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Apple News: Samsung-Apple patent war: The Journal misses the point Under the headline Samsung-Apple Patent Fight: Is It Worth It?, Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal takes a long look at three years of smartphone litigation and concludes that the answer is no. … Jones is correct that a string of rulings in SEP cases have left litigants with little to show for their efforts. Indeed, such lawsuits often backfire. … But…

Mac News: Apple: We don’t care about the money, just great products    For the world’s most valuable company, sitting on vast cash reserves exceeding $117bn, amassed by selling consumer technologies at premium prices, nobody would blame you for assuming that Apple is driven by an insatiable desire to make money, lots and lots of money. But that assumption, it seems, is wide of the mark.     Read full…

Mac News: How the iPad affects our planetSince Apple unveiled the first iPad back in January of 2010, it has completely dominated the tablet space. In just two years, the company has sold more than 50 million slates, garnering more than 60% of the market.Read full story => iDownloadBlog Technology News: I meet Chief Information Officers and find out how broadband boosts businessIt was really nice today to meet the…

Mac News: Mac text editor BBEdit celebrates 20th anniversaryThursday marks the 20th anniversary of the venerable Mac text-editing app BBEdit. I’m sure there are other apps not published by a gigantic company that have managed to last as long, but I’m not sure that any app has changed with the times and remained as relevant as BBEdit. As someone who has written hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of words…

Mac News: Favs: All Your Social Favorites In One PlaceSo you’re quickly browsing through your Facebook or Twitter feed, taking a short break from work, when you find an interesting article or video that you know is bound to be a huge time-suck. You don’t really want to look it up later when you aren’t busy because you know you’ll forget to do it. You also don’t want to read…