Posts Tagged patent
Apple slowly gaining patents to fight its war of attrition with Android
Posted by admin in Technology on December 29, 2011
Apple was recently awarded a multitouch patent that the company filed just before it announced the iPhone in 2007. While this patent (and others like it) may not give Apple a “thermonuclear” option to kill Android, it might be able to aid in Apple’s on…
Apple Applies for iPhone Killswitch Patent
An Apple patent filing details technology to identify unauthorized iPhone users or illegitimate uses – like jailbreaking – and shut down the device.www.digitaltrends.com
Apple looking for patent to kill jailbroken IPhones
Posted by admin in Tech Industry News on August 23, 2010
Apple is looking for security measures to disable “jailbroken” IPhones and IPods which will prevent the several methods to run unauthorized software on IPhone.www.crazytechnews.com
Apple patenting kill switch that detects jailbroken iPhones
A recent patent filed by Apple would allow Apple to remotely detect if your phone is jailbroken, and could allow your carrier to remotely shut down or cripple your device. www.engadget.com
Transaction: Apple’s Mobile Payment System Unveiled
The patent may have been filed in 2008, but this is the first time that we have had a chance to see it. More than a year ago, Apple filed for a patent concerning mobile payments using your iPhone and has dubbed it “Transaction.”
HTC files patent complaint against Apple
The Taiwanese phone manufacturer just filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission, asking for importation and sales of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod be halted due to alleged infringement of five patents.
Proof That Apple Is Mos’ Def’ Getting Into RFID For Devices
The firm has lodged a patent called Concert Ticket + that will enable it to get into the gig market, selling gig tickets over iTunes. As well as gigs, consumers will be able to buy tickets for sporting events, theme parks, and even wedding invitations–more about that in a bit–and even use their iPhones to get through the turnstiles.
Is Apple Developing Game Controls for the iPad and iPhone?
A recently discovered Apple patent teases an accessory that could transform an iPad or iPhone into a Nintendo DS or Sony PSP killer.
Ex-Sun CEO dishes dirt: Steve Jobs as Apple “patent troll”
Jonathan Schwartz, the ponytailed, ex-CEO of Sun Microsystems, is now blogging all the things he wished he could have said earlier. Yikes; in his first missive, he lays into Steve Jobs, comparing him to a patent troll, and offers lessons for HTC in their defense against Apple’s iPhone IP lawyers. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers break out the iPopcorn and
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