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According to Wi-LAN, the companies named in its suit have been infringing on patent number 5,515,369 by making and selling mobile phones and laptop computers with Bluetooth technology.Along with Apple, the suit named Acer, Atheros Communications Belkin, Broadcom Corporation, Dell, D-Link, Gateway, HP, Intel, Lenovo, LG, Marvell Semiconductor, Motorola, Personal Communications Devices, Sony, Texas Instruments, Toshiba,…

Callpod states unequivocally that their Keeper application is engineered to be the most secure and easy-to-use application available for storing all your secret information. The reason they say is they use military-grade 128-bit AES encryption technology. On top of that there is a free iPhone/iPod Touch app that works separately or in complete symmetry with…

We’ve all heard or experienced the horror stories of bad reception on our iPhones. I even read a piece this week about college students protesting about their poor service from AT&T. Gee, I can remembered when college students protested about really important stuff like war and pollution and equal rights, but I guess it is…

First in line: Matt, Chad, Lauren, Rick, Michelle and RaySeveral people, however, camped outside Broomfield’s Flatiron Crossing Apple Store in their cars. The mall prohibited shoppers from lining up in front of the store before 7AM Saturday morning.“We’ve been here since midnight,” said iPad buyers Matt and Chad. “The security guards said we couldn’t come…

The first thing an Apple sales person did was look up my name in the reservation list, with her iPhone, and give me a special reserve card, marked with just a number and “64 GB.” That led me to believe that there as no specific box with my name on it, merely inventory on hand…

As the 2010 Major League Baseball season gets ready to begin, I thought I’d take a look at MLB World Series 2010. If you played last year’s edition of the game, you probably had complaints similar to mine: no real player names; only a handful of stadiums; no ability to bunt or steal, or order…

Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Associated Press, Financial Times. Magazines expected to be available for iPad on April 3 include: Conde Nast’s Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Glamour; Time, Inc’s Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated and People; Hearst’s Esquire. Also: Men’s Health and SPIN. Announced on Friday: Popular Science+. NPR, while it…

MobileMe subscribers can also remotely lock their iPad with a password and remotely delete data if their tablet is lost or stolen.Apple’s MobileMe service costs US$99 a year, and also includes iCal and Address Book syncing, Safari bookmark syncing online storage and data backup, remote file sharing, and email.The iPad will be available on April…

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…