Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

It's electric, and like all battery-operated automobiles needs regular charging. "The charging is done wirelessly, you park up, turn off the key and voila... charging starts automatically," says Anthony Thomson, CEO of HaloIPT, a UK company that has installed the technology. The process uses electromagnetic induction to transfer power from a pad built into the ground to another installed in the bottom of the car. The system could be installed in a supermarket parking place, garage floor or the ground at a special charging station. When a driver parks the vehicle, the two pads line up and with a flick of a switch, the charging starts.

Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

US pop star Katy Perry leads the way at this year's MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) with nine nominations. The singer's nods include video of the year for Firework, best pop video and best special effects. British singer Adele and Kanye West picked up seven nominations apiece. Other multiple nominees included Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and Bruno Mars. The VMAs are scheduled to take place on 28 August in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in the US. Perry, who married comedian Russell Brand last year, was also nominated for best female video, best collaboration, best art direction and best cinematography.

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

Texas executes 9/11 'revenge' killer

A man who embarked on a shooting spree in what he claimed was retaliation for 9/11 has been executed at a prison in Texas. The lone survivor of Mark Stroman's attack on convenience store workers in late 2001, Rais Bhuiyan, originally from Bangladesh, unsuccessfully sued to stop the execution, saying his religious beliefs as a Muslim required him to forgive the man. Stroman claimed the shooting spree that killed two men and injured a third targeted people from the Middle East, though all three victims were from south Asia. It was the death of 49-year-old Vasudev Patel, from India, that put Stroman on death row. Stroman's execution was the eighth this year in Texas.

Texas executes 9/11 revenge killer

Mac OS X Lion pounces

As promised, Apple let Mac OS X Lion out of its cage this morning. Version 10.7 of the operating system has more than 250 new features, Apple said, but an installation disc isn't one of them: it's available today for $29.99 as a 3.49GB download only. Apple enjoys pushing the computing industry into the future by dropping technology it deems to be from the past-for example floppy drives missing from the first iMac-and those who want a real-world copy of the OS will have to wait until Apple releases it on a USB thumb drive next month for $69. The Mac OS X download, available through the Mac App Store, dovetails with Apple's new MacBook Air and Mac Mini Lion-based computers. These new models are updated with Intel's modern Sandy Bridge processors and a high-speed Thunderbolt data transfer port-and none has a DVD drive for the next OS upgrade.

Mac OS X Lion pounces

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Google+ for iPhone hit Apple's App Store a mere 24 hours ago but it's being downloaded like wildfire as it currently sitting atop the heap as the most popular free app available from iTunes. This is big news considering Google+ is still invitation-only and only has 18 million users so far, compared to Facebook's 750 million. That said, Google+ users can now upload contacts from Outlook and Mac address books (not Facebook, though), which may result in even bigger Google+ adoption numbers.

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor

Apple CEO and cancer survivor Steve Jobs is not keen on discussing speculation about who will replace him when the inevitable happens. This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company's board of directors have been discussing plans about who will take over the position that has been held by Jobs since the late 1990s, and perhaps the title that some will always bestow upon Jobs and Jobs alone, once the man is no longer able to hold the position himself. The Journal said it had credible information that the board has already been meeting with headhunters and "at least one head of a high-profile technology company."

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor
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After multiple crossings, tension and accusations in both directions, has finally reached a verdict in the trial held in suspense the mobile device market. Apple has achieved a resounding victory over Samsung, confirming that the South Korean company copied several aspects of the design of both the iPhone and the iPad. The Cupertino giant also to solidify their position and get a precedent that could lead to other demands, has earned more than a billion dollars in damages.

Just one chapter closes, but its consequences may extend for long. The conflict that pitted Apple and Samsung has been followed closely by all portal with respect to mobile devices. Expected long deliberation, a detailed exploration of the facts, and analysis of the arguments presented by both parties. But in the end, the jury of nine people needed less than three days to reach a conclusion. All this activity had been preceded by the verdict of a South Korean court convicted basically two companies, prohibiting the sale of ten products Samsung (the Galaxy S III is not on that list) and four Apple products (iPhone 4S and the iPad 3 will sale) in that territory. Now, the episode is completely legal in California, and the overwhelming winner was Apple.

Although he had offered the possibility that both companies came to an agreement before the verdict was announced, that never materialized. As a result, the Cupertino giant has won a solid victory that makes creditor of 1,051 million dollars in damages. Among the patents that have been raped by Samsung include the "pinch-to-zoom", that of the "bounce" when the user scrolling, and the "double tap" to zoom. Samsung was also found guilty of violating Apple patent gives exclusivity on smartphones rectangular design with rounded corners, although this did not extend to the patent involving the iPad. The jury also scored aware patent violations committed by Samsung, who also failed to prove with sufficient strength that Apple's patents were invalid.



Oddly enough, the most important result of this damage is. Samsung faces the fact that the sale of most of its mobile product line (the big exception would be the Galaxy S III for being too new, but the scope has yet to be determined) is prohibited in the United States. And this also installs a precedent favorable to Apple, which will probably lead to a legal crusade against other manufacturers across the pond. In short, Cupertino is celebrating. Apple has once again proved its supremacy in the courts, against an opponent that under no circumstances can be considered minor. From now on, anyone seeking to copy the iPhone, or any other product with the apple logo, you should probably think twice.

Samsung engineers developed an internal report in dis aggregating 100 design features and the iPhone interface in order to play them on their devices. Apple has made this document and used it as evidence at his trial with Samsung. Apple States are facing in court in a legal pulse to determine whether South Korea has plagiarized the designs of Cupertino and if the iPhone patents are used without permission.

This legal battle yields new data every day about development plans that the companies continued to build their terminals, with some data that were not expected. The latest case has come from Apple, which keeps his accusations of plagiarism and aims to prove them with evidence. Apparently, Apple has gotten a Samsung internal document that could prove that the South Korean engineers broken down some of the main features of the iPhone to find a way to copy them to their own terminals.



How to make an iPhone

The document would look like a step by step how to make an iPhone and have been key to the engineers could copy the systems of this device in their own designs. It also incorporates information from 100 components and functions of the iPhone that supposedly would have been copied and readapted in Samsung devices. The document has been published by Business Insider prove that Samsung itself had studied the iPhone in order to design, or at least improve their own products.

This internal report and would be in the hands of the judge who is handling the case and could be a key test case. The appearance of this internal document from Samsung is a new filtration process documents. He had previously been introduced by Samsung, which is demonstrated before the iPhone device, which had spread, prompting complaints from lawyers for the Apple.

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