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The Apple v. Samsung patent trial of the century has cooled off a bit since the hits poured out last week, but a few choice items continue to emerge from San Jose, California. Samsung argued earlier this week that whether or not its Galaxy tablets made use of Apple’s protected technology and designs, that IP Continue Reading →

There’s no denying that the iPad mini is the Apple product rumor of 2012, and the latest batch of hearsay narrows down the form factor of the purported tablet. 9to5Mac received word from unnamed sources that the mini will “look like a large iPod touch” with thin vertical bezels. In a later post, the site Continue Reading →

Social networking start-up Pinterest has rolled out versions of its service for Android-based smartphones and for the iPad, its latest move to boost its appeal to a broader audience. An online scrapbook where users can “pin” images and share them with others, Pinterest has grown to about 23 million users in July from about one Continue Reading →

Windows RT – based on Windows 8 – is the first desktop operating from Microsoft that has been developed from the ground up for touch-screen devices i.e. tablets. It replaces the traditional desktop interface in favor of a Windows Phone-like start screen, made for touch-input apps, a Windows Store for downloading them, multi-touch gestures and Continue Reading →

Google on Wednesday announced that it will be updating its Search application for the iPhone and iPad. The new version of Google Search will include the company’s enhanced voice functionality, which is similar to the service it offers in the latest version of Android. Performance on iOS should identical to the performance seen in Jelly Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120809_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Mobile payment company Square has made a deal to process payments at Starbucks’ thousands of US locations beginning this fall. The coffee chain will also invest $25 million in Square. The deal is a big win for the two-year old company, which was started by Twitter co-founder Continue Reading →

Apple is beefing up security for resetting user passwords after a journalist wrote about a hack affecting his personal data, highlighting possible weaknesses in the system protecting more than 400 million user accounts. The company is temporarily suspending the ability to reset AppleID passwords over the phone while it takes steps to make the procedure Continue Reading →

It’s official: people really do like their tablets. The latest survey of around 6,000 tablet users from comScore found that tablet users on the whole are more satisfied with their tablets than with smartphones, and that Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle Fire score particularly high among owners. ComScore asked participants to rank their satisfaction with Continue Reading →

Apple is in the midst of a jury trial that accuses rival Samsung of infringing its patents and trademarks on its iPhone and iPad products in creating and marketing the Galaxy devices. The trial continues this week after a San Francisco jury heard testimony from top Apple executives about the making and marketing of the Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120808_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] When we talk about hackers, the image that comes to mind is often of secretive computer geniuses hiding somewhere where they can’t be traced. But sometimes hacking takes little digital skill. Recently, Wired writer Mat Honan had nearly his entire digital life destroyed by hackers who were Continue Reading →