Apple, HTC settle patent dispute

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HTC and Apple® have reached a global settlement that includes the dismissal of all current lawsuits and a ten-year license agreement. The license extends to current and future patents held by both parties. The terms of the settlement are confidential.

What your Web design says about you

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Ella-raye Dickens for DesignModo:

When people ask me to describe the importance of web design – I often compare it to the front cover of a book. As with a book – you often judge the content inside on the front cover – whether you consciously intend to or not.

The Nickelback story

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I know people hate them, but they make millions of dollars and sell out concerts everywhere.

Doxie One — ‘Paperless made personal’

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Just announced: Doxie One, the easy new way to go paperless for just $149.

Doxie One scans your paper – simply, automatically, and with no computer required. To scan, just push the button and insert your sheet. Doxie scans anywhere with a simple, elegant design.

When you’re ready to organize, sync scans to your Mac or iPad, just like a digital camera. Doxie’s elegant Mac app creates multi-page searchable PDFs you can save or send to Evernote, Dropbox, or via iMessage. Doxie even works with your iPad with both Apple’s Lightning and 30-pin SD Card Reader accessories.

Reserve your new Doxie One today – just $149.

Note-Taking

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“When you take down almost everything, it becomes a disease.”

That’s the category I would fall into. I think mine comes from doing so many live updates over the years though. When you are trying to quote people all the time, the need to get everything is important.

Happy Birthday Poynter

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The Poynter Institute is a non-profit school for journalism located in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Mismatch

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Horace Dediu:

If stores did not show any effect of poor management, then why was Browett fired? I suspect it had mostly to do with a mis-match of understanding of the job the stores are hired to do by consumers and by Apple itself. The company treats the stores as a sales channel but also as a communications channel with its customers.

A complete and total mismatch.

Pocket

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I setup Pocket on my Mac and iPhone1 and I really like what I see so far. It’s interesting that even though the company has a Mac app available, I actually like using the Web site more. I think it’s probably because most of the things I save are from Reeder or Web browser, so I’m already there. Switching to the app just seems like an extra step for me. But that’s the way I work, everyone is different.

  1. I’ll do my iPad this weekend. ↩

Apple named the world’s most innovative company

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For the third year in a row, we asked our survey participants to name the companies they thought were the world’s most innovative. This year, Apple didn’t just top the rankings (as it did the past two years); it increased its lead substan- tially. The company — which in Au- gust 2012 became the most valuable in history, measured by market capi- talization — was named by almost 80 percent of respondents as one of the three most innovative companies in the world, up from 70 percent last year.

You can download the PDF report.

Sony’s debt rating one notch above junk

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The downgrade to Baa3 from Baa2 follows a one-notch cut by Moody’s in October, which also said its outlook on the firm remained negative. Another cut would lower its rating to junk, forcing some funds to offload its debt and curtailing the company’s ability to raise money in credit markets.

It’s really sad. They were once such a powerful company with great products.

Dan Lyons’ angry writing

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Dan Lyons was funny as Fake Steve Jobs, but as someone trying to be taken seriously as a writer, he’s failing. He seems angry, bitter and completely out of touch.

Apple’s app approval process

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Tricia Duryee for All Things D:

Apple has been criticized for a slow approval process before, and many delight in the fact that Google’s Android has none at all.

Okay, I’ve heard about Apple’s approval process slowing down, as it does sometimes, but comparing it to Google is just ridiculous. Android is infested with malware and to not even bring that up is misleading readers.

Guitar Rig 5 Pro

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I’ve been using Guitar Rig since it was first introduced and love. I was just in my studio build a couple of new presets and realized how versatile the app is for customizing your guitar tone. It comes with a lot of amps and cabs, but my favorite component is Control Room Pro.

Control Room Pro gives your eight slots to put in amps, mics, adjust mic placement, adjust phase and room ambient sound. You can also adjust the volume of each cabinet you add. That will definitely give you a custom sound.

It’s worth taking a look at.

AT&T and FaceTime

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AT&T has made a shift in its highly unpopular FaceTime over cellular policies today. Previously, it would allow the use of FaceTime only on Mobile Share plans, now it will allow any LTE device customers (aka those with an iPhone 5 and LTE iPads) on a tiered data plan to use FaceTime over cellular.

That still leaves 3G devices out of the mix. However, there are far fewer LTE devices being used than 3G and I don’t think AT&T’s network could handle all the traffic if they opened it up completely.