The California Attorney General has struck a deal with the world’s major app store opperators that will see new privacy policy standards put in place. Apple, Google, Microsoft, HP, RIM and Amazon have all agreed to require any software that uses personal information to provide a privacy policy that can be viewed in the store [...]
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New privacy policy standards agreed to by world’s major app store owners
Posted: 22nd February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Amazon, Apple, California Attorney General, California Department Of Justice, Department Of Justice, Developers, Devs, Engadget, Google, Hp, Macrumors, Microsoft, Nbsp, Online Privacy Protection Act, Personal Privacy, Privacy Act, Privacy Policy, Privacy Protection Act, Relevant Documents, Rim
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The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend
Posted: 21st February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Apple, Cash Infusion, Decades, Domination, Enemy Of My Enemy, Ipad, Iphone, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer
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Microsoft and Apple should hate one another right now. I mean, really hate each other. After decades of domination, Microsoft has watched their rival move from death’s door to become the most valuable company in the world — over $200 billion more valuable than Microsoft itself. And it was Microsoft who helped get Apple there, [...]
iPhone 4 antennagate class-action lawsuit settled, owners to receive $15 or a free case
Posted: 18th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 17 Feb, 4s, Antenna, Apple, Class Action Lawsuit, Cnet, Email, Engadget, Free Case, Free Quotes, Fri, Iphone, Ira, Macworld, Megaupload, Nbsp, Print Ads, Register, Running, Usa Today
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According to CNET, a class-action lawsuit over the iPhone 4′s troublesome antenna, aka Antennagate, has been settled. The planned resolution will net US residents who bought one and presumably either $15 in cash or (another?) free bumper case. CNET quotes co-lead counsel Ira Rothken (also the attorney for Megaupload in its case) saying that he [...]
ITC closes the book on HTC’s first complaint against Apple, still working on its sequels
Posted: 17th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 17 Feb, Apple, Cupertino, Dialer, Engadget, Final Judgment, Foss, Four Months, Fri, Htc, Initial Decision, Initial Exchange, Itc, Nbsp, Patent War, Patents, Power Management Features, Sequels, Suits, Taiwanese Manufacturer
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Remember that first shot across Apple’s bow that HTC fired way back May of 2010? No? We don’t blame you. Since that initial exchange of complaints against each other the patent war has spun almost completely out of control. Well, in October an ITC judge handed down an initial ruling, rejecting the Taiwanese manufacturer’s claim [...]
Gartner: Apple leads the way among smartphone vendors, Android sees slight decline
Posted: 15th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 4s, 5 Million, Apple, Cupertino, Decline, Encouraging News, Engadget, Gartner, Handset, Handsets, Insight, Iphone, Last Quarter, Market Share, Mobile Phones, Nbsp, Nokia, Press Release, Q4 Report, Quarters
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Gartner‘s latest bundle of smartphone stats has just hit the wires, bringing with it some encouraging news for the folks in Cupertino. According to the firm’s Q4 report, Apple finished 2011 as the world’s top smartphone vendor by market share (19 percent), thanks to a Q4 that saw the company grab 23.8 percent of the [...]
Apple Beats Out Google, Amazon For Highest Corporate Reputation Score
Posted: 13th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 13 Years, Amazon, Apple, Coca Cola, Coca Cola Company, Corporate Reputation, Google, Harris Poll, Kraft Foods, Moving, Reputation Quotient, Reputation Score, Reputations, Rq, Survey
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Apple took the top spot from Google for the highest corporate reputation score, according to the 2012 Harris Poll Reputation Quotient, a survey which measures corporate reputation for brands and companies in the U.S. The poll asks the general public to measure the reputations of the 60 most visible companies in the country. As reported [...]
Apple sues Motorola over Qualcomm license, makes us dream of a world without lawyers
Posted: 10th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Apple, Cupertino, Engadget, Existence, Fri, Htc, Insanity, Lawyers, Legal War, Little Bit, Motorola, Patent Claims, Purveyors, Qualcomm, Reuters, Samsung, San Diego, Southern California, Stoop, Us District Court
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There are literally no words (at least no family-friendly ones) to describe the insanity that is the ongoing legal war between Apple and, well, just about everyone else. Not to lay blame entirely at Cupertino’s stoop — Motorola, HTC and Samsung all deserve plenty of our ire as well. The tablet and smartphone industry appears [...]
Withings Smart Baby Monitor drops through FCC’s chimney
Posted: 10th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 3g, Apple, Baby Monitor, Chimney, Engadget, Fcc, Fcc Filing, Fri, Household, Internet Connection, Ios, Mic, Nbsp, Night Vision, Router, Samsung, Sibling Rivalry, Smart Baby, Streams, Wifi
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Baby monitors. If you’re in the market for one (er, congrats) and you run an Apple-flavored household, then this Withings device looks sufficiently over-specced for your needs. It’s been out in the UK for a couple of months already priced at £269 ($425), and judging from the FCC filing it’s coming to the US too, [...]
StatCounter: Mobile web usage doubling every year, Nokia leads the way
Posted: 7th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Apple, Break, Engadget, Insight, Leads, Market Share, Mobile Nokia, Mobile Web, Nbsp, Nokia, Nokia Handsets, Nokia Mobile, Oems, Rim, S Market, Samsung, Statcounter, Web Usage, World Market
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We already knew that Nokia sits atop the world’s market when it comes to shipments and market share. As it turns out, though, the Finnish manufacturer leads the way in terms of mobile web browsing, too. That’s according to the latest report from StatCounter, which found that Nokia handsets account for about 40 percent of [...]