Everybody ’s crack down on Es - wasteland these years : if it ’s not the European Commission , then it ’s Apple itself . Meanwhile , Cupertino ’s also making some plainly odd patent submissions and maybe even bidding on a Chinese gaming company . Talk about busy . But do n’t vex , it ’ll only take a instant to record the remainders for Thursday , August 5 , 2010 .
European Commission says standard roving chargers come in 2011(Deutsche Welle )
The European Commission , tonic off its iPhone acceptance beef , is now saying that plans to unveil a standard for mobile phone charging will finally come to fruition next yr . Wo n’t someone shed a tear for all the presently - to - be - obsolete phone courser of class past ? It ’s likeToy Story 3all over again except , you know , with cadre phone chargers instead oflovable toy .
Apple steps up to claim computers in Hooksett(New Hampshire Union Leader )
Speaking of wastefulness : After a school district knock down a caboodle of old iMacs , Apple reach them and offered to hale them all away for recycling ( which would have be the district some cash ) . But it ’s all part of Apple ’s campaign to make you forget the CRT iMac ever existed . Why ? Two words : Flower Power .
Apple software patent face like iPhone app(Venomous Porridge )
A recent submission of Apple fluid app letters patent has developers edgy , but Rogue Amoeba developer Dan Wineman points out that one of them search anawful lotlike an existing third - political party coating . Hey , Apple , a word in your spike : it ’s not just the black - and - bloodless drawings that make those patents a bit unelaborated .
Apple close to buy Handseeing(TMCnet.com )
Apple is reportedly attempting to purchase a Chinese wandering Internet armed service provider / mobile game developer , say a internet site I ’ve never heard of before . But with a name like TMCnet.com , they must recognise technology , right ?
