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Elan Microelectronics suing Apple over multi-touch patents

Taiwanese company Elan Microelectronics has recently brought suit against Apple in regards to touchscreen patents. The company has filed the suit in the US District Court in San Francisco and is claiming that Apple has violated two of their touchscreen patents. These patents are not limited to just the iPhone and iPod touch, but also [...]

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Big iPhone or Small MacBook?

Rumors are again stirring about a new Apple product that one consultant believes will be available this fall: a touchscreen MacBook. It would, in theory be dubbed the MacBook touch. As in iPod touch. MacDailyNews says they received the tip from the same anonymous source who had previously leaked information about Apple’s wireless iTunes Store a week before [...]

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Apple Files Patent for Cheaper Touch Components

Recently, Apple filed a patent regarding materials it might be planning to use in a future generation of the iPhone or iPod Touch.  Right now Apple uses a kind of glass to cover it’s touch-screen devices, but a cheaper alternative, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), may be in their future. Current technologies for touch-screen plastics place all of [...]

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