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New Apple Patent Application Describes Flexible iWatch

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Stan Schroeder


A patent application from Apple outlines a device with a flexible screen worn on your wrist, adding fuel to the recent iWatch rumors.
The patent application describes a "wearable accessory device" which "includes a flexible display coupled to a bi-stable spring."
If that sounds vague, Apple was kind enough to explain that it's actually talking about a "slap wrap" type of bracelet.
While not exactly a wristwatch, the bracelet could show all sorts of info on its flexible screen — including that of the temporal variety — but Apple also has a couple of novelty ideas for the device.
These include a "a sensor for detecting a change between the flat state and the curled state of the bi-stable spring substrate," a "kinetic energy gathering component" as well as "recharging a battery housed within the accessory device by way of a plurality of ambient light energy collectors disposed across a portion of one surface of the accessory device."
All in all, we're looking at a very exciting gadget; however, the way from a patent application to an actual product is long and thorny, and we can't say for sure when (if ever) such a device might actually be on sale in Apple stores.
Graphic courtesy of Yrving Torrealba

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Samsung sue Apple because of her 'iPhone 5'

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Said The Korea Times Korea, Samsung plans to sue Apple because her recent 'iPhone 5', because it infringes on patents related to technology fourth generation 4G LTE registered in favor of Samsung. 

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The paper said that Samsung Electronics Co., decided to take immediate legal action against Apple, where she will persecuting in a number of European countries and in heitedtates as well. Samsung has started legal proceedings on Monday, before Apple unveiled iPhone 5 phone two days later, and when to make sure that the phone will be presented in support of the fourth-generation technology. Previous reports have said that Samsung owns 10% of the total patents registered on this technology in the world.
Apple had won last month filed a lawsuit against Samsung in the United States, which fined the company more than a billion dollars due to the violation of Samsung phones in the series «Galaxy» several patents belonging to Apple regarding its design. Apple had announced yesterday for a phone iPhone 5, which carries a 4 inch screen, and offers processor twice as fast as the previous generation, and the weight and thickness of less, and will begin pre-order the device starting from September 14.


Samsung Says They Will Sue Apple Once They Announce iPhone 5 With LTE
Samsung is still fuming that they got their trash handed to them in court last week. The legal beat down they received in court was just raw and powerful and awesome, and they totally deserved it.
Samsung is understandably mad, and probably a little embarrassed and majorly vindictive, so they went out this morning and declared that if Apple even thinks about releasing an iPhone 5 with LTE they will sue them immediately, and they may have the patents to win. Maybe.
LTE has been emerging as the new standard for high-speed mobile data connections, and it turns out that Samsung has quite a few patents for it. Thomson-Reuters says Samsung owns about 12.2% of all existing patents pertaining to LTE technology, while Nokia owns 18.9%, Qualcomm has 12.5%, and Ericsson has about 11.6%.
Even though Samsung may own a lot of LTE patents, it’s not the sheer number of patents, but the quality that will determine how strong a legal weapon they can be used as. So it’s likely that Samsung is just trying to talk some smack after getting roughed up on the playground.
The Korea Times reports that Samsung is trying to partner-up with U.S. mobile carriers to fight back against Apple. They’re currently in talks with Verizon about modifying designs on Samsung Galaxy devices, and they’re going to start making more Windows phones with Microsoft so they’re not so dependent on Android.

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Apple vs. Google: Who Owns Slide-to-Unlock on Phones?

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Both iPhones and Android devices unlock in the same way: with the user sliding his or her finger along part of the screen. That simple function has prompted a huge amount of legal wrangling, with both Apple and Google (by proxy of its recent acquisition, Motorola) scoring victories over the ownership of “slide-to-unlock” on phones in the past week.

A German court ruled in Apple’s favor on Thursday — twice — on separate allegations that Motorola Mobility had infringed on Apple’s patents on slide-to-unlock. A Munich regional court said certain Motorola phones infringed on the German part of a broader European patent. It’s Apple’s first patent victory over Motorola ever.

The rulings affect the Motorola Flipout, Milestone, Milestone XT720 and Defy. Although the rulings open the door for Apple to block the sale of those devices in Germany, Motorola has already said the judgment would have no impact on sales since it was planning to implement a new way to unlock the phone that wouldn’t infringe on Apple’s patent.

What that new unlocking method would be isn’t clear, and Motorola, which was recently acquired by Google, has said it will appeal the ruling. If it does end up needing to change how its phones unlock, however, a recent patent awarded to Google could be a clue.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office earlier this month awarded Google a patent on a certain type of slide-to-unlock (excerpts are viewable in the gallery below). Among the many points covered in the patent, there’s one that specifies the user might slide an icon (from a choice of icons) in a certain direction to simiultaneously unlock the device and launch an app, such as email. There’s also a provision for unlocking the device by voice.

