Apple wins patent for Smart Garment
Apple has won a patent (number 7,698,101) for a smart garment. It’s a sensor authenticated to a garment that transfers information, either wirelessly or wired, to an external data processing device.
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Apple patents range from wall portions to glyph construction
Several Apple patents have popped up at the US Patent & Trademark Office. Here’s a summary of each.
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iPad, meet the i-PAD
Whoops. Apple may have an iPad problem in Brazil. CU Medical Systems’ i-PAD NF1200 is a “semi-automated external defibrillator” distributed by Transform Tecnologia de Ponta, which registered the name with Brazil’s National Industrial Property Institute (INPI) last year, reports “The Register” (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/13/brazilian_ipad).
Read MoreAdobe to sue Apple over its non-Flash stance?
Apple’s determination to keep Flash off the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, etc., may be leading toward a lawsuit. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writing for “IT World” (http://www.itworld.com/legal/104320/adobe-vs-apple-going-get-uglier), says “sources close to Adobe tell me that Adobe will be suing Apple within a few weeks.”
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iAd to earn Apple almost $5 billion per year?
Apple introduced its iAd advertising platform last week and SeekingAlpha.com is forecasting that iAd will earn almost US$5 billion per year in gross ad revenue, of which Apple will take a 40% cut at about $2 billion per year.
The financial webs site is also predicting that Apple will take a 30% cut of the forecasted $600 million revenues from paid apps in 2010. Last week, in introducing iAd, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that, today, when users click on mobile ads they are almost always taken out of their app to a web browser, which loads the advertiser’s web page.