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What's the speed record in creating a biopic from idea to 80 minute final cut? Well, 8 weeks – according to what Ryan Perez, the writer and director of iSteve, told Fast Company. This obviously leads to inaccuracies, but Perez encourages the audience to catch and note them. (more…)

U.S. District Judge Robert Scola says Apple and Google's Motorola Mobility unit aren't interested in resolving patent litigation, but use it as business strategy, Bloomberg reports. (more…)

We have reported about a couple flexible display patents Apple was granted, which of course suggested that the company has been investigating methods of implementing flexible displays in its upcoming products. But today Apple has posted a job listing that reaffirms the company is indeed considering incorporating flexible displays (via 9to5Mac): (more…)

British architect Norman Foster's architecture firm Foster + Partners is reported to redesign Apple's retail stores worldwide (via Pocket-Lint). For those who aren't aware, the company is known for designing architectural marvels like the World Trade Center and jaw-dropping McLaren Technology Centre, among others. Apple, who managed to trademark its retail outlet design in January this year, traditionally works with architecture firm 8...

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has reached a licensing agreement worth 1 billion yen i.e $10 million U.S. with a Japanese firm that owns patents originally created by Palm and PalmSource, the developers of Palm OS PDA operating system. Other patents included in the deal were created by Bell Communications Research and Geoworks. PalmSource, the company who created...

Steve Jobs' life has already inspired three movies -- two already done, and one just getting started. What about other performing arts? Turns out, Jobs' genius has inspired a composer and theatre director to stage an opera entitled Steve V (King Different). According to information obtained by the Lyon-based French site Mac Generation, Roland Auzet,...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded a new patent to Apple for "On-device offline purchases using credits", which according to AppleInsider, is an offline purchasing system that would allow iTunes users to buy music, movies and other media when not connected to the internet. The system details purchase of offline credits which would be stored on...

The name Lodsys became known to developers -- especially to those using in-app purchases -- in 2011, when the patent troll went after them demanding more than one-half percent of their revenue. (more…)

Spotted by AppleInsider, a new job listing posted by Apple in the city of Melbourne, Florida, seems to indicate that the company may be looking for a software engineer to join its team of fingerprint sensor engineers from AuthenTec, a fingerprint sensor chips making company which Apple acquired last year for $356 million. The listing seeks a candidate who will work...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has initially denied Apple's application for a trademark on the term "iPad mini", but there was a happy ending for Apple: the office has withdrawn its primary objections to the trademark. (more…)

Apple's iPhone naming pattern isn't up to the company's standards for simplicity and clear message delivery and it confuses consumers – or so says Ken Segall, a creative director who has a long history with Apple and NeXT. (more…)

Apple's long rumoured 'iRadio' music streaming service, which may be introduced as early as this summer, may prove to be more profitable for major music labels than Pandora. According to a CNET report, Apple is getting closer to finalizing a deal with at least two major music labels in order to bring to life its much...