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Jury rules in Apple’s favor, Samsung ordered to pay $1.05 billion fine for patent infringement

It went on for months, it got about as ugly as a legal case could possibly get, but in the end, the jury mostly sided with Apple. Per Wired and Mac|Life, the verdict came in on Friday with Samsung being ordered to pay US$1.05 billion in damages for violating Apple’s patents for its iPad tablet […]

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Adobe releases Flash Player 11.2.202.221 release candidate

Late Wednesday, Adobe released its Flash Player 11.1.102.62 release candidate for Mac OS X. The update, a 10.7 megabyte download via MacUpdate, includes the following fixes and changes: – Multithreaded Video Decoding (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)* – This release introduces a new fully multithreaded video decoding pipeline which resolves a number of legacy playback issues. […]

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Tests demonstrate much-improved performance of iOS 4.2 on iPhone 3G handset

For those of you hanging onto an iPhone 3G and hoping for something good to come out of the new iOS, there may be some good news in store. Per TiPb, a recent series of tests has shown that the iPhone 3G’s performance is much improved under iOS 4.2: According to the tests, entering text […]

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Apple releases Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Trackpad Update 1.0, adds gesture support to some additional notebooks

Apple on Tuesday issued an update to a number of recent notebooks, including the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air, bringing inertial scrolling and three-finger drag gesture support to some trackpads. Per AppleInsider, the Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Trackpad Update 1.0 was released Tuesday afternoon by Apple. The file is a 75.09MB update that requires […]

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Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 2 to Developer Community

Late Tuesday, Apple officially released iPhone OS 3.0 beta to to its developer community. According to Engadget, the new beta includes push notifications and in-app purchasing, giving developers a chance to play with these features. The report also cites significant stability improvements within the new build. While MMS and tethering are also included within beta […]