
A lawsuit filed last week by software company Droplets takes aim at Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and YouTube for infringing on its patented Web technology. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, the Droplets suit alleges that the group of tech giants infringe on one or more [...]
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Apple has started giving developers a chance to kick the tires its upcoming iTunes Match service, which will allow both streaming and downloading. As noted by 9to5mac this afternoon, Apple is giving developers a chance to try out iTunes Match on their own music libraries ahead of the release this fall. iTunes Match is the service that [...]
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Apple is contributing more than half the total $4.5 billion price tag for Nortel patents, with partners including Microsoft and Sony combined kicking in the rest. Apple reported on Wednesday in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it will contribute about $2.6 billion toward the cost of the Nortel patent acquisition. After [...]
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Apple said today that customers had downloaded more than one million copies of Mac OS X Lion from the Mac App Store in the upgrade’s first day of availability. In a statement, Apple boasted of the initial success of Lion with wording that hinted it had raked in about $30 million. “In just one day, over one [...]
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Need to tweak that presentation before the all important meeting but only have your iPhone in your pocket? No problem. Just download the Keynote App for iOS from iTunes for $9.99 (or free for exisiting iWork or iPad customers) and get working. The app version of Pages and Numbers were also launched today. By incorporating [...]
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The Nasdaq stock exchange will cut the weighting it gives to Apple on a key index at the same time that it boosts the weighting for tech titans including Microsoft and Cisco Systems. In a major rebalancing of the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index, which will go into effect ahead of the market open on [...]
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Apple is selling more Macs than ever these days. And according to a survey from a computer support company, those new customers are enjoying some very reliable machines. On Monday, Rescuecom released its 2010 computer reliability report, with Apple winning the top spot in the survey. The company also led the pack in Rescuecom’s last [...]
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