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It was just last week when Apple posted an acknowledgement letter on its official page saying that the U.K court did not find Samsung guilty of copying the iPad. The letter sounded disinterested, and it seems as if Apple was apologizing without really meaning it. Somehow the U.K. court felt it and is now reprimanding Apple for the choice of words on its website.

Apple has been ordered to revise its statement within 48 hours after the U.K. court considered its statement last week to be “non-compliant.” The Guardian reports that Judges Lord Justice Longmore, Lord Justice Kitchin and Sir Robin Jacob were not pleased with Apple’s failure to put a simpler statement on the site. Apple reportedly contested that it would take at least 14 days to revise the statement – a claim that one judge cannot believe.

“Apple must now within 48 hours publish a correction on their homepage with a link to the corrected statement in not less than 11-point font,” said Darren Smyth of EIP Partners. A few months ago, at the height of the Apple versus Samsung trial, the U.K. court ordered Apple to issue a notice on its website and in several British newspapers that Samsung didn’t infringe any of the iPad’s patents.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Dutch court rules in Samsung’s favor in patent infringement case with Apple, Apple loses appeal in UK against Samsung,

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DALLAS, Oct 31 (Reuters) – The number of people infected with the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in the United States continues to grow, but the pace of this year’s outbreak is slowing, federal health officials said on Wednesday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 4,891 people have contracted the disease, up from 4,725 a week ago. The virus killed four more people in the past week, bringing this year’s death toll to 223.

The outbreak appears to be slowing, with 166 new cases reported during the last week, down from 199 the week before, according to CDC data. The week’s death toll dropped to four, down from 36 during the previous week.

Just over half the cases reported to the CDC this year have been of the severe nueroinvasive form of the disease, which can cause meningitis and encephalitis. West Nile Fever, the less severe form, causes flu-like symptoms and is rarely lethal.

More than 70 percent of cases have been concentrated