{"id":5759,"date":"2007-08-07T15:29:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T15:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/apple-vs-sp-technologies.html"},"modified":"2007-08-07T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T15:29:45","slug":"apple-vs-sp-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/science\/apple-vs-sp-technologies.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple vs. SP Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Can you imagine a world where iPhones didn&rsquo;t have access to touch screen technology? Well a company called SP Technologies has a patent on what seems to be the keyboard mechanism on the Apple iPhone. Will this mean Apple is doomed? Probably not. Let&rsquo;s see how this one plays out. Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio-today.com\/story.xhtml?story_id=01300000F5Y7&amp;nl=5\">story<\/a> from CIO Today.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">TMCnet&#8217;s Tim Gray also covered the <a href=\"http:\/\/internetcommunications.tmcnet.com\/topics\/broadband-mobile\/articles\/9298-lawsuits-target-iphone.htm\">news<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine a world where iPhones didn&rsquo;t have access to touch screen technology? Well a company called SP Technologies has a patent on what seems to be the keyboard mechanism on the Apple iPhone. Will this mean Apple is doomed? Probably not. Let&rsquo;s see how this one plays out. Here is the story from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,172,160,188,116,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}