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As world’s most-sued tech company, Apple is forced to ‘lawyer up’

Apple, the most-sued technology company in the world since after the iPhone was released, is stocking up on lawyers for patent battles with rivals Nokia, HTC and Motorola.

According to Businessweek, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs is recruiting lawyers who have experience fighting for and against some of the world’s largest technology companies. The legal battle is seen as an effort to stop Android, the competing mobile operating system from search giant Google.

“Apple has hired some of the nation’s top patent lawyers as outside counsel,” authors Adam Satariano and Susan Decker wrote. “They include Ropert Krupka of Kirkland & Ellis, who negotiated a 2005 settlement in which Apple agreed to pay $100 million to Creative Technology Ltd., maker of the Zen music player; William Lee WilmerHale in Boston, who successfully represented Broadcom Corp in its fight against Qualcomm; and Matt powers of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, who successfully defended the patent on Merck & Co.’s biggest product, the $4.7 billion-a-year asthma drug Singulair.”

Apple’s legal efforts are led by Bruce Sewell, the company’s general counsel. It also added Noreen Krall, former chief intellectual property counsel for Sun Microsystems and IBM, as an in-house attorney this year.

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AppStore Reviews: “Photo Transfer App”

The application developer’s description of the application is, “Photo Transfer App allows you to easily download photos from your iPhone to your computer as well as exchange photos from and to your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. Transfer photos over WiFi, no cables or extra software required.

Application Features:

* Easily download multiple photos from your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch to your computer (Windows and Mac)

* Upload photos and videos from your computer to your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch – Photos are saved to the ‘Saved photos’ album

* Exchange photos and videos between multiple iPhone, iPad or iTouch devices

* Select up to 50 photos to transfer at one time (32 on iPhone 3G and 1st. generation)

* Transfer short videos (5 mins or less) from iPhone to iPad

* Very fast download and transfer

* No cables or extra software required

* Works with computers running Windows, Mac and Linux

* Your photos and videos are transferred directly from device to device using your local wifi network. They are not stored in an external server and they never leave your local wifi network.

* Pay only ONCE to install this app on your iPhone and iPad (as long as the same iTunes account is used on both devices)

Requirements:

* Access to a wifi network is required for this application to work

* To transfer photos from one device to another both devices need to have this app installed. You only pay once when both devices use the same iTunes account to purchase apps

[Thanks: http://www.americanconsumernews.com]