Patently Apple has been scouring through Apple’s designs and has stumbled across a patent that claims to reveal the real future of Siri, and how it’s set to become a much cleverer, bigger part of your life. The scary bit? Apple wants to let Siri to buy things for you. Read more
Apple’s battle against smudges and fingerprints began in earnest with the iPhone 3GS but the oleophobic coating it currently applies to iOS devices wears off in time. That could be set to change though thanks to a new and improved process outlined in a new Apple patent filing.
While Apple patents often come to nothing or relate to developments that are years away, the fact that this one describes an improvement to something the company is already doing warrants closer inspection. The document was filed in February 2011 and could mean the first truly smudgeproof iPhone will be the iPhone 5. Read on for details of how Apple plans to fight fingerprints in the future…
Google has gone public with its anger towards Microsoft, Apple and Oracle in the ongoing patent battle which it claims is all about making Android phones more expensive. The attack follows the purchase of a cache of patents from Nortel, the bankrupt Canadian telecoms giant, by a consortium including Microsoft, Apple, Sony and RIM, a move which left Google out in the cold.
In a post on the company’s official blog, Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, accused its rivals of attempting to impose a “tax” on Android devices. But his claims led to swift retaliation from Microsoft which claims Google was invited to join one of the patent bids and turned the offer down…
Finally some good news for Nokia. After warning that its profits might not look so rosy this year, Nokia has won out in its long-running patent war with Apple.
That means a whole heap of cash for the struggling Finns and an expensive slice of humble pie for the Apple. Read on to see how humbly Stephen Elop is accepting Apple’s surrender. Spoiler: he’s not being that humble at all…
The iPhone location tracking story just rolls on with folk dredging through patents as they ponder Apple’s thinking. Since Apple has kept schtum about the issue, that’s really not surprising. Gawker dredged up an Apple patent published on March 3 2011 which reveals potential uses for that big stash of location data stored on your iPhone…
The iPad 2 doesn’t officially exist. Still, every Apple watcher in the world knows that somewhere in Cupertino, under the kind of security that makes Mi5’s London HQ Thames House look like a nursery school, the iPad 2 is waiting to be unveiled. And while Steve Jobs will keep his lips sealed until January/February time when we expect iPad 2 to make its public debut, there are a few things we know already…
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Apple has just hired a pioneer in Near Field Communication (NFC) who has created digital wallet devices for US Banks and worked around the world on many NFC projects. This got us thinking – with all the NFC and shopping-related patents Apple has stashed away, could a future iPhone be the ultimate digital wallet?
Apple’s submitted a fistful of new patents that could point to the next generation of Apple TV with Nintendo-Wii-style motion-sensitive smarts top of the agenda.
