Apple announces opening of Apple Via del Corso store in Rome

By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Apple has transformed and preserved Rome’s grand Palazzo Marignoli, making it the site of the 17th Apple Store in Italy.Apple Via del CorsoApple is to open its Apple Via del Corso store in Rome on May 27, 2021. Ahead of the launch, the company has detailed how it worked on what Apple describes as one of its “most significant restoration projects.”…

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MemoryWeb sues Apple over Photos app ‘Places’ and ‘People’ tech

By news@appleinsider.com (Mikey Campbell) MemoryWeb, developer of a photo organizer app, claims Apple’s Photos and supporting services infringe on patents covering methods of organizing and viewing a photographic archive based on properties like location, tagged people and other identifiers.Lodged with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on Tuesday, …

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Apple’s iBeacon targeted in patent infringement lawsuit

By news@appleinsider.com (Mikey Campbell) In what appears to be yet another lawsuit lodged by a non-practicing entity, Apple on Tuesday was hit with a complaint claiming its iBeacon technology infringes on multiple patents owned by a Texas company.Lodged with the patent holder-friendly U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, the suit from BillJCo claims Apple infringed on a total of six instrumentalities with the release of iBeacon in 2013.Introduced with iOS 7, iBeacon is a …

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