Congress isn’t ready to regulate Facebook, but it wants to
StandardFacebook’s CEO was told testifying before Congress was a make-or-break moment. While he escaped unscathed, Congress still wants to act.
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Recycled guns give these headphones heft and a cause
StandardConcerned about gun violence? So is the Swedish company Yevo, which is doing something about it.
Digital detoxing is a thing. Really
StandardStressed? Can’t sleep? It might be time for some R&R off the grid.
Chicago maps its underground maze
StandardThe Windy City‘s smart city efforts include scanning its vast network of pipes. Mayor Rahm Emanuel sees an opportunity to focus on the future.
These smart cities in Italy put Silicon Valley to shame
StandardThe city of the future could help you find parking, detect potholes and keep you healthier. Sicily’s showing the world it can be done on a shoestring budget.
Apple Plans to Ship Less-Expensive iPhone to China Mobile
StandardBy Daisuke Wakabayashi, Lorraine Luk, Ian Sherr and Paul Mozur Apple Inc. is preparing to ship iPhones to China Mobile Ltd. , people familiar with the matter say, an arrangement that would significantly increase Apple’s distribution in the world’s biggest smartphone market. A deal would cap years of negotiations between the two companies. Apple has tried…
Hardware Startups Look to Tap Overseas Markets
StandardBay Area hardware startups are accelerating plans to sell their products overseas, seeking new opportunities for growth after seeing unexpectedly strong international demand.
Apple Makes a Wrong Turn as Users Blast Map Switch
StandardApple Inc.’s move to replace Google Inc.’s mapping software with its own on its mobile devices sparked a world-wide consumer backlash, marking a rare strategic blunder by a company more accustomed to rave reviews from users.
As Apple prepped its stores for the first sales of the iPhone 5 on Friday, the company faced vociferous complaints from consumers over the mapping application it released this week, which replaces the Google maps that have been part of the iPhone since the device’s initial 2007 release. The new maps come installed on the iPhone 5 and will be seen by other users who upgrade their iPhones and iPads to the company’s latest iOS 6 mobile operating system.
Price of the iPad Name: $55,000 to $2 Billion
StandardWhat’s in a name like iPad?
Apple Inc. agreed to pay Proview International Holdings Ltd. £35,000 ($55,494 at current exchange rates) for the iPad trademark, according to a cache of documents that includes emails and a contract detailing an agreement between the two companies.
The newly unearthed documents come as Apple has been battling Proview over whether it purchased rights to the iPad name from Proview in 2009—a key issue in a dispute between the companies.
Proview defended its claims to the trademark in China, and suggested on Friday that the company could be due as much as $2 billion from Apple.
Apple Asked Standards Body to Set Rules for Essential Patents
StandardSAN FRANCISCO—Apple Inc. has asked a telecommunications standards body to set basic principles governing how member companies license their patents, an increasingly contentious topic for rivals in the smartphone industry.
In a letter to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Apple said the telecommunications industry lacks consistent licensing schemes for the many patents necessary to make mobile devices, and offered suggestions for setting appropriate royalty rates that all members would follow.
Many mobile technology companies, such as Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., hold patents that became part of industrywide standards. Standards bodies often require the patent holders to offer to license their patents to any company on a basis known as Frand, or fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory. Questions about such commitments have arisen amid a flurry of patent suits between rivals in the mobile-device market.