Archive | August 11th, 2011
22 more fake Apple stores found in Kumming, China
Well it turns out that fake Apple stores are much more lucrative than previously thought. A few weeks after the very existence of fake Apple stores was brought to the forefront, Reuters is reporting that authorities in the Chinese city of Kumming have happened upon another 22 counterfeit Apple retail stores. Initially, only 5 were […]
Continue reading...The Patent Exchange
11. August 2011
Software patents have been a hot topic in the Apple community over the past few months. Not only are there a seemingly endless stream of trolls coming out of the woodwork in attempts to extract non-deserving riches from folks who actually produce something, but Apple is currently embroiled in a number of high profile lawsuits […]
Continue reading...New Apple patent application describes schematic maps
11. August 2011
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In 2009, Apple acquired a little known mapping company called PlaceBase. The ostensible motivation behind the acquisition was to decrease Apple’s reliance on Google and their own Maps app that rests ever so prominently on the iOS homescreen. Now PlaceBae actually existed before Google Maps, but found it increasingly hard, if not downright impossible, to […]
Continue reading...Samsung responds to EU Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction
11. August 2011
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Samsung suffered a huge setback earlier this week when a German district court enacted an injunction barring Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 anywhere in Europe. The lone exception is the Netherlands where Apple is currently trying to achieve a similar result. In short, and effective immediately, Samsung cannot sell any tablets and must […]
Continue reading...OS X Lion’s new gestures visualized [Hilarious Photo]
11. August 2011
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OS X Lion is great and all, and we’re still coming around on the new scrolling mechanism, not to mention the new scrollbars and the like, so the always entertaining folks from Joy of Tech did us all a solid and came up with this handy graphic depicting some of OS X Lion’s lesser known […]
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11. August 2011
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