A Michigan company named ForeSee Results has filed a declaratory judgment suit against Lodsys’s four patents with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, reports “FOSS Patents” (http://macte.ch/K5asG). However, there’s no news related to Lodsys’s lawsuit against app developers from Apple and Google at this point, the article adds.
Read MoreAsigra (http://www.asigra.com) a cloud back-up recovery and restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, has launched Asigra Cloud Backup 11 with Cloud BURR industry firsts, including: data protection of handheld devices; the first multi-tenanted client to reduce management resources; and an automated cloud license server.
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Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
Riada has announced Skrappy 1.0, a scrapbooking tool for the iPad. The US$3.99 app was developed for creating scrapbooks using dynamic content such as music, movies, voice memos and websites, as well as photos, text and clip art. Skrappy has been designed to feel like a book, so pages are turned by swiping, with an animation to match.
Read MoreAccording to comScore (http://www.comscore.com), a “group that measures the digital world,” 74.6 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in April 2011, up 13% from the three-month period ending in January 2011.
Google Android ranked as the top operating system with 36.4% of U.S. smartphone subscribers, up 5.2 percentage points. Apple also gained share, capturing the #2 position with 26% of the smartphone market. RIM ranked third with 25.7% share, followed by Microsoft (6.7%) and Palm (2.6%).
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By Greg Mills
Second guessing Apple is a growth industry, as the deeply held secrets that are seldom leaked early are dramatically confirmed by a beaming Steve Jobs only as products are launched. We know a lot based on what is already known about existing products and logically added technology that fits.
Near the launch date of new products it is common for supplies to run tight or be out of stock entirely just days before a major announcement. Apple Stores and catalogue Apple merchants commonly run out of things that are about to be replaced by the next version.
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