Lodsys Sues Seven App Developers In East Texas, Includes Android App

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My last post about Lodsys was "Will Apple's Letter To Lodsys Save App Deelopers?" based on information gathered at Foss Patents blog. And again through the same blog, I learn that at least it did not save seven developers who are being sued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the troll-friendly venue.
Lodsys also says that it disagrees with Apple has responded to Apple via a letter about ""a detailed legal position on the license interpretation issue"". Lodsys invites Apple to publish the letter. Lodsys also says that it will pay $1000 to all the developers whom it sent letters of infringement, if it turns out that the scope of Apple's existing license rights apply to fully license developers who develop for iOS
The seven app developers being sued, includes at least one app is from the Android camp, one MAC app (Twitterfic) and two of the seven developers are from outside of the USA.
The Seven developers are;

• Combay, Inc. of Roanoke, Texas; accused of infringement of Lodsys's '565 and '078 patents with (at least) Mega Poker Online Texas Holdem for iPhone
• Iconfactory, Inc. of Greensboro, North Carolina; accused of infringement of Lodsys's '565 and '078 patents with (at least) Twitterrific for iPhone, Twitterriffic for iPad, and Twitterriffic for Mac
• Illusion Labs AB of Malmö, Sweden; accused of infringement of Lodsys's '565 and '078 patents with (at least) Labyrinth for iPhone and Labyrinth for Android
• Michael G. Karr [doing business as] Shovelmate of Las Vegas, Nevada; accused of infringement of Lodsys's '565 and '078 patents with (at least) 69 Positions for iPhone
• Quickoffice, Inc. of Austin Texas; accused of infringement of Lodsys's '565 and '078 patents with (at least) Quickoffice Connect for iPhone
• Richard Shinderman of Brooklyn, New York; accused of infringement of Lodsys's '565 and '078 patents with (at least) Hearts and Daggers for iPhone
• Wulven Games of Hanoi, Vietnam; accused of infringement of Lodsys's '565 and '078 patents with (at least) Shadow Era for iPhone

There is too much legal mambo jumbo surrounding this issues and if you are really interested, visit FOSS Patents to read a more legalistic view of the matter. You will also find the links to Lodsys blogs etc.
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Tweetcasts with TwieetMic, The Voice Twitter

TweetMic
If you felt you were limited by 140 character limitation of twitter and wanted to type or say more? I again had to think why didn't I think of that. Tweetmic, a Twitter client app for the iPhone allows you to make high-quality audio recordings or "Tweetcasts" and publish them directly to Twitter. There is no limit to how much you can record and you don't need to sign up for any additional service to start using TweetMic. It will be a great addition to applications like twitterrific.
Following are some of the features of Tweetmic

• Incredibly simple and intuitive interface
• Quickly record audio and publish to Twitter
• Review your recordings before publishing
• Easily overwrite old recordings by hitting "record" again
• Create unique and engaging Tweetcasts in no time
• Ultra high recording sound quality
• Unlimited recording time
• Uses your existing Twitter account, no additional signup
• Navigate and listen to your published audio tweets
• Your tweets stay live unless you delete them
• Easy management of your audio tweets at tweetmic.com

You can get it directly from Apple App Store. You also could listen to a tweetcast by Jeff Pulver by following this link.

Tags: Tweetcasts, TweetMic, twitter, Twitterrific

Twittering With iPhone

Twitter Client For iPhone
We wrote about Twitterrific, a twetter app for iPhone and we felt that we should also write about another twitter App for iPhone, that one of our members in love with, Tweetie. Tweetie managed to get banned from iTunes AppStore but also managed to get back in the app Store, Tweetie 1.3. This twitter client for iPhone from Atebits has it's own list of features;

• Handle multiple twitter accounts.
• View your timeline, replies, direct messages and favorites.
• Browse your friends and followers.
• Post new tweets, retweet.
• Reply directly to tweets and send direct messages.
• Follow and unfollow people.
• Mark tweets as favorites.
• Navigate reply chains.
• Inline web browser.
• Post links with automatic link shrinking via bit.ly.
• Upload pictures to twitpic.com.
• Update your twitter location.
• View twitter trends and perform custom searches.
• Save your favorite searches.
• Implements the full twitter API.
• Uses secure connection (https).
• Go to User shortcut
• Nearby search
• Themes and adjustable font size
• Bookmarklet support

atebits

Tags: twitter, iPhone, tweetie, Twitterrific, atebits

Twitterrific 2.0 For iPhone.

Twitter For iPhone.
I have tested a few applications for iPhone that will help me to keep up with my twitter needs. I was not very happy but managed to to get along. Then came the Twitterrific, now I enjoy twittering on my iPhone.

Twitterrific is free to use if you are willing to put up with an inline advertisement at the top of the timeline. If you find the ads intrusive or want to support the developers, you can purchase Twitterrific Premium via the App Store which removes the advertising.

The twitterrific brings support for multiple twitter accounts, searches, trends & filters, new visual themes and layouts, conversation threads, a greatly improved posting interface, marked tweets and more.

Tags: Twitterrific For iPhone, Twitterrific, iPhone, twitter