Apple has been granted a patent (number 7,830,461) by the US Patent & Trademark Office for a light sensitive display. It relates to touch sensitive displays that could eventually be used with iOS devices.
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As first noted by “Patently Apple” (http://www.patentlyapple.com), a new European patent filing (publication number WO2010126782) has emerged that describes a new system of “scrollable menus and toolbars” — apparently for both Mac OS X and iOS
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method that defines several menu items having a particular order. The method provides a display area for displaying a portion of the menu items in the particular order. The method provides a selection window in the display area for indicating that a menu item is presently selectable.
Read MoreLeander Kahney of “Cult of Mac” says (http://www.cultofmac.com/how-apple-almost-got-microsofts-kinect-game-controller/67951) that Apple was the first place that PrimeSense, the company who developed the technology behind Microsoft’s Kinect camera for the Xbox 360.
Read MoreI’m not sure what it says when my cable provider has one of the slowest web sites around. I’m talking about Comcast, whose new Xfinity branding must stand for infinity slow.
I recently tried to add three new email accounts to my Comcast Internet account. The Comcast Customer Service page — which should have been dubbed the Customer Disservice Page — repeatedly ground to a halt and timed out. Something that should have taken 10 minutes to accomplish took an hour.
Think there’s little growth opportunity for the Mac? Think again. The Toffler Associates (http://www.toffler.com/) think tank says there are more than one billion personal computers in use today — and that number will double by 2014.
Apple now has around 10% of the computer market in the US and is approaching 5% worldwide. And that percentage keeps on going up.
Imagine Apple nabbing 10% of more of a billion computer sales over the next four years. That’s a lot of Macs. Also, in the latest Toffler Associates they predict that:
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