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China, your new iPad is coming. Apple has confirmed this morning that it will begin selling both the WiFi and Cellular models of the Retina-display iPad and the iPad 2 starting July 20th in the China mainland. No details of pricing have yet been revealed by Cupertino, save for the notion that pricing will largely follow…
Samsung’s luck is finally starting to turn around. It won a case in the UK when a judge ruled in its favor saying the Galaxy Tab 10.1 doesn’t copy design aspects of Apple’s iPad. The judge had some interesting things to say about Samsung’s tablet however. Judge Colin Birss said it’s not likely consumers will…
iOS developer Cody Cooper did a code dump of the new Apple Maps app from the iOS 6 beta, and found some interesting pieces of information that could point to OSX integration with Intel-based Macs. More specifically, Cody found a reference deep within the altitude_manifest.xml file to a set of Intel-based chipsets for which certain…
Welcome to another episode of “As the Patents Continue,” where Samsung remains in an ongoing battle with everyone’s favorite tech company, Apple. The richest company in the world has been obsessed with burying all things Android, focusing its rage mainly on Samsung, which the company believes is a copycat. Let’s backtrack for a second. Not…
If you want access to the latest beta software from Apple, one workaround to signing up for a $99 developer account is actively being shut down. Several services have popped up over the last few years that offer regular Joe’s the ability to activate their device on someone else’s developer account, usually for a small…
Google Wallet was announced in May 2011. It’s now been 14 months since the company said they would change the way we pay for things. Have they? Absolutely not. Then there’s ISIS, a mobile payments company setup by three of the four major American operators. They announced their intent to replace the calfskin bifold in…
Zhi Zhen Internet Technology is a company you’ve probably never heard of. According to them they have a patent that was issued in 2004 that Apple is violating with Siri. They aren’t a patent troll either, they actually operate a service in China called “Xiao i Robot”. Earlier this week it was revealed that Apple…
Look, I’m not going to pretend that I know about every single court case that Apple is currently engaged in. What I do know however is that there was a trial between Apple and Motorla where the judge simply threw the case out. Jude Posner, who has written many books, including one about intellectual property,…
If you’ve been living under a rock the last few days, then you may have missed Apple’s attempt to ban both the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Nexus in the United States, thanks to its ongoing patent battle between Samsung. But people need not worry, as the search giant is not only looking to implement…
After Apple won a court case that led to the ban of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the United States, the judge has denied Samsung’s request to lift it. The ban hereby remains in effect in America until further notice. The lawsuit, which Apple filed last year, claimed that Samsung’s flagship tablet copied the…