Posts by Rob LeFebvre

Judge-Lucy-Koh

In case you’ve missed it, there are currently two cases being heard by US District Judge Lucy Koh in the Apple v Samsung patent legal struggle. The first one, Apple won a $1.05 billion verdict last fall against Samsung, which Judge Koh pulled about $450 million off of, and then ordered a new damages trial. She also rejected Apple’s request for a permanent sales ban. Apple appealed, but we’re waiting for a ruling till September, most likely.

You say you want a revolution, well, you know.

You say you want a revolution, well, you know.

Leading mobile comics app developer, Comixology, has finally opened up the program they teased last fall: Comixology Submit, a new publishing idea that may help independent comics creators find their audience.

Basically, it allows comics creators the ability to submit their comics to the program and potentially be distributed on one of the biggest platforms for digital comics today, right next to the likes of Spiderman, Superman, and other professionally produced books. Users on iOS, Android, Windows 8, and the web can then find and download these indie gems, and creators split the profits down the middle with Comixology.

Bye bye, TweetDeck mobile, we hardly knew ye.

Bye bye, TweetDeck mobile, we hardly knew ye.

Twitter, the social networking company, purchased TweetDeck, the Twitter application company, back in May of 2011. Today, the Twitter-owned TweetDeck announced that it was discontinuing support for the venerable stand-alone Twitter clients on Android, iOS, and desktop computers via Adobe AIR, ostensibly to concentrate on the TweetDeck web experience.

While many current users of the clients may disagree, Twitter feels that its user base is both better served on the web, and that the decision mirrors the real-time activity of those very same TweetDeck customers.

Now with more green robots!

Now with more green robots!

If you’ve played SpellTower on iOS, you’ll know what a big deal this is. Zach Gage’s utterly unique and addictive take on word game play will launch on the Google Play Store this Thursday, March 7, 2013.

Kind of look like boomerangs, right?

Kind of look like boomerangs, right?

Vanity Fair today released a brand new architectural rendering of the plans for Google’s new office building complex, called ‘Bay View.’ The new campus, planned for Mountain View, near San Francisco Bay, comes after the recently aborted Googleplex plans fell through, and will have nine different structures, each four stories high, shaped like bent rectangles. These shapes are arranged to form different-sized courtyards, while several of the buildings seem to have green roofs, perhaps planned as rooftop gardens, cafes, and possibly meeting spaces. There are bridges connecting all the separate buildings, and there are no cars to be found within the rendered plan.

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