An Apple patent (number 20100198626) involving systems and methods for accessing shopping center services using a portable electronic device has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. It’s directed to systems and methods for enhancing a user’s experience at a shopping center. In particular, it’s directed to providing a “heat map” to indicate popular areas of or products in a mall.
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A new Apple patent (number 20100198453) has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office and involves integrating a portable device with a bicycle. The electronic device can receive the output from sensors coupled to the bicycle and generate riding characteristics for display to the user.
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An Apple patent (number 20100199266) involving software fingerprinting has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. It relates generally to analyzing software performance, and more particularly, to a system, method, and program for graphically presenting code execution data in order to quickly identify of areas of code which may represent opportunities for optimization.
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Logitech (http://www.logitech.com) unveiled three new G-Series gaming peripherals — the Logitech Wireless Gaming Headset G930, the Logitech Wireless Gaming Mouse G700 and the Logitech Gaming Keyboard G510.
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Nulana LTD has released NuKit 1.0 (http://nulana.com/nukit), a new productivity and timesaving toolkit for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. This US$19.99 app combines different utilities such as a launcher, tweaker, shortcut editor, window mover and advanced calculator.
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