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Briefly: Apple Applies for “Cocoa Touch” Trademark

On Monday, Apple filed a trademark applications for “Cocoa Touch”, the software toolset that was publicly unveiled at WWDC ‘08 in June.
Cocoa Touch allow 3rd party developers to access the iPhone and iPod Touch’s revolutionary Multi-Touch and accelerometer features included in the iPhone SDK Beta Version 2.0 released in March.
Apple has filed with [...]

Apple’s Multi-touch Tablet Techniques Outlined in Company Filing?

AppleInsider claims to have discovered a new company filing, where Apple Inc. showcases a slew of techniques that would enable a revolutionary tablet Mac to run a full version of Mac OS X, as well as be controlled by a full-sized multi-touch keyboard.

Several examples from the filing, which lists Apple industrial design chief Jonathan Ive [...]

Apple Files Trademark for Leopard System Preferences Logo/Icon

Yesterday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published Apple’s trademark application for its System Preferences logo.

The filing (#77535337) is a TEAS Plus Application under class 009 (computer Software for managing user system settings and preferences). The logo, used in all recent versions of Apple computer dock’s in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, is shown [...]

More Fuel for the iPhone Nano Fire

As we reported on August 3rd, the UK’s Daily Mail Online had gone on record after speaking with an industry source, claiming that Apple will unveil an “iPhone nano” in time for the holiday season for the pay-as-you-go market of O2 telecommunications. In Lehman Brother analyst Ben Reitzes’ August 5th research report, he observes that [...]

Apple Patent Application Reveals Add-On Broadcasting

A new patent application may be hinting at Apple’s interest in supporting iPod and iPhone add-on accessories capable of streaming audio and video.

Attaching directly to a device, the accessory will be able to receive transmitted signals including AM,FM,HD or satellite radio, TV standards such as cable, satellite, over-the-air or IPTV. via iPodNN.
The add-ons have been [...]

Apple Patent Application may be Hinting at Flash Support

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has recently released a sizable document detailing “Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics”. While patent #20080174570 contains vast amounts of information, one particular section may hint at Flash support on the iPhone, a feature that many have been [...]

New Patent: Apple to give language lessons.

For all of the innovation and practicality of the multi-touch user interface for the iPhone, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, the current gestures may still seem a bit limited. After all there are but so many gestures that you can currently use including zoom, rotate, scroll/browse, pinch, pan around, …etc.
Yet a recent patent [...]