Apple and Google disagree over licensing of essential patents

Google is at odds with Apple , Microsoft and Cisco over the licensing and judicial proceeding of patent of invention . While Google wants to make the most of patent it will get if its learning of Motorola is approved , the others need to change the agency so - called indispensable patents are license . Essential patents are part of a standard and licensed under bonnie , reasonable , and non - preferential ( FRAND ) term or sensible , and non - discriminatory ( RAND ) terms ....

February 9, 2012 · 5 min · 968 words · Sherry Wolf

Ask the iTunes Guy: iTunes Match confusion

[ postulate the iTunes Guy is a unconstipated column in which we resolve your inquiry on everything iTunes related . If there ’s something you ’d like to live , transmit an email to the iTunes Guyfor consideration . ] Apple ’s $ 25 - a - yr iTunes Match service can match the track in your iTunes library with those in Apple ’s 20 - million - song catalog , and have you upload the ones it ca n’t match ( up to 25,000 non - purchased tracks)—and then access those songs via iTunes or your Io machine whenever you need ....

February 9, 2012 · 5 min · 982 words · Tina Williams

iPad 3 launch event rumored for March

We Apple fan love to theorise , whether it ’s about who make Tim Cook ’s shirts or when the company will release its next heatedly awaited equipment . For those more concerned in the latter than the former — What ’s unseasonable , payoff of haberdashery not fascinating enough for you?—a report on Thursday suggests thatyou put a pin in the first hebdomad of March . fit in to AllThingsD ’s John Paczkowski — andconfirmed by The Loop ’s Jim Dalrymplein his usual laconic panache — Apple will launch the iPad 3 at an event in March , believably at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco , the same plaza it innovate both theiPad in 2010and the iPad 2 in 2011 ....

February 9, 2012 · 4 min · 780 words · Brittany Conway

The Macalope Daily: ZDNuts

Ah , ZDNet . Where the nut of an idea is plenty . As long as that nut is thrown at Apple . Oh , there are certainlysomewriters doingsomegood turn over at ZDnet , but it is n’t precisely Paris in the 1930s . More like Mos Eisley as depict in the 1970s . Take it away , Robin Harris : Apple ’s warming trend in the enterprise is about to get squashed : Microsoft ’s new ReFS file system – due in Windows 8 Server – will be the first major file cabinet system to fix data - destroying hemipterous insect in today ’s most popular OSs ....

February 9, 2012 · 3 min · 627 words · Dana Mason

Apple to stream McCartney concert live to iTunes, Apple TV

Apple has announced that Paul McCartney will be advertise his Modern album , Kisses on the Bottom , with a live TV streamon Thursday , February 9 , at 7 p.m. Pacific . The performance , at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles , will be available on iTunes on Mac and PC , as well as by take the iTunes resilient selection from the net carte du jour on the second - generation Apple goggle box ....

February 8, 2012 · 4 min · 683 words · Rachel Hutchinson

Canon adds AirPrint support to more all-in-one printers

With iOS printing in in high spirits demand , more and more wireless printers are add this function to their lineup of received features . On Tuesday , Canon foretell that two new Pixma printing machine good example now haveAirPrint compatibility : the MX512 and MX432 Wireless Office All - In - One inkjet printers . These are n’t the first Canon printer to feature AirPrint — Canon added AirPrint to three other Pixma all - in - one printers(the MG8220 , MG6220 , and MG5320 ) back in September 2011 ....

February 7, 2012 · 2 min · 343 words · Heather Keller

The iPad at work, Day 3: making adjustments

After a 24-hour interval ortwoof using the iPad , my brain seemed to have rewired itself . It ’s not that the iPad is better or worse than the Mac ; it ’s just that different things are grueling to do on each gadget . The affair I found the heavy to get used to on the iPad was the lack of window . On the Mac , I consider nothing of arrange a entanglement web browser and a schoolbook editor program , or two schoolbook - editor windows , side by side and then referring to one while typing in the other ....

February 7, 2012 · 8 min · 1502 words · Ms. Claire Wilson MD

Remains of the Day: Look around you

Google looks outside the company to hire some wholeness , Best Buy calculate to consumers for mythological product research , and spammer look toward Steve Jobs for inspiration . The remainders for Monday , February 6 , 2012 are looking sharp . Google hires a elderly theatre director at Apple for a top secret project(VentureBeat ) Guess that whole “ no poaching ” matter is well and in truth over ....

February 6, 2012 · 3 min · 501 words · Tammy Larsen

The iPad at work, Day 2: Testing the limits

While day one had been an adjustment , thing had rifle pretty well ; I had n’t needed to resort to my Mac at all , and I had polish off my employment on time . But , to be honorable , I had been a spot conservative about the thing I ’d attempt to do . So on day two , I pushed myself a little bit hard . Not surprisingly , in doing so I run into more problem ....

February 6, 2012 · 4 min · 835 words · Erika Williams

Under the Gavel: Motorola patents trump Apple in Germany

visitant to Germany ’s online Apple Store may have witnessed an uneven sight on Friday , as Apple scrambled to remove the iPhone 3 1000 , iPhone 3GS , iPhone 4 , and all Wi - Fi + 3 G iPads , thanks toa temporary injunctionbanning the sales agreement of those products — a ban that was uprise bare time of day later . In addition , iCloud users in the res publica may have to change how they get their email , thanks to a separate legal issuance ....

February 3, 2012 · 4 min · 700 words · Jose Randall

Numberlys and The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore for iOS

Our Verdict Spend any sentence with some of the iOS apps created byMoonbot Studios , and you get the signified that the developer really has a passion for Word and write up . FromThe fantastical Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmoreto the more recent releaseNumberlys , Moonbot ’s visually striking apps get a love for language and an appreciation for how story - telling can add color to our lives ....

February 2, 2012 · 6 min · 1081 words · Terri Larson

Online petition targeting Apple’s Chinese factory conditions gathers 162,000 signatures in a week

An on-line petition asking Apple to protect the Formosan actor who make its democratic product has gathered more than 162,000 signatures in just over a week . The petition , at Change.org , is a response to recent medium report alleging poor working experimental condition at manufacturing plant operated by Chinese company that have contracts to build iPhones , iPads , and other democratic Apple product . Mark Shields , a Washington , D....

February 2, 2012 · 2 min · 378 words · Brendan Mcmillan

Remains of the Day: Shoot the moon

Tim Cook shoots off an e-mail , Donald Trump shoot off his oral cavity , and the Modern iPod nano may shoot ( not big ) depiction . The remainders for Wednesday , February 1 , 2011 are taking a shot in the shadow . Why I Love Apple – An electronic mail from Tim Cook(Tony Hart Photo ) It ’s been a while since we last saw Tim Cook respond to a client ’s electronic mail , but this sentence the Apple CEO reputedly responded to one consumer ’s concern over the hiring of Dixons CEO John Browett as Cupertino ’s new retail chief ....

February 1, 2012 · 5 min · 872 words · Erika Martinez