Apple Wins Three Colossal Multi-Touch Related Patents

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/10/apple-wins-three-colossal-multi-touch-related-patents.html

Apple Wins Patents for XGrid, iCal, Parental Controls & Keyboard

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/10/apple-wins-patents-for-xgrid-ical-parental-controls-keyboard.html

有保護套 手機可無線充電

富士康確認提高iPhone代工費,以改善員工工作條件

http://iphone.weiphone.com/news/2010-10-14/IPhone_OEM_Foxconn_confirmation_fee_increase_224847.shtml

Apple Revisits their Future Visual Expander Feature

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/10/apple-revisits-their-future-visual-expander-feature.html

評論：鮑爾默的新三國演義   微軟、蘋果、谷歌成局

http://tech.weiphone.com/2010-10-18/Comments_Ballmer_s_three_bureau_Google_Microsoft_Apple_225034.shtml

What Is Apple's Mission Control?

Apple's consolidating some of its key OS features—Expose, Dashboard, full screen apps, and Spaces—into something called Mission Control. But what is it, exactly?

It's a fancier Exposé...

As you probably know, Exposé has been saving people's time since OS X Panther (way back in 2003, would you believe). Mission Control builds on that technology, and actually incorporates Exposé to highlight all open programs.

...it consolidates everything...

Not only does it unify Exposé, but it also brings in Dashboard, Spaces, and those fullscreen apps Apple's now going to be selling (and giving away for free) via the Mac App Store. You can navigate to any part of your Mac instantly.

...and it'll be darn handy for apps, too...

Possibly the best part is that it'll group similar apps together. I've a feeling apps on Mac will be a big business, so being able to see stacks of similar apps (all the gaming ones together, for example), is going to cut down time for sure.

...though we have to wait a while for it.

Unfortunately, it's a long wait—it's going to be part of OS X Lion, which is out summer 2011. How much time is Mission Control going to save you, and how much do you love that name? It'll make computing feel all James Bond-y. [Liveblog]

(gizmodo)

Mac OS X 10.7一如預期發表，2011年夏天上市，代號Lion（雄獅？）

http://chinese.engadget.com/?from=engtop

(engadget)

Apple Really Doesn't Want You To Tear Apart A MacBook Air

The folks at iFixIt rushed to tear down the new MacBook Air, but they discovered that Apple apparently really doesn't want you to poke around the gadget. It's full of proprietary parts—right down to the screws.

Here are the highlights of the teardown according to iFixIt:

* The flip-open port door has been scrapped and the IR sensor and sleep LED are gone. In exchange, the new model manages to fit an extra USB 2.0 port along its right edge.

* Apple apparently doesn't want you inside this thing. They decided to use proprietary 5-point security Torx screws to attach the lower case. Once inside, the Air is held together with more normal 6-point T5 and T8 Torx screws.

* The battery is comprised of six individual lithium-polymer cells, which combine to form a 35 Watt-hour battery.

* Although in a different form factor, the new MacBook Air uses the same Broadcom BCM943224 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth chip as the current lineup of MacBook Pros.

* The back of the trackpad has a Broadcom BCM5976A0K chip on it, likely responsible for the multi-touch capabilities of the the trackpad.

* The 11.6" MacBook Air features a resolution of 1366x768. That's a few more pixels and noticeably more widescreen (16x9 vs 16x10) than the 1280x800 resolution of previous Air models. In a welcome improvement, Apple has substantially enhanced the rigidity of the display assembly.

As usual, you can find more gadget gore photos over at iFixIt along with a step-by-step description of the full teardown. [iFixIt]

(gizmodo)

Apple Patents Discuss Cloud Based Radio Broadcast Services

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/10/apple-patents-discuss-cloud-based-radio-broadcast-services.html

可愛的iPhone擴音器


這款採用橡膠製成的iPhone擴音器不僅質量輕便，材質柔軟，就連造型都很可愛呢！更重要的是，應用了擴音物理原理設計的它無需能源驅動，即可幫您將手機播送的音樂，視頻聲音放大。只要將擴音器套入iPhone底部，它即可開始工作。為了不影響使用者的操作，即便是套上了裝備，您的iPhone主控按鈕位置依舊不受遮擋，數據連結線也可以通過預留孔洞接入，甚至於手機橫置，豎置也不會影響到擴音器的工作，它反而還能充當支撐底座，讓您使用起來方便不少。

售價：24.95美元

(patent-cn)

宏達電再因Android挨告

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/101026/4/2fnur.html

(Yahoo!)