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Tech writers and multi-touch madness
Daniel Eran Dilger has an interesting article up over at Roughly Drafted where he discusses just how ridiculous the discussion over Apple “patenting multi-touch” has become. Despite what some tech writers and websites would have you believe, Apple has never claimed or attempted to patent multi-touch technology, and in fact, the technology has been around […]
Continue reading...Palm CEO downplays potential patent dispute with Apple
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Palm CEO Ed Colligan said today that Palm doesn’t envision running into any legal trouble with Apple over their implementation of multi-touch in the upcoming Palm Pre. If you recall, Tim Cook noted at Apple’s last earnings conference call that Apple would vigorously defend its IP, and the blogosphere quickly jumped on that statement and […]
Continue reading...Apple asked Google not to use multi-touch in Android
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Citing a developer who supposedly worked on Android, VentureBeat is reporting that Apple asked Google not to implement multi-touch technology in its Android mobile OS, and that Google, obviously, complied. The implementation of multi-touch on the iPhone gives it a key advantage over competing phones such as the G1 and the BlackBerry Storm, and it raises the […]
Continue reading...Palm hires ex-Apple guy as manger of its Palm Pre developer community
Monday, February 9, 2009
Former Apple employee Chuq Von Rospach recently accepted a position at Palm where he will serve as the Developer Community Manager for the Palm Pre SDK. Apple’s app store is already off to a commanding lead, and the Palm Pre, which doesn’t launch for another few months, will have to play a significant amount of […]
Continue reading...Rob Enderle tries to write about Apple.. hijinks ensue
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Rob Enderle’s latest article is a perfect example of how he’s either not qualified to write about tech, or that his bias against Apple is so great that he can’t possibly write about Apple without sounding like a complete fool. In his latest article, he argues that Apple going after Palm will turn Apple into […]
Continue reading...How to write about Apple when you actually know nothing – Bloomberg Style!
Monday, February 2, 2009
Take a look at this recent article from Bloomberg. It’s basically an amalgamation of random sound bites jumbled together in a failed attempt to cover the potential for a patent dispute between Apple and Palm. The title of the article is “Apple May Use ‘Nuclear Arsenal’ to Delay IPhone Rival”, and the authors show a […]
Continue reading...Apple vs. Palm: Patent Wars
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Engadget has a great piece discussing some of the patents relevant to the recent hype surrounding Apple and Palm potentially going head to head in court over the release of the Palm Pre. It’s a welcome breath of fresh air to read some on-point analysis on a topic that most people are ill-equipped to discuss […]
Continue reading...Apple awarded multi-touch patent
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Apple was recently awarded a patent on its application for a “Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics.” The patent application, as a whole, stretches back to 2006 and covers a wide variety of multi-touch implementations on the iPhone. With the granting of this patent, which comes in […]
Continue reading...A different point of view – Maybe Apple wasn’t threatening Palm after all
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Daniel Eran Dilger of RoughlyDrafted has an interesting article up arguing that Tim Cook did not, in fact, make a thinly veiled threat against Palm. While most other tech sites are already up in arms predicting litigation between the two tech companies (and showing no knowledge of the patent system in the process), Dilger takes […]
Continue reading...Is Apple going to sue Palm?
Thursday, January 22, 2009
At yesterdays earnings conference call, Tim Cook made some revealing statements that some are interpreting as thinly veiled threats against Palm. In response to a question about iPhone competitors, Cook noted that Apple welcomes competition in the smartphone market, but that it won’t sit idly by and have its intellectual property ripped off. We like […]
Continue reading...Palm investor talks about the development of the Palm Pre and what it has to offer
Monday, January 19, 2009
Check out this interesting interview with Roger McNamee, one of the co-founders of Elevation Partners, the company that invested a ton of money into Palm to help it create the Palm Pre. The other co-founder is, of course, former Apple CFO Fred Anderson. McNamee has some interesting points to make and is clearly genuinely excited […]
Continue reading...Does Apple have anything to fear from the Palm Pre?
Monday, January 12, 2009
With CES behind us, one of the biggest surprises was the announcement of the Palm Pre, Palm’s latest entry in the smartphone market. Designed in part by Jon Rubenstein, a former Apple executive, the Palm Pre is a multi-touch screen phone with a pull out QWERTY keyboard that some pundits think has the best chance […]
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
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