Reports have been swirling that Apple plans to ban screen protectors from its brick and mortar retail stores, but for the time being, the items seem to be plentiful throughout many store locations. Several Apple Stores we contacted Thursday afternoon assured Ars that there were currently “plenty” of screen protectors in stock, and did not indicate that this would change anytime soon
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Apple Stores still selling screen protectors, but not for long
Apple both? publicly ?and? privately ?warned smartphone makers that it wouldn’t tolerate its intellectual property being infringed upon, and the company made its first move against Taiwan-based HTC earlier this month with a federal lawsuit and a complaint to the International Trade Commission .
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HTC: we’re ready for a big fight with Apple
They’re easily missed about the mass of Apple patent applications revealed each year, but the company has filed a few regarding projectors (pico projectors, specifically), and the latest one to be published has now offered a few more details on how they might all fit together. That application boasts the rather broad title of “projector system and methods,” and basically describes a setup that would let various devices (including a laptop or phone) remotely interact with a projector, which could itself be built into a device like a phone. To do that, each device in question would be equipped with a sensor of some sort that would be able to receive data from the projector, and even allow you to do fairly advanced things like calibrate the projector remotely
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Apple patent application offers more evidence of projector plans
Filed under: Apple Corporate [Apple has updated its home page with the tribute above.] Apple board member Jerome York died today after reportedly suffering a brain aneurysm on Wednesday. York, 71, has been on Apple’s Board of Directors since 1997.
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Apple board member Jerome York passes away
Filed under: Developer , App Store , SDK Back in the bad old days of the App Store , it was anybody’s guess when a submitted app might get blessed by Apple and show up in iTunes. It might be three days, three weeks, three months, or never. Recent improvements in the approval process have brought that time period down to a matter of hours — but until now, there’s been no way to schedule release dates for apps.
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iTunesConnect now allows automated release dates, price changes
Mobile computing has taken over as the main driver of growth in PC sales for the past year, with notebooks overtaking desktops in late 2008 and sales of desktops declining for the last two years.
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iMacs expected to boost desktop market growth in 2010
The PlayStation Move was just announced, but Sony is wasting no time before going on the attack. The newest—not to mention first—advertisement for the peripheral makes fun of the Nintendo Wii, attacks Microsoft’s Project Natal, and basically buries the entire message under a thick layer of smarm with a side order of smug
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PlayStation Move ad mocks Natal, attacks Nintendo Wii
Google is continuing its quiet war on Microsoft Office by making it easier for users to switch from Exchange to Google Apps for e-mail.
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Google intros Exchange migration tool for small businesses
