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Apple and Samsung have been locked in a legal battle over patent infringement claims for several months. Both companies have alleged that the other’s mobile devices use patented technologies without proper licensing. Both have filed lawsuits in the U.S. and other countries.Apple asks ITC to block Galaxy smartphone at tablet importsBy filing an ITC complaint,…

HP TouchPadMr. Rubinstein is a former Apple executive who left the company to become Palm Inc.’s CEO, where he eventually orchestrated the sale of his company to HP. The HP TouchPad was the first major new product to come out of that acquisition, but it has been broadly panned in the mainstream and tech media…

“From our research,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post announcing the new version of Bing for iPad, “we know that many searches are inspired by things people see on the web. Today, it can be somewhat painful to search on a tablet when you’re engaged in reading something; just copying and pasting pieces of text…

ITC sends Kodak case back to the judgeKodak has been claiming Apple and RIM are infringing on its patents by offering an on-screen preview for photos taken with the iPhone and BlackBerry smartphone products. The ITC judge overseeing the case ruled earlier this year that the patents were invalid, Kodak appealed the decision, and now…

Consortium to Nortel: All your patents are belong to us!The company put its patent portfolio on the auction block after declaring bankruptcy in 2009.The purchase set the consortium back some US$4.5 billion. Other members of the group include RIM, Sony, EMC and Ericsson.Missing out on Nortel’s patents is a blow to Google and its Android…

Better yet, it’s based on Android 2.2, a version of Google’s platform that’s a couple of generations old. Never fear, though, because you can have your Android 2.2 device with a steel, 18-carat rose gold, or titanium finished case, and you can get it accented with rubber; calfskin, alligator, lizard or carbon leather trims. According…

Sometimes I think that Apple has a supercomputer in some secret complex that completely models the consumer electronics market. Imagine for a minute a digital simulation that has all the elements of the market place: customer usage patterns, the price elasticity of products, component part prices and extrapolation for the future, the average broadband speeds…

Apple’s $49 Thunderbolt cableThunderbolt is a new high-speed expansion port that uses the same connector as Apple’s Mini Display Port video adapter and can currently support up to six devices in a chain. The port offers dual-channel 10 gb/s data throughput, supports hard drives and other peripherals as well as displays, along with FireWire, USB…

Samsung takes its fight with Apple to the ITCThe filing specifically mentions Apple, along with a product list that includes “Mobile Electronic Devices, Including Wireless Communication Devices, Portable Music and Data Processing Devices, and Tablet Computer.”Florian Mueller has been following the patent battle at Foss Patents.“The combination of the accused products and the defendant means…

At issue is that YGA said found a “vulnerable code portion in developer.apple.com [called] URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (‘Open Redirect’),” according to Networkworld. Turning to the Common Weakness Enumeration definition from MITRE for this term, we learn that: “By modifying the URL value to a malicious site, an attacker may successfully launch a phishing…

The Journey Begins We now know officially that Apple will not be supporting web site hosting after June 2012. Also, the iWeb ‘09 app hasn’t seen a major update in some time, and Steve Jobs in a purported e-mail has confirmed that Apple customers will need to find another web site builder. So, like many…

Two weeks ago, I posted an article titled “Mobile Me to iCloud: Lost in Translation.” In the column, I predicted precisely what services currently available in MobileMe would either survive or die in Apple’s move to iCloud later this year. My predictions were based on my read of the available public record combined with my…

I’ve been playing bass guitar since I was 12, and while I’ve always loved the playing music side of playing music, I’ve never been much on the lugging-equipment-around aspect. I deplored it so much, in fact, that I quit the wedding band business for a time, only coming back when the band agreed to hire…

“As soon as RIM brought in a touchscreen and mixed it with a thumbwheel, a keyboard and shortcut keys, it made it really difficult and expensive to develop across devices,” commented Brian Hurley, Purple Forge, one of the companies that’s backing away from RIM. “What Apple scored big on is having a touch screen and…

macProVideo.com offers training tutorials on more than 50 professional (and some consumer) content creation applications for the Mac, including Final Cut Pro, Logic, Live, Reason, Dreamweaver, Aperture, Photoshop, and the like. The tutorials are professionally made and are usually hosted by professionals in the relevant industry like Michael Wohl. The eight Final Cut Pro X…

Nowadays, things are different. Apple is a fantastically successful company, loved by its customers. Apple is making a lot of money from iPhones and iPads. Apple cannot do anything wrong. So why is the Mac’s market share still a paltry 8.5 percent in the U.S. and 4 percent world wide? If Apple is such a…

Instapaper is a popular service that can be used through most Web browsers, but the company also has a successful iOS app and a popular following amongst iPhone and iPad users. With Instapaper, users can mark Web content for later and even offline viewing, in the case of its iOS app. Mr. Arment said the…

According to a translation of the blog post by English-language Chinese gadget site M.I.C. Gadget, the reporter wrote, ““This morning, around 10, Apple COO Tim Cook is spotted in the lobby of China Mobile’s HQ, accompanied by 7-8 people. Probably Cook is talking with executives from China Mobile to discuss bilateral cooperation for the iPhone.…

In its description of the series, CNBC said, “CNBC Titans profiles remarkable people who made careers turning the ‘unthinkable’ into reality and companies that grew from humble roots to worldwide recognition.” This season kicks off with Steve Jobs, but it also includes looks at Jack Welch, Proctor & Gamble, Herb Kelleher, Quincy Jones, Milton S.…

Caazorii has just introduced a new lap desk that may prove to be the ticket that gives laptop users the freedom to work in unusual places such as soft comfy couches, sitting on the grass, or in the back seat of a vehicle. Like many of you I spend an inordinate amount of time at…

Samsung looses fight for early iPhone 5 accessApple previously asked the court to force Samsung to turn over several of its mobile devices for review by its legal team, and in that instance the court agreed. The difference between the two requests is that the products Apple wanted access to were already available and not…

Apple’s 2TB and 3TB Time CapsuleLike the previous Time Capsule, the new model offers dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi, shared USB printer support, Time Machine backup support, and guest networking.The new 2TB model is priced at US$299, and the 3TB model costs $499.[Updated with Time Capsule pricing.]

The Journal also reported that the auction has been delayed until June 27th by Nortel in order to give all of these qualified companies time to advance their own talks with the U.S. Department of Justice. Nortel is hoping that the less the bidding companies are concerned about antitrust issues, the more they’ll be willing…