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Apple filed its complaint with the ITC in March along with a patent infringement lawsuit that targets HTC’s smartphones and their use of Google’s Android operating system. HTC is denying any wrong doing.“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something…

Quicken Essentials is Intuit’s ground-up rewrite of Quicken for the Mac in Cocoa. It’s a good looking, basic application that has plenty of room for growth. Regrettably, it is still somewhat unrefined and has some serious limitations. First, here are the notable features of Quicken Essentials (QE): Connects to over 12,000 financial institutions Uses SSL…

The VUZIX Wrap 310 offers a virtual 55 inch screen that displays both standard 4 x 3 and 16 x 9 screen formats. It plays 2D and 3D movies and videos and supports all common formats of 3D video. The 3D configuration is automatic when 3D movies are played. The view is the equivalent to…

Elan claimed in its filing that Apple “knowingly and deliberately” used patent protected technologies in its products without authorization. “Our goal is to protect our technology and to stop sales of those products in the U.S.,” commented Elan spokesperson Dennis Liu.The company previously filed a lawsuit against Apple in April 2009 for patent infringement alleging at…

Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty told clients in a research note Monday morning that she expects Apple to sell 2.5 million iPads during its first quarter of availability, and more than six million during the current fiscal year, according to Marketwatch. She estimated that Apple’s bottom line benefits by 25 cents for every million units…

The Boingo Wi-Fi Credits also lets users purchase credits ahead of connecting to Boingo hotspots, and credits are good for one year from the date of purchase. One hour credits cost US$1.99 each, and unlimited global hotspot access costs $7.95 a month.The Boingo Wi-Fi Credits is free and available at Apple’s iTunes-based App Store.

iWeb Themes 6.0 is priced at US$25, or $10 per theme, and is available at the iWebTemplate Web site.

If only that were true. I’m kidding, of course. The good old U.S. of A. can boast that 99 percent of its 300+ million citizens can read and write at some level of competency. That is to say that most of us can at least sound out a traffic sign and scrawl our names. It…

“When I first came up with the idea of founding MacSpeech, I was on a mission — I saw speech recognition on the Macintosh slipping away into obscurity,” Mr. Taylor said in a letter to investors.In 1996, the market for speech recognition products for the Mac looked pretty bleak. PowerSecretary was the leading big name…

Fortune reported the research note to clients, and said that Mr. Bachman’s reasoning revolves around several contributing factors. For one thing, he thinks that Apple’s iPad could conceivably capture as much as 11% of the existing Wintel and Linux netbook market. At 40 million units in 2010, that would represent a sizable chunk of unit…

He said that the only reason he didn’t was because he wanted to avoid the inevitable uproar that would have occurred had he done so. “Frankly, I wish I had resigned then,” he told The Journal. At issue was the way that Apple, its board, and Mr. Jobs himself did not fully disclose his health…

“Apple technologies offer unique and proven solutions with intuitive designs that allow users to learn quickly without a training manual,” Ron Szymanski, CERDEC’s lead computer scientist for the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), said in a statement. “The Army would like to leverage Apple’s experience when designing military applications.” More specifically, the…

At the same time, however, Hartmut Ostrowski, CEO of Random’s parent company Bertelsmann said recently at a press conference that the iPad, the Sony Reader, and similar devices were here to stay. He also acknowledged at that time that such devices were influencing the media industry, “like nothing else.” As one of the biggest publishers…

That said, it is the WiFi-only version of the iPad that will be released first – 3G capable iPads will be released as early as 30 days after the April 3rd launch of the device, so the lack of them at AT&T shouldn’t come as a surprise, though readers looking to buy one through AT&T…

The survey found that 68% of potential iPad owners aged 25-34 years olds and 59% of owners 35-44 years old would be willing to pay for such content, “representing substantially higher percentages than people age 45 and older.” That data might be surprising to some people in that younger Internet users are often considered more…

The New York Times reported that Perseus has agreed to Apple’s demand to not offer ebooks through other retailers (i.e. Amazon) for less than it does at iBooks, a demand Apple has made for all of its iPad-related iBooks publishing houses. “We’re working with Apple to make books from The Perseus Books Group and the…

“The iPad photo app looks incredible,” an unidentified UK resident wrote to Mr. Jobs. “Are there any plans to support Picasa’s faces and albums in iTunes so I can take full advantage of the Photos application?” In his reply, which was forwarded to 9to5Mac.com, Mr. Jobs wrote, “No, but iPhoto on the Mac has much…

His comment was quoted by the San Jose Mercury News. A press release on Mr. Schwarzenegger’s government web page has a video from the event, but the file does not play, thanks to a 404 error for the underlying stream. According to the press release, California is seeking to create a first-in-the-nation living donor registry…

PhoneSuit makes one of many battery packs for the iPhone. I have been testing the PhoneSuit MiLi, which has a 2,000 mAh (milliamp-hour) smart battery. The device does an excellent job extending the battery life of my iPhone. The battery pack has its drawbacks, but it’s definitely one of my favorite accessories for my iPhone…

The 71 year old Mr. York has served as a board member for Apple since 1997, and is also well know for his work in the automotive industry and for helping turn around companies that are failing. He also previously served as IBM’s chief financial officer.Apple’s Web site tribute to Mr. York“Jerry joined Apple’s Board in 1997…

An unnamed source at the hospital said that Mr. York was unresponsive and gravely ill.The 71 year old Mr. York has served as a board member for Apple since 1997, and is also well know for his work in the automotive industry and for helping turn around companies that are failing. He also previously served…

At the other end, there was a four-way tie between T-Mobile’s Dash 3G, Palm’s Pixi Plus, Nokia’s 2320 GoPhone, and LG’s Chocolate Touch, all at 1.47 SAR. Prominent phones that made the list included: the Motorola Droid in sixth place (in order from safest to least safe) at 1.49 SAR, the BlackBerry Bold eighth at…

According to AppleInsider, Mr. Cihra wrote: “We continue to model note/netbook accounting for greater than 90% of PC unit growth in 2010, but with desktops at least now looking like they’ve stopped eroding and can resume at least some low single-digit recovery after 2 years of decline, driven by emerging markets, corporate workhorse use and…