Apple has been targeted twice in lawsuits this week by companies that claim patent infringement in the iPhone, the App Store, and even the chips that power its camera. The most notable, from Affinity Labs, accuses Apple of violating three patents for sending information wirelessly to a portable device, including for browsing downloading online co
ericatcw writes “Do you love the smooth, silky performance of a multi-core PC loaded to the gills with the fastest RAM? Take a look at Dell’s new Precision T7500 desktop. According to Computerworld, the T7500 will come with 12 memory slots that can accommodate 16 GB of PC-106000 (1333 MHz) DDR3 RAM for a total of 192 GB. Dell’s not the only one — Lenovo, Cisco (with blade servers reportedly up to 384 GB in memory) and Apple are all bringing out computers that leverage Intel’s new Nehalem architecture to enable unprecedented amounts of RAM. But beware! Despite the depressed DRAM market, loading up on memory could see the cost of RAM eclipse the cost of the rest of your PC by 20-fold or more.”
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We reported yesterday about Apple’s alleged delay in payments to iPhone app developers, but there is more alarming news from iPhone developers about Apple’s refund policies.
Pob in our analysis labs blogged earlier this week about a new variant of the RSPlug Trojan horse for Mac OS X that he had written protection against. One of the ways in which the OSX/RSPlug-F Mac Trojan horse is being distributed by hackers is in the form of a poisoned HDTV/DTV program called MacCinema.
O2, Apple’s mobile phone partner in the UK, is to offer the iPhone 3G for free as part of a new contract deal available from next month.
A overseas communications firm is suing Apple for promoting its iPhone handset as a touchscreen digital book reader, a concept it claims to have patented over seven years ago
The Pre, Palm’s new mobile phone, stole the show at CES this year. Looks helped, but mainly it was the Pre’s iPhone-like touchscreen tech that wowed the industry crowd. Two weeks later, Apple COO Tim Cook expressed his irritation (without directly naming Palm) to analysts on a conference call: “We will not stand for having our IP ripped off”
Steve Ballmer recently caught flack for essentially saying that Apple users pay an Apple tax of 0 for buying Macs compared to PCs. Does that mean that Linux users are forced to pay a Microsoft tax every time they buy a PC with Microsoft software on it?As I wrote in my blog yesterday, Steve Ballmer claims that when people buy a Mac rather..
Usually rip-off counterfeits are produced by disreputable, back-room shops nobody’s heard of. Now, it appears, international computing giant Lenovo is getting into the act. The company’s new Android handset is called the oPhone, and the software interface looks a LOT like the iPhone’s.
A fourth Mac OS X 10.5.7 test build has been released to developers, a little over a week since Apple seeded the last one. It appears that development is winding down and could be ready in a couple weeks.
