Apple patents range from displays to bit-error testing
Fourteen Apple patents have appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. Here’s a summary of each.
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Author: dsellers
Apple looking at solar-powered laptops
A new Apple patent (number 2010073791) at the US Patent & Trademark Office shows that Apple is considering ways to offer solar-powered laptops. Or at least portables with screens backlit by the sun.
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AdMob: iPhone accounts for 50% of smartphone requests in February
AdMob (http://www.admob.com) — which stores and analyzes handset and operator data from every ad request in its network of more than 15,000 mobile web sites and applications — says that, in February, smartphones accounted for 48% of its worldwide traffic/
That’s up from 35% in February 2009. The strong growth of iPhone and Android traffic, fueled by heavy application usage, was primarily responsible for the increase, AdMob says. Although the share of feature phone traffic in AdMob’s network declined from 58% o 35% year-over-year, absolute traffic from feature phones still grew 31%.
Read MoreLayer Groups 2.0 InDesign plug-in available as public beta
DTP Tools is offering a public beta version of the new Layer Groups 2.0 plug-in with more than a doubled feature set.
The plug-in is CS5 ready and upgrade from any previous version of Layer Groups and InDesign is free as all DTP Tools plug-in upgrades always are. The public beta offers a: listing of objects in the layer on current spread; a listing of objects in the layer in the document; and the ability import layers including structure and content from other documents
Read MoreToday for iCal users beefs up Microsoft Exchange support
Second Gear (http://secondgearllc.com) has released Today 2.2, an update of the US$15 Mac OS X application for managing iCal events and tasks. The new version adds support for viewing and creating data using Microsoft Exchange, the collaborative email and calendaring solution used in many businesses.
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