Apple loses bid for injunction against Amazon
by Steven Musil A federal judge has denied Apple’s request to immediately stop Amazon from using the term “Appstore” to describe its digital downloads storefront. In an 18-page opinion filed today with the U.S. District Court for Northern California, Judge Phyllis Hamilton denied Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction preventing Amazon’s use of the term, which [...]
Augmented reality comes to mobile phones
by Marguerite Reardon If you thought location-aware search and other mobile mapping technologies were cool, hold onto your hat. A new wave of innovation in the mobile market will bring augmented reality to smartphones, allowing users to interact virtually with their surroundings. Qualcomm has worked with toy maker Mattel to demonstrate the power of augmented-reality [...]
Apple loosens its chokehold on app development
By Stacy Cowley NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Apple is loosening its grip on its app development for its mobile devices, announcing Thursday that it will drop restrictions on what programming tools developers can use to create iOS apps. The company also dropped a ban on certain in-application ad serving tools that had effectively cut off Google’s [...]
Velocity Cruz Android Tablet: 7-Inch Display, $300
By Charlie Sorrel Until now, the iPad has faced almost no competition. Soon, though, the Android and WebOS tablets will start to ship in bulk, and things may change. Amongst the first will be Velocity Micro’s Cruz lineup, which brings a wide-screen (16:9) tablet running Google’s Android OS for just $300. It’s not the first [...]
Apple’s iPhone to Verizon: A look at the fallout
Posted by Larry Dignan Should Apple’s iPhone head to Verizon Wireless the competitive landscape shifts and there will be multiple ripple effects on rival handset makers. The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple plans to make an iPhone that will work with Verizon’s CDMA network. The move would more than double Apple’s addressable market for [...]
Apple Beware: Dell (With A Little Help From Amazon and Google) is Taking on iTunes
By Eliot Van Buskirk The formidable triumvirate of Amazon, Dell, and Google is apparently poised to give iTunes the first serious run for its money just as the iPad is about to take Apple’s downloadable media megastore where no computer has gone before. Engadget has posted two slides that appear to come from a Dell [...]