Patent Watch: The iPhone Remote + Group Music Sharing
It’s been a while since we’ve covered new filings by Apple at the USPTO. However, a bunch of new filings to surface through the patent body, this week, are rather interesting to say the least. The...
View ArticlePatent Watch: Selling (Or Transferring) Your Purchased iTunes Content On To...
If you’re anything like me, you only buy a movie on iTunes after you’ve physically seen it at least once. But, what about those rare times where you actually take the plunge, purchase a so-called...
View ArticleTWiT Talks Fingerprint Sensors On The Next-Generation iPhone – [VIDEO]
I’ve long been a fan of Leo Laporte and his informative online web show – ‘This Week In Tech.’ This week, Leo and the gang are talking about the much speculated about ‘fingerprint’ sensor that may be...
View ArticleApple Seeks To Block Its Antitrust Monitor
The report states that Apple believes court-appointed antitrust monitor, Michael Bromwich, is “conducting a roving investigation that is interfering with [the company's] business operations, risking...
View ArticlePatent Watch: The Apple Heart Rate Monitor
You read right. Apple was just awarded a patent for a “seamlessly embedded heart rate monitor.” Thankfully, the filing doesn’t relate to the firm wanting to surgically implant customers with heart rate...
View ArticlePatent Watch: Tagging Images With Siri
A new patent unearthed at the U.S Patent and Trademark Office, this week, could hint that Apple may be looking to extend the functionalities of its intelligent voice assistant – Siri – to include the...
View ArticleObama On Patent Trolls: “They’re Just Trying To Essentially Leverage And...
Finally. To the delight of Tim Cook – and (we imagine) many others – President Barack Obama has gone on the record to say that he, and his administration, are not going to allow ‘patent trolling’ in...
View ArticleBlackBerry Wins Injunction Over Sale Of Ryan Seacrest’s Keyboard-Wielding...
You may recall that 2014 didn’t get off to the best of starts for U.S television host, Ryan Seacrest, after his mobile accessories start-up – “Typo” – landed in the legal crosshairs of BlackBerry’s...
View ArticleApple Could Settle All Future Disputes With Samsung Out Of Court
Likely as a result of Tim Cook’s detesting of anything involving patent litigation, Fortune reports this afternoon that Apple could now be in talks with long-time industry rival Samsung, over the...
View ArticleNew Patent Reveals Apple Could Be Working On ‘Siri for Mac’
The discovery of a new patent at the U.S Patent and Trademark Office could translate into Apple possibly working to bring its digital assistant, Siri, to the Mac. In a recent filing placed with the U.S...
View ArticlePatent Watch: Browsing Remote Content Using A Native Interface
A new patent uncovered at the U.S Patent and Trademark Office, this week, reveals that Apple could be planning to develop a system wherein it allows direct access to the Apple TV‘s graphical interface,...
View ArticlePatent Watch: Apple Is Investigating ‘Fall Protection’ For iPhones
A new patent unveiled at the USPTO, could shed a little light on Apple’s future plans to include better damage protection on products such as the iPhone. The patent covers an electronic device which...
View ArticlePatent Granted: Throwing Content From Your Apple TV, Back To iOS
While today it’s possible to wirelessly throw photos, music, videos (and more) from an iOS device, to the Apple TV – with relative ease, Apple could be investigating methods which involve reversing the...
View ArticlePatent Watch: The Foldable, Flexible iPhone
Apple has won what could turn out to be a milestone patent – that covers the possibility of the company deploying foldable, and flexible, materials in its future iPhones. The new patent, entitled...
View ArticleApple Patents Home Button-Concealed, Spring-Loaded Joystick for iPhone
If you’ve ever sat and looked at your iPhone, wishing there was somehow a hidden joystick you could just “pop out” to aid you in that 15-minute casual gaming session, Apple has you covered. Well,...
View Article“iPad Pro” to Run OS X? … Patent Filing Suggests So. [RUMOR]
Apple has long been speculated to be working on an even larger-screened version of its iPad. Tentatively dubbed the “iPad Pro,” a new report today suggests that the tablet could end up running a...
View ArticleApple Ordered To Pay $234M To UW–Madison
Jurors in a legal case that involved the California-based technology giant spent the best part of 4 hours coming to their ultimate verdict, last week. The case specifically accused Apple, Inc of...
View ArticleSamsung Owes Apple $548 Million, U.S Court Says
Of course, it’s no secret that the two mega corporations have been at each other’s backs for what seems like an eternity now. But, in the words of Katie Benner for The New York Times, this latest...
View ArticleFuture iPhones Could Adopt Multiple Cameras for Optical Zoom [PATENT]
Fresh out of the U.S Patent and Trademark Office, a new patent originally filed by Apple could indicate that the company is planning to use several cameras inside a future version of the iPhone, in...
View ArticleApple Was Granted Nearly 2,000 Patents Last Year [REPORT]
If you needed any more evidence that the Cupertino company isn’t slowing down in its drive for product innovation and perfection, Apple was in 2015 granted more than 1,900 patents covering both its...
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