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Apple patents MultiTouch interface gestures

by Greg Healy on Aug 5, 2007 at 04:08 PM

Rumors of where Apple is going to implement MultiTouch Technology have been going from the iPod all the way up to the iMac. An Apple patent (filed by Fingerworks [a company Apple bought] back in January) published today shows that MultiTouch is definitely a technology they want to implement in… Continue Reading »

Apple sued over iPhone once again

by Greg Healy on Aug 5, 2007 at 10:10 AM

If Apple continues to get sued at the rate they are going now, Appletell will soon be able to have an “Apple Lawsuit of the Week” segment. This latest lawsuit directed at Apple is over the iPhone’s touch-screen keyboard. That makes 3 lawsuits (the first over the iPhone battery and… Continue Reading »

Apple iPhone talks the talk

by Chris Marshall on Aug 2, 2007 at 01:58 PM

Based on Apple’s latest patent, speculation is starting that it could lead to spoken word text messages for iPhone users which means hands-free texting for us. It seems to promise that users will be able to send text messages without using standard GSM text message protocols, and the message received… Continue Reading »

iPhone Nano, here we go again!

by Chris Marshall on Jul 24, 2007 at 11:10 AM

I don’t actually recall any of the speculated iPhone images getting even close to the announced product, but that isn’t going to stop the speculation about the style of the rumored iPhone Nano following recent claims that one is truly on the way. Based very much on previous iPod and… Continue Reading »

iPod wireless remote?

by Greg Healy on Jul 21, 2007 at 09:02 AM

In the last couple of weeks since the iPhone has been released, rumors of the 6th Gen iPod have been flying around the web like mad. Everything from it will be touch-screen to it will include wireless has been speculated on. In 2005, Apple filed a patent that has finally… Continue Reading »

Multi-touch mouse? Apple says yes

by Michael Mistretta on Jul 5, 2007 at 05:34 PM

Apple continues to invoke speculation by filing another patent for multi-touch capabilities. This time it’s in a mouse. Apple has filed a patent for a multi-touch mouse that Apple describes as a “mouse with [an] optical sensing surface”. The idea is that the button-less mouse will be able to sense… Continue Reading »

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