HTC flagships' US shipments get delayed for Apple patent violation
HTC just took a big hit in its patent war with Apple. The import of the companys duo of U.S. bound Android flagships the HTC One X for AT&T and the HTC EVO 4G LTE has been delayed indefinitely by the US Customs because of potential infringement of Apples patent #5,946,647. The above-mentioned occurrence is due to an exclusion order, which Apple won against HTC in December last year at the International Trade Commission.
New Apple patent may spell trouble for Android
The US Patent and Trademark Office has handed Apple’s legal team what may turn out to be a powerful weapon in their on-going battles against anyone with the temerity to launch products competitive with the iPhone and iPad: a patent on soft keyboards that alter their keys with the tap of an on-screen button. Granted on Tuesday, US Patent 8,179,731, “Method, system, and graphical user interface for selecting a soft keyboard”, describes the soft keyboard familiar to any iOS or ...
Greenpeace targets Apple with 10-foot Pod stunt
Silicon Valley cops arrested two Greenpeace activists who sealed themselves into a large (i)Pod outside Apple HQ today, but chose not to cuff another bunch of activists who were dressed as giant iPhones. Greenpeace has been chastising the Mac and iOS firm for the last few years for not exactly being the freewheeling, earth-friendly, slightly hippie firm that many seem to think it is. Today’s stunt was designed to highlight Greenpeace’s accusations that Apple is powering its iCloud offering using ...
Nokia sues HTC, RIM, Viewsonic over patent infringement
By Mikael Ricknäs | IDG News Service Nokia has filed claims in the U.S. and Germany saying that products from HTC, Research In Motion (RIM) and ViewSonic infringe a number of the company’s patents, it stated on Wednesday. Nokia has filed actions against all three companies in Mannheim’s and Munich’s respective regional courts. [ Stay ahead of the key tech business news with InfoWorld’s Today’s Headlines: First Look newsletter.
Flashback returns: Is Apple dropping the ball?
Gregg Keizer reported yesterday that the Flashback Trojan horse — which was supposed to be going the way of the dodo — has hardly skipped a beat. Dr. Web, the Russian company that three weeks ago figured out how to count the number of infected Macs, states that the number of unique IP addresses with infected Macs has held steady around 700,000, and the number of unique infected Macs hovers around 580,000 to 595,000. Meanwhile, other researchers and anti-malware companies ...
Redesigned 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro
Word has it that Apple is set to begin mass producing a 15-inch MacBook Pro in mid-April 2012 with initial monthly shipments of 200,000 units. The company will also mass produce a 13-inch model in June 2012 with initial monthly shipments of 300,000-400,000 units.
Apple iPad 3 review: Hotter than ever
Introduction So, the iPad is dead, long live the iPad. That’s also part of the deal. The retirement of the first-generation of the Apple tablet is nothing out of the ordinary. There used to be the iPad and the iPad 2. Now, we have the iPad and the iPad 2 is the backup, the second choice. The new iPad. Here’s one for you. You’re Apple and you are about to launch your latest product. You want to dispel even the ...
Businesses get special service at Apple Stores
It was not so long ago that, when Ted Ellis needed to get one of his company’s Mac laptops fixed, he had have to make an appointment at a nearby Apple Store’s Genius Bar, just like anyone else. Being a business customer did not get him any kind of special service. That has changed in the last year, though. Now when Ellis — a desktop support engineer at Announce Media in Mountain View, California — needs help, he can make ...
Apple to Google Maps: ‘Get lost’
Thanks heavens it’s only for photo-tagging: Apple has tossed yet another gauntlet onto the ground in its on-going spat with Google, dropping Google Maps out of iPhoto for iOS and opting for OpenStreetMap instead. The move was the subject of speculation for a few days before being http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/08/welcome-apple/ announced on the OpenStreetMap Foundation blog. The shift appears to have been spotted by one Ben Collier who put this image up on Twitter, and which was subsequently noted by The Next ...
HD glitch for Apple TV punters
HBO is not giving up its box seat for anybody – not even Apple. The premium cable channel, which won a global reputation by investing in quality shows for intelligent grown-ups, including The Wire and The Sopranos, is also a distribution channel for other people’s stuff – that is how it made its revenue before diversifying into original content. But these preexisting deals with other studios mean Apple TV owners will not be able to re-download HD movies such as ...
