Apples' new patents

[krissel]

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/i...er=yahoofinance

Social networking:

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-appl...evelopment.html

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-appl...-portables.html

QUOTE

The introduction states" Equally important, in my view, is that this patent points to a new unique camera built into a future iPhone that will allow the user to rotate the position of the optical sensor within the iPhone's housing so that a single optical sensor could be used for both video conferencing and still and/or video image acquisition. Turn the camera out for pictures and turn the camera in for video conferencing. That may end up really being the magic to this patent."

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-appl...-to-iphone.html

Virtual online 3-D store:

 http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-appl...pple-store.html

This looks like old news:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?...%22Apple+Inc%22