Latest Apple Headlines
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Apple, Tesla Want California to Toughen Proposed Self-Driving Car Test Rules
May 1 2017 // Apple Inc. urged California to toughen up its proposed policy on testing self-driving cars, a move that would result in more public data that could help Apple catch up to rivals in the self-driving space by giving it a...
Apple Soon Will Begin Road-Testing Self-Driving Car Software: Source
Apr 18 2017 // Apple Inc. will soon take its self-driving car software platform to public streets for the first time, a major step that gets the world’s largest technology company into a crowded race to reshape transportation. The...
Court Throws Out $530 Million Smartflash Patent Verdict Against Apple
Mar 2 2017 // A federal appeals court has thrown out a jury verdict that had originally required Apple Inc. to pay $533 million to Smartflash LLC, a technology developer and licenser that claimed Apple’s iTunes software infringed...
Supreme Court Orders Refiguring of Samsung’s Damages in Patent Fight with Apple
Dec 6 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Samsung in its big-money smartphone patent fight with Apple, throwing out an appeals court ruling that said the South Korean company had to pay a $399 million penalty to its...
Apple Urges Regulators to Go Easy on Autonomous Vehicle Testing
Dec 6 2016 // Apple Inc. is wading in to the debate over regulation of self-driving cars, declaring it is excited about the potential for automated transportation and calling on U.S. regulators not to restrict testing of such...
Supreme Court Weighs How to Figure Design Patent Damages in iPhone Case
Oct 18 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court last Tuesday signaled a willingness to reduce the potentially huge penalties imposed for ripping off a patented design as it heard arguments in the legal fight over the amount Samsung should pay...
Supreme Court Will Hear Apple-Samsung Patent Damages Dispute
Oct 11 2016 // After five years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in the bitter patent dispute between the world’s two top smartphone manufacturers over the amount Samsung should pay Apple for...
Aetna Offering Discounts on Apple Watch for Health Monitoring
Sep 28 2016 // Aetna Inc. will give some customers and employees discounts on Apple Inc.’s smartwatch, offering the potential that incentives from the insurance industry could boost sales of the technology giant’s wearable...
Samsung Recalls Its Galaxy Note 7 Smartphones on Faulty Batteries
Sep 2 2016 // Samsung Electronics Co. recalled its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones because of a faulty battery and announced a global replacement program, days before archrival Apple Inc. is set to unveil its newest iPhones. Sales of the...
What to Know About Liability and Legal Costs for Apps
Jul 25 2016 // The purchase and use of smartphones, tablets, wearable computers and other mobile computing devices (MCDs) connected to the internet have experienced staggering growth in the past several years. Soon after the Apple App...
Miami Artist Lawsuit Against Apple, Design Firm Dismissed
May 26 2016 // A lawsuit filed by artist Romero Britto against Apple Inc. and a design firm claiming misuse of his distinctive images and colorful style has been dismissed. Miami federal court documents show the 2015 lawsuit was dropped...
Previous Telecom Efforts Flopped But Google, Apple See Future for Telemedicine
May 16 2016 // Google and Apple Inc. have some bright ideas about the future of health care. Not so long ago, AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. had similar ideas: a networked world of devices and services that would...
Samsung-Apple iPhone Patent Damages Headed to Supreme Court
Mar 22 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday stepped into the high-profile patent fight between the world’s two fiercest smartphone rivals, Apple and Samsung, agreeing to hear Samsung’s appeal of what it contends were...
Apple Ransomware Attack Thwarted Before Large Number of Computers Infected
Mar 9 2016 // The first known ransomware attack on Apple Inc.’s Mac computers, which was discovered over the weekend, was downloaded more than 6,000 times before the threat was contained, according to a developer whose product was...
Washington Apple Grower Settles Harassment, Retaliation Suits for $272K
Feb 9 2016 // One of the largest apple producers in the United States will pay $272,000 to 20 claimants as part of a settlement resolving sexual harassment and retaliation claims pending before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the...
Apple Seeks $180M More in Patent Damages from Samsung
Dec 29 2015 // Just over a week after Samsung paid Apple more than $548 million for infringing the patents and designs of the iPhone, Apple asked a U.S. court to force its biggest smartphone rival to cough up even more. In court papers...
Judge Dismisses California Suit Against Apple Over Worker Searches
Nov 9 2015 // Apple Inc. persuaded a judge to throw out a lawsuit by employees of the company’s retail stores in California seeking back pay for time spent in “demoralizing” security searches when they left work for...
Illinois Health Officials: 70 Suspected Ill from Apple Cider
Nov 8 2015 // Health officials in two western Illinois counties say the count of people with suspected illness linked to apple cider has risen to 70. The Quincy Herald-Whig reports that’s the updated tally from the health...
Apple Ordered to Pay $234M in U. Wisconsin Patent Infringement Case
Oct 19 2015 // A U.S. jury has ordered Apple Inc. to pay the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm more than $234 million in damages for incorporating its microchip technology into some of the company’s...
Univ. of Wisconsin Seeking $400M from Apple in Patent Dispute
Oct 15 2015 // The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s licensing arm is seeking $400 million from Apple Inc. for infringing the school’s patent on microprocessor technology. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is owed that...
