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| Mar 22, 2012 | Apple Teases us with a Peek at an Advanced TV Remote
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Search | Apple's Patent Background
Apple states that some remote controls may be configurable to control multiple different electronic devices. Such remote controls are commonly referred to as "universal remote controls" as they consolidat... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Apple introduces us to Siri, the Killer Patent
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Search | Before Siri, There was Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator Concept
According to Wikipedia, Apple's Knowledge Navigator Concept of 1987 described "a device that could access a large networked database of hypertext information, and use soft... |
| Jan 4, 2012 | Inq cancels Facebook-focused Cloud Q phone | I can’t imagine anyone was desperately waiting for Inq to release the Cloud Q, its second Android smartphone with deep Facebook integration, but now the company has confirmed that the phone won’t see the light of day.
Inq says it has scrapp... |
| Jan 4, 2012 | Inq cancels Facebook-focused Cloud Q phone | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
I can’t imagine anyone was desperately waiting for Inq to release the Cloud Q, its second Android smartphone with deep Facebook integra... |
| Jul 25, 2011 | Apple Invents New Flat Keyless Keyboard for Desktops & More
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Search | The General Problem to Solve
Apple lays out the general problem to solve by stating that in general, touch-sensitive surface or related input devices may be less reliable in determining a pressed command or intended input when compared with... |
| Jul 14, 2011 | You can't trust rumors about Apple | In case you hadn't noticed, very few rumor stories appear here at Betanews. We purposely err on the side of factual reporting rather than spread gossip. There are plenty of sites doing that all to well. Today's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and MacBoo... |
| May 27, 2011 | A Bit More On WWDC, The Mythical iPhone "4S", and iOS 5 | With WWDC quickly approaching, the rumor mills are heating up with what we should expect at Apple’s annual conference known for big announcements. We’ve learned a little bit more that speaks to what to expect — including a couple of big, wi... |
| Apr 7, 2011 | Apple Blows us Away with Smart Bezel Details!
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Search | The Problem to Solve
Apple first lays out the problem to solve by stating that traditional electronic devices include a display for providing visual outputs to a user. For example, a traditional device may include a liquid crystal display (... |
| Mar 14, 2011 | Apple Files for Apple Logo Trademarks Once used by the Beatles
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Search | Apple's Trademark Application In-Part
Apple Seeks to Register the Two Famed Figurative Apple Logos
The Two Famed Apple Logos used on the Abbey Road Album 1969
Apple Trademark: International Class Details
Apple seeks to protect both of their... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | Just Bought An iPad? Head Back To The Apple Store With A Quickness For A $100 Rebate | Did you just buy an iPad? Why? Don’t you pay attention to the Internet? Anyway, if you bought an iPad between now and February 16 you can still pop back to the Apple Store to get a $100 rebate on your recently purchased frisbee.
E-Pig is re... |
| Feb 25, 2011 | Google (Doesn't Quite) Introduce The Google Stereo | While this device may look like an old Fisher-Price Tape Player, what we have here is a bonafide music playback device designed for Google (probably as some sort of Tchotchke/giveaway) by Chord Electronics. The stereo is a variant of Chord’... |
| Feb 24, 2011 | Here are the new MacBook Pros | The specs for the new MacBook Pro appear to have been leaked ahead of the release later today, but only slightly. The Apple Store went offline and details were emerging across blogs who have pulled the specs from German sources, one of thos... |
| Feb 23, 2011 | An Apple Patent Gives us a Peek at Photo Booth for iOS Devices +
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Search | Basic Background
Apple's patent states that graphics editing applications have become popular with cell phone users of late. Yet in most conventional graphics editing environments, image alteration effects are typically selected and applied... |
| Feb 22, 2011 | Apple Wins 4 Design Patents & Gives us a Peek at an e-Wallet Icon
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Search | Apple Wins Four Granted Patents for Hardware Designs
Apple has won a number of key design patents today, starting with their cool MacBook Pro – which might even get cooler this week if the rumors pan out. All of the design patent credits to... |
| Feb 21, 2011 | The Best Birthday Cake Ever (Angry Birds Edition) | Anyone with kids and a touchscreen device (Android, iPhone, iPad) knows one truth: kids love Angry Birds . My own 6-year-old is obsessed with the game and is constantly draining the batteries on my iPad and iPhone to play the game. So I can... |
| Feb 21, 2011 | Video: This Angry Birds Cake Is Playable. It's also ABSOLUTELY AMAZING | The Internet loves cake. The Internet loves crazy home-made things. The Internet loves Angry Birds.
This, friends, is the Internet Love Trifecta.
