Patents stories

 
While shopping apps for smartphones are dime-a-dozen, generally there's not much they can do other than, well, give you a list. If you asked us who would be first in line to improve that experience, Nintendo is not a company we'd name, but this patent application for a semi-interactive shopping experience on the DS handheld has us standing corrected.
 
The US Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple a patent for its idea for a "text-based communication control for personal communication device[s]." Let me translate that for you: no more naughty words in text. The idea has a lot of folks up in arms, but, really, you shouldn't care. Here's why.

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