Apple attempting to block import of 8 Samsung products

The details of a motion,filed yesterday by Applewith the International Trade Commission, have been revealed today, reportsFlorian Mueller of FOSS Patents. The complaint names 8 Samsung devices including 6 phones and 2 tablets and asserts that Samsung is violating 5 utility patents and 2 design patents granted to Apple. Now that the complaint has entered the public record, Mueller has discovered that the complaint filed by Apple names the following Samsung products as ones that should be blocked from import for infringing on the 7 various patents....

3 min · 549 words · Michael Hardin

Apple attempts to perfect iPhone 5 voice control with Nuance

When Apple introduced voice control to the iPhone with iOS 3.0, it didn’t exactly set the world on fire. It was just too awkward and inaccurate. NowTechcrunchreports that Apple is negotiating with speech recognition company Nuance to give the iPhone 5 the voice control perfection it needs. Nuance doesn’t just do voice recognition, it’s also into imaging and keypad solutions, but it’s primarily known for doing the heavy lifting for a multitude of products and businesses when it comes to crunching speech data....

3 min · 619 words · Joseph Williams

Apple baby Aza Raskin on the secrets of great User Interface

‘Whilst most kids were carried around in the stroller, I was carried around in the first Macintosh carry case,’ says Aza Raskin whose father Jef Raskin was the expert user interface designer that built the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s. Having grown up in the thick of computer development, Aza went on to become head of user experience at Mozilla Labs. In 2008, Raskin and the other Humanized employees were part of a hire-out by the Mozilla Corporation....

1 min · 210 words · Ricardo Mayo

Apple Back to School deal is so effective, 80% of students choose Mac

Apple’s promotional Back-to-School program that offers students a $100 gift card for iTunes stores along with the purchase of a new Mac seems to be going well. Research firm Global Equitiesoffers up some statisticsthat indicate that approximately 80% of the incoming students this year are choosing Apple computers over Windows PC’s. “Apple Back to School sale off to a strong start beating Microsoft 8 to 2,” Global Equities Research writes. “Our research indicates that ~80% of incoming students are buying Apple Computers vs....

2 min · 318 words · James Ingram

Apple Backtracks On Its In-App Subscriptions Policy

With new updates coming to Apple’s iOS platform, the Cupertino-based company has reversed parts of its policy in regards to how its polices In-App Subscriptions on the App Store, removing some pricing guidelines completely,reports Macrumors. Apple has completely removed the the requirement that a subscription must be “same price or less than it is offered outside the app”, also removing the stipulation that external subscriptions must be also offered as an in-app purchase....

2 min · 382 words · Ethan Romero
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