Type of Article: MacTech Blog

A new Apple patent (number 20120278907) at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office shows that Apple continues to work on new theft detection/prevention technology. The patent is for acceleration-based theft detection system for portable electronic devices.

With the new iMac rolling out with no optical drive built-in, it’s obvious that Apple is never going to support Blu-ray. I can understand Apple’s not building in a Blu-ray player — after all, the company a) loves thin products, and b) wants you to buy all your music, movies and TV shows at iTunes — but the company should at least offer Blu-ray support.

By Greg Mills

I have read the most popular book on the life of Steve Jobs. What it boils down to is that Jobs was an amazing human being, with both cunning creativity and serious personality flaws. Genius is often based on the notion of “all the eggs in one basket.”  We see that strength in one area may be balanced with weakness in another area.   

An Apple patent (number 8300055) has appeared at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and shows that Apple is working on an user interface for controlling three-dimensional animation of an object.

An Apple patent (number 8301145) for fast cell selection in a mobile wireless device has appeared at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

Per the patent, the mobile wireless device detects when a first wireless cell fails a set of stored suitability criteria and searches for and locates a set of candidate wireless cells to associate with. The mobile wireless device measures at least one received signal metric for each candidate wireless cell in the set of candidate wireless cells.