U.S. Customs Clears HTC One X, Evo 4G LTE for Sale
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have lifted a nearly month long blockade of HTC's two newest smartphones, the One X and the Evo 4G LTE. The two new phones are on the way to retailers.
View ArticleApple Patents the MacBook Air’s Wedge Design — Bad News for Ultrabook Makers
The ultrabook landscape it littered with notebooks that look suspiciously like Apple's MacBook Air. The thin, wedge form factor is a staple of the notebook sector. That design was just patented by Apple.
View Article19 Patents Invented by Ingenious Celebrities (Plus One by Paula Abdul)
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted well over 8 million patents, so it would stand to reason that at least of few of them were authored by people with a certain degree of fame....
View ArticleApples Wins Federal Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Tab
Samsung was hit with bad news Tuesday when U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh issued an injunction against the company that prevented it from selling the Galaxy 10.1 tablet because it looked a little too...
View ArticleNokia Accuses Google’s Nexus 7 of Patent Infringement
Google and its partners are knee deep in patent disputes. And this time, instead of a certain Cupertino company, it's Nokia on the offensive. Less than a week after Google unveiled its new Nexus 7...
View ArticleGoogle Glass Anti-Theft Patent Detects Burgled Headset, Calls the Coppers
When you plunk down $1,500 for the chance to purchase the future of wearable computing, you might expect some sort of security component to protect your investment. While tethering your augmented...
View ArticleNow Samsung Is Suing Apple Over the iPhone 5
The patent battles between Samsung and Apple continue, with Samsung suing Apple for the iPhone 5.
View ArticleApple Patents a Method for Bending Glass
Flat glass is boring. All the fanciest Android phones have curved glass displays. Not to be left out of the display-warping ways, Apple has patented its own glass-bending process.
View ArticleRIM Pays Nokia $65M to Settle Patent Dispute
Ending the saddest patent slap-fight in recent months, settlement information about RIM and Nokia's patent dispute has been discovered and probably equals Google's yearly budget for fringe benefits...
View ArticleGreat Expectations: Patents Are the Concept Cars of Tech
The latest BlackBerry 10 handsets could have been really cool dual-screen smartphones. Instead, they’re the same ol’ rectangle everyone else is using.
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