It's Time For Apple To Stop Patent Trolling 
If Apple Wins We All Lose 
HTC Android Phones Could Be Banned From The US Next Year 
Apple's Appeal Rejected, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 On Sale By Christmas Samsung Wins Tablet Appeal Against Apple - Injunction Overturned 
Samsung Just Changed The Galaxy Tab's Design 
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.
HTC has been awarded a patent for a technology that would let you unlock your smartphone or tablet with your face. However, Face Unlock is already a feature on Android that first appeared on Ice Cream Sandwich. Does this mean a war is brewing among the Android crowd?
We’re getting to the point where 3D is about as likely as Dippin’ Dots to be the future. And for all of its clumsy, forced iterations, there’s maybe nowhere that third dimension has been less successful than in phones. This recently discovered Apple patent indicates that Cupertino’s either going to cure all our 3D headaches with a better system, or taint one of our favourite gadgets with its crushing pointlessness.
The Patent Wars have been going on for so long that you start to forget why we’re here. Who shot first — Apple? Samsung? Greedo? Paul M. Barrett at Businessweek has a great rundown on how we got here, and why everything stems back to Apple’s crusade against Android.
The Pull to Refresh action is a common gesture for mobile apps — used by the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Tweetbot, and Sparrow for a variety of commands. It may soon be a lot less common if the USPTO grants Twitter’s patent request.
On Thursday, Kotaku Australia editor Mark Serrels stumbled upon an Australian patent, filed by Microsoft, entitled “Automatic text scrolling on a head-mounted display”. At first, Mark probably thought it had something to do with an earlier story, published Tuesday, regarding another patent from the software giant for a gaming device made up of glasses and a helmet. Upon further investigation, however, it became clear that the new patent was for something entirely different and, even stranger, had only been filed in Australia.
Whatever you think about the way Google handles privacy these days, the course it’s on mandates that to offer better, more futuristic services, it’s got to gather more information. And one way Google’s considered is actually listening to your calls for audio clues about where you are and what you need.
I bet when you’re texting with friends you like to drop a :-) or maybe a ;-). If you’re really up on your game, it’s possible you toss in a (^_^). And because RIM and Samsung decided to include a quick-access key for these wonderful digital creations on their smartphones, some soulless patent trolls got all >:-O about it and are taking the companies to court.
You may just think of Yahoo as a crumbling facade vomiting money, talent and resources, ruining all of its most prestigious assets. (See: Flickr, Delicious, etc.) But, worse, it’s now trying to murder-suicide the web.
