Stories by iPhoneinCanada.ca Staff
US Court Says Apple’s iPhone Infringes MobileMedia Patents on Screen Rotation
Bloomberg News dropped a bombshell today on Twitter, saying a US court has found that Apple's iPhone infringes three MobileMedia patents related to automatic screen rotation. (more…)
Amazon Wins EU eBooks Price-fixing Battle With Apple
European Union regulators handed Amazon a victory after accepting Apple’s and four other publisher's settlement offers to ease pricing restriction, thus marking the end of the antitrust probe into eBook prices, Reuters reports. (more…)
Samsung Executive At Work, Apple Fanboy At Home
In an interview published today by MIT Technology Review (Via The Verge), Samsung's chief strategy officer, Young Sohn, admits he uses Samsung products at work, but he is an Apple fanboy at home. (more…)
Eric Schmidt Says Google Has Won the Mobile War with Apple
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt sat down to talk about Android, Apple and the mobile market in a Bloomberg interview. Based on the most recent market studies, Schmidt rushed to compare Android's position to Microsoft's expansion in desktop software back in the 1990s. (more…)
Analyst: Apple TV To Come in 2014 (Or the Next Three Years)
Apple will present its television set in 2014, said Marc Andreessen (Via BusinessInsider), adding his voice the the hype around the Apple iTV. (more…)
Astrid – Checklists With Friends [Review]
A first glance, you might think Astrid is just a checklist app like Reminders. And it pretty much is plus the option to share checklists. If you've used Reminders, then making and adding checklists and tasks in Astrid will be very familiar. What will be new is sharing them with friends and family also using...
Analyst: Apple Interested in Buying TomTom
Apple may take over TomTom, the Dutch supplier of navigation apps, at least according to a Rabobank International analyst who claims he has knowledge about a takeover bid, Bloomberg reports. (more…)
Qualcomm Says Apple ‘Should Be Embarrassed’ By Some of Its Actions
For the first time (just after Samsung, obviously, but that's a bit different story), an Apple supplier not only disagreed with Apple on several FRAND questions, but also openly attacked it in an official document. Yeah, it's Qualcomm, Apple's baseband chip manufacturer. (more…)
Rovio Announces John Cohen to Produce Angry Birds Movie
The third anniversary of the release of Angry Birds comes with some juicy updates: an Angry Birds movie announced for 2016, and Angry Birds 3.0 in the App Store, a free update for those who had already paid for the original 99-cent game. (more…)
Apple Faces Lawsuit for Using a Polaroid Patent
Digitech Image Technologies has filed a lawsuit claiming Apple is violating a powerful Polaroid patent -- the one that beat Kodak in court in 1986 regarding the “instant camera” -- now in the ownership of the Newport Beach California-based company, Patently Apple reports. (more…)
Analyst Survey: Americans Would Buy 13 Million iTVs at $1,060 Each
With the holiday season just a couple weeks away, there's much talk about Apple's possible television set. Some, such as Gene Munster, say it is highly likely to arrive next year for the holiday season, while others, such as former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gasée, say it isn't likely. Morgan Stanley surveyed Americans (Fortune) to find...
RHA MA450i In-Ear Headphones [Review]
There's lots of headphones out there. Over-ear, on-ear, various ear bud styles, and of course in-ear. If your preference falls to the latter, or if you've been considering a switch, RHA may have something to interest you. The MA450i in-ear headphones. Based in Glasgow, UK, RHA produces several headphone models, including the SA950i which we...