Search result for Apple+multitouch+patents

Search Results for apple+multitouch+patents

Apple loses Motorola patent strike in preliminary ruling

Chris Davies, Jan 14th 2012 Discuss [5]

Apple's patent violation claims against Motorola Mobility have been rejected in a preliminary ruling, with the US ITC suggesting that none of the infringements alleged by the Cupertino company hold water. Although still relatively early in the process - with a final decision yet to be settled upon by the US International Trade Commission - the preliminary ITC ruling [pdf link] indicates that Motorola hasn't overstepped the mark with regards to three patented technologies Apple claims have been infringed by the DROID line of devices. Read The Full Story

Apple wins another crucial multitouch patent

Rue Liu, Dec 27th 2011 Discuss [25]

Apple has won another crucial patent for its multitouch technology, as Patently Apple finds, that will add to its already deadly legal arsenal against Android competitors. The patent approved today involves oscillating signals and is one of the "200+ Patents for new inventions" that Steve Jobs first alluded to when the first iPhone debuted. Read The Full Story

Apple Possibly Planning All New Mac Product

Chris Burns, Aug 22nd 2011 Discuss [4]

Straight from the horses mouth - the one that lives in Japan and isn't exactly officially connected with Apple in any way, thusly a whole different breed, as it were, comes word that Apple will be releasing a Mac that's “absolutely different from current products." The source for this information is a group that also successfully predicted the March release of the iPad 2. What we're expecting is that IF a whole new product is released, it could be a touch-central desktop computer to make use of the newest Mac OS Lion's ability to push and pull in all directions for gesture-based action all day long. Read The Full Story

Apple granted iPhone multitouch patent: Lawyers prepare for action

Chris Davies, Jun 22nd 2011 Discuss [22]

Apple has been granted a vital capacitive multitouch touchscreen patent, which could trigger a new round of IP legal battles against rival smartphone manufacturers. The patent, titled “Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for translating displayed content,” details the touch and control systems Apple used in the first-gen iPhone and in all models since, and which experts believe could leave Samsung, HTC and others in hot water.

Read The Full Story

MultiTouch Gestures and MicroGestures Coming from Apple

Samia Perkins, Apr 12th 2011 Discuss [5]

Apple has been hard at work developing new multitouch gestures, and also making gestures more intuitive, according to multitouch related patents from Apple recently published by the US Patent and Trademark Office, and uncovered by PatentlyApple. The gestures have interesting names: Star, Crossbar, Ohm, Scoop and more. Read The Full Story

The Daily Slash: January 20 2011

Chris Burns, Jan 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

Take a big serious look at this fabulous Jawbone ERA in a high-res review - it rocks really hard. Next, let me show you the spread of different kinds of content we've got here on SlashGear today - an X-Wing flies through a snow trench, Apple mice with multitouch displays, and an Electronic Eco-Friendly Rickshaw. Wild enough for you? The biggest news today, in my (and I'm sure many more people's) opinion? Google's current CEO Eric Schmidt stepping down from his post as boss. Take an odd ride with Don Reisinger down violence lane in a column asking the following: Is 17 the Right Cut-Off Age for Mature-Rated Games? Over on Android Community we've got a tip on some new robots: Droid X 2, Droid 3, and Droid Incredible 2, a rather controversial tip on Google holding Gingerbread, and a really scary tip about the Android app by the name of Trapster. Behold a whole new world via an extrapolation of the ideas of soon to be former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt by yours truly in a featured post called The Mobile Revolution is Upon Us. Finally discover the kind side of PR as Motorola issues an apology for one of their own speaking rudely to a developer. Read The Full Story

Apple Patents Suggest a Multitouch Display is Coming to the Mouse

Evan Selleck, Jan 20th 2011 Discuss [7]

While Apple may have already tried to revolutionize the current mouse we all know and love/hate, that doesn't mean the company has stopped trying to figure out new, and better ways to make the mouse even more ridiculous. What better way to go above and beyond the call of duty, then to include a multitouch display on the top of it? According to some new apple patent applications recently awarded, the Cupertino-based company may be doing just that. Read The Full Story

The Daily Slash: December 28 2010

Chris Burns, Dec 28th 2010 Discuss [0]

Behold a 200 year old wood / 18K gold / supremely expensive iPad from Gresso - buy one soon! Point and awe as Sprint Palm Pixi gains mysterious front-facing camera, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 and LG Optimus Pad point toward CES 2011, and Sony PlayStation Phone points toward the same timeframe. See your Android phone become the brain of a robot, see some super teaser pics of ASUS Eee Pads, and check out the BRAND NEW HTC Thunderbolt 4G LTE phone in 12 big leaked pics! All this and MORE on The Daily Slash! Read The Full Story

SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: December 28 2010

Chris Burns, Dec 28th 2010 Discuss [0]

Behold the best idea any road-safety authority ever thought of - PhoneGuard - blocks texting when a phone is traveling faster than 10mph. Get teased with a preview pic of the ASUS Eee Pads pre-CES. Take another leaky look at the upcoming Android Music App (video). See as AppsFire adds video previews for Android apps, possibly tipping this sort of functionality in the Android Marketplace soon. Take a peek at a tip from a Japanese newspaper calling spring 2011 as the release time for the eve elusive Sony PlayStation Phone. Marvel as your Android phone becomes the brain of a robot. All this and MORE on SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up! Read The Full Story

Reviews

Nexus S Review

Vincent Nguyen, Dec 14th 2010 Discuss [30]

Google shook up the Android world with the Nexus One, throwing down the gauntlet to manufacturers to step up their hardware game and pushing the open-source platform to the bleeding edge of smartphone functionality. Now the search giant is back with its second self-branded device, the Nexus S, a Samsung-made handset with a few unique features of its own. Is this the best Android smartphone today, or just another Galaxy S sibling? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

Read The Full Story

ITC to investigate Apple’s claims of HTC patent theft

Chris Davies, Apr 2nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Apple's legal case against HTC - in which they allege the smartphone manufacturer impinged on their intellectual property with various Android and Windows Mobile based handsets - has been green-lighted by the US International Trade Commission (ITC). The decision means that, within the next 45 days, the ITC must announce a date by which it expects to have come to a conclusion over whether HTC did, in fact, infringe Apple patents; if it finds in Apple's favor, HTC could be forced to block functionality in their devices or even barred from importing them into the US altogether. Read The Full Story

Apple sued over multitouch IP: iPad & iPhone imports under threat?

Chris Davies, Mar 30th 2010 Discuss [5]

Apple's iPad might be shipping out to preorder customers, but there's at least one company who'd like to put a stop to it. Taiwanese company Elan Microelectronics have filed a suit against Apple with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) today, on the premise that the Cupertino company's multitouch implementation impinges on one of their own patents. If upheld, the ITC could block Apple from bringing iPads - along with iPhones, iPod touch PMPs and the Magic Mouse - into the US. Read The Full Story