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Apple, Samsung CEOs head to court-ordered play date

Mr.Geek — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:00:07 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The chiefs of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are used to running the show at their global tech empires, but they will be in for a different experience when they arrive at a San Francisco federal courthouse on Monday. Apple's Tim Cook and Samsung's Choi Gee-sung, whose companies are embroiled in bitter patent litigation, have been instructed by a federal judge …

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Here's how desperately cities want Apple stores

Mr.Geek — Sun, 20 May 2012 02:42:47 +0000

According to a report, Apple gets hugely preferential leases just to open its stores in certain cities and locations. Why is anyone surprised? Originally posted at Technically Incorrect

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Mountain lion spotted in east Boise

Mr.Geek — Sat, 19 May 2012 19:26:33 +0000

BOISE -- Idaho Fish and Game officials want people to be on the lookout after a mountain lion was spotted in east Boise Friday night. A resident of Warm Springs Mesa saw the mountain lion feeding on a deer carcass in a neighbor’s front yard at around 9:30 p.m. Continue reading →

Apple files for injunction against Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the US

Mr.Geek — Sat, 19 May 2012 16:47:55 +0000

This hasn’t been the best of weeks for the Android community. First, we had the import ban on the HTC One X and the Evo 4G LTE, then came the news of a ban on Motorola devices , and finally earlier today we were left wondering if the HTC ban is spreading to other devices after the “unforeseen issue” at T-Mobile with the Amaze 4G. To top it all off, Apple is now filing for injunction against Samsung in relation to the two companies’ legal tussle over the original Galaxy Tab 10.1. The news comes just a couple of days before the May 21 and 22nd meetings between the two companies, which the court ordered to make them come to a settlement.

Montana couple get OK to kill mountain lion

Mr.Geek — Sat, 19 May 2012 16:10:26 +0000

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — State officials have given a western Montana couple living south of Kalispell at Woods Bay the OK to kill a mountain lion that has taken up residence near their home and appears comfortable around humans.

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Mountain lion spotted near Warm Springs Mesa

Mr.Geek — Sat, 19 May 2012 15:49:20 +0000

The officers planned to use rubber buckshot to haze the lion back to the wild area and away from the neighborhood. But the lion never returned.

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iPhone 5 rumoured to have 4-inch display

Mr.Geek — Sat, 19 May 2012 06:57:51 +0000

The next iPhone, which may or not be called iPhone 5, will have a 4-inch screen according to several unidentified sources cited in news stories this week.

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iPhone 5 rumour roll up for the week ending May 18

Mr.Geek — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:14:14 +0000

Perhaps the Next iPhone won't be called iPhone 5 but the Zombie iPhone, in honor of the new spate of rumors that the late Steve Jobs is still with us in a sense, as the chief designer of the upcoming handset.

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With Mountain Lion's iCloud Integration, Apple Strengthens the Garden Wall

Mr.Geek — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:45:48 +0000

snydeq writes “With WWDC around the corner, iOS 6 rumors are taking center stage, but the real action for developers may be around iCloud. Forthcoming OS X Mountain Lion will integrate iCloud into the formal file system, making iCloud usage much easier and thus more common, and thanks to iCloud Documents, which lets apps open and save documents directly in iCloud, developers will be able to …

iPhone 5 rumours for the week ending May 18

Mr.Geek — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:44:24 +0000

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