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- blackberry patent app describes "Ergonomic Cursor Controller"
- A newly published BlackBerry Patent application entitled Ergonomic Navigation Cursor Controller For a Handheld Mobile Communication Device specifies technology for a "navigation button" dedicated to controlling the movements of a cursor on a BlackBerry screen. The Abstract is rather specific. It calls for:...
- Tags: Controller, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Patent App, Abstract, Handheld Mobile Communication Device, Handhelds, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- News to know: Microsoft and open source; Google; Motorola, PMA 2008
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's open-source strategy: A picture is worth a thousand words Dana Blankenhorn: Should we fight the proprietary open source power? Larry Dignan: Google's quarter falls short of expectations Tom Foremski: GOOG's troubled social network deals threaten Facebook valuation....
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Open Source, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Twitter, Motorola Inc., BlackBerry Patent App, Manufacturing, Handhelds, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- blackberry patent app proposes improvements for meeting invite emails from BlackBerry calendar
- A new BlackBerry Patent app just published today would make it easier than it currently is to generate emails containing invites for future meetings from the BlackBerry Calendar. Then, the technology would also provide recipients with an email interface they can reply to the recipient with....
- Tags: Method, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Patent App, E-mail, Handhelds, Online Communications, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- blackberry patent app describes wireless changing of theme screens
- A new BlackBerry Patent application entitled System and Method for Adaptive Theming Of A Mobile Device describes ways that a BlackBerry wireless carrier or third-party theme screen developer could configure, or reconfigure, a subscriber's BlackBerry theme remotely. This capability presumably could be used...
- Tags: Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Mobile Device, Wireless, BlackBerry Patent App, Identification Information, User Interface Customization Information, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- blackberry patent app proposes Low memory manager for "graceful shutdown"
- BlackBerry Patent app proposes Low memory manager for "graceful shutdown"It is just another harmful patentAnyone doing serious programming knows how to work around low memory situations. However, in non-mission-critical desktop programming it is cheaper to ignore this problem than try to implement something addressing this issue. In any case this...
- Tags: Blackberry Patent App, memory manager, BlackBerry Patent, RIM BlackBerry
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- blackberry patent app proposes Low memory manager for "graceful shutdown"
- When one of our devices crashes or shuts down because of memory issues, one of the last words we would ever use to describe the circumstances is "graceful." Yes, but graceful is indeed part of the title of a just-published BlackBerry Patent application...
- Tags: Message, Application, Operating System, Memory, RIM BlackBerry, Exception, Computer, BlackBerry Patent App, Memory Manager, Abstract, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- News to know: QuickTime Band-Aids; Opera; Hyper-V; AMD; iPhone@Work
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple slaps more bandaids on QuickTime David Berlind: Google/OpenSocial's director of engineering David Glazer unplugged: 'Shindig is live' Christopher Dawson: Another cheap mini-portable...competition rocks Larry Dignan: Opera files complaint against Microsoft in the EU...
- Tags: Google Inc., Opera Software, Apple QuickTime, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., BlackBerry Patent App, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- blackberry patent app describes and shows "angular keyboard"
- A new BlackBerry Patent application just posted this morning describes designs for an "angular (BlackBerry) keyboard". 20070287391 is the number. The title of this aspiring Patent is Angular Keyboard For a Mobile Communications Device. A read of this Patent's Abstract,...
- Tags: Keyboard, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Patent App, Abstract, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- New blackberry patent app describes puncutation-mark selector for text
- A BlackBerry Patent application just published this morning describes how BlackBerrys could be enabled to pre-select the best punctuation mark for a block of text. The Patent app is entitled, Handheld electronic device including automatic preferred selection of a punctuation, and associated method....
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Member, BlackBerry Patent App, Patent App, Patent Abstract, Handhelds, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- blackberry patent app would display caller location on map
- BlackBerry Patent app would display caller location on mapI can't see anything 'novel' in this!If this 'idea' becomes a patent it shows how intellectually inept we have become.Long are the days gone when a patent meant something really revolutionary and was making leaps in science and technology.Nowadays it is just...
