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BlackBerry Patent app describes "Ergonomic Cursor Controller"

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Tags: Handhelds, Ergonomic Cursor Controller, Blackberry Patent App, BlackBerry Patent, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

BlackBerry Patent app describes wireless changing of theme screens

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Tags: Handhelds, Operating systems, theme screen, RIM BlackBerry, Blackberry Patent App, BlackBerry Patent, wireless

Discussion threads 2008-08-23

BlackBerry patent would enable "merged images" in BlackBerry browser

BlackBerry patent would enable "merged images" in BlackBerry browserOk...Isn't that a technique widely used with the first generation browsers by designers to have a single file with all the images to be used and then selectively showing portions of it instead of downloading them separately?

Tags: Handhelds, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Browser, BlackBerry Patent, image, Web browser

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

BlackBerry patent app addresses "battery slump" monitoring, management issues

BlackBerry patent app addresses "battery slump" monitoring, management issuesThis actually enables more efficient use of battery powerThe significance of the patent seems to be that the phone will be able to increase the efficiency of its use of battery power thus extending the talk time per charge without requiring a...

Tags: Engineering, battery, app address, BlackBerry Patent, monitoring, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

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

Diagonal cursor navigation described in new BlackBerry Patent app

A newly published BlackBerry Patent app describes an onscreen "diagonal cursor" method of navigation on smaller, non-QWERTY BlackBerry devices. Fittingly, the Patent app is entitled, On-Screen Diagonal Cursor Navigation On A Handheld Communication Device Having A Reduced Alphabetic Keyboard. A...

Tags: Movement, Method, Handheld, RIM BlackBerry, Handheld Communication Device, Cursor Movement, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-06

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 would dim unviewed portion of display screen

Technology described in a fascinating IMHO newly published BlackBerry Patent application would seek to preserve battery life by darkening the BlackBerry display screen for portions of a view outside the "area of interest."The all-caps title of this Patent app is METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A DISPLAY...

Tags: News, BlackBerry Patents

Blog posts 2007-06-28

BlackBerry patent app would free up more space for viewscreen

A newly published BlackBerry Patent application offers technology that would allow users to either "increase" or decrease" the amount of space occupied by the BlackBerry keypad.This option is being positioned as one that would allow more space to be occupied by the view screen.For example, if you were browsing the...

Tags: BlackBerry Patents, News

Blog posts 2007-06-14

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 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 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

BlackBerry patent would save battery life by adding ambient light as screen backlight source

BlackBerry patent would save battery life by adding ambient light as screen backlight sourceGesss ....back in the 1906's I played with MatchBox Cars that did the same thing. They all had a little SQUARE blob of plastic on top and when you played with them in the sun or...

Tags: Engineering, Handhelds, BlackBerry Patent, RIM BlackBerry, battery

Discussion threads 2007-04-26

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

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AT&T loses bid to stop Verizon ads, responds with its own

AT&T could use Apple's patentApple has patented a technique where a user is forced to watch an ad and then answer a quiz about that ad before they are allowed to use their Apple device. AT&T could use this to force all iPhone users to watch AT&T ads.AT&T has no...

Tags: Smart phones, AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Apple iPhone, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

News to know: Google, IBM; AMD; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Earnings wrap: Sam Diaz: Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring Larry Dignan: IBM...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., E-books, Desktops, Networking, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-16

News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...

Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

News to know: Microsoft, ICANN, Best Buy, RIM, mobile apps, Zimbra

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Richard Koman: Judge overturns $388m patent verdict against Microsoft CNET: Court reverses Microsoft patent-infringement rulin Sam...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Mobile, ICANN, Dana Blankenhorn, Zimbra, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Sales Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Sales, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Court reverses Microsoft patent-infringement ruling

Maybe there is hope for the patent system yet.Just hope is all.But....We ALL know they were bribed.... Lol.Since when was MS's activation technology taken to court? They're sued for anything nowadays it seems like. Milking the cash cow I presume?The patent system is fineOn the whole, the patent system...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., patent, patent system, patent infringement, Unix, software

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

News to know: Verizon's Pre; Tornado; IDF; iPhone MMS; RedHat; Gmail outage

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Report: Verizon says no to Palm Pre Andrew Mager: Tornado: The real-time web server from...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, MMS, Red Hat Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., Outage, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., E-mail Providers, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications

Blog posts 2009-09-25