Wild patents are assail Google ; film at 11 ! The Magic Mouse is doomed … or is it ? And when there ’s no news , just reissue erstwhile rumor with a slight tweak . Plus , who gave a news show mogul an unmanned pilotless aircraft ? The remainders for Thursday , August 4 , 2011 are cleared for takeoff .
When patent attack Android(The Official Google Blog )
evidently we ’ve moved on to the hair - pulling and name - vocation helping of the patent war . Google elderly frailty Chief Executive and master legal policeman David Drummond has taken aim at the ship’s company ’s major smartphone challenger in a recent blog post , in which he aver that Microsoft and Apple are buy up patents to expend against Android .
Then Microsoft ’s Frank Shawposted an email exchangebetween Google general counsel Kent Walker and Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith , in which Walker says Google will decline to jointly invite with Microsoft and others for Novell ’s patents . Drummond ’s rebutter does n’t dispute Microsoft ’s allegations , but rather says that Redmond is trying to evade the patent of invention issue .
Hey , uh , guy ? Can we all get back to , you know , making technologynow ?
trust You Like Trackpads , Because Apple Is Killing Off The Magic Mouse(Cult of Mac )
A Cult of Mac paper suggest that Apple is to the full committing to the multitouch lifestyle and ceasing product of the Magic Mouse . Citing a “ previously honest source , ” writer Alex Heath says that supply of the Magic Mouse are dwindle away and that think of curtains for Apple ’s handheld rodent .
But waitress ! Here ’s some good news for buff of mice — and as the people who bring you the mouse rating , we atMacworlddefinitely number among them . This report seems to be in error . Macworld’ssources say that Apple will proceed to farm the Magic Mouse . It ’s not being retired . Whew ! That was a close one .
Pegatron to commence shipments of iPhone 5 in September(DigiTimes )
The ever - dependable DigiTimes says that Pegatron has won a contract to hand over 10 million iPhone 5s , due in September . Which is obviously down five million units from the last time DigiTimes reported this , in July . Where ’d I put that Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ?
FAA look Into News Corp ’s Daily Drone , Raising doubtfulness About Who bewilder To Fly Drones in The U.S.(Forbes )
The Federal Aviation Administration is look into the fact that iPad publicationThe Dailyapparently has an unmanned trailer that it ’s been vanish in the Midwest to entrance aerial footage of regions touch on by drouth and storm ; launch the bourdon for commercial purposes may be a violation of current FAA policies . Okay , hold on : Rupert Murdoch has a UAV and we ’re just hearing about this ? This is like one tone out fromTomorrow Never decease .
