Apple to Pay $533 million in Patent Infringement Case

Apple has been ordered to pay $533 million after it was found that three patents held by Smartflash have been infringed by iTunes. This order was made by a Texas jury.

Smartflash originally demanded $852 million in settlements. But after an 8 hour deliberation, where the jury found that Apple had knowingly infringed the patents without Smartflash’s permission. Apple in a statement has said it would appeal, finding fault in the court’s patent system. They believe that it was them who worked on the ideas, and they do not want to pay off a company who did not make the product in the first place.

A spokesperson for Apple also criticized the deliberation by saying that Smartflash’s claims for a lawsuit are exploitative because they make no products or have employees to create ideas, but are rather staking a claim on technologies that Apple’s employees have worked on and invented.

The original lawsuit was filed by Smartflash in 2013, stating that iTunes has been using their patents to access and store music, games and videos. The trial for this was conducted in Tyler, a place where most patent lawsuits are settled.

This is not the only lawsuit that Smartflash is involved in. They have also filed cases against Google, Samsung and Amazon. The Samsung case is next in line.

Sony’s automotive cameras expected to be seen in self-driving cars

The company has shown interest in self-driving car industry by investing around $842000 (100 million yen) in a robot cars start-up, ZMP. Image sensors, which is referred to as the eye of a camera, is ruled for long enough now by SONY, something which has led the company’s share price to rise five folds. The company is planning to develop a self-diving car with ZMP’s robotic sense with their niche expertise in the cameras technology.

A Self- driving car can require up to 10 automotive cameras for the right image and surroundings perception. The price of such a camera will be four to five times more than the smartphones’. Apparently, as predicted by analysts, the demand for automobile cameras will rise to 102m (a threefold increase)

Sony announced last October that they will be start their CMOS image sensor’s mass production this year in December.

“We built the market for smartphone cameras. Now we can do the same with automotive cameras,” said Shoichi Kitayama, Sony’s general manager heading the automotive team.

The Company is not planning to launch a Sony-branded car unlike Apple, who have big plans for the automotive industry.

The Secret to Snooping on Your Kids is a Simple iPhone Spy App

Did you know that 70% parents out there would gladly snoop on their children’s phones if they had a way? Parents come to me for advice all the time and I’m surprised none of them know how to actually go through their kid’s phone without physically having to pick it up. So let me share my secret with you that I used to monitor by kids. All you need is an iPhone spy software.

What’s an iPhone Spy App?

Every wonder who your children are talking to on their iPhones? What they are doing when they’ve been tapping away on their screens for hours? An iPhone spy app basically tells you all of this. It is the key to their phones.

Which Spy App Do I Use? XNSPY.

I’ve tried and tested a number of iPhone monitoring apps, but I’m going to share with you the one has had the best result. And that app is XNSPY. It’s the one I recommend to most parents that come to me for advice regarding their kid’s upbringing and discipline. I realize that not every parent is tech savvy, so when I make the recommendation, it is because

·         XNSPY is the easiest to download because it provides a step-by-step guide

·         It is compatible with all iPhones

·         It has a reasonable price so parents don’t spend too much for their worry

·         It works in stealth mode so kids can’t find out it’s there

·         It lets you control their iPhones remotely

Let me tell you a little but about how it works now.

What Can XNSPY Do?

XNSPY gives you to power to go through your children’s phone. You child could be anywhere in the world, but as long as the app is installed onto it, you’d know what goes on in their iPhone. This means you can read their SMS and iMessages, see what they have downloaded off the Apple Store and listen to their calls. At the same time, you can lock their phone remotely, delete all their data, and keep a track on their location through GPS. By snooping on their phone through this iPhone spy software, you know

·         Where they are through GPS

·         Who they talk to through SMS monitoring

·         What they talk about through call recording

It also has a lot more features that let you snoop on their internet activities, too.

Don’t Stay in the Dark

When other parents talks to me, they always go on about their kid’s secretive nature. So if they’re not going to tell you the truth, you can find it out for yourself using iPhone spy app. Every parent or guardian needs to download XNSPY if they’re going to discipline their kids in this smartphone world.