AP – With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections for software. Read the original here: (AP)"> (AP)"> (AP)">Software cos. eye key patent case in Supreme Court (AP) Read Full Story

Have you noticed how many Netbooks are being used these days? These little stripped down machines, most running Windows, are typically under $350 and are so small they can be toted just about anywhere. In the past week, I’ve seen them in meetings, in use at fast food places as people ate their lunch, in a doctor’s office as patients waited to be seen, at a car dealer’s waiting room and even at church, where someone was using a Bible program to follow the preacher. Those who... Read Full Story

Basic program AKVIS ArtSuite applies a limited library of effects and frames to your photos. See the article here: Akvis ArtSuite Makes Photos Framed and Glamorous Read Full Story

Filed under: Software , Odds and ends , Bluetooth , Apple Apple, being the innovative corporation that it is, applies for patents many times per year. While many of these items may never make it to market, the company is proactive in making sure that possible patents are filed as soon as possible in order to protect the intellectual property that’s been developed. One such filing from last year describes a fascinating cloud-based, cross-platform sync service referred to as ” Grab... Read Full Story

Filed under: Software , Internet , Internet Tools Bambooapps has released a simple and useful utility called Quiet Read that has earned a spot on my Mac’s menubar. With a simple drag-and-drop, it lets you save a web page for later review. Of course, there are many apps that do this, including Instapaper and Evernote . Instapaper gets the job done via a bookmarklet; just give it a click while at the desired URL and it’s saved. Evernote does pretty much the same thing, thought thei... Read Full Story

Filed under: Hardware , Retail , Odds and ends , Apple , Holidays As a guy who likes shopping online, but who still appreciates the act of going into a retail store for big purchases, I love this news. Apple has introduced a “Reserve and Pick-up” service for the holiday season. The name is a little unwieldy, but it gets the point across. You go onto the Apple web site to find what you want, click to reserve the product at a nearby Apple Store, and then go to the store and pick up... Read Full Story

The origins of Halloween date back 2000 years to the times of the Celts who lived around the British Isles and Northern France. 1st November was their new year, the end of the summer after the harvest had been collected. The night before was their Samhain festival when they believed the worlds of the living and the dead were closest and the dead could return to earth. On the night of 31st October the Druids lit huge bonfires where people offered crops and animals as sacrificial offering to th... Read Full Story

Filed under: Software , Odds and ends , Developer , Deals , iPhone Want an iPhone app business without all the boring hassle of actually programming and releasing iPhone apps? Boy, does Brice Milliorn have a deal for you! He’s auctioning off his iPhone app business , which he says has 87 different apps for sale, over on eBay . Milliorn says he started out developing apps on his own, but the business is just too big for him to keep up so he’s selling all of the apps and their righ... Read Full Story

We’re not going to name any of the bands here – we don’t want to encourage them – but we know it’s there, and also know this music isn’t stocked at high street music retailers, so why is it at Apple ? Now, you could argue that this is … Read the original here:  iTunes and the Nazi blunders | 9 to 5 Mac Read Full Story

The great thing about offering a hugely-popular development environment for a successful mobile device is just how quickly 1000,000 apps can reach your App Store, but Apple’s developers complain app discovery is flawed, leaving many … Read the original:  Chorus makes App discovery simple and social | 9 to 5 Mac Read Full Story