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Virtual knob: Apple patents the obvious

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:24:11 +0000

Apple has been beating the legal tar out of Android handset makers. The home button, slide to unlock and a host of other Apple patented design features that once could be found on Android devices are gone, but the battles still aren’t over and, with the issuance of this patent, unlikely to subside [...]
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Apple cracks down on pirate site Apptrackr

Ronald O Carlson — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:01:49 +0000

The mothership has gotten heat from developers and pundits over its apparent inaction vis-a-vis app piracy, a problem observers say has only gotten worse in recent months. Although criticism of Apple is unlikely to subside, the biggest iOS pirate site has been pushed off shore and the problem has moved to countries ‘that [...]
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Apple nabs ‘slide to unlock’ patent

Ronald O Carlson — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:24:58 +0000

Is the US patent system broken? Clearly the answer has to be, “yes.” Although “slide to unlock” is a brilliant concept, should it be patentable? I’m willing to say it should be trademarkable, but this seems like just another egregious “method patent.”

People have patented tax workarounds, really. And, although the writing may [...]
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Jobs: I will destroy Android if it takes my last breath

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:01:25 +0000

That’s not the exact quote, but it’s unequivocally what Steve Jobs meant. Think you know the Apple CEO? Time to think different. Walter Isaacson’s biography doesn’t officially ship until Monday, October 24, but early copies have leaked and the quotes, the incendiary kind, are already lighting up the web.

Associated Press (Yahoo) [...]
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Brian Hogan, accomplice get probation for iPhone 4 prototype caper

Ronald O Carlson — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:05:41 +0000

Well over a year after they committed the theft and profited from the sale of a pilfered iPhone 4 prototype, the pair have received what can only be described as light punishment. However, with convictions secured, will Apple now turn on Gizmodo publisher Gawker?

Wired reports that Brian Hogan and Sage Wallower [...]
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No stolen iPhone prototype, say SF cops

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:53:49 +0000

When you breathe the strange, rarified air that surrounds all things Apple, it’s hard to know what to believe. Thereupon, if San Francisco’s finest, or at least their spokesman, are believable, then the story of the second lost iPhone prototype has come to a swift and inglorious end, but not before providing a [...]
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Not again! Apple lost another iPhone prototype

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:40:31 +0000

No police report has been filed in this particular incident, but the details are already familiar. An apple employee, hopefully not Gray Powell, left an iPhone 5 prototype in a San Francisco “tequila lounge” whereafter it might have been sold on Craigslist. I’m guessing Gizmodo wasn’t the buyer.

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What iPhone? Sprint schedules Oct 7 media event

Ronald O Carlson — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:22:04 +0000

Verizon is generally not so fast and AT&T is renowned for spotty, sometimes unreliable service. Thereupon, rumors that the number three carrier here in the U.S. will be getting the iPhone come Fall have lots of people talking. That is, pretty much everyone except the folks working in Sprint’s retail outlets.

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Gizmodo won’t be charged

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:21:47 +0000

From the miscarriage of justice department comes news that paying for stolen property isn’t a punishable offense. A “journalist” paying a source? Not a punishable offense. However, being a stupid punk is punishable by up to a year in jail and two of those have been charged.

SFGate reports that Brian Hogan [...]
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Apple and friends buy Nortel patents for $4.5 billion

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:36:34 +0000

Here’s something you don’t see every day. A diverse array of companies, often bitter competitors, joining forces to bid on that most contentious of all commodities, patents. Apple and Microsoft are part of this coalition of the willing, as are EMC, Sony, Ericsson and RIM.

Back in the noughties, Nortel’s executives [...]
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