An Apple patent (number 7973231) has popped up at the US Patent & Trademark Office for a music synchronization arrangement. The invention generally pertains to a hand-held computing device.
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An Apple patent (number 7971782) for a multi-point [of sale] transaction system has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. It relates to temporarily pairing devices to complete transactions; and more specifically to temporarily pairing at least one handheld communication device selected from a plurality of handheld communication devices with at least one payment terminal selected from a plurality of payment terminals.
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By Greg Mills
When I read stories in the press about defections from Microsoft’s executive suites, I consider the overall long term business situation at the Redmond campus. Since Ballmer took over from Bill Gates in 2000, Microsoft has shed half its market cap. That is a fact.
Rather than a string of successful new product launches, it looks more like a laundry list of epic product disasters when one considers Microsoft’s failed strategies and dismal product failures. Anybody want a Kin phone?
Read MoreIf Apple’s iBookstore can keep expanding the number of titles it carries (I think it has around 100,000 titles compared to 700,000 or so at Amazon), it could have a bright future. The share of adults in the United States who own an e-book reader doubled to 12% in May 2011 from 6% in November 2010.
This is the first time since the Pew Internet Project (http://pewinternet.org) began measuring e-reader use in April 2009 that ownership of this device has reached double digits among U.S. adults. Tablet computers haven’t seen the same level of growth in recent months.
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Apple has been granted several patents by the US Patent & Trademark Office. Following is a summary of each.
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