Apple Seeks Antipiracy Software Patent
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TechWeb - It's been a landmark year for open source, and in so many different ways that even a casual survey of the year's events will range far and wide. Here's a quick rundown of what to me were the top five open source events of the year -- not an exhaustive list, of course, but the things that best reflected how important and widely entrenched open source software (especially Linux) has become.
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Apple Computer is eyeing a technology that could make the iPod more likely to survive a fall. The company has applied for a patent on technology that would allow a portable media player to detect when it is
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Apple and four of the biggest record companies this week must submit written responses to antitrust charges that they restricted online sales of music in Europe.
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Last week, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs called for an end to anti-piracy software on digital music as a way to let customers listen to their downloads on any device. The record labels responded with a mixture of scorn and indifference to the idea, which would disrupt their security measures.
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Apple Computer Inc. is set to sue several anonymous people who leaked details about new products by posting information on the Internet, it has been claimed.
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By Associated Press  SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple Inc. has a few more days to respond to Cisco Systems Inc.'s trademark infringement lawsuit that threatens to keep Apple from using the name "iPhone" on its much-hyped cell phone-music player.
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Notoriously secretive Apple Computer has filed a lawsuit seeking to silence individuals it accuses of leaking trade secrets about a forthcoming product over the Internet.
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Apple Inc.   Chief Executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday called on the four major  record companies to start selling songs online without copy  protection software to thwart piracy known as digital rights  management (DRM).
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A effort by a Seattle company at Black Hat DC to demo a device that easily hacks data from a popular RFID-based ID card system has been met by a patent-infringement claim. Meanwhile, legislators attempt to wrap laws around the security issues.
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Apple's recent decision to forbid the use of Apple Store gift cards for iPhone sales may expose the company to class action lawsuits or state-led investigations. Is this anti-iPhone locking action one step too far for the company?
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Apple Inc. Chief  Executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday called on the four major record  companies to start selling songs online without copy protection  software to thwart piracy known as digital rights management  (DRM).
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Blog: Apple has filed for several patents that could hint at future iPods that talk to each other and a mouse that moves 3D objects.
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Apple Computer Inc. is eyeing a technology that could make the iPod more likely to survive a fall. The Cupertino company has applied for a patent on technology that would allow a portable media player to detect
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But look to lawsuit stick rather than iTunes carrot for the cause
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Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs  on Tuesday called on the four major record companies to start  selling songs online without copy protection software known as  digital rights management (DRM).
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Future MacBooks could take commands from unique combinations of fingertips, if technology contained in a recent Apple patent application comes to light.
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Apple Computer Inc. will pay $100 million to rival Creative Technology Ltd. to settle patent lawsuits over technology for navigating through songs on the popular iPod digital music player, the companies said Wednesday.