An upcoming version of Safari may show multiple Internet pages in a new way, as evidenced by an Apple patent (number 2010083179) at the US Patent & Trademark Office. The patent is for a visual presentation of multiple Internet pages.
Read MoreIf I give up waiting for the iPhone to come to Verizon (or Spring or T-Mobile), I could, at least in theory, use a femtocells to overcome the crappy AT&T wireless reception at my house. In fact, AT&T will sell me one for around US$150. Maybe they should just give me one.
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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told clients he thinks there’s a 70% chance that Apple will develop its own search engine within five years.
“We believe the company needs to develop its own search technology to protect the data generated on the iPhone,” he writes. “We believe Apple could utilize data unavailable from ,Google, data generated by the company’s App Store, to create a mobile centric search engine.”
Read MoreIt’s with a touch of sadness that we bid adieu to Tony Fadell, the “father of the iPod. He’s leaving Apple after nine years, and, though I didn’t know him personally, he’s contributed a lot to my favorite tech company.
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Nine Apple patents have appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. Here’s a summary of each.
Patent number 7,689,920 is for a parental control graphical user interface. Improved graphical user interfaces suitable for restricting the availability of media items and/or podcasts are also disclosed. The graphical user interfaces are particularly useful for a system that provides purchase and distribution of media in a client-server environment. The inventors are Jeffrey L. Robbin, David Heller and Jeff Miller.
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