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“The allegations in the complaint are spartan,” ruled U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman.Mr. Allen filed the lawsuit in August alleging that Apple, Google, Facebook, Office Depot, OfficeMax, staples, Yahoo, YouTube, Netflix and eBay were infringing on patents he owns that cover “the ways that leading e-commerce and search companies operate today.” The lawsuit was…

Woz told CNN he was able to get ahold of a kit that replaces the black glass front and back for the iPhone 4 with white components the seller claimed came from the same factory Apple uses to build its phones. “I saw a post and got in quick and ordered my set of parts,…

One thing I’ve learned is that being “grown up” has little to do with age, it’s more like a state of mind, and that it’s an elusive state that I’m finding that few people ever reach. The reason it’s so hard to get to is because it’s is so hard to identify, it’s different for…

MacBook Pro -> iMac. This was already done in October. My 1st generation Unibody MacBook Pro (Late 2008) with a C2D, just two cores and a slow hard disk just couldn’t keep up with all the multitasking and loads I was putting on it. Especially with Parallels. I was waiting on my computer far too…

Those games featured multiplayer game play, but only on the iPhone and iPod Touch, and they are a blast to play on the smaller devices. There are versions of those games available for iPad, but the “HD” versions that support multiplayer action. Game developers wanting to take advantage of the larger iPad screen and Game…

The man-mountain advances, sword raised, iron muscles tense. He issues a growl that chills me to the marrow. This will be painful. A while back, during an Apple media event Epic Games showed off a trailer for Infinity Blade and whetted our appetites with Epic Citadel, a free app that let us roam an impressively…

“My job there was basically to make gaming on the iOS devices fantastic,” he said. “Basically that meant looking at the technologies involved and making sure the software played well with the hardware, to look at upcoming hardware/API and say ‘Yup, that is a good thing’.”

The information isn’t Mac specific, and we don’t know if Macs were even part of what this retailer sells, but there isn’t a lot of data available yet on the reliability of this new storage format. In addition, there are any number of factors that could have skewed the data or caused spikes for any…

There is a time honored technique, around much of the world, to use sex to sell goods. And by sex, I mean something so innocent as a pretty woman selling laundry soap or something as upsetting as a glimpse of a strangled female movie star to lure people into a crime drama. Even so, the…

Windows users can find the update in the Apple Updater utility, or download it directly from Apple’s Web site. If you’re running Mac OS X 10.5.8, you can download the update through Software Update. Apple has not yet added a standalone entry on its support site for the Mac version of the update.[Update: We clarified…

While Research In Motion brought the smartphone market to life, both CLSA and Gleacher & Co. believe that the market is now dominated by iPhone and Android. RIM is in a battle for third place with cellphone heavyweight Nokia and has-been model Windows Mobilephonewhatever. The Associated Press reported that Gleacher & Co. analyst Mark McKechnie…

In an editorial titled “Double standards in Apple’s Disneyland,” Heine Jørgensen wrote for the newspaper (from a Google translation, and mind the mild profanity), “Steve Jobs, who privately is Disney’s largest shareholder, is the closest you get to a god in the engineering world. And just like God, he tries to restrict anything that resembles…

This would mark a shift in the rumored negotiations between the two companies, as Verizon previously hadn’t wanted to pay the same stratospheric subsidies AT&T pays for each iPhone signed up on its network. The telecom has also been unhappy with the notion of leaving Apple in charge of the customer experience, as it is…

El Economista (English translation) reports that Apple is considering linking its current Cupertino campus with the new facility via underground tunnels so staff can move between the buildings without crossing streets or having to go outside. The new campus will apparently be designed to be environmentally friendly as well.Foster’s “Gherkin” with a little Apple touchApple…

“The issues have to do with uses of Flash for tracking, Flash cookies for example,” FTC chief technologist Ed Felten said. “As of today, when you use the privacy controls in your browser, they don’t directly affect the treatment of Flash local shared objects.”Local shared objects is the term Adobe uses to identify Flash cookies,…

That tweet: Howard Stern on the verge of signing $600 million 3 year agreement with Apple to host an Internet/TV/iTunes broadcast. $SIRI The key is that the Mr. Stern’s five year contract with the satellite radio provider is set to expire in January of 2011. That deal was priced at half a billion dollars, as…

Depending on how Apple implements its patent, the company could ship computers with a charger plug that also includes video, network, USB and other ports that all connect via optic fibers in the charger cable. The patent also describes using the system for rapid recharging, and also covers using the MagSafe connector with mobile devices…

Much has been written about whether this project, The Daily, by Mr. Murdoch will be successful or not. He’s sinking a lot of money into it, but he has the money to try. Some point out that we already have all the news sources and apps that we need and that Mr. Murdoch and his…

Clearly borrowing closely from real life politics, the video was also clearly produced by people intimately familiar with the Angry Birds franchise. From appearances, to actions, to the sound effects, it’s what a peace agreement brokered between those two intractable sides (and we’re still talking about Angry Birds and Pigs, mind you) might look like,…

Steve Jobs, ready for action!The Steve figure sports his traditional black mock turtleneck shirt, blue jeans, and even includes his trademark glasses. Little Steve is hand painted for a realistic look and comes on an Apple logo base.The downside is that the figure costs US$79.99, and quickly went from available to out of stock, and…

Version 2.0 also added multitasking support, the ability to stream audio in the background, and swipe gesture support for changing pages, along with improved performance, an updated user interface, bug fixes, and more.Perfect Web Browser 2.0 is priced at US$2.99 and is available at Apple’s iTunes-based App Store.

The 10.1” Windows device (shown below) will run a processor from AMD, according to PC Magazine, and feature two cameras (one front, one rear), WiFi and 3G connectivity, and be 15mm thick (Apple’s current iPad is 13.4mm thick). The company said this device would ship in February, but didn’t a name or pricing for the…

The five former RIM employees served the company in various sales capacities, including Geoff Perfect, who was Head of Strategic Sales and worked at RIM for five years before leaving the company to join Apple as Head of Enterprise Sales. Following in his footsteps, was Paul Alvarez, who served for a similar time span as…

The company’s patent application describes a method of using, “a layered fiber-in-matrix type material, such as CFRP” to make both a spine and and a CFRP spine. “The CFRP spine may be a unitary frame that imparts strength and rigidity to the overall housing and also form at least some of the corners of the…