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Atari, EA and others push court to accept Apple's request against Lodsys

by Mike Schramm (Aug 11th, 2011)

Lodsys filed suit earlier this year against a number of third-party App Store developers, claiming that it owned patents covering a number of functions used by Apple's app marketplace, and that by using that store, these third-party devs were in violation of these patents. Apple, however, came ...

European Union closes Apple investigation

by Mel Martin (Sep 26th, 2010)

I think we can call this one "saved by a policy change." Earlier this month, Apple changed its rules and is now allowing developers to use third-party tools for creating apps for iOS devices. In a statement released this weekend, the EU said it welcomed Apple's changed policies, and that the ...

Coming soon: StarCraft 2 controlled with your iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Aug 30th, 2010)

I like this idea a lot -- developer Daniel Hellerman is working on an app for the App Store that will interface with a Windows client to control Blizzard's StarCraft 2 real-time strategy game. The RTS Gameboard for StarCraft 2 is an app, downloadable starting in September on the App Store (assuming ...

Aluminum MacBooks unstable after 3rd-party RAM upgrade

by Aron Trimble (Dec 7th, 2008)

Lucky enough to have purchased one of those shiny new unibody MacBooks? If you happen to be in the market for a RAM upgrade you may want to hold off for a little while. It seems the latest MacBooks are a little more fickle about the RAM they support than previous models. Users on the Apple Support ...

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