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Court upholds Apple victory in Cover Flow, Spotlight, Time Machine patents

by Mike Schramm (Sep 5th, 2012)

An appeals court in Washington has upheld a recent Apple victory on a number of different patents for features in the OS X operating system, including things like Cover Flow, Spotlight search and Time Machine. A company called Mirror Worlds is trying to get a judgment that Apple infringed on ...

Judge denies Apple's bid to move Kodak suit to new court

by Mike Schramm (Jul 30th, 2012)

Apple has suffered another setback in its attempts to stop the bankrupt Kodak from auctioning off a series of patents. After Apple's previous attempt to stop the auction wholesale failed, the company appealed to try to move the case from bankruptcy court to a local district court, which Apple ...

Atari Dev Challenge finalists announced, voting now open

by Mike Schramm (Jun 26th, 2012)

Atari has announced the finalists in its ongoing dev challenge contest, in which developers from around the Internet have pitched updates to the classic Pong game for the iOS and Android App Stores, with the winners to be published and rev-shared by Atari itself. All of those finalists look ...

Time Warner goes to court over iPad streaming app

by Mike Schramm (Apr 7th, 2011)

And they're off! I thought it was weird that Time Warner was pushing so hard to get streaming cable channels on its new iPad app, but apparently it's ready to back up that stance. The company has just dropped a request for a declaratory judgement on a US District Court, asking the courts to ...

Leaf Trombone out now in the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Apr 16th, 2009)

I've been down on the fine folks at Smule in the past -- I've said that their app Ocarina seems kind of silly (even if people have created some pretty awesome stuff with it and other less annoying music apps). And about the only thing they could have done to make it up to me was to develop some ...