It might actually be an illness. Maybe one named titleclickia or something like that. It would be defined as the uncontrollable clicking on a link based on the title. In extreme cases the afflicted will read the whole article at the end of the link. Now that I have admitted the problem I can move [...]
Read More» Posted by PaulThere were a number of threads I did not have time nor space to fully pursue in my recent EETimes article (“the article”) on the A5_3. The first was the question: was the Apple TV overpowered with the A5_2? The short answer is yes. The long answer leads into the second question: for what was [...]
Read More» Posted by PaulThe Apple rumour mill has not been all that exciting lately. A bit of mini-this and a bit of inexpensive-that, but nothing really “out there”, nothing on which one can spend some cycles. At least that was the case until this morning. We have all heard of the Apple iTV rumours. Today’s rumour came from [...]
Read More» Posted by PaulOver the last few days I have read articles about Apple’s 5,368,654 (’654) patent on cnet, Forbes and AppleInsider. Patents assigned to Apple seem to get attention. AppleInsider’s coverage was a day ahead of the other two. Each of the articles had their own interpretation of the disclosed technology, and each presented the sort of [...]
Read More» Posted by PaulApple’s “On-Demand Generation of Electricity From Stored Wind Energy” (US 2012/0326445) patent application made a few headlines after it was published on December 27th. Right from the get-go is the intrigue of Apple thinking about energy generation. As a brief comment I think this is not too far out there as Apple is likely contemplating [...]
Read More» Posted by PaulIt has become a ritual. Every Tuesday there is a rush by the big news feeds to scan the day’s new crop of issued patents assigned to Apple. They are pretty quick at it for sure. Do we learn all that much? Not really, certainly not enough to form an opinion as to the significance [...]
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