The first several witnesses called in Apple’s ongoing patent trial vs. Samsung have been largely related to the industrial designs of its devices and a couple of operational patents. For the last couple of days, however, talk has turned to Apple’s software design patents, specifically the ‘grid-of-squares’ home screen and the designs of the...
During the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, Apple aired three ads for its Genius Bar. Over the ensuing weekend, a number of widely-read blogs posted mostly negative pieces about the ads. Today, Apple’s ad agency told Mashable that the ads are no longer running and they were only intended to run the first weekend...
The patent lawsuit between Google and Oracle’s over the use of Java in Android was, for all intents and purposes, won by Google. There are still a few loose ends for the judge in the suit, William Alsup, to take care of before the case is officially wrapped up. Today, Alsup cause a significant...
Like a Hollywood sequel, pirated movie hits are back on YouTube – and this time they’re more prevalent than ever. A year ago, users uploaded a number of pirated movies to Google’s YouTube video service and were eventually taken down. And now movies are back – to the point where if you don’t want...
An easy tip for Gmail users on how to avoiding getting hacked: two-factor verification. If there is one lesson to be learned from Wired writer Mat Honan’s “epic” hacking last week – a hack that wiped years of digital memories including emails and photos of his daughter – it’s the importance of Gmail’s...
The Internet Archive just embraced P2P in a big way: The site is making more than one million torrents of its books, movies, TV show episodes and music albums available for free download. Torrents are seeded by two Archive.org servers, so download speeds should be fast even if a file isn’t particularly popular. Some...
If you’re anything like the average TNW staffer then you’ll probably have a tough time keeping up with various tech and non-tech bills that flow your way each month. If you’re a business owner or involved in running a startup however, the chances are that these invoices roll in at a much faster and...
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Yesterday, Acer’s CEO, Zhentang Wang, made waves by directly pointing a finger at Microsoft, stating that its entrance into the hardware market for devices is a mistake. I’ll requote the man, to jog your memory: will create a huge negative impact for the ecosystem and other brands...
Google announced a new phase of its self-driving car project Tuesday. The test vehicles, of which there are “about a dozen on the road at any given time,” have so far logged 300,000 miles of road testing without a single accident under computer control. In the next phase of testing, team members will start...