Oh my, our broken patent system is at it again. Yesterday Apple was awarded patent D670,286, which is a design patent pertaining to the iPad’s “ornamental” design.
Read between the lines, and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) seems to be positioning VP of Design Stacy Wolff (left) as the company’s answer to Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Senior VP of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive (right). But can Wolff and HP really match (and perhaps leapfrog) Apple’s MacBook Air, iMac and iPad designs?
Intel’s reference designs for its new ‘Ultrabook’ systems will price them cheaper than Apple’s MacBook Air systems.
Acer, Asus, and Leonvo will roll out & Ultrabook& portable computers for under $1000 in the fourth quarter of this year, according to a DigiTimes report. Resembling Windows versions of the successful Apple MacBook Air, the devices will be less than 0.8 inches thick, use Intel Core processors, and employ SSD (solid state disk) storage....
The holidays have slowed down the news about Samsung and Apple trying to litigate each other out of existence, but now that we’ve got CES and Christmas out of the way, it’s sure to pick back up.
Intel’s reference designs for its new ‘Ultrabook’ systems will price them cheaper than Apple’s MacBook Air systems.
Apple already revealed the new Macbook family. This new 2010 edition, white polycarbonate Macbook has an impressive battery life that can stand for up to 10 hours in a single charge. Beside that, this new MacBook also gets many updated specifications like 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and the latest nVidia GeForce 320M.
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is making its latest Ultrabook pitch to Tech Data (NASDAQ: TECD) channel partners during a conference today in Orlando. “The entire ecosystem is rallying around Ultrabook to deliver solutions,” asserted David Allen, director, distribution and DMR sales, North America, Intel.
On Tuesday, a German court ruled the Motorola Xoom, made by Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility, does not infringe on Apple’s iPad. In addition, Motorola had claimed the iPad’s design patent was invalid which was denied by the court.
Apple’s main goal was to have the device banned across Europe, claiming the design of the Xoom infringed upon three iPad designs.
Email this page
