Daily Archives: August 15, 2011

Remains of the Day: Put it on my TabCo

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Steve Jobs’s biography is coming, and it’s got way fewer moving pieces than an old MacBook prototype. Plus, the company behind the mysterious TabCo viral campaign is unmasked, and it’s the most disappointing reveal since The Phantom Menace Continue reading →

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Apple files Chinese ‘figurative’ patent for Smart Covers

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Apple’s Smart Cover for the iPad 2 has been trademarked as a name in most of the major territories where Apple does business — the U.S., Canada, Europe and China — but the company is moving to file a “figurative” trademark on the design, a patent filing in China discovered by Patently Apple shows. Should the patent be granted, Apple would be in a position to pursue litigation against “knock off” imitators…. Continue reading →

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Microsoft rewrites 10K filing to depict Apple as significant competitor

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Microsoft revamped this year’s 10K filing with the Securities Exchange Commission to remove mention of Linux, Mozilla and Opera as significant competitors and amplify the role of Apple as a competitor in both software and online services. Continue reading →

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Apple accused of faking evidence in EU iPad case against Samsung

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A Dutch magazine run by IDC has accused Apple of faking evidence of Samsung’s “slavish” copying in its German complaint that the Galaxy Tab 10.2 is “practically identical” in design to the iPad Continue reading →

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Microsoft claims Windows Phone now the only ‘equal’ platform

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Microsoft’s Windows Phone president Andy Lees seized the opportunity of the Google buyout of Motorola to claim perceived superiority in smartphones. In a statement, he argued that Android now couldn’t be trusted because Google would invariably give Motorola preferential treatment. He sidestepped the question of whether the patents would help Google and instead portrayed Windows Phone as the ‘open’ platform… Continue reading →

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Baird: 93% of tablet owners still have iPads, 94% mull one

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Baird & Co. Continue reading →

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O2 Swapping Out UK Retail Store iPhone Displays Through Mid-September

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Several MacRumors readers have informed us that wireless carrier O2 has sent out notices to its retail stores announcing that it will be beginning a three-week process to change out the iPhone displays in its UK stores ahead of the launch of the iPhone 5. While we don’t believe that O2 has specific information on a release date for the iPhone 5, which has been rumored to not be appearing until October, it is interesting to note that their preparations should be complete by September 12th. From the notice to O2′s retail stores: The following is to advise that we are removing the old iPhone unitary between the 22nd August and the 12th September Continue reading →

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W3 pays $50,000 for violating child privacy in iOS apps

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W3 Innovations — better known as Broken Thumbs Apps — has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the Wall Street Journal says. Broken Thumbs develops a variety of iPhone games. Continue reading →

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Epson Stylus 3880 17-inch printer dubbed ‘Signature Worthy’

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Epson today added to its lineup of professional-level inkjet printers with the introduction of the Stylus Pro 3880 “Signature Worthy” Edition, a 17-inch printer featuring extra-wide color gamuts with nine of Epson’s own UltraChrome K3 inks for more vivid magenta tones as well as deeper hutes of blue and violet. The special edition also comes with six letter-sized packs of a matching line of “Signature Worthy” papers…. Continue reading →

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Motorola purchase may bolster Google TV in bid to unseat Apple TV

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Executives for both Motorola and Google made clear on Monday that they intend to take advantage of Motorola’s existing presence in the high-definition set-top box space, where the Google TV has failed to gain traction against the Apple TV. Continue reading →

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