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Boeing’s Sonic Cruiser began its life almost a decade ago. At the end, its super-awesome supersonic design was replaced by the 787 Dreamliner’s super-boring super-quiet and super-efficient blueprint, which started construction in 2007. Many thought the project was cancelled, but apparently a secret team of Boeing engineers is still working on it.
That swanky surround-sound system might have eight point one channels, but you’ve got to be sitting at their precise focal point to get the full effect. This newly-filed Microsoft patent application will track listeners throughout the room and provide 3D audio regardless of their position.
Google CEO Larry Page took the stand in US federal court today to answer questions from über-lawyer David Boies — he of US DOJ v Microsoft, Bush v Gore and a bajillion other high profile cases — in a case that pits Oracle against Google. So how did it go?
It looks like Google has been making moves to lock down the intellectual property behind Project Glass. The company has been granted three patents that could give some clues about the guts behind the augmented reality specs, aside from the teaser that dropped earlier in the month.
Is there a light at the end of the clusterfrak of a tunnel that is the industry-wide patent wars? According to Foss Patents, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung’s chief Gee-sung Choi will supposedly meet in a San Francisco courtroom within the next 90 days to talk about a possible settlement.
Twitter is calling for an industry-wide armistice in the intellectual property wars. Today it announced the Innovator’s Patent Agreement (IPA), a pact that it will not use employees’ patents for offensive measures, but rather to protect itself when it is necessary.
The latest Apple patent to seep into public knowledge is one for new and improved earbuds. But instead of addressing the real issue — audio components — Apple is blaming its noisemakers’ woes on something entirely different: the multi-component design. Its solution: make em unibody-esque.
You probably don’t have the next Yelp on your hands, but you might have a killer idea with no clue how to get started. Apple wants to help you out. A new patent reveals that it could be cooking up an authoring tool that would let you build iOS apps, even if you don’t know how to code.
In an internal memo sent out this morning, AOL informed employees that it will sell 800 patents for $US1 billion to Microsoft. Translation: AOL is severing organs and handing them over to Microsoft for badly needed cash. Microsoft, in turn, walks away with an arsenal of patents it can use to fight critical battles with bigger foes down the road.
A new Apple patent discovered by AppleInsider shows plans for new product packaging and that though nice, is still pretty boring. What’s most relevant about the new packaging is that it may hint at future where iPhones and iPads would charge wirelessly.