[Via ElectricPig] |
| Feb 9, 2011 | Video From The Vaults: One Of Steve Jobs' First TV Appearances | Isn’t this just the cutest thing? It’s Steve Jobs, age 23, getting hair and make-up done for a TV appearance, possibly with KGO-TV in San Francisco. Watch him gape in amazement at the live national feed that is carrying him into homes in Ca... |
| Feb 4, 2011 | How To Get A Job At Apple | Our sassy little friends at ElectricPig have put together an interesting guide to getting a job at Apple. Considering it would be bad ass to ride around in Apple’s white, invisibility cloaked Mecha all day fighting bad guys and watching ove... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | Oops! Leaked Schedule Shows Galaxy S 2 And Galaxy Tab 2 At MWC | We saw some seriously interesting hardware at CES this year, but MWC is just around the corner, and it looks like Samsung was keeping a few surprises for the big European mobile show. This schedule, the source of which isn’t given, quite cl... |
| Dec 20, 2010 | A Massive iPhone Comprised Of 56 iPads Hits London, Advertises Ms. Croft's Latest Adventure | There you have it, Apple fannies. The largest iPhone evah! Well, sort of. As the headline above explains, it’s really 56 iPads combined together in the name of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light iOS app. The display was unveiled today at ... |
| Nov 24, 2010 | New technology PRFilter launched to find relevant press releases | New web application PRFilter – prfilter.com – has launched in beta today to provide a unique aggregated source of press releases for journalists, editors and bloggers pre-filtered for individual relevance.
PRFilter’s patent pending Active I... |
| Nov 23, 2010 | Apple's New iPad Design Patent Confirms Landscape Connector
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Search | The iPad Design Graphics Illustrate Landscape Docking Connector
This is Apple's third confirmed design patent illustrating the extra landscape docking connector. The first popped up in China in September, the second in Europe in October and... |
| Nov 10, 2010 | $1000 iPad B&O Speaker Dock: Fools And Money, Soon Parted | Have you been asking “How can I attach my iPad to a comical-looking speaker dock so I can, presumably, leave said iPad and dock on a very large table?” If you haven’t, why not? Bang & Olufsen, the rich man’s Bose, just released this mas... |
| Nov 8, 2010 | Next-Gen iPhone Displays May Support Touch with Gloves On
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Search | Next Gen Projection-Type Displays
According to a newly published report by the Nikkei Business Publications, Japan's Hitachi Displays has developed a projection-type touch panel capable of detecting insulators such as plastic and cloth. The... |
| Oct 17, 2010 | Europe's Trademark Office Confirms iPad's New Landscape Design
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Search | The iPad's Extra Connector for Landscape Docking Confirmed
Apple's Trademark Application In-Part
Certificate of Registration
Design Credits: CEO Steve Jobs, Senior VP of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive + team members Jody Akana, Bartley Andr... |
| Oct 8, 2010 | Apple Files for "AirPlay" Trademark in China
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Search | Apple's AirPlay Trademark Application In-Part
Apple's AirPlay Trademark: International Class Details
International Class 009: Computers, computer peripheral devices, computer terminals; computer hardware; computer gaming machines, microproc... |
| Sep 20, 2010 | Rumor Has Chrome OS Succeeding Android On Tablet Devices | The Sunday Times reported yesterday that Samsung’s much-hyped Galaxy Tab would be able to have its Android 2.2 OS “replaced with Chrome, when that arrives, though owners who aren’t tech savvy should have this upgrade carried out by a profes... |
| Sep 15, 2010 | Toshiba AC100 Reviewed | If you recall, the AC100 from Toshiba is one of the first Android netbooks. Running 2.1, this twee netbook costs a little under $500 and Electricpig found it to be acceptable but not, obviously, amazing.
They were pleased but noted:
The Tos... |
| Sep 1, 2010 | Steve Jobs' Doublespeak Strikes Again: "No" Actually Meant "Yes" For Apple TV | “You’re going to be able to be watching a movie, push it to your TV, and finish watching it there. You’re going to be able to push photos from your iPad to your TV… it’s going to be pretty cool.”
— Apple CEO Steve Jobs, September 1st, 2010
... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | The Mother Lode: Welcome to the iMac Touch
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Search | General Overview of the Patent
While touch-based input is well suited to many applications, conventional styles of input, such as a mouse/keyboard input may be preferred in other applications. Therefore it may be desirable for some devices ... |
| Aug 16, 2010 | HTC Desire HD Makes Extremely Brief Appearance On Amazon UK | We’ve seen a few little spurts of info here and there regarding the HTC Desire HD, or Ace. It’s to have a 4.3″ screen like the EVO, and just be a large, sexy phone in general if the leaks are real. This latest leak adds a price to the rumor... |
| Aug 5, 2010 | Tour The Gigantic London Covent Garden Apple Store Before It Opens | Apple’s currently on a tear of opening spectacular Apple Stores around the globe. The latest is located in London’s Covent Garden district and will be the largest such store when the doors opening in a couple of days. So big in fact that th... |
| Jun 14, 2010 | Kinect's launch lineup: something for everybody | Microsoft has been touting its Kinect all morning, and it’s clearly being marketed as a family-oriented device. They demoed quite a few games, covering a lot of territory; gaming rags are already whispering that this is where much of the MS... |
| Apr 1, 2010 | Acer preps its second-gen Android/Win netbook | Not long after Acer announced last year that it was launching an Android netbook did the company unveil the first-of-its-kind Acer Aspire One D250. Then just yesterday Acer’s mobile product manager Martino Mombrini let slip that an updated ... |
| Mar 4, 2010 | Will the smartphone replace the PC in three years? | It's the question to ask after the bold statement made yesterday by Google's John Herlihy. According to Silicon Republic, Herlihy told Digital Landscapes conference attendees that: "In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In ... |
| Feb 17, 2010 | Windows Phone 7 Series is a lost cause | Could Windows Phone 7 Series save Microsoft's mobile platform? Yes. In 2007. In 2010, it's a non-starter. That's not easy for me to write, because with Windows Phone 7 Series Microsoft is following much of the advice I offered via blog post... |
| Feb 11, 2010 | Why is Google suddenly so evil? | Google is the great Internet God of goodness, or so claims No. 6 of the company's "10 Things" corporate philosophy list: "You can make money without doing evil." But this week, Google has suddenly put its doing no evil c... |
| Feb 10, 2010 | PUMA to announce a sports-centric, solar powered cell phone next week | Update: We’ve now got a picture of it.
