Apple patents range from phishing shield to communication channel
Seventeen Apple patents have appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. Here’s a summary of each.
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iPhone leads smartphone makers in customer satisfaction
Overall satisfaction among smartphone and traditional handset owners whose phones are equipped with touch screens is considerably higher than satisfaction of owners of phones that have other input mechanisms, according to a new report by J.D. Power and Associates (http://www.JDPower.com). And the iPhone leads the pack in customer satisfaction.
Read MoreUSITC to investigate Apple’s complaint against HTC
A U.S. trade agency will investigate Apple’s patent-infringement claims against Taiwan’s HTC Corp. to determine if its phones using Google’s Android operating system should be banned from the U.S.
Analyst: Apple selling every iPad it can build
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster tells clients that his initial estimates of 900,000 iPads sold in the June quarter and 2.7 million in calendar year 2010 “may prove to be conservative” and that Apple is selling every iPad it can build.
As reported by All Things D (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Munster-Apple-is-Selling-allthingsd-4182584461.html?x=0&.v=1), Munster thinks Apple will sell between 200,000 and 300,000 iPads this weekend — comparable to the 270,000 first gen iPhones it sold at launch. And he thinks the chances are good that the company will sell out of the tablet device.
Read MoreApple posts list of ‘iPad ready’ web sites
Apple has released a list of “iPad ready” web sites. You can find it at http://www.apple.com/ipad/ready-for-ipad/ .
Here’s what Apple has to say: “iPad features Safari, a mobile web browser that supports the latest web standards — including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Here are just a few of the sites that take advantage of these web standards to deliver content that looks and functions beautifully on iPad.”
Among the CNN, Reuters, New York Times, Vimeo, TIME, Major League Baseball, The White House, Virgin America, Sports Illustrated, Flickr, People Magazine, TED and more.
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