Mobiquity

The legal battle over smartphone technology between the world's two biggest producers of mobile devices has been raging for years, in various forms, and this summer has seen a marked increase in the intensity of attacks coming from both sides. Apple accused Samsung outright of stealing key design elements from the early iterations of the iPhone, backing up the claims with internal Samsung memos that appear to explicitly demonstrate this. Yesterday, Samsung fired back from a completely different angle, stating that key elements of the iPhone and subsequent Apple mobile-device designs, including the pinch-to-zoom feature, were actually stolen from an earlier Mitsubishi-designed device, which would invalidate Apple's claims.... Read More

For years, the humor in the joke "What's the most common lie in the world? 'I have read and agree to the Terms of Service'" has lain in the fact that no one actually reads all of the Terms of Service (ToS) on websites and apps. In fact, a report released earlier this year found that it would take around 250 hours a year (or a full month of eight-hour workdays) to actually read all the different ToS an average person encounters... Read More