Apple patents involve file extensions, latency reduction, encoding types
Three Apple patents in addition to those already covered have appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. Following is a summary of each.
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Apple wins QuickTime-related patent
Apple has won a QuickTime related patent from the US Patent & Trademark Office for “One-Click Full Screen Video.” The invention provides a method and system for playing full-screen video on a user computer.
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Apple patent is for dock fixture for testing handheld devices
An Apple design patent (number D623,128) for a dock fixture for testing handheld electronic devices (top graphic) has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. The inventors are Richard Hung Minh, Tang Yew Tan and Michael M. Lee.
Read MoreThere’s such a thing as too much love for your smartphone
Samsung Mobile has announced the results of a new online survey that showed working Americans who own smart phones are breaking old boundaries on when and where it’s appropriate to make and take business calls. And some folks are a bit too enamored of the phones.
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Greg’s bite: my thoughts on the Apple TV
By Greg Mills
In preparing this article, I have come to view Apple TV/Netflix as not a replacement for Dish but as a cheap “pay for view” movie channel option to replace a satellite channel I am currently subscribed to.
I am going to drop one movie channel (US$12 a month) to pay for a subscription to NetFlix ($8.99 + $2.00 for HD). That revelation allowed me to make a personal decision to go ahead and buy the Apple TV device and subscribe to NetFlix. Here is my take on this.
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