Apple’s patent filings provide a glimpse into the past, present, and maybe future of its products and how they work. On last Thursday, the US Patent And Trademark Office published that Apple has patented auto-correct functionality, GarageBand and camera imaging technology.
Apple regularly keeps shipping out new updates for its OS. Especially, these updates are first rolled out to the developers to gain their valuable feedback on it. Now, the company has released a new update for Mountain Lion Developer Preview 4. The update is available to the developers via Mac App Store.
Apple has been after a number of HTC devices over alleged patent infringements. HTC devices a work around this by trying to modify its devices shipped to the U.S. market. However, Apple is back now, seeking ban of a total of 29 HTC devices in the U.S. market. The patent that Apple alleges is infringed by these devices is 647 data tapping patent.
Apple has a knack of filing patents and bagging them even when it has no intents of using a technology in the near future. In fact, many Apple patents don’t see the light of the day and remain just patents. Nonetheless, this can be deemed the company’s strategy to guard its intellectual property rights.
Apple has released a new ‘Podcasts app’ for the iOS Devices. With this app you can connect to your favorite podcasts from iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Apple podcasts app highlight the podcast player and podcast section in the iTunes Store. This Podcasts App can playback thousands of audio and video podcasts which are freely available. Checkout the features below.
Apple has just announced that its iTunes Store has been launched in twelve new Asian countries. From today, users in those countries can access the incredible of local and international music and movie library from all the major labels and thousands of independent labels. By using iTunes, Apple customers can download songs from a library of over 20 million songs and rent or purchase movies from major studios including 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures etc.
Apple is continuously expanding its data center infrastructure to support its growing cloud operations. The company is planning to invest a huge amount over the next 10 years to build a data center at a new technology park near Reno, Nevada. The data center project is part of a development plan in which the company will also build a purchasing center in downtown Reno. This will likely be Apple’s second major data center, following the construction of its largest data center in North Carolina.
Yesterday Apple pushed iOS 6.0 Beta 2 OTA for developers via OTA(Over The Air) update. Reportedly its around 300MB update via OTA, so a lot of things seems changed or fixed. Here we have detail changelog.