In its court filings, Skyhook claims that “Having apparently disparaged Skyhook’s technology to Apple, Google proceeded to then launch the same Wi-Fi based location technology by infringing Skyhook’s patents.

That can’t be true—that would be evil and Google’s not evil. Right?

“We’re thrilled to welcome Paul Deneve to Apple,” spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said. “He’ll be working on special projects as a vice president reporting directly to Tim Cook.”

Special projects, eh.

Do not watch this at work or around kids, but watch it.

Nothing like getting pro photography tips from National Geographic.

[Via Laughing Squid]

Interesting article on how Web sites have tried to adapt to touch screens.

Reeder now supports Feedly, Feed Wrangler, Feedbin.me and Fever.

This August, 11 so-called “Steve Jobs schools” will open in the Netherlands, serving 1,000 students primarily through educational apps on Apple’s iPad, replacing everything from books to blackboards.

It will be interesting to see how this goes. If teachers, parents and students are behind the project, then it should work out fine, but it will mean changes and acceptance from all three groups.

Apple seems to win customer satisfaction everywhere.

Note: The link goes to a Google translated page.

Everything you need.

In June of 2013, I made an interesting discovery about the Android phone (a Motorola Droid X2) which I was using at the time: it was silently sending a considerable amount of sensitive information to Motorola, and to compound the problem, a great deal of it was over an unencrypted HTTP channel.

Scroll down and take a look at the information Motorola is gathering about its users.

[Via Ben Brooks]

Rob Fahey, Gamesindustry.biz:

“… Does anyone really think that a senior, superbly wealthy executive has a bad show at E3, hits the phones and organises a new CEO gig at a multi-billion dollar company to parachute himself into in the space of less than a month? As much as it’s a great story to tell – Mattrick fired for Xbox One’s failures, quickly lining up a new role to make it all look better to the world – it’s clearly, patently not accurate.

“Don Mattrick’s intention to leave Microsoft (for Zynga, ultimately, but I believe that other roles were considered) has been around for months. His bosses – including, ultimately, Steve Ballmer, who may have had a direct hand in choreographing this move – will have been informed of Mattrick’s plans for some time and will have been working behind the scenes to figure out a succession plan for the Xbox division. What has changed, I believe, is the timing.”

Microsoft’s head of Interactive Entertainment Business, Don Mattrick, is taking over the reins at embattled social gaming giant Zynga. It’s an interesting departure and the timing is already getting tongues wagging; Rob Fahey tries to take a more measured look at the change.

This is the way I do it. There is no substitute for putting a mic on an amp—mixing in a DI can also add something to the song.

Small roundup on CSS features that will enhance your web typography.

Only Merlin Mann would ever think to do this.

That implies a net present value of about $40 for each account. This is quite a drop from early 2010 when the value was $866.

Wow.

David Chartier:

“Yes, I live a life of confirmatory non-denial. This is why I drink.

“What I can tell you is that if we were working on some things for Apple’s new things, we would probably have some planned for both the short term and less-than-short term. Since the less-than-short term category is the more interesting of the two, I’ll bet you one whiskey sour that things like UI Dynamics and AirDrop in iOS 7 are really fun things to namedrop enigmatically in a blog post.”

These are true.

Appsfire is a delightful and elegant mobile guide to the best apps. If you believe the App store is not doing enough to help you find the apps that are right for you, try Appsfire. It features an incredibly fast and accurate app search, curated lists of apps and deals, it shows you the apps your friends like and more. In addition, they also help developers grow which is very important. Download Appsfire in the App store or get it here.

The Flag of Equal Marriage is an evolving protest flag for equal marriage rights in the US. It includes one star for each state which recognizes and performs same-sex marriages. We want to see the Flag of Equal Marriage with all 50 stars lit up to match the American flag.

These are brilliant.

Jean-Louis Gassée takes a look at recent events at BlackBerry. The outlook isn’t good.

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Ben Bajarin:

Overall, Apple is continuing their trend of adding new and useful features on an annual basis. But more importantly, in the grand scheme of things, OS X Mavericks represents Apple’s commitment to innovate uniquely for different form factors. Apple has drawn a line in the sand and stated with their actions that they believe software for the PC is different and should be treated different than software for tablets and smartphones.

In other words, the total opposite of what Microsoft is trying to accomplish.

Thank goodness.