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Apple, Intel locked in as bidders for Nortel patents
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Both Apple and Intel have been cleared to bid in Nortel's vital wireless patent auction, contacts slipped out on Friday. After investigations, both have been allowed to go ahead. Ericsson had also been greenlit, according to the Wall Street Journal, and was being accompanied by RPX, a proxy company that buys patents to avoid them being used against its clients.
Google had already been approved and is considered the baseline at $900 million. It serves as a "stalking horse" meant to deter patent trolls as well as low bids from companies that might buy in solely to sue Android developers, such as Microsoft.
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Apple Accepts WebGL Graphics For iAd, Ready For 3D Ads?
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It was revealed today that Apple will be supporting WebGL in iOS 5, but limiting its use for only iAd developers. WebGL is a new rendering standard that lets developers create 3D animations and graphics in websites without the need for a plugin. Being used for iAds could mean lots of really annoying in-your-face ads to come with iOS 5 apps. But, Apple’s restriction of the technology to only iAds has other implications as well.
WebGL is still very new and its acceptance isn’t solid yet. Recently, Microsoft announced that it will not be supporting WebGL in Internet Explorer and called the technology “harmful.” WebGL allows websites to take advantage of your system’s hardware for processing and...
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Apple could buy lion's share of mobile rivals in cash estimate analysts
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Apple could feasibly buy the bulk of its competitors using its cash reserves alone, it’s been suggested, with only Samsung proving beyond its reach should Steve Jobs decide to go on a bizarre cellular spending spree. Asymco crunched the stats and figured that, with Apple likely to announce $70bn in cash and other immediate assets in its Q2 2011 financial results, it could readily snap up Nokia, RIM, LG, Motorola Mobility, Sony Ericsson and LG.
HTC’s enterprise value, it’s estimated, is $25.4bn, while Nokia comes in at $22.6bn and RIM at $13.8bn. Motorola Mobility is just $4.2bn. As for Sony Ericsson and LG, they’re trickier to calculate being subsidiaries of larger firms, but Asymco reckons ...
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New Apple iPad 2 ad is out; Foxconn to move some iPad production to Brazil by September
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According to Globo, Brazil's Minister of Science and Technology, Aloízio Mercadante, says that Foxconn will be starting production of the Apple iPad 2 in his country starting in September. Originally, production of the tablet was to have begun in July, but the date has been pushed back because of problems with construction of a facility and a lack of skilled labor. Foxconn sent 175 enginners to China for training, but needs to hire more than 200 before starting production of the device in Brazil.
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Apple Amends Complaint Against Samsung
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Apple has updated the lawsuit it filed against Samsung over alleged copycat designs, and has doubled the number of offending devices from 14 to 28. The devices added to the lawsuit include the Droid Charge, Exhibit 4G, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S, Gravity, Infuse 4G, Nexus S 4G, Replenish, Sidekick, Galaxy Tab 10.1, and Galaxy S 2. In addition to the newly-named devices, Apple also added three new utility patents for a total of eight, and now has five design patents listed instead of three.
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Apple holding off on new Macs until Lion launch?
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Apple may be eager enough to get Mac OS X Lion on new hardware that it's delaying new Macs until Lion's July release, tipsters maintained Thursday. The new MacBook Air is reportedly already set to go and is being held back only to flash them with Lion once the software is done. AppleInsider in getting the info also believed an upgraded Mac mini and a Thunderbolt-oriented LED Cinema Display were both waiting for the same treatment.
The only delays are likely to be triggered by Lion itself being pushed back.
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Apple Patent Application Describes Location-Based Social Network
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After Ping’s not-exactly-earth-shattering launch, Apple has remained relatively quiet on the social networking front. However, a freshly discovered patent application suggests the company isn’t quite ready to toss in its friend-making towel quite yet.
Filed towards the end of 2009, the patent application describes a location-based social network that lets users find people nearby that share common interests, including books, movies, and, of course, music.
The idea bears some resemblance to Color, the recently launched photo-sharing network which groups people according to venue. Like Color, Apple’s social network can connect you to others nearby, allowing you to partake in the Internet gener...
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iPhone 4 flash orders scaled back, back iPhone 5 redesign
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Part supplier leaks on Wednesday supported beliefs that Apple redesigning the camera flash for the iPhone 5. The company has reportedly "greatly reduced" the number of orders from Philips for the LED ...
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Apple Store employee secrets revealed
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Apple retail store workers are bound to strict codes of conduct relating to how they interact with customers, a report in today's Wall Street Journal has revealed.
The financial bible has interviewed ...
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Apple sued for infringing iBooks trademark
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Apple’s strategy when it comes to much of its i branding has been pretty consistent to date: steal a name, wait for its trademark owner to complain, settle. The Cupertino-based company did it with “iP...
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Chinese court levies jail time, fines over iPad 2 leaks
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Two Hon Hai employees and a MacTop Electronics executive have been found guilty of leaking information about Apple’s iPad 2 ahead of its release. The trio was arrested in December last year following ...
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A closer look at the estimated $1.3 billion operating costs of iTunes
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New reports are out that are using the numbers given at WWDC and some passing comments by Apple to give a rough estimate of operating costs for iTunes. The number going around is $1.3 billion per year...
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Next-gen Time Capsule, Airport Extreme outed by Apple software update
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References to a fourth-generation Time Capsule and a fifth-generation AirPort Extreme have been found within Apple’s latest AirPort Utility software update. Dwindling inventory and several reports ove...
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DOJ OKs Google bid on Nortel patents, Apple still in talks
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The US Department of Justice has approved Google's controversial bid on Nortel's patents, sources mentioned Tuesday evening. Officials had told the WSJ that the Android maker's patent ownership wouldn...
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iPad 3 inside 2011, Massive Screen Resolution in Tow
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With the iPad 2 having been released now for what seems like an eternity, it’s certainly time for the media to crank up the rumor mill for the iPad 3, right? Of course it is, and what better way to do...
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