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Daily Update for February 28, 2012

by Steven Sande (Feb 28th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires ...

PanoMap sues Google, Apple over street view

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 28th, 2012)

Apple and Google are unlikely bedfellows in a legal dispute surrounding Google's Street View technology. The mapping technology presents a 3D view of a road using Google Maps on iOS and Android devices. It's tremendously useful when you need to pinpoint a location and view the surrounding ...

Apple's iPad event announcement cuts into Schmidt's MWC Android groove

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 28th, 2012)

Apple's mastery of timing is impeccable. This morning, I was listening to Eric Schmidt ramble on about Android and Google during his Mobile World Congress keynote. As someone who follows technology, I found his talk mildly intriguing, until the iPad 3 invites began pouring out. Right then, Schmidt ...

A Navigon update will soon offer street level views

by Mel Martin (Feb 27th, 2012)

Google Street View is coming to Navigon iOS apps. The app will pop up a street-level view as you arrive at your destination so you can, for example, identify a particular building that is your destination. That should be of significant help when you are heading to an unfamiliar area. Navigon was ...

Google makes Flight Search iOS (and Siri) friendly

by Steven Sande (Feb 22nd, 2012)

In September of 2011, Google introduced its Flight Search service. The service provides information on upcoming flights to specific destinations, providing schedule, price, and airline information. Now Flight Search has become iOS-friendly, perfect for those who want to check on flight availability ...

Google explains how and why Safari privacy settings were circumvented

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 17th, 2012)

In response to a Wall Street Journal report claiming that Google bypassed Safari privacy settings to track ads on both Apple computers and iOS devices, the company released a statement today from Rachel Whetstone, SVP of Communications and Public Policy. The search giant contends that the ...

Apple wins injunction against several of Motorola's slide-to-unlock implementations in Germany

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 17th, 2012)

A German Court handed Apple a significant victory over Motorola this week. The Munich I Regional Court ruled that Motorola's handsets infringe on Apple's slide-to-unlock image patent. The patent describes a method of "unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image." A previous ruling ...

Google allegedly bypassed privacy settings to track user browsing in Safari

by Chris Rawson (Feb 17th, 2012)

The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has been bypassing privacy settings in Safari intended to block websites from tracking user activity across the Internet. Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer discovered that Google had been implementing code that bypasses Safari's user-determined privacy ...

US Dept. of Justice approves Apple's purchases of Nortel, Novell patents

by Steven Sande (Feb 14th, 2012)

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division closed its investigations into three major acquisitions that were pending, opening the door to completion of these acquisitions by the companies involved. For Apple, the acquisition of patents from Nortel Networks Corporation and Novell ...

Google after 2.25% of every iPhone sale

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 9th, 2012)

Google is in the process of acquiring Motorola and its 17,000 patents. Everyone from analysts to tech pundits are wondering if the search company will adopt the handset maker's aggressive patent litigation strategy. Legal experts criticize Motorola for violating the terms of FRAND, which requires ...

Daily Update for February 6, 2012

by Steven Sande (Feb 6th, 2012)

Google reportedly hires Apple executive to work on secret project

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 6th, 2012)

Simon Prakash, an Apple veteran with eight years of service, has left the Cupertino company to join its rival Google. Prakash most recently served as the senior director of product integrity and was responsible for product quality across all Apple product lines. According to his LinkedIn profile, ...

Motorola after an injunction against iPhone 4S, iCloud

by Chris Rawson (Jan 25th, 2012)

Motorola has filed a new patent suit against Apple and now seeks an injunction against both the iPhone 4S and iCloud. FOSS Patents notes that the terms of Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola stipulate that Motorola can't initiate new intellectual property suits without Google's approval; ...

iPhone 5, Steve Jobs and iPad 2 among Google's top searches of 2011

by Steven Sande (Dec 15th, 2011)

Apple is a common topic in the proliferation of 2011 retrospectives that are inevitably being published this month. The latest comes from Google's Zeitgeist 2011, a look at the 2011's fastest-rising worldwide searches. The iPhone 5 (AKA the iPhone 4S), Steve Jobs, and the iPad 2 all jumped up ...

Apple among 10 best companies to work for

by Steven Sande (Dec 15th, 2011)

Despite the tendency for Apple's retail employees to gripe about working conditions, the company took the number 10 spot in Glassdoor.com's list of the 10 best companies to work for. Glassdoor ranks 65,000 firms annually based on anonymous ratings from employees. This year, Apple went from ...