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Apple seeks support for new spaceship-like campus

Mr.Geek — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:36:09 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc's chief financial officer is asking the residents of Cupertino, California, to support the company's new 2.8 million square foot spaceship-like campus, which critics say would increase traffic and pressure city services. In a brochure mailed last week to its neighbors in the Silicon Valley city, Apple's CFO Peter Oppenheimer asked them to write a letter …

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Apple, Samsung CEOs in U.S. court talks on patents

Mr.Geek — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:02:05 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The chief executives of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd were summoned for court-directed mediation on Monday over the iPhone maker's claims the Korean firm has “slavishly” copied some of its products. Apple's Tim Cook and Samsung's Choi Gee-sung were instructed by a federal judge to appear for a two-day mediation to help resolve the bitter patent litigation …

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OS X Mountain Lion to include automatic app downloads

Mr.Geek — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:02:29 +0000

Automatic app downloads are being integrated into OS X Mountain Lion, checks show. The feature is present in the latest Developer Preview of the OS; under the new option, titles bought at the Mac App Store should, in theory, appear on any other Mac signed in with the same Apple ID. In practice though, the store is marking titles as “installed” on secondary Macs without actually copying any files …

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3-year-old iPhone 3GS primed for revival

Mr.Geek — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:30:18 +0000

Apple’s iPhone 3GS was unveiled nearly 3 years ago in June 2009, and some found its familiar styling and modest hardware upgrades to be disappointing. The handset went on to be Apple’s best-selling smartphone until its successor launched the following year, and the iPhone 4 would be Apple’s best-selling iPhone until the iPhone 4S launched last year and drove the biggest quarter in Apple’s …

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Top iPhone apps: 100 Floors still topping charts

Mr.Geek — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:10:38 +0000

The iPhone game 100 Floors continues to rule free app download charts in countries including the UK, Canada and Australia, while video editing apps are popular in the USA and Italy. Details of this and other top free iPhone applications by country* for the week, by number of downloads, recorded on May 21 can be found below.

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Google’s acquisition of Motorola receives approval in China with one big stipulation

Mr.Geek — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:50:14 +0000

Just a little over three months after Google got the green light from the US Department of Justice and the European Commission they have finally received the blessing of Chinese regulators to acquire Motorola Mobility. Google did have to agree to one fairly major stipulation in the process however — Android must remain freely available to other manufacturers for the next five years. Now it seems likely that this is exactly what Google has in mind anyway, but this should assuage any lingering doubts for other manufacturers. According to WSJs sources the purchase could be finalized within the week. What, if anything, we will see happen once the deal goes through has been a bit of a mystery ever since we first heard of the planned buyout over nine months ago

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Motorola devices could face US importation ban following ITC ruling on Microsoft patent

Mr.Geek — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:48:53 +0000

Hot on the heels of US customs imposing an International Trade Commission ban on select HTC devices we have yet another exclusion order from the ITC, but this time around it’s Microsoft winning their patent claim against Motorola. The patent in question dates back to 1998 and relates to scheduling a meeting with a group using a mobile device and having that event sync across mobile devices and PCs. As with many of these claims this sounds like fairly ridiculous feature to be able to patent, but the key is always in the exact implementation of the feature so it’s possible that Motorola will be able to come up with another way of handling the function (that is the tactic HTC employed in their case). As you may recall from the HTC ruling this exclusion order doesn’t have any immediate ramifications for consumers as first the order goes to President Obama, who has 60 days to overturn the ruling should he so desire. My understanding is that the likelihood of this is just slightly higher than the next iPhone running Jelly Bean

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Apple Goes After Samsung Galaxy Tab in Court [VIDEO]

Mr.Geek — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:51:22 +0000

Apple filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 on Friday. The district court will determine if the Galaxy Tablet violates Apple's iPad patent. If a recent ruling favoring Apple can tell us anything, it's that the court may rule in favor of the iPad-designing company. The ruling allowed Apple to continue to block U.S. sales of Samsung's tablet.

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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OK Given To Kill Woods Bay Mountain Lion

Mr.Geek — Sat, 19 May 2012 23:17:40 +0000

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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