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Apple Stacks Sandbags Against Cover Flow Damages

in News on October 4, 2010 at 9:45 am PT

Cover Flow, the animated GUI Apple uses to display content in iTunes and Time Machine, is causing the company some legal and financial woes. Last week a U.S. District Court in East Texas ordered Apple to pay as much as $625.5 million in damages to Mirror Worlds, which sued it alleging Cover Flow violated a series of patents.

Bing: Now With Visual Search

in News on September 14, 2009 at 11:11 am PT

Hoping to further differentiate its new Bing search engine from market leader Google, Microsoft is moving away from the proverbial “10 blue links” we so often associate with the search experience. During a presentation at the TechCrunch 50 event in San Francisco, the company announced Bing Visual Search, a Silverlight-based feature that replaces those links with images.
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New Safari Browser Succeeds at Speed, Flops on Features

in Personal Technology on March 4, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

Walt reviews the latest version of Apple’s Safari browser, which hopes to overtake rival browsers Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

Apple’s iPod Touch Can Act as Remote For Music System

in Personal Technology on August 27, 2008 at 6:34 pm PT

With an iPhone or iPod Touch, Apple’s new program Remote can convert an MP3 player into a sophisticated remote control for digital-music collections.