Such unlocking methods clearly aren’t present on Apple’s iOS devices and would theoretically put Motorola products in the clear. However, Florian Mueller of Foss Patents suspects that as Apple tightens its grip over slide-to-unlock, there may be a general “degradation of the user experience” on Android devices.

What do you think is the best way to unlock a phone? Let us know in the comments.

Google Slide-to-Unlock Schematic

Apple readies $10,000 prize for 25 billionth app milestone

It keeps growing. More downloads, more hard-to-comprehend milestones. This time, Apple's gearing up to hit its 25 billionth app download and it's got another $10,000 prize for the lucky soul that claims that very app. The App Store doubled its download count in the last year -- and then some -- so it's got good reason to be in a celebratory mood. To enter, you can either go grab yourself an app or enter via the prize form below. $10,000 for a random download? Count us in.

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Apple and the development of three-dimensional interface for the new generation of "iPhone"

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SINGAPORE - OCTOBER 06: An Apple Ipad 2 showi...Image by Getty Images via @daylife Moving the "Apple" is now the Office of "U.S. Patent," the United States of America to obtain new patent which is a graphical user interface, three-dimensional, it is expected incorporated into the next generation of phone "iPhone" to allow the user to deal with the phone and switch between applications interface not by touching the screen, but by the movement of the user. This interface consists of hardware and system acceleration sensors and gyro to learn about the movement and gestures of the user, where the spin with the rotation of the phone to determine the movements and displayed on the interface. Does not consider the user interface is a new three-dimensional, this interface has existed for a desktop computer. For example, for the desktop "Windows" There are additional programs such as "Real Desktop" and "Bump top" turning the user's computer desktop to desktop real three-dimensional, and make the desktop icons move as if they are real. But the company "Google" bought the company's existing program to develop the "Bump Top" and bearing the same name since early last year, and since then has not been the further development of this program, but the site has been closed permanently at the time. As for the document, the patent for the company "Apple and bearing the number" 20120007850 "They have sought the company's request for the document in the month of July of last year was not published this request by the Office of Patents in the United States is only now, specifically last Thursday. Not necessarily translate all patents for Babylon and its application and integration within the company-specific products, there are many patents did not turn to the hardware or final products. On the other hand, there are expectations that the next generation of the device your tablet of Babylon "iPad 3" will outweigh the benefits and specifications of the current model stages. According to the news agency news, "Bloomberg," the upcoming Apple tablet will be equipped with a quad-core processor, high-speed, high-resolution display and clarity, as well as compatibility with the next generation of wireless communication standards "LTE". It predicts that the market is put in March. Digital Education The other hand, intends to "Apple" into the field of education, to try to attract a new generation of customers, I have sent invitations to journalists to attend a press conference on this matter, which will be held on next Wednesday approved January 19 at the Museum "Solomon R. Guggenheim-Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum "state" New York "American. And the company wrote in its invitation to the media "joined us to announce a large educational project sponsored by Apple," so there is evidence of implicit precedent suggests Apple's plan in this area. " For example, said the book, which tells the biography of the late "Steve Jobs" the founder of Apple Inc. of the writer, "and Walter Isaacson," the intention of Steve for the invasion of market textbooks, digital, there are preliminary talks conducted by Steve with the authors wrote expressed their consent to enter into a partnership with Apple aims to deployment of new versions of their books and integrate the company's Tablet PC "iPad." The newspaper noted, "New York Times" quoting sources close to the company, that Apple intends to move forward with the invasion of digital educational sector, but without offering any new devices especially in this regard. keep up with the newest technologies and contemplate about how these will be used in the future. On this blog I'll share my thoughts about the future of technology, based on the high Tech Road Show Blog inventions of today.
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Dutch court finds Galaxy Ace, S, and S II infringing an Apple patent

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A Dutch court just issued a preliminary injunction that bans the sales of the Samsung Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Galaxy Ace because they infringe on a single Apple patents. The ban should come into effect on October 13th if nobody does something about it. Samsung however is confident they will deal with the supposedly infringed patent by removing the Gallery app from the phones and are taking it easy.

The court ruling hits on Samsung's Netherlands branch, which is reportedly key to Samsung's distribution network in Europe, but the reality is Samsung is unlikely to stop sales.

The good thing for Samsung is that the court ruled Samsung is not infringing any other of the Apple's patents claimed in this case. The Gallery patent is not even that serious as it's not registered in some EU member-states (here's a list of countries in which Apple has the patent registered).

The judge also commented that Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 10.1v are also violating Apple patents but didn’t issue a ban on them. Apple is pursuing a ban on those too, so we'll have to wait and see how this plays out - the Tab 10.1 was already banned in Germany (after a temporary EU-wide ban, which later turned out to be outside of the German court's jurisdiction).

If you're interested, Apple's patents in this claim cover a method of scrolling, a method of unlocking a phone by dragging an image and something about multitouch, which seems part of Android 2.3 itself (rather than TouchWiz). Luckily, the court ruled that Samsung is not infringing on any of these patents except for the photo swipe one.

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