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According to a recent patent application filed by Apple, it looks as if the company is looking to integrate a ‘Today’ notification screen on the unlock screen for the iPhone (and possibly the iPod touch, too).
This screen would allow [...]

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The year was 1979.  Alien and Apocalypse Now were top box office hits. The Knack’s My Sharona and Rod Stewart’s Do Ya Think I’m Sexy were topping the music charts. The Ayatollah Khomeini returned from 15 years [...]

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Apple looks to be working on a large touchscreen interface tablet of some sort. There have been rumors about Apple working on a multi-touch touchscreen tablet for quite a while now, and now it seems these rumors are becoming [...]

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Apple has allowed iTunes to stream over the internet - as well as your LAN - in the past, but has removed the possibility of doing so rather quickly after implementing it. Most likely caused by RIAA in [...]

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The US Patent and Trademark Office has recently released an extensive patent application describing in full some new features we are to expect in future iPhones, possibly the second-generation iPhone which is well known as the [...]

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AppleInsider has discovered a few Apple patents this passed week showing the company is exploring ways to leverage the iPhone’s wireless technologies to alert users when they are about to lose a [...]

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Recently, it was revealed that Apple has filed a patent that details a method of inserting a thin layer of solar sells behind a LCD screen in order to boost the power capabilities of an LCD-equipped device — Macbooks, iPods, and iPhone, [...]

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Apple Inc. claims that a trio of Atico’s products under the Living Solutions brand - including the AM/FM Portable Boom Box, AM/FM Alarm Clock Radio, and Portable Speakers - all conflict with several key patents [...]

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A patent Apple Inc. has recently filed hints towards the iPhone and iPod Touch eventually having custom applications tailored to merchants they visit. As detailed by AppleInsider, the proposed concept calls for a local wired or wireless network at [...]

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Apple has been keeping their mouths shut about the second generation iPhone, and I must admit, they’ve been doing one hell of a job, too. The people over at Dial-a-Phone have taken some time out of [...]

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Wait, what?  Weren’t we just speculating about this?  Actually, no — this isn’t quite the “location-based content” I went over in my last article.  This is similar, yet different.  You may recall several rumours in the past about the iPhone and iPod Touch [...]

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A patent application published in December of last year revealed that Apple had plans to allow handhelpd owners (such as the iPhone and iPod Touch) to place orders from local stores directly off [...]

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According to the Wall Street Journal Apple has received a new trademark for the three-dimensional shape of the classic/nano iPod.
Traditional trademarks have generally been granted for two-dimensional designs (logos, etc.) so actually trademarking the shape of the iPod is unusual. One [...]

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A new legal complaint accuses Apple of infringing on a patent for a flash memory drive by selling its ubiquitous iPod nano and iPod touch players, among other devices.
Apparently, Apple Inc. used a technology similar to those described in [...]

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