Google's Internet-Connected Glasses in Improvement
Kamis, 05 April 2012 by Android Blackberry
Google (GOOG) on Wednesday offered a appear at a previously secret project to develop Internet-connected glasses, staking out a lead position within a futuristic and fast-growing region known as wearable computing.
The glasses, which are nonetheless within a prototype stage, would spot a little see-through display screen above a person's eye that may show maps along with other information. The wearer could use voice commands to pull up directions or send a message to a friend. Apple (AAPL), a major Google rival, is also reportedly operating on wearable computers.
But Google has amassed some of the leading professionals in this field within Google X, a organization lab responsible for such projects that was also a business secret just before Wednesday.
-- New York Instances
Judge guidelines on latest Facebook lawsuit maneuvers
A new York man who claims he and Facebook founder Mark
Zuckerberg made a deal nine years ago that entitles him to half-ownership with the social networking giant will not be allowed to query Zuckerberg or search his computers at this point in his federal lawsuit, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Paul Ceglia's lawyers will get the likelihood, even though, to grill Facebook's experts about their findings that Ceglia's lawsuit is according to a fake document.
A federal magistrate judge issued the ruling following the most recent round of legal arguments within a case with potentially billions of dollars at stake.
-- Associated Press
Apple patent claim against Motorola dropped
Apple dropped a claim that Motorola Mobility infringed one particular of its 5 patents at issue in a federal lawsuit in Chicago, although reserving its rights to revive the case after appealing a pretrial ruling.
Apple's move, disclosed in a court filing Wednesday, leaves in play 4 of its patents and three Motorola Mobility patents as the smartphone makers move toward a series of trials ahead of U.S. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner.
"There is going to be 4 trials, all in fast succession," mentioned Posner -- who commonly presides more than appellate circumstances -- in a scheduling order issued Tuesday. The initial trial will start out June 11, Posner mentioned.
The Chicago case is one of quite a few inside the U.S. and elsewhere pitting the iPhone maker against Motorola, which produces phones that use Google's Android operating system.
Google is working to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.
