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Samsung’s latest weapon against Apple: An emoticon

Samsung Electronics is hoping to kill Apple in the courtroom with a smile. Samsung tacked on four new patents in fresh complaints brought against Apple in a German court, according to legal blog FOSS Patents. One of the patents involves a method of entering an emoticon on the screen. The patents were brought up amid deliberations in two separate trials …

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Siri gains access to entire Best Buy catalog

Because of Apple’s partnership with search comparison engine Wolfram Alpha, Siri now has the ability to search the entire Best Buy catalog, a feature added to Wolfram Alpha today. Best Buy has public APIs that have allowed Wolfram Alpha to leverage the data from more than 35,000 products that Best Buy sells. Because Wolfram Alpha was built on a natural-language …

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