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iPhone and iPad: Apple eyeing Intel for new chips?

May 4, 2011 10:01 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Mobile Phones Tags: Apple, Galaxy, intel, iPad, iPhone, lawsuit, Samsung

Intel could build the next incarnation of the chip powering the iPad 2 and iPhone according to a juicy new rumour doing the rounds. Samsung currently makes the A5 processor but given the current legal dispute between Apple and other parts of the Samsung empire, speculation is growing that it will lose the contract.

Intel currently makes the processors inside the MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac and Mac Pro and Mac Mini lines but it’s ARM processors powering iPods, the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Could that be about to change?

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Apple vs Microsoft app store battle: enter the linguists!

March 31, 2011 10:25 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Apps & Software Tags: app store, Apple, lawsuit, Microsoft

The Apple vs Microsoft battle over the name “app store” is still going with both sides now calling in linguists to make their case. Apple brought in Robert Leonard who says “App Store” is “a proper noun and deserved to be trademarked, even though the words are generic when seperated.”

Meanwhile Microsoft’s linguist, Ronald Butters says: “The compound noun app store means simply ‘store at which apps are offered for sale’, which is merely a definition of the thing itself – a generic characterisation.” And so it goes on. Click the headline and head to the comments to play amateur linguist. Who’s right? Apple or Microsoft?

Out now | £NA | Apple/Microsoft (via The Loop)

Nokia strikes back at Apple: ITC complaint round two

March 30, 2011 1:33 am by Nick Marshall

Categories: Mobile Phones Tags: Apple, itc, lawsuit, Nokia, US

Sometimes companies just don’t get along. Such is the case for Apple and Nokia, whose latest legal dispute has surfaced in a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC). According to the complaint, Nokia is alleging that Apple infringes additional patents in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, tablets and computers.

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Apple sued by two groups of iPhone and iPad users

December 30, 2010 1:00 am by Nick Marshall

Categories: Gadgets Tags: Apple, Class Action, iPad, iPhone, lawsuit

Apple may be in a bit of hot water following lawsuits filed by two separate groups of iPhone and iPad users. The groups allege that Apple allowed certain software applications to pass personal user information to third-party advertisers without consent. Here’s what you need to know.

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iPhone 3G iOS 4 problems: lawsuit incoming

November 4, 2010 11:03 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Mobile Phones Tags: Apple, ios 4, iPhone 3G, lawsuit, Steve Jobs

iPhone 3G owners annoyed with iOS 4 causing sluggishness may have their day in court. Aggrieved Apple fans have filed a class action lawsuit in California that accuses Apple of “unsavoury, dishonest and deceptive business practices” when it offered iOS 4 for iPhone 3G…

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Google Buzz privacy lawsuit: Google pays out $8.5m

November 3, 2010 11:02 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Apps & Software Tags: gmail, Google, Google Buzz, lawsuit, privacy, streetview

Those Google Buzz privacy concerns were a pretty big deal when Google first rolled out the Twitter-esque social layer for Gmail. Inevitably, litigious Americans got together to launch a class action lawsuit in the hope of chipping off a big of cash from Google’s iceberg of money. And, you know, what: they’ve kind of succeeded. Google has just paid out $8.5m to settle the Google Buzz privacy class action lawsuit. However, that money is headed for privacy organisations and not the users with their hands outstretched for cash…
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3D Realms vows to fight Take-Two for Duke Nukem rights

May 19, 2009 12:00 pm by Greg Strachan

Categories: Gaming Tags: 3D Realms, Duke Nukem Forever, lawsuit, take two

Duke Nukem Forever looked like it was dead and buried, taking an estimated $20m of development money with it, but we should have guessed the Duke wouldn’t go down without a fight. Developer 3D Realms has struck out against the recent Take-Two lawsuit, calling it a “bully tactic”, and has promised to defend itself and the rights to the Duke Nukem franchise.

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Halo multi-player lawsuit: Microsoft settles

March 16, 2009 10:17 am by Simon Munk

Categories: Gaming Tags: Bungie, Halo 3, lawsuit, Microsoft, MPath, PalTalk

Halo’s multiplayer programming and the Microsoft Xbox 360′s online multi-player service Xbox Live infringed a pair of patents, according to PalTalk. Now Microsoft has settled out of court with the company. PalTalk was demanding $90 million in royalties for several games that the company alleged infringed their patents.

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