A first wave of tariffs has already washed over the United States, but the next one could start to drive costs up for consumer technology.
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Apple settles with Immersion with licensing for Taptic Engine tech
The iPhone-maker was accused of infringing on patented haptics technologies for use in Force Touch, 3D Touch and the Taptic Engine.
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Original Apple Watch warranty support stretches to three years
But it covers one specific issue regarding the back of the device coming off. You might need to inquire upper management about a free repair.
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Apple Watch Edition Series 1 gone from Apple Store
No more five-digit checkouts on the Apple Store — for an Apple Watch, at least.The gold case, branded as the Apple Watch Edition for Series 1 of the product and costing $10,000 for the 38mm case, has been discontinued. In fact, even the regular Apple Watch stainless steel case is gone from the online store. All that’s left is the aluminium case in both 38mm and 42mm sizes with the Sport bands.The most expensive Apple Watch listed on the site will be available for pre-order tomorrow:
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Apple Watch Series 2 announced with water-resistance, GPS
The second series of Apple Watch has been announced. It runs watchOS 3 and you can literally swim with it.Like most water-resistant watches, the Apple Watch, Apple Watch Sport and Apple Watch Edition are rated for 50 meters of ingress. With any device that has a speaker, this is where the main ingress concerns are as a speaker requires air to propagate sound. Apple has redesigned the speakers to push water out if any gets in. Swimmers also get two workout modes in Apple Health.The Apple S2 system package includes a dual-core processor that’s 50 percent faster and a GPU that provides ...
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AT&T, Apple targeted with patent infringement suit from haptics company Immersion
It’s a day that ends in “y” and Apple just lost a patent suit, so that means it’s court time again.Haptics technology company Immersion has filed suit against Apple and both AT&T and AT&T Mobility over what three patents it claims the defendants infringed.U.S. Patent No. 8,619,051 regards “Haptic Feedback System with Stored Effects,” No. 8,773,356 is on ...
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