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Now to Apple has agreed with Microsoft's and Google's to insert functions in their mobile phone operating systems which can make mobile phone thefts pointless. Leading public prosecutors of New York and San Francisco explained on Thursday, the enterprises would integrate in future so-called doing in Switches into Windows Phone and Android. The new software should enable to make stolen Smartphones from a distance useless. The commercial basis would be taken away from thieves' stolen goods would be at best still usable as a door stopper. Apple had already inserted with the iOS 7 published in 2013 an activation barrier in their iPhones and iPads. It blocks the use of a stolen device so long to whose owner announces itself on it with his Apple account and Apple password. The fact that the method functions, the figures which were published in the first annual report of the US initiative Secure our Smartphones (SOS) (PDF) book. Therefore, the number of the iPhone thefts dec...

San José - Samsung must pay to his rival Apple because of patent infringements 119.6 million dollars - converted 86.2 million euros. Some devices of the South Korea niches of electronics group infringed two Apple patents, the jury of a court judged in the Californian San José. Apple had accused the Smartphone market leader Samsung of the infringement of five patents and had demanded compensation at the rate of 2.2 milliard dollars. Samsung rejected the accusations. The South Koreans demanded for their part a good six million dollars of Apple for infringement  of two patents. However, awarded Samsung on Friday got only 158,400 dollars for the  of a camera patent. It is the second patent process of both enterprises in California. In the first one the sworn Apple had awarded about one milliard dollars of compensation in August, 2012. At that time, however, one lasting sales ban aimed by Apple on Samsung mobile phones was not covered. The appeal proceedings are still pend...