Google’s vice president of corporate development, David Lawee, sat down with Bloomberg to talk about the ongoing patent disputes within the mobile industry and more specifically Apple’s recent victory over Samsung. The executive revealed that the Mountain View-based company wasn’t investing into the patent ecosystem ...
Apple accidentally outs iPhone 5 name, LTE support, and new iPods
on 9.12.12
Apple's next-generation smartphone will be called the iPhone 5, according to an inactive link accidentally posted on the company's own Web site hours before the highly anticipated device is expected to be announced in San Francisco. By searching Apple's Web site for the term "iPhone 5," the search results yield a listing to ...
“It Smelled Something Like Pizza”
on 9.12.12
Like many of Apple’s inventions, the iPhone began not with a vision, but with a problem. By 2005, the iPod had eclipsed the Mac as Apple’s largest source of revenue, but the music player that rescued Apple from the brink now faced a looming threat: The cellphone. Everyone carried a phone, and if phone companies figured ...
Will Apple’s Tacky Software-Design Philosophy Cause A Revolt?
on 9.12.12
By now it’s almost inevitable given the company’s track record: No matter what Apple unveils tomorrow at the Yerba Buena Center (an iPad Mini? iPhone 5?), pundits will herald the company for its innovative thinking and bold hardware design. But the elephant in the room will be Apple’s software, which many inside the ...
iPhone 5: The Complete Rumor Roundup
on 9.11.12
There's been so much rumor-hawking and speculation the past few weeks that whether you're ready or not, we're squarely in the middle of iPhone season. So here's a quick rundown of everything we think we know about Apple's next iPhone. We think we have a pretty good idea of what the new iPhone will look like; we've been ...
Apple is already fighting Amazon in the ebook price wars
on 9.11.12
Apple would prefer agency pricing on ebooks — that, we know. In fact, Apple is likely to appeal the DOJ’s ebook pricing settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster, which was approved last week. Turns out, though, that doesn’t mean Apple won’t play the price-drop game on their ebooks in the ...
Samsung will reportedly sue Apple over LTE use on iPhone 5
on 9.11.12
With a little more than a day before the iPhone 5's expected debut, Samsung has decided to sue Apple for patent infringement over its reported use of long-term evolution (LTE) connectivity in the next-generation smartphones. Expected to be unveiled at a press event in San Francisco on Wednesday, the iPhone 5 will reportedly ...
Samsung Galaxy S III Knocked Down to Just $100 on Amazon Ahead of iPhone 5
on 9.11.12
Apple will announce its redesigned iPhone tomorrow. Ahead of that huge launch, Amazon has knocked down the price of the 16GB Galaxy S III to just $100 with a contract in an apparent attempt to unload as many of the phones as possible before everybody forgets about it. But don't let the sheen of a new phone fool you! The S ...
YouTube offers new app for iPhone and iPad
on 9.11.12
YouTube is being reprogrammed for the iPhone and iPad amid the latest fallout from the growing hostility between Google and Apple. The changes are being made because Google and Apple didn't renew a five-year licensing agreement that established YouTube's video service as one of the built-in applications in the operating ...
Publishing firm: iOS UDID leak came from us, not the FBI
on 9.10.12
A digital publishing company named BlueToad has come forward to take responsibility for the leak of a million iOS unique device identifiers (UDIDs) that were previously attributed to an alleged FBI laptop hack. In a number of interviews published Monday, BlueToad apologized to the public for the incident, explaining that ...
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