As an alternative to the web radio function, MINI Connected customers can also use an Apple iPhone to activate the Mission Control function.
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Apple can use iPhone for the phone, or for a gaming device, because they have that trademark in that sector.
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Another option would be for Apple to use Bluetooth Low Energy for payments and Apple has already included those chips in the iPhone 4s, but more on that another time.
In the media world, Apple pushes the envelope with publishers who use iPhone and iPad apps to deliver content.
Brazilian regulators have ruled that Apple does not have exclusive rights to use the "iPhone" trademark in the country.
This could be the product that Apple will use to fill the void until the next iPhone and iPad are released.
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The figures also suggest that Apple devices such as the iPhone, which use products such as its Maps as well as Google Search in its Safari browser, generated more than four times as much revenue for Google as its own handsets in the same period.
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Apple has paid millions for its exclusive use of the word iPhone in the past and will likely pay IGB as well.
For example, Apple delivers email to iPhone and iPad users who use Exchange by way of a license for ActiveSync, a Microsoft protocol.
Cisco had to sue Apple in the Federal District Court for Northern California to force Apple to pay Cisco for the rights to use the name iPhone.
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To use the service, customers simply attach the cover to their Apple iPhone 4 or iPhone 4s and follow the on-screen instructions to download the TouchPay app from the Apple App Store.
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The company added that it expects Apple to continue to use the technology in older version of the iPhone.
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Analysts and industry watchers expect the company to announce details of its new Meego operating system at the event, an open-sourced mobile operating system on which it has been collaborating with Intel and hopes to use on high-end smart phones that compete with Apple's iPhone.
Apple lets viewers use their own imaginations to create that connection with an iPhone or iPad.
In dispute is an image-preview patent, obtained by Kodak in 2001 and which, according to Bloomberg, would allow Apple and RIM to use less processing power and storage space in their iPhone and Blackberry smartphones.
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Apple has had to defend its privacy practices, most notably its use of iPhone location data, before congressional committees, where executives gave stumbling and vague answers.
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In comparing the Smart Cover information with a former patent filed by the iPhone maker, Patently Apple speculated that users may one day use their iMac as the ultimate charging hub.
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They hope, of course, and it is how the phone companies justify paying Apple so much for their phones, is that iPhone buyers will use their phones far more than before and generate future profits.
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Motorola alleges that Apple's iPhone, iPad, iTouch and some Macintosh computers illegally use Motorola's technology.
By hyping FaceTime in its ads, Apple is encouraging both parties to get iPhone 4s, so they can use it.
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Apple and Cisco agreed to a settlement the following month that allowed both companies use of the iPhone name.
Adding video to the Instagram platform would be a step in the right direction given the ease of use with capturing and sharing video with any Apple iOS capable device be it an iPod, iPad or iPhone or Android powered ones.
When the iPhone was introduced in June 2007, the smartphone market was strictly for business use, but Apple changed that by making a smartphone for consumers.
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When the iPhone was first launched Apple had very little in place to support businesses whose employees were inundating them with requests to use iPhone apps in work.
Therefore, Apple's first use of Intel's Silverthorne chip could be in a next-generation version of its iPhone and iPod Touch.
Apple sells the best-selling iPhone and iPad devices, while Samsung sells a range of phones that use Google's Android software.
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