Type of Article: MacTech Blog

Five innovations that will change our lives: saving the planet

Posted by | Jan 6, 2011 | , |

IBM recently unveiled the fifth annual “Next Five in Five” — a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The Next Five in Five is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as — not surprisingly — emerging technologies from IBM’s Labs. Here’s the third part of our look at what IBM predicts — and how this might affect the Apple world.

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Greg’s bite: no smart phone privacy in California, CES, new 0 Day bug

Greg’s bite: no smart phone privacy in California, CES, new 0 Day bug

Posted by | Jan 5, 2011 | , |

By Greg Mills

In a stunning setback for Constitutional privacy rights regarding the contents of smart phones, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that if you are arrested on any charge and happen to have your smart phone on you, the police have the right to see and copy everything on it.  

Further, the contents of your phone may be used against you in a court of law, even if unrelated to the original charge they bust you on. All this without a warrant or probable cause. Business information, normally held secret, is also affected at this time.

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Five innovations that will change our lives, part two: batteries

Posted by | Jan 5, 2011 | , |

IBM recently unveiled the fifth annual “Next Five in Five” — a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The Next Five in Five is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as — not surprisingly — emerging technologies from IBM’s Labs. Here’s the second part of our look at what IBM predicts — and how this might affect the Apple world.

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Patent hints at ‘cable/satellite’ box features for Apple TV (or perhaps its successor)

Patent hints at ‘cable/satellite’ box features for Apple TV (or perhaps its successor)

Posted by | Jan 4, 2011 | , |

An Apple patent (number 7865927) at the US Patent & Trademark Office for enhancing media system metadata hints at what could be the future of the Apple TV — or perhaps an Apple TV successor — that involves implementing “cable/satellite box” features.

Systems and methods for providing enhanced metadata to a user. Systems and methods can include extraction of data from metadata and searching for related metadata based upon the the extracted data. The inventors are Rainer Brodersen, Rachel Claire Goldeen, Mihnea Calin Pacurariu and Jeffrey Ma.

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Apple wins patent for Cinema Display design

Apple wins patent for Cinema Display design

Posted by | Jan 4, 2011 | , |

Apple has won a patent for the design of its Cinema Display and for displaying structured electronic documents by the US Patent & Trademark Office.

The Cinema Display is, of course, Apple’s standalone monitor, now available only in a 27-inch size. The inventors on its design patent are listed as Bartley K. Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iluiis, Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Douglas B. Satzger, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whange and Rico Zorkendorfer.

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