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Here’s a topic thats gone quiet in recent months:  The Patent Wars…. And this development should be interesting:  C|Net is reporting that Oracle is suing Lodsys in a bid to “invalidate all its patents.”  According to C|Net, Oracle…  filed a suit against the Texas-based patent holder in a U.S. District Court in Wisconsin last week (via GigaOm), [...]

We don’t usually delve into new product reviews here at MacIndie, unless it’s something that you can actually use to help you develop products, but this time we’re going to make an exception, and it’s for a very slick new magazine from the folks over at Hipstamatic and it’s called: Snap. Snap is interesting to [...]

Robert J. Samuelson of the once respectable Washington Post wrote a pretty sad piece today. It started out like this… Before reading this, you should know the following: I do not own an iPad, an iPhone, an iPod or a Mac. I abandoned my typewriter only recently. In short, I have not enlisted in the digital [...]

The day that everyone has expected for the last couple of year has come.  Today, Steve Jobs passed away at 56. I was lucky enough to have met him once at a computer show in New York City in 1979.  That same year my father loaned me over $2,500 with which I bought my first [...]

Mike Lee, the newly minted “mayor” of Appsterdam, made an important announcement yesterday:  The Appsterdam Movement is forming and funding a legal defense collation (“The Appsterdam Legal Defense Fund”) to help indie devs fight the Patent Troll Menace(1). Of course we applaud them and think the fact they have an actual IP pro onboard is a [...]