alleging that the Taiwan based handset manufacturer has infringed on nearly 20 of Apple ‘s proprietary inventions relating to the iPhone ‘s UI, architecture and hardware.
Apple had also filed a second lawsuit in July, claiming infringement of 5 more patents.
Back in July, a US International Trade Commission (ITC) judge has ruled that
Patent No. 5,946,647:
Patent No. 6,343,263:
At that time, HTC had appealed against the ruling. However, FOSS (more…)

, Apple ‘s lawyers have managed to block the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia. The injunction although not permanent, stays valid until a full hearing which is scheduled to happen sometime next year.
The case which started with Apple claiming infringement of up to 13 patents, at the end came down to two patents, one of which credited
. Sydney Morning Herald reports:
Justice Annabelle Bennett today said Apple had a prima facie (more…)

A Dutch court has found Samsung guilty of infringing an Apple patent relating to photo management, and ordered a Europe wide ban on the sale of Samsung Galaxy smartphones from October 13th. The Galaxy Tab, Samsung’s
rival, has not been named in the injunction and its sales would remain unaffected in this region.
The patent in question, titled “Portable Electronic Device for Photo Management”, illustrates the concept of swiping through a gallery (more…)

Back in March, we reported that a group of US Senators have sent an email to Apple , requesting them to
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reports that Apple has updated its App Store Review Guidelines, which includes a section that bans
that provide DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies.
Section 22.8 of the update App Store Review Guidelines states:
Apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies, or encourage (more…)

Some of our readers had also reported that their account were hacked and used to buy iPhone apps from the App Store.
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The developer Thuat Nguyen and his apps were removed from the App Store for violating the developer Program License Agreement, including fraudulent purchase patterns.
Developers do not receive any iTunes confidential customer data when an app is downloaded.
If your credit card or iTunes password is stolen and used on iTunes (more…)

Nati Schubert, a senior deputy director with Israel's Communications Ministry says:
“If you operate equipment in a frequency band which is different from the others that operate on that frequency band, then there will be interference. We don't care where people buy their equipment. … But without regulation, you would have chaos.”
Israel is not the only country where such interferences could potentially occur. As Israeli officials point (more…)

The list of banned iPhone apps include popular applications such as WiFi-Where, WiFiFoFum and yFy Network Finder. In their message to the iPhone app developers, the iPhone app review staff have noted that the ban on iPhone apps is due to their use of private APIs to access wireless information. While Apple has not explicitly spelt out the private API in question, it is being speculated to be iPhone ‘s built-in 802.11 radio.
Noting the ban on several (more…)

. The email from the app review staff reads:
“The App Store continues to evolve, and as such, we are constantly refining our guidelines. Your application, Wobble iBoobs (Premium Uncensored), contains content that we had originally believed to be suitable for distribution. However, we have recently received numerous complaints from our customers about this type of content, and have changed our guidelines appropriately.
We have decided to remove (more…)