Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

Lawsuit against Apple, AT&T granted class action status

Lawsuit against Apple, AT&T granted class action status

Posted by | Jul 11, 2010 | , |

A lawsuit alleging that Apple and AT&T secretly formed monopoly with their exclusive iPhone agreement has received class action status, meaning the plaintiffs now represent everybody who’s bought an iPhone in the United States, reports “Wired” (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/iphone-class-action/).

Judge James Ware of the U.S. District court for the Northern District of California on Thursday granted class certification of plaintiffs’ antitrust claims seeking damages and injunctive relief for the complaint that was originally filed in 2007.

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PFiddlesoft Frameworks updated

Posted by | Jul 11, 2010 | , |

PFiddlesoft has updated the PFiddlesoft Frameworks, Cocoa frameworks for writing assistive applications for persons with disabilities using Apple’s Accessibility and Quartz Event Taps APIs on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. (PFiddlesoft distributes applications and utilities that were formerly distributed by PreFab Software, Inc.)

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AppDelete for Mac OS X gets Chinese localization, more

Posted by | Jul 10, 2010 | , |

Reggie Ashworth has updated AppDelete (http://reggie.ashworth.googlepages.com/appdelete), an application deleting app for Mac OS X, to version 3.1.2. the upgrade includes Chinese localization, fixes an issue where a selected item might not be moved to the trash, and has lower memory usage.

Via drag ‘n drop, AppDelete will delete any chosen app with all of its associated items that belong to that application. You’ll no longer have to hunt through their system to find and delete these items manually.

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Apple sues three companies for ‘knock off’ power adapters for laptops

Apple sues three companies for ‘knock off’ power adapters for laptops

Posted by | Jul 9, 2010 | , |

Another day, still another lawsuit. Apple has filed a lawsuit against three companies it alleges are selling knockoff power adapters for MacBooks and MacBook Pros, reports “CNET” (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20010156-37.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20).

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Thursday. It names Brilliant Store, Sunvalleytek International, and Hootoo.com as defendants. Apple cited a patent it received in 2003 for the power adapter design, notes “CNET.”

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iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for July 9

iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for July 9

Posted by | Jul 9, 2010 | |

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Daniel Wetzel has announced News Wall 1. 0 for iPad and iPhone devices. The US$2.99 presents news feeds. All feeds are presented as an area of articles allowing the user to skim through the information at high speed. To keep track of all articles, the user can shrink single feeds, dim read articles or show images embedded in the feeds. The app supports several tools for sharing and saving articles.

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