Iphone app DASH answers question - "What's for
lunch"

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Boxout Development has introduced Dash: Finding Good Food. Fast 1.1, a free iPhone App helping users decide where to eat when on the go. In a world with too many options, users can now just tap one button and have Dash's decision engine narrow down all the restaurants nearby to four choices. Once a user chooses a restaurant, Dash also helps users decide what to order. Dash has carefully selected top dishes or noteworthy details to be included under every restaurant's description.

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Free version of Easy Spending - Expense Tracker
available

post from prMac on 22 June 2012 10:57:00 PM. © prMac

Tekton Technologies announces Easy Spending Expense Tracker Lite 1.3, a Lite and Free version of their highly user friendly and easy-to-use money tracker for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Featuring a beautiful and clutter-free user interface, Easy Spending Expense Tracker helps you take control of your money. It comes with a beautiful and clutter free user interface.

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User-friendly Clipboard: Copycan Lite

post from prMac on 22 June 2012 10:36:00 PM. © prMac

Office HAKONIWA has announced the updated User-friendly Clipboard : Copycan Lite, version 1.0.2 for iOS. With Copycan, the user can copy and paste quickly. It can copy having no range selection and easily. Each times the app is launched or back active, it will automatically add copied text to the "collection" on your iPhone. It is also useful to keep, such as the user ID, long text, and copy the text in addition to anxious emoticon.

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Clipboard in Background: Copycan

post from prMac on 22 June 2012 10:19:00 PM. © prMac

Office HAKONIWA has announced the updated Clipboard in Background: "Copycan," version 2.5.2 for iOS. With copycan, the user can copy and paste quickly. It can copy having no range selection and easily. User can record many words, if you copy words repeatedly with starting this application software. By launching the app in monitor mode, easy re-use of data is recorded automatically and has been recorded in the list. The contents recorded is added to "collection".

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Court dismisses Apple smartphone patent claims
against Motorola

post from Apple on 22 June 2012 10:02:48 PM. © Apple

An outspoken Chicago judge has dismissed Apple’s patent claims against Motorola “with prejudice,” meaning they can’t be argued again before that court. Apple can appeal the case to a higher court, but the decision is a blow to its hopes of arguing that Motorola–now owned by Google–infringed on patents held by Apple for key smartphone technologies with its embrace of Google’s Android software.

Judge Richard Posner had already signaled his distaste for the Apple-Motorola case, viewed as one of the key disputes in the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ war against Android, Google’s smartphone operating system. Earlier in June he opined that the case was “silly,” in that it would impose more costs on the public than any perceived infringement on Motorola’s part would have caused. He agreed to allow Apple to argue its case one last time, but it doesn’t seem that he was swayed by those last-minute arguments.

Basically, Posner ruled that Apple couldn’t prove that the company had been harmed by anything Motorola had done. As a common sense argument, this holds water: Apple is currently the most valuable company in the world thanks to the runaway success of the iPhone and the iPad, while Motorola is a barely profitable smartphone company that was quite grateful to be rescued from dire straits by Google’s desire for Android patent protection.

Going further, however, Posner ruled that neither company was entitled to injunctive relief against the other: something that is the crux of every patent case.

A key passage:

In fact neither party is entitled to an injunction. Neither hasshown that damages would not be an adequate remedy. True,neither has presented sufficient evidence of damages to with-stand summary judgment?but that is not because damages areimpossible to calculate with reasonable certainty and are there-fore an inadequate remedy; it?s because the parties have failedto present enough evidence to create a triable issue. They had an adequate legal remedy but failed to make a prima facie case ofhow much money, by way of such remedy, they are entitled to. That was a simple failure of proof.

Posner appeared to draw on the Supreme Court’s ruling in the eBay vs. MercExchange dispute in making his decision to throw out the case, which can be appealed. The short version: seeking an injunction against a product you believe infringes your patents deserves a much higher burden of proof that presented in this case.

A compulsory license with ongoing royalty is likely to be asuperior remedy in a case like this because of the frequent dis-proportion between harm to the patentee from infringementand harm to the infringer and to the public from an injunction, a factor emphasized in Justice Kennedy?s concurring opinion in eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C. in which he pointed out that ?when the patented invention is but a small component of the product the companies seek to produce and the threat of an injunction is employed simply for undueleverage in negotiations, legal damages may well be sufficient to compensate for the infringement and an injunction may not serve the public interest.? He could have been describing this case. Three Justices joined his opinion, and no Justice expressed disagreement with it

The court’s ruling is embedded below.

Judge Poser dismisses Apple-Motorola complaint

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DestinationDoc - a new healthcare app for
travelers is now available

post from prMac on 22 June 2012 08:42:00 PM. © prMac

Nabu Medical is proud to introduce DestinationDoc 1.0.1 for iOS. DestinationDoc is used by travelers to find and access the best doctors in their destination cities, as rated by other doctors. DestinationDoc does research on doctor case mix, peer review, education, research, awards, and accolades to hand-pick the best 5-10 doctors in each specialty in a given city. This effort is being led by the two founders who are well respected orthopedists in London, England.

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Dark Sky

post from Daring Fireball on 22 June 2012 08:02:53 PM. © Daring Fireball

Innovative, gorgeous, and highly practical weather app for iPhone and iPad. I was skeptical at first, but after using it for a few weeks, I’m hooked. A few minutes ago I was a couple blocks from home running errands, and Dark Sky told me it was going to rain in “two minutes”. Two minutes later it started raining. $3.99 on the App Store.

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News App for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

SavySoda has announced the updated News Free 1.7 for iOS. Finally, an app that lets you read all your favourite newspapers, magazines, and RSS feeds on one beautiful page Live for Free! Update includes improved date ordering and fixed a rare crash for a few feeds. News App will collate news feeds from your selected sources and compile them into one easy to read list. Articles are presented quickly and beautifully. Some people say it feels like reading a real newspaper!

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Global Voyage Kenya & Tunisia special price cut
June 23 and 24

California-based developer Selectsoft is offering the universal iOS app Global Voyage Kenya & Tunisia on sale this weekend only. Observe a sleeping lioness on a grassy plain, enjoy the impressive jumping dance of the Masai, fly over the snow-capped peaks of Kilimanjaro, visit the fragrant souks of Tunis and more. Read along with the text as you watch the videos, then take a fun quiz to find out what you've learned.

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Speak & Learn Tagalog special price cut June 23
and 24

Selectsoft, a California-based developer of family-friendly games, is offering Speak & Learn Tagalog on the Mac App Store(SM) on sale this weekend only. With over 700 words and phrases, Speak & Learn Tagalog is the easy and entertaining way to learn to speak Tagalog! In Learn Mode, animations and graphics show you the meanings of words and phrases while you explore realistic settings while Game Mode makes learning exciting and fun with "find it" games and immersive environments.

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