent. This matches the analyst’s supply checks, which indicated a 10 percent month-over-month decline in component orders in February, and a…

Shot from Foxconn Tour Video – Full Video Below In a written report, Mr. Schmitz said about his tour that, “The first misconception I had about Foxconn’s Longhua facility in the city of Shenzhen was that I’ve always called it a ‘factory’—technically, it is. But after you enter the gates and walk around, you quickly…

“From our sinkhole data, we have estimated that the number of computers infected with this threat in the last 24 hours is in the region of 270,000, down from 380,000,” Symantec said in its report. Flashback is the biggest malware epidemic to hit the Mac platform, ever. It relies on a vulnerability in Java, a…

What’s that? The number of the Beast?! You betcha. Throw some goats, crank up some Gorgoroth, and party like Apple’s worth more than Microsoft was in its heyday! Kvitrafn, of Gorgorth Photo Credit: Peter Beste (altered with permission) If it happens, that is. There’s certainly no guarantee that it will. First, the numbers: Apple is…

The group, which regularly campaigns for conservative issues, including pro-fossil fuel policies and anti-green energy efforts, pink slime, voter ID requirements, protesting the Occupy movement, and most especially complaining about Al Gore and his role as a board member of Apple Inc., said that green energy companies are failing and that Apple shouldn’t be bailing…

AOL: You’ve got patents!The two companies aren’t saying which patents are moving to the Microsoft camp, although AOL will still retain rights to use technology covered by the patents it is selling. Microsoft is also gaining non-exclusive licensing to the remaining patents in AOL’s portfolio.AOL was once the king of online access, but has transitioned…

Austin sweetens its expansion offer to AppleApple is looking to double its workforce and add up to 3,600 jobs to its Austin facility over the next 10 years. It has already received incentive offers from both the State of Texas and the City of Austin to do so. The state offered a $21 million package from its…

As we know, for a long time Apple touted the superiority of OS X security. Of course, there were some obscure holes that could be exploited by experts like Charlie Miller at the annual DEF CON Conference. By and large, however OS X has been pretty good in the past, compared to Windows XP because…

Apple’s new market cap is $590.8 billion. That marks the twelfth record closing high for Apple since the beginning of March, and the 37th in 2012. All told, shares of AAPL have risen 56.5 percent since it closed at $405 at the end of 2011, a tremendous increase for the world’s most valuable corporation. Price…

There’s been a lot of excitement about the Google Glass Project in the past 24 hours. Here are some thoughts._____________ There’s a lot of what I call technology wall sticking going around. Someone gets an idea and, sure enough, the technology to build a prototype (or create a concept with CGI) is available. With YouTube…

In a lecture discussing Apple and Mr. Jobs, Mr. Isaacson pointed out that while other tech visionaries such as Microsoft’s Bill Gates greatly contributed to the computing revolution, Mr. Jobs “is a greater genius than [Mr. Gates] because he transformed multiple industries,” including “computers, music, desktop and digital publishing, retail stores, telephones, and digital animation.”…

Version 2.1 also added the ability to include WebGL content in iAds, loads faster and improved overall performance. Ads can be tested ahead of release through iOS devices connected to your Mac via USB.iAds is available as a free download through Apple’s Developer website.

The agency pricing model allows publishers to set the retail price for their ebooks and pay the seller, Apple in this case, a cut. Apple’s take with its iBooks ebook store is 30 percent, while publishers keep 70 percent. Before the iPad and this deal with the major publishers, retailers like Barnes & Noble and…

PrologueI just spent a week in Walt Disney World with six apps. This is the sixth in a serious survey of the apps, what they can do for you and deciding on the best ones to load onto your iPhone or iPod touch to make the most out your visit to see the mouse.______ Disney…

Steve Wozniak & Ashton Kutcher Source for Mr. Kutcher: Wikimedia Ashton Kutcher is a star of both movies (The Butterfly Effect, Dude, Where’s My Car?) and hit TV shows (That ’70s Show and Two and Half Men). It was announced earlier this week that Mr. Kutcher would play the title role in an independent movie…

Another way to put that, though, is that it took Jeff Bezos, online retailing magnate, to look at why and how Apple has been so successful with its iPad, and then use those lessons to figure out how to compete with the device.Jeff Bezos & a literal presentation of the metaphorical lightbulb going off…Original image…

Following complaints in Australia last week that Apple’s 4G iPad is misleading to consumers in nations that don’t support compatible 4G wireless networks, Macworld UK’s Karen Haslam reported on Tuesday that the Advertising Standards Authority, a UK consumer regulatory body, is now looking into the same issues in the United Kingdom.Apple markets the cellular data-enabled…