While Apple offered a sneak peek at its dramatically redesigned Mac Pro at its Worldwide Developers Conference, the new machine is not scheduled to launch until “later this year” and the company has yet to reveal detailed specs and pricing information. But if a new Geekbench result is authentic, it appears that the new machine [...]
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Key Claim of Apple’s ‘Rubber Banding’ Patent Used Against Samsung Confirmed
Posted by Gary on June 14, 2013
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Apple’s “rubber banding” patent (U.S. No. 7,469,381) has been under heavy scrutiny in recent months, with a number of claims found invalid in two different rulings. The patent, which pertains to the ability for content displayed on iOS devices to “bounce back” when a user scrolls to the top or the bottom of a page, [...]
Apple’s Eddy Cue offers short answers in e-book antitrust trial
Posted by Gary on June 14, 2013
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Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue offered only short answers in testimony Thursday in federal court when questioned by U.S. Justice Department prosecutors trying to solidify their case that Apple, along with five of the largest book publishers, worked together to illegally set the prices of electronic books for the market. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, [...]
Apple’s Eddy Cue admits e-book prices rose after iBookstore deal
Posted by Gary on June 14, 2013
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Blames publishers’ resentment towards Amazon prices Apple’s senior VP for Internet software and services, Eddy Cue, testified today in defense of the company at the Department of Justice’s ongoing antitrust trial over e-book prices. Cue was responsible for negotiating publisher deals to help launch the iBookstore in 2010. Apple is accused, however, of colluding with [...]
Apple’s iBooks grew 100% in 2012, maintaining 20% share of eBook market
Posted by Gary on June 13, 2013
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The ongoing antitrust trial by the U.S. Department of Justice alleging an effort by Apple to fix prices in the ebooks market has revealed that Apple’s iBooks business grew by 100 percent last year, maintaining a 20 percent share of the overall market. The government’s puzzling case seeks to portray Apple as both a powerful [...]
Mid-2013 MacBook Air: Hands-on Apple’s newest laptop
Posted by Gary on June 13, 2013
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Out of everything revealed at the WWDC 2013 keynote on Monday, the most unsurprising of the announcements was that of Apple’s new MacBook Air models. We learned that the popular MBA would still come in 11- and 13-inch sizes and the same unibody design, but after Monday it would be shipping with Intel’s new Haswell [...]
BMW shuns Apple’s ‘iOS in the Car’ to stick with its own technology
Posted by Gary on June 13, 2013
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After being one of the first car companies to offer iPod integration, BMW is surprisingly not on the list of carmakers that announced their support for Apple’s new “iOS in the Car” functionality this week. The luxury automobile maker spoke up on the issue on Wednesday, revealing that BMW officials are not willing to change [...]
Apple’s iOS developer guide hints at dedicated MFi game controller
Posted by Gary on June 12, 2013
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Coming on the heels of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, and the subsequent seeding of iOS 7 beta, the company has updated its developers website with a brief guide illustrating what it has in mind for the future of iOS gaming peripherals. While the developer page is sparse on details, it does offer at least [...]