All the stories tagged with: patent
Google patent lets you snap a photo of a landmark to reveal your location
03/08/2012, Have you ever been to a new city and got lost? Well if you have, or if you’re trying to describe your location to a friend, then a recently filed Google patent might be of extreme interest to you. The [...]
Apple might release mobile payment service
03/07/2012, While the world waits for the dust to settle from this morning’s new iPad and Apple TV announcements, here is more news from the fruity company – the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has approved a patent application that might [...]
Amazon patents intelligent stylus
03/06/2012, With so many touchscreen devices being churned out these days, it goes without saying that our fingers are one of the main methods of interacting with such devices. However, when winter time comes and the mercury drops to freezing levels, [...]
Google patent motion-based gestures for mobile devices
03/04/2012, Owning a slew of patents is always a good thing as many modern companies find out these days, and Google themselves are definitely not short on patent ammunition, intending to acquire even more patents in the process. The company has [...]
Apple may force Motorola to destroy its phones?
03/02/2012, Apple may have beaten Motorola in one of its latest legal battles that took place in Germany, but it looks like the Cupertino company isn’t satisfied just yet. Apparently the injunction granted by the Munich I Regional Court gives Apple [...]
Google invents original search gestures
02/24/2012, It looks like Google has plans for changing the way we search using our mobile devices. The search engine giant was recently reported to have invented a new gesture for pulling off searches on future Android devices. Instead of users [...]
Apple beat-matching patent application
02/24/2012, The new ammunition for huge corporations would be intellectual property, and owning relevant patents to your particular niche market or industry is the ideal way to roll in the big bucks. Apple knows this, and has filed its fair share [...]
Apple patent points to thinner keyboards
02/23/2012, It does seem as though TVs are not the only ones to get flatter and flatter as time goes by. I clearly remember the early days of LCD TVs, where the sheer thinness of the entire shebang floored me compared [...]
iPad legal battle in China arrives on US shores
02/23/2012, Where there’s a will, there’s a way – or so the saying goes, and perhaps Proview of China intends to bring the battle to Apple’s doorstep since they failed at home. I am no lawyer, but I am quite certain [...]
Google: Slide to unlock’s old hat
02/16/2012, Apple is certainly making most of their slide-to-unlock patent, having picked up an injunction against Motorola smartphones in Germany that utilizes the slide-to-unlock movement, something that just about all the other Android-powered devices rely on. Well, since Google is the [...]
Apple to sue bankrupt Kodak
02/15/2012, Kodak, the company that pioneered modern photography, is already bankrupt – and they have also made the decision to quit the digital camera business. Just how much worse can things get for Kodak? The right answer would be, “potentially a [...]
Google-Motorola Mobility purchase approved by US Department of Justice
02/14/2012, The European Commission gave the Google-Motorola Mobility deal the green light yesterday, and not long after, it looks like the US Department of Justice has decided to follow suit as well. According to the Department of Justice; “After a thorough [...]
Apple to block Samsung Galaxy Nexus sales in California
02/12/2012, The war rages on, and Apple Inc. has stepped into a place which is extremely close to home (home itself, actually) – California, by asking a federal court there to stop Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. from selling its new Galaxy [...]
