Apple has been granted a patent (number 7,757,173) by the US Patent & Trademark Offic for its for a voice menu system for its idevices — and apparently plans to tweak it even more in the future. It relates to media players and, more particularly, to navigating menus of media players.
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An Apple patent (number 7,757,186) has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office that shows that Apple is far from finished when it comes to innovative ways to control its various devices.
The patent is for motion plane correction for MEMS-based input devices. The invention relates to technology for monitoring motion of electronic input devices, and more particularly to technology for motion plane correction of motion-based input devices. The inventor is Farshid Moussavi.
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Following two recent hacks of its iTunes store. iTunes users should now change the password on their iTunes account as well as switching to a prepaid debit card for the service, according to Fortify (http://www.fortify.com), a company that specializes in software security assurance.
Read MoreAquafadas has updated BannerZest (http://www.aquafadas.com), a flash presentation tool for professional and amateur web designers, to version 2.2.2. The upgrade adds jQuery compatibility for the alternate slideshow (javascript).
With BannerZest you can turn your pictures into a flash slideshow. BannerZest doesn’t require you to know or even possess Flash, according to the folks at Aquafadas. It uses the concept of themes, which work like templates.
Read MoreApple will open a retail store in Hong Kong sometime in 2011, reports “CrunchGear” (http://macosg.me/2/im).
The first Shanghai store opened last week, and Apple plans on opening 25 new retail outlets in the country. “CrunchGear” notes that the The retail expansion is a huge strategy shift for Apple. Up until last week’s opening, there was only one Apple Store in all of China — Beijing, which opened in 2008.
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