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ITC nixes Apple’s Request to stay Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 ban during patent conflict

Sometimes your legal team can’t get everything it wants. Following up on Tuesday’s story about the International Trade Commission (ITC) blocking sales of the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 due to patent discrepancies between Apple and Masimo, the ITC has officially denied one of Appleā€™s last-ditch attempts to halt the looming […]

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Hacker group claims iPhone X Face ID feature can be fooled with mask technique

It’s been noted that Apple’s the iPhone X’s Face ID feature can be fooled by an identical twin. Now it looks like a mask might do the trick as well. On Friday, Vietnamese security firm Bkav released a blog post and video showing thatā€”by all appearancesā€”they’d cracked Face ID with a composite mask of 3-D-printed […]

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Judge orders Typo to pay $860,000 fine to BlackBerry for injunction regarding keyboard case

This is a win for BlackBerry, which is kind of rare these days. Also, if a federal judge orders an injunction against you, you should probably obey the injunction. On Wednesday, a federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Typo Products owes BlackBerry more than US$860,000 for violating an injunction barring sales of its original iPhone […]

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A win/lose for Apple against Samsung

One has to wonder how long Apple and Samsung will be at each other’s legal throats as yet another judgement has been reached in the patent battle that started in early 2011. I was not really surprised to find that there is actually a Wikipedia article about it, which can bring you up to speed […]

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AT&T ends T-Mobile acquisition effort

Sometimes you’ve just gotta throw in the towel. Per AppleInsider, AT&T has given up its efforts to buy carrier T-Mobile, citing opposition from federal regulators. A statement by AT&T says the company will take a pretax charge of US$4 billion that was stipulated in the agreement between the two carriers if the deal were dropped […]