Apple has been granted several patents by the US Patent & Trademark Office. Following is a summary of each.
Patent number 7,961,151 is for antennas for compact portable wireless devices and involves the technology behind the Nike + iPod program that includes a special transceiver that embedded in a running shoe. Shu-Li Wang, Juan Zavala, and Christopher Prest are the inventors.
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By Greg Mills
I read an interesting story about the most damaged industrial sectors in the US economy. While Apple’s name wasn’t mentioned, several sectors in decline are either directly falling victim to decline because of Apple’s business — or Apple represents the possible salvation of those businesses.
Read MoreIt annoys me that I can’t read my iBooks on my OS X devices. But unless I missed something in the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference keynote on June 6, that still won’t be possible with Mac OS X Lion.
During the keynote, Apple bragged about the number of books that have been downloaded since the the iBookstore opened: about 130 million. iBooks, along with other digital content, will be able to be stored online via the upcoming iCloud service.
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By Greg Mills
Personally, I don’t do FaceBook. However, my wife does FB and loves it. Therefore, privacy issues in FaceBook’s new geotagging pictures with names using facial recognition software residing on FaceBook servers, affects me as well as her. Since I tend to show up in the pictures she posts on line, my pictures are included quite often.
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By Greg Mills
The press is full of interesting stories of Apple’s roadkill this week. Leading the long list of the serially flummoxed is RIM, which has continued to lose market share and stock value due to stumbling about the market with lackluster products.
One tech product reviewer likened the RIM PlayBook to a venereal disease. No one wants it. He has tried to return a loaner PlayBook he was asked to review by RIM, without success. In his words, “It (the PlayBook) is the herpes of tablets — once you have it, you can’t get rid of it.”
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