Kodak loses patent case against Apple, again, then appeals, again

Kodak moments are in short supply right now.

The former photography giant has almost struck out with its bid to prove that Apple infringes on image-preview technologies that the bankrupt century-old company says it invented.

Strike one: January 2011, the

Power to the people: Qantas passengers to get iPads for in-flight entertainment

Australian airline Qantas will provide economy and business passengers on all 767 flights with iPads, a move that pushes the state of in-flight entertainment forward.

Not only will iPads make flying Qantas more attractive to economy and business customers, the …

SiriBerry? BlackBerry 10 developer release adds Siri-like voice commands

It’s pretty clear now that you can’t have a modern smartphone operating system without powerful Siri-like voice commands. So it’s not too surprising to see familiar-sounding voice commands in the latest update to RIM’s BlackBerry 10 Developer Alpha release.

As …

One step ahead of Apple, Russian hacker exploits Mac OS X in-app purchases

While Apple was hard at work coming up with a fix for Russian hacker Alexey Borodin’s iOS in-app purchasing exploit, the wily hacker has unveiled a similar exploit for in-app purchases on Mac OS X.

The latest hack, which affects …

Apple delivers fix to developers suffering from stolen in-app purchases

Apple gave developers a temporary way to stem the flow of stolen in-app purchases today, after a Russian hacker published a technique for downloading goods without paying for them. The issue overall should be fixed in iOS 6, the company …

Apple U-turns on Clueful app approval (what don’t they want us to know about iOS privacy?)

Apple has pulled security software vendor Bitdefender’s Clueful app from the app store.

Clueful is an app that examines other applications on your phone or iPad and tells you what they’re doing: accessing your address book, using location services such …

Nextpeer gives developers new ways to monetize their games via multiplayer tournaments

Nextpeer's SDK allows developers to earn money by implementing in-game multiplayer tournaments

Epic backfire: Apple now ‘advertising’ Samsung Galaxy Tab on its website

Updated 12:46pm PT: Apple will appeal the ruling.

Apple must temporarily promote the Samsung Galaxy Tab on its U.K. website after a judge ruled that the South Korean company’s tablet is not “cool” enough to infringe upon the iPad.

According …

Steve Jobs is too popular to be shown in Samsung-Apple trial

Steve Jobs is still so popular, eight months after his death, that to mention him too frequently would bias jurors in a Samsung-Apple lawsuit.

At least, that’s what Samsung thinks.

According to Reuters, a Samsung attorney told a San Jose …

Verizon announces $1.83B Q2 profits, rising revenues due to smartphones and FiOS

Verizon Wireless posted encouraging second quarter numbers, bolstered by increased revenue from smartphone sales and the shift from copper to fiber optics’ FiOS for wireline and Internet customers. The No. 1 U.S. mobile carrier announced Thursday a $1.83 billion quarterly …

Trapit for iPad aims to fix mobile browsing with artificial intelligence

Browsing is flawed — on the Web, but even more so on mobile. That’s the message Trapit co-founder Hank Nothhaft conveyed to me as he demoed his solution to the problem: a Trapit iPad application that uses artificial intelligence to …

Apple uses UDID to track in-app purchases associated with hack

Apple is continuing its fight against a Russian hacker who is supplying a way for iPhone users to download in-app purchases without paying. The company is now including a unique identifier in all in-app purchase receipts, according to MacRumors.

Last …

Apple-Samsung patent suit may not be as secret as they’d like

If Apple and Samsung want to fight their long-winded patent lawsuits in Judge Lucy Koh’s court room, they’re going to have to do it a little more publicly. Koh ruled today that the two companies could not seal documents that …

Zynga’s Mark Pincus discusses how mobile could disrupt the game industry (video interview)

Zynga chief Mark Pincus isn't shy about expressing his opinion -- especially at our MobileBeat/GamesBeat 2012 conference last week. Here's the video.

Early iPad prototype revealed in court documents (photos)

Photos of the earliest known iPad prototype from the early 2000s have hit the web, thanks to some digging by the fine folks at NetworkWorld.

The photos, which have been lifted from Apple and Samsung court documents, show a bulky …

Foxconn planning $1B plant in Indonesia, will create a million jobs

Electronics manufacturer Foxconn, which has gained notoriety as Apple’s key manufacturing partner for mobile devices, is in talks to open a $1 billion facility in Indonesia.

The aim: making “good quality products and make them available in the markets at …

18 Motorola devices to be banned from shipment to U.S. tomorrow

A ban on a number of major Motorola devices will to go into effect Wednesday, barring the company from importing some Droid smartphones to the U.S.

In May, the U.S. International Trade Commission awarded Microsoft a ban on Motorola’s mobile …