Judge: Proview Can’t Sue Apple in California in iPad Trademark Battle
A California judge threw out Proview Electronics Co.’s lawsuit against Apple Inc. over the iPad trademark in China, the latest twist in the legal fight over the rightful owner of the tablet’s name. Judge Mark Pierce in the Superior Court of the State of California in Santa Clara County…
iPad Comes Standard With 2013 Cadillac XTS
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana The XTS is arguably the most important vehicle launch from Cadillac in the last few years, and to help owners get acclimated to its features including the all-new CUE infotainment system Caddy is providing owners of the 2013 model with an Apple iPad. The inclusion of the iPad…
WatchESPN iOS App Now Available for Comcast Customers
Comcast and Disney’s ESPN property said Tuesday that the WatchESPN app is now available to stream ESPN content to Comcast customers on tablets and on the Web. Unfortunately, the Comcast-ESPN partnership favors Apple, and its iPad and iPhone devices. Support for Android devices will be available in the “coming months,”…
Student to show off robotics, wind blades at Maine manufacturers gathering in …
OWL’S HEAD, Maine Teams of high school and middle school students will demonstrate their work with robotics and wind-blade design for hundreds of Maine manufacturers. The teams from South Portland, Farmington, Falmouth, Jay and Livermore Falls area will showcase their skills at the Manufacturers Association of Maine summit, which is…
iOS 5 Gadgets: Fun Toys That Can Mess With Enterprise Security
iOS 5 Gadgets: Fun Toys That Can Mess With Enterprise Security (Page 1 of 2 ) Apple’s latest update to iOS, iOS 5.1.1 fixes three serious security problems within the family of Mac personal gadgets, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Owners of these gadgets should make it a priority to apply the patch. Today’s patch,…
BlackBerry maker RIM hires new marketing, operations chiefs as it looks to …
Boulben, 45, served as executive vice president of strategy and marketing at LightSquared, a wireless company that has been struggling since U.S. regulators moved to kill its proposed nationwide broadband network. Boulben also held senior positions at wireless carriers Vodafone Group and Orange. Kristian Tear is the new chief operating…
All about the Apple HDTV rumored prototype
A mock-up of a prototype Apple HDTV, as shown on the Cult of Mac blog today.(Credit: Dan Draper Design for Cult of Mac) If a report from Cult of Mac this morning is true, we may have our first good sense of what Apple’s long-rumored and much-hyped HDTV looks…
Twitter plays outsize role in 2012 campaign
(at)BarackObama is on Twitter. So is (at)MittRomney. And so are all the voters following the 2012 presidential contest, whether they know it or not. Candidates, strategists, journalists and political junkies have all flocked to Twitter, the social networking hub where information from the mundane to the momentous is shared…
Vacuum robot talks 3 languages, plus witty dialect: ‘I’m cool and feeling good.’
TOKYO It looks just like iRobot’s Roomba vacuuming machine, except the new circular roaming vacuum cleaner from Sharp Corp. is trilingual, and even knows a hip humorous dialect. Cocorobo, which can also send photos taken from your home to your cell phone, says 36 phrases including “Long time no see” The…
Dish profit down 34 pct, but adds subscribers
Satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp. said Monday that it added subscribers in the first quarter, but net income dropped 34 percent and revenue growth fell short of Wall Street expectations. Shares fell $1.25, or 4 percent, to $30.07 in morning trading. The company’s profit dropped largely because the year-ago period got a boost…
