Posts Tagged ‘patent’

Google has been granted a patent that covers the synchronization of browser specific user data via a web service. The feature is currently used in Google Chrome and is also making its way in Mozilla’s Firefox 4 and Firefox Home.

Microsoft just received confirmation of a patent that hands the company the intellectual property of shutting an operating system down.

A new Apple patent filing describing a possibly future iMac Touch is making the rounds today. While we still have to see whether this is a product that makes it into production and if it does, its much more significant feature may be iOS integration, it is one more an example how Apple picks up an idea from the past and attempts to make it relevant for today’s users. If you are picky, you could claim that the basic idea of the iMac Touch has been invented back in 2000. Will Apple get it right?

Apple has a tough time avoiding controversies these days and the next one is already here: A new patent that is generally believed to describe a “spyphone” has surfaced. This time, Apple is not guilty and in fact does not claim access to iPhones and right to remotely activate a killswitch. The user is in control what information will be gathered in the case of theft and where it will be sent to. So can we please calm down now again?

Apple is somewhat struggling to stay out of embarrassments these days. Now it is an Apple patent filing that blatantly copies an an iPhone applications that has been available for more about two years. What is going on in Cupertino?