One of the last remnants of Steve Ballmer’s legacy at Microsoft surfaced this week in a patent filing originally filed early last year seeking the rights to a notification mechanism for...
Consumers may not have to endure through the game of whack-a-mole that the mobile industry has been playing with security exploits on Android for much longer if one of the newest projects at...
It appears that the industrial designers over at Samsung have expanded their creative horizons beyond Apple products to include parodies of Apple products as well, one of which in...
The first patents appeared in fifteen-century Venice, as royal decries granting inventors the protection of the Republic, but the concept of intellectual property dates back much further than that to...
As a $340 billion company, Microsoft naturally has its activities spread out over a great many areas, the least advertised of which is probably robotics. Its vast developer division includes a...
The irony is hard to miss. On the very same day that Variety broke the news Samsung has killed off a secretive internal program to develop a new kind of remote meant to change the way you interact...
Though it may be the hardest, designing a product is only the first step towards getting to market. No less important is the manufacturing process, which dictates how fast and how economically a...
Like other web giants, Google constantly experiments with new technologies to hedge its chances of stumbling across the next big thing. But one ambitious pet project has apparently turned into...
The Internet of Things has emerged as a fertile creative breeding ground for manufacturers, but it’s up to you to decide whether that turned out for the better or the worse in this particular case....
Stealth startups are by definition secretive about their work, but it’s difficult to keep secrets when you have to file patents. And so it came to be that nine months after its registration, a very...