graphical user interface

Essay: Jobs’s Departure as CEO of Apple Is the End of an Extraordinary Era

Walt Mossberg in Mossblog on August 24, 2011 at 6:18 pm PT

Why the day Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple isn’t like the day a typical CEO resigns.

Check Out PARC's 40th Anniversary Doings

Kara Swisher in News on October 8, 2010 at 8:32 am PT

Recently, there was an event in Silicon Valley to celebrate the 40th anniversary of PARC, the pioneering research facility that birthed a lot of tech’s most potent innovations. Ever heard of laser printing or Ethernet networking or the graphical user interface? Yes, that and much more.

Full D8 Interview Video: HTC CEO Peter Chou

Kara Swisher in D8 on July 22, 2010 at 12:44 pm PT

As promised, All Things Digital is posting the full videos from our eighth D: All Things Digital conference, held in early June. Here’s Walt Mossberg’s interview with HTC CEO Peter Chou, who has transformed HTC from a contract handset manufacturer into a smartphone powerhouse. Big enough, in fact, to get in a very big legal fight with Apple.

Apple Expands HTC Lawsuit

John Paczkowski in Mobile on June 23, 2010 at 7:30 am PT

In early March, Apple filed a suit against HTC alleging infringement of 20 patents related to the iPhone’s graphical user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. Now, it appears the company has circled back to sue HTC again.

HTC CEO Peter Chou Live at D8

John Paczkowski in D8 on June 3, 2010 at 11:54 am PT

HTC, a company which once built devices for other brands, is today a powerful brand itself. And CEO Peter Chou is largely responsible for that. Over the past few years, he has transformed HTC from a contract handset manufacturer into a smartphone powerhouse, a company that ranks behind only Nokia, Research in Motion and Apple in global smartphone shipments.

One Obvious Question for HTC CEO Peter Chou at D8: How About Them Apple (Patents)?

Kara Swisher in D8 on March 3, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Before Apple lobbed a patent infringement lawsuit at Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC yesterday, we were lucky to get its CEO, Peter Chou, to agree to appear at the eighth D: All Things Digital conference to talk about its work making smartphones for Google and others. That interview obviously got a whole lot more interesting with the epic legal action by Apple alleging that HTC infringed some 20 patents related to the iPhone’s graphical user interface, underlying architecture and hardware.

One Obvious Question for HTC CEO Peter Chou at D8: How About Them Apple (Patents)?

Kara Swisher in News on March 3, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Before Apple lobbed a patent infringement lawsuit at Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC yesterday, we were lucky to get its CEO, Peter Chou, to agree to appear at the eighth D: All Things Digital conference to talk about its work making smartphones for Google and others. That interview obviously got a whole lot more interesting with the epic legal action by Apple alleging that HTC infringed some 20 patents related to the iPhone’s graphical user interface, underlying architecture and hardware.

Apple: At My Signal, Unleash Hell …

John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 2, 2010 at 6:30 am PT

And there it is. Apple has filed suit against HTC, the manufacturer of a number of smartphones running Google’s Android OS, claiming the company infringed some 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone’s graphical user interface, underlying architecture and hardware.

Apple Awarded Patent on Palm Pre Gesture Area?

John Paczkowski in News on January 27, 2009 at 8:12 am PT

Turns out that when Apple COO Tim Cook said the company would use “whatever weapons we have at our disposal” to pursue anyone who “rips off” Apple’s iPhone intellectual property, he had a very specific weapon in mind: United States Patent #7,479,949. Awarded just days before Cook made that statement, the vast 358-page patent describes the touchscreen, graphical user interface and technologies that define the iPhone user experience, including at least one that may define an element of the Palm Pre’s as well.