Posts tagged ios

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Apple’s “pinch to zoom” patent, which features prominently in a patent dispute against Samsung, has been dismissed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. According to documents filed by Samsung in a U.S. federal court, all 21 claims of the patent have been rejected in a “final office action.”

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Windows Phone has been struggling to catch up to Android and iOS ever since its release, and most would blame the platform’s lack of apps and Microsoft’s leisurely approach to adopting the latest technologies. And it’s not just consumers that are becoming frustrated with the situation.

Even Nokia, Microsoft’s biggest Windows Phone partner, wants the software giant to get a move on and make the mobile platform more of a priority.

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Within minutes of unveiling its intriguing new Chromecast dongle, it looks like the Google Play store is already running out of supply of the cross-platform video streamer.

The new $35 device went on sale during Google’s San Francisco press event this morning with an original shipping estimate of one to two days, but now the ship date has been pushed back as far as August 7 for some shoppers.

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Google has revealed its latest foray into TV hardware: Chromecast, a 2-inch dongle you plug into your TV’s HDMI port to stream cloud-based video from your smartphone, tablet or PC.

The tiny $35 piece of hardware, unveiled today at an Android press event in San Francisco, runs a simplified version of Chrome and is powered via USB. Chromecast support has already been built into apps like Netflix and YouTube, but Google is also releasing a Google Cast SDK that will allow developers to build Chromecast support directly into their apps.

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Rockstar may not have a massive catalog of games on Android and iOS, but with the likes of Grand Theft Auto and Max Payne, there’s no denying that it has some of the best. And they’re currently on sale in the App Store and on Google Play for a limited time.

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