Archive | May 17th, 2011
LTE enabled iPhone won’t see the light of day until 2012 – Report
In what shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, DigiTimes is reporting that Apple will not release an LTE enabled iPhone in 2011. While Tim Cook has previously said that current LTE chipsets would force Apple to make design compromises it wasn’t comfortable with, Irene Chen writes that part of the holdup is the result […]
Continue reading...Are Google and Amazon poised to do battle over Android?
17. May 2011
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In the blink of an eye, Apple and Google’s relationship transformed from one of partners fighting a common enemy (Microsoft) into an intense, and sometimes bitter, rivalry. But while Apple and Google are currently duking it out for smartphone dominance, Google’s strategy to distribute Android as far and wide as possible may soon come back […]
Continue reading...Apple is “actively investigating” Lodsys patent issue
17. May 2011
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The Guardian reports that Apple is “actively investigating” the allegation from Lodsys that iOS developers are infringing upon Lodsys owned patents. So far Lodsys has served papers on about a dozen iOS developers who it says are infringing its patent 10/732,102, which it bought in 2004 from the inventor, who filed it in the 1990s, […]
Continue reading...NFC payments coming to Apple retail stores?
17. May 2011
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By John Hiesler: Just one day after an analyst report relayed that the next-gen iPhone would not come equipped with NFC technology, BGR is reporting, citing several well-placed sources, that Apple may be integrating NFC technology into its stores. First off, Apple’s POS devices — its iPod touch-based wireless payment terminals — recently all went offline […]
Continue reading...Apple releases OS X Lion Developer Preview 3
17. May 2011
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Apple last Friday released a new developer beta of OS X Lion which includes a new boot up animation, new desktop backgrounds, slightly updated Finder toolbars, a Reading List enabled version of Safari, and the addition of a Mission Control app. Some other changes, courtesy of Itsalltech, include: – New options in System Preferences>Mission Control […]
Continue reading...Lodsys patents at issue in iOS patent trolling “case” set to expire in August 2012 – Report
17. May 2011
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In the latest example of patent trolling, a company called Lodsys last week began sending out letters to independent iOS app developers asking them to licensing “patented” technology under the implied threat of litigation. The patent in question – US Pat. No. 7,222,078 – covers “methods and systems for gathering information from units of a commodity […]
Continue reading...HP not feeling Thunderbolt, sticking with USB 3.0 for now
17. May 2011
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Apple in February released a revamped line of MacBook Pros with a new transfer technology called Thunderbolt capable of transferring data at 10 Gbps in both directions. Now that’s undoubtedly fast as hell, and certainly faster than USB 3.0, but there are some limitations. In its current implementation, users will not be able to boot […]
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17. May 2011
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