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Apple finally comes out fighting in Lodsys patent claim

by Adam Banks on 23 May 2011 in Analysis

After an anxious week of speculation, Apple has responded to the demands sent by patent holder Lodsys to a number of iOS app developers. Lodsys claimed that third-party apps featuring in-app purchases infringed its patent on “Methods and systems for gathering information from units of a commodity across a network” (US 7222078) and asked for [...]

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Apple requests Lodsys ‘cease false assertions’ of patent infringement

by Kenny Hemphill on 23 May 2011 in News

Apple has written to Lodsys CEO, Mark Small, in response to the notices of patent infringement sent by Lodsys to several iOS developers. In the letter, Apple senior vice president and general legal counsel, Bruce Sewell refutes Lodsys’ claim that developers are infringing upon Lodsys intellectual property and says that they are, in fact, covered [...]

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Tests show iMac hard disk performance can vary by 100%

by Adam Banks on 11 May 2011 in Analysis

Apple has confirmed that it reserves the right to change the supplier and specification of the hard drives built into the latest iMac models, announced last week. In MacUser’s tests, undocumented variations between the drives fitted in different models resulted in transfer speeds ranging from 76 to 164 megabytes per second (MB/sec), making the quickest [...]

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Last call: buy two tickets for the price of one to the UK’s new tech show

by Kenny Hemphill on 10 May 2011 in News
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The first London International Technology Show (LITS) takes place at the ExCEL exhibition venue in October. It’s backed by MacUser and our other technology titles at Dennis Publishing, and brings Mac-specific suppliers and seminars together with cross-platform peripherals, solutions and gadgets to create the leading event for Apple users.

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Apple admits to collecting location data but denies tracking users

by Kenny Hemphill on 28 April 2011 in News
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Apple has responded to criticism over the way the iPhone stores details of its location and copies the data to a Mac or PC.

In a statement on its website, the company said ‘Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so.’ The statement added that ‘The location data that researchers are seeing on the iPhone is not the past or present location of the iPhone, but rather the locations of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers surrounding the iPhone’s location, which can be more than one hundred miles away from the iPhone. We plan to cease backing up this cache in a software update coming soon.’

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Apple and Google to attend Senate hearing on mobile privacy

by Kenny Hemphill on 26 April 2011 in News

Apple and Google will answer questions about the way their mobile operating systems collect user data at a Senate sub-committee hearing on 10 May. Entitled ‘Protecting Your Mobile Privacy: Your Smartphones, Tablets, Cell Phones and Your Privacy,’ the meeting will be chaired by Democratic senator, Al Franken.

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