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January 2015
Qualcomm Officially exposes their loss of a Major Snapdragon Customer Rumored to be Samsung
New App Annie Report Reveals that Apple's App Store Trounced Google Play in Revenues this Past Year & Much More
Italy's Antitrust Authority Announced that Apple, Google and Amazon Agree to Change their "Freemium" App Models
Apple News Site TUAW is being rolled into Engadget
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Photos of Apple's New Store in China near Liberation Monument
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Apple Applies for "Works with Apple CarPlay" Trademark in the U.S.
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Apple has filed their First Apple Watch Related Trademarks in the U.S.
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Korea's Mobile Service Provider KT Feeds into iPhone Mania with a New Free iPhone 5S Deal
Apple Invents a Solution to Counter Clock Overdriving by Hackers
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Apple Invents a Superheterodyne Pen Stimulus Receiver to Overcome the Classic Stylus Latency Problem
Samsung's Mobile Division Profits Suffer another Major Plunge
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China has Adopted new Rules that Could Require Apple to Build Back Doors into their Mobile Products
Apple's iPhone Targeted in a Patent Lawsuit Filed by Rosetta Wireless
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Sony Partners with Spotify to Bring Music to 41 Markets Globally
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Samsung's Marketing Trickery Skews Chitika's Web Traffic Stats
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Today, the Tech World is in Awe of Apple's Historic Revenues
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Apple's iPhone 6 Mania Drove Apple to Historic Revenues
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USA Technologies Announces Support for Apple Pay at Nearly 200,000 Locations
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Apple Posts $74.6 Billion Revenue Fueled by All-Time Record Revenue from iPhone and Mac Sales
Historic Milestone for the iPhone: Ships more Smartphones in China than Xiaomi, Samsung and Huawei
Wall Street is Expecting iNormous Earnings from Apple Today
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CNBC Video: Apple is an Undervalued Growth Stock
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Apple Granted 34 Patents Today Covering Slide to Unlock Authentication, Movement Based User Interfaces & More
Apple Granted a Gaming Accessory Patent
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Samsung Engineers Race to Improve their Gear Smartwatch as Apple Watch Edges Closer to Market
Retailer: Apple Pay used 5 Times more than Competing Softcard
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Samsung's Propaganda Leads to War with Qualcomm
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Apple may have shipped more iPhones to China than U.S. in Q4
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Microsoft's Kinect Camera Could be used in another Crappy Product
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Samsung Invents Future Displays with Bendable Device Controls
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Apple Opened Store Number Fourteen in China Today
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Intel to Announce a New Stylus Alliance & Standards in February
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New Class Action Filed Against Apple over iTunes Radio
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Study: Apple's iPhone Web Traffic Domination State-by-State
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The iPhone 6 was the Top Smartphone in Taiwan for December
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A Microsoft Patent Surfaces at the U.S Patent Office with New Surface Hub Revelations
Yesterday Microsoft introduced the new Surface Hub for enterprise collaboration and meetings during their Windows 10 event. Microsoft noted that their new Surface Hub, as noted in the video above, would introduce Skype for the enterprise, be able to manipulate 3D CAM files using multitouch, use their Surface pen to make annotations and mark-up materials on screen and more. In yesterday's presentation Microsoft introduced two features or apps called "Meetings" and "Brainstorming." As the New Year began, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published one of Microsoft's patent applications covering the basics of their new Surface Hub interactive display that our Patently Mobile IP blog discovered today. The patent filing shows us some new customized gestures that the Surface Hub may introduce along with a few other interesting facts. While I'm sure that there will be a number of future patent filings on this invention over time, for today, the timing of this initial patent application on the Surface Hub couldn't have come at a better time.
Apple is the First U.S. Company Agreeing to have their Products Submitted to Chinese Authorities for Web Security Evaluations
Back in September we posted a report about Apple having to ensure China's Ministry that there were no hidden back doors to Apple's iOS 8 for the iPhone 6. The report noted that China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said it conducted "rigorous security testing" on the iPhone 6 and held talks with Apple on the issue, and that Apple shared with the ministry materials related to the potential security issues. We also posted a follow-up report titled "Apple's CEO Attended Top Level Meeting in China over Security." Just when we thought that this issue was over and done with, the Chinese-language Beijing News has opened the door all over again. Beijing News is reporting today that Apple's CEO Tim Cook had agreed to submit Apple products for web security evaluations by Chinese authorities. This was reportedly agreed to during a meeting between Tim Cook and Lu Wei, the chief of the General Office of the Central Leading Group for Internet Security and Information in December.
USPTO Publishes Apple Touch ID & Orientation Audio Patents
On January 22, 2015, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a series of three new Touch ID patent applications from Apple in addition to one that covers orientation based audio that Apple first revealed back in 2013.
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Apple Patent Reveals that Future iDevices may Adopt New Energy Efficient Radioluminescent or Photoluminescent Backlights
On January 22, 2015, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals their work on improving the technology related to iDevice backlight units. Apple's invention covers new backlight technology that could potentially allow for high power efficiency while avoiding excessive battery drain. While this isn't an exciting whiz-bang invention, saving power can be realistically appreciated by everyone using any Apple MacBook or iDevice.