- Tags: caller location, Blackberry Patent App, BlackBerry Patent, RIM BlackBerry
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- blackberry patent app describes Bluetooth headsets with less interference vulnerability
- BlackBerry patent app describes Bluetooth headsets with less interference vulnerabilityExplain, pleaseIt looks to me like they've got shielding, and they've got filters on the conductors that extend outside the shielding. Is that it? Is that what they think is non-obvious? What am I missing here?
- Tags: interference vulnerability, Blackberry Patent App, BlackBerry Patent, Bluetooth headset, headset, RIM BlackBerry
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- blackberry patent app describes Bluetooth headsets with less interference vulnerability
- A newly published BlackBerry Patent application calls for a Bluetooth headset with less vulnerability to RF electromagnetic interference.The Patent app is entitled: Wireless headset having improved RF immunity to RF electromagnetic interference produced from a mobile wireless communications device.A read of the Abstract gets us in the ballpark in terms...
- Tags: BlackBerry hardware, BlackBerry Patents
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- blackberry patent app describes keys lit as they are tapped
- BlackBerry patent app describes keys lit as they are tappedThis is BULL...dungBack in 1972 I saw hotel elevators with heat-sensitive buttons that lit up when activated. They only responded to fingers, not pencils or other implements - we tried. And those things were pretty old back in 1972. So this...
- Tags: Blackberry Patent App, BlackBerry Patent, RIM BlackBerry
- Discussion threads 2007-05-24
- blackberry patent app describes keys lit as they are tapped
- Just published this morning, a new BlackBerry Patent application describes technology that would light individual keys on a BlackBerry keyboard when the user taps that key.The Patent app bears a surprisingly generic title: Keyboard for mobile communication device. Only when we read the Abstract and then Figure 2 with its...
- Tags: BlackBerry Patents
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- blackberry patent app would automate adding Contact physical address info to Address Books
- BlackBerry Patent app would automate adding Contact physical address info to Address BooksThis is a joke, right?This is patentable?All patents must die [nt].
- Tags: BlackBerry Patent, Blackberry Patent App, RIM BlackBerry
- Discussion threads 2007-05-17
- EXCLUSIVE: Major new blackberry patent app simplifies task-key association
- EXCLUSIVE: Major new BlackBerry Patent app simplifies task-key associationAll patents must die [nt].
- Tags: Handhelds, Blackberry Patent App, BlackBerry Patent, RIM BlackBerry
- Discussion threads 2007-04-12
- blackberry patent app depicts "pickpocket mode"
- BlackBerry patent app depicts "pickpocket mode"Not the *most* trivial patent I've ever heard of......but close.All patents must die [nt].On the contraryHaving had my Blackberry stolen while at the checkout line in a drugstore, I can see the value of this invention. I would hope they would add a...
- Tags: patent, RIM BlackBerry, Blackberry Patent App
- Discussion threads 2007-02-12
Additional Resources
- News to know: Facebook; OpenOffice; Firefox; RIM
- Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Firefox 3 RC1 code complete, due in late May Joe McKendrick: Is anyone ready to process a trillion events per day? Tom Foremski: Informatica is on the block say senior sources Michael Krigsman: Hosted...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, OpenOffice, Research In Motion Ltd., Mozilla Firefox, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Microsoft Windows XP, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- RIM officially announces the BlackBerry Bold and a $150 million development fund
- There have been rumors of a new BlackBerry design, often labeled the BlackBerry 9000 series, and today RIM posted the official announcement of the BlackBerry Bold smartphone that will be coming this Summer to a carrier near you. RIM also announced a US$150 million mobile applications and services development fund...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Display, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Microsoft's Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?
- "What is this Windows Live Mesh? It's a way to synchronize files." Joel Spolsky -- in classic Joel Spolsky style -- takes on Microsoft (but Google is also on his "radar") to task for fueling a round of hype around the whole notion of Cloud Computing....
- Tags: Hype, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
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