We’ve known since around October of last year that PUMA was working on a branded phone with Sagem (the same folks who make the Porsche-branded phones) – but outside of the fact that it was in the works... |
| Feb 10, 2010 | StorE TV: Oh look, another home media server, this time from Toshiba | The good gents over at Electric Pig were one of the first people to see the Toshiba StorE TV, a home server for all your digital media files. It combines local storage (up to 2TB) with streaming to ensure that you’re able to play that total... |
| Jan 22, 2010 | More pics of the Asus e-reader | While this will probably look primitive as heck in a few days, it’s fun to see Asus giving it their all in the ebook market. After all, we all need a 9-inch e-reader with a touchscreen in the end.
Electricpig has a few more photos, but at t... |
| Jan 6, 2010 | Panasonic finally releases its 3D camcorder, and it looks like WALL-E | We got shut out of the Panasonic presser (shame on them), but that doesn’t mean you have to suffer. Lucky for you, Electric Pig has a solid blow-by-blow of the event, and Giz got some great shots of the camera itself. There were other devic... |
| Sep 22, 2009 | Europe to get more colour options for the DSi soon | Europe is finally set to get a few more color options for its DSi. While gamers in the glorious United States of America have enjoyed the freedom to choose between pink, white, turquoise and black, European gamers had to suffer with just wh... |
| Sep 15, 2009 | Info about the Archos Phone Tablet emerges | Details are kind of lacking at this point, but so far the Archos Phone Tablet is shaping up nicely. It should rock Android on a 4.3-inch touchscreen with a 854×480 resolution, 1GHz ARM CPU, HSDPA, and will measure in at only 10mm. The stran... |
| Jul 1, 2009 | Rumor: Everyone's trying to buy T-Mobile UK | When we mentioned yesterday that Vodafone was considering snatching up T-Mobile UK, we figured that’d be the last we heard of it for a while. They’d go quiet for a while, do some negotiation, and then they’d either make a big deal about the... |
| Jun 29, 2009 | PSP Phone: A logical next step for Sony? | The two-year old "PSP Phone" rumor has been resurrected yet again, this time because of a weekend article in respected Japanese business journal Nikkei Shimbun. The article says Sony now has plans to set up a PSP Phone development... |
| Jun 13, 2009 | Is Google working on a way to search Twitter and other microblogs? | Google is definitely collecting data on the web every second these days so the question is when, not if, Google will come out with its own microblogging search engine to compete with Twitter. Google is now preparing to launch a way to index... |
| Apr 9, 2009 | Rumor(ish): LG Viewty II coming to UK's Orange in June | Our first glimpse of the heretofore rumored LG Viewty II came last month at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Fast forward to today, and the folks over at Electricpig say they have reason to believe that LG is planning to launch its 8... |
| Feb 6, 2009 | Xbox update woes | Article content
A Microsoft Xbox 360 update that came out earlier this week has left many xBox users fuming after seeing it crash their video game consoles.
Online forums and the blogosphere are buzzing with reports on the mandatory update ... |
| Nov 13, 2008 | LG Prada II: Tuesday in the UK | The LG Prada II is coming, thank God. It’s scheduled to debut in the UK, the originator of WAG culture, on Tuesday, November 18.
The touchscreen phone, which has a 5-megapixel camera (which was last impressive two years ago), also has a sli... |
| Oct 16, 2008 | Molecular storage – possible but not bloody likely | The recent black silicon hubbub was interesting because it provided a concrete improvement over current technology, capable of being implemented with known materials and by known processes. This idea of molecular storage — as opposed to mag... |
| Aug 13, 2008 | Robopong lets you play friendless table tennis | The Achilles heel of table tennis: people without friends can’t play. Unless you raise the one side of the table, I suppose. But why do that when you can buy an automatic ball-shooting machine?
The Robo-Pong comes in a few different varieti... |
