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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: vansmack on November 30, 2006, 09:30:00 pm
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Apple requests patent for combo iPod, phone
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal - 2:33 PM PST Thursday
Apple Computer Inc. has asked for a patent to protect a planned device combining a mobile phone with its iPod music player, according to reports Thursday.
With the public revelation of the patent application, which was filed in August, Cupertino-based Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) fueled expectations that it may soon may sell a so-called iPhone.
Analysts have expected CEO Steve Jobs to branch out into an iPod-related line, capitalizing on the device's intense popularity, and speculated recently that an iPod may be in the works that merges a phone and adds up to $1.5 billion to the company's annual sales.
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and in other ipod news:
Students Hack Popular Device to Track Jogger's Whereabouts (http://www.livescience.com/technology/061130_jog_hack.html) (short newsy version)
Devices That Tell On You: The Nike+iPod Sport Kit (http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/systems/privacy.html) (longer version)
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Wait, with the nike ipod thing you can track someone from upto 60feet away.
Shit! I smaell so bad you could probabaly sniff me out from 10 times that distance. What a storm in a teacup
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true dat, but to my knowledge body odor-to-GoogleMapsAPI isn't possible. if ever it was, we'd have a new expression: "you smell so bad, i can track you on Google Maps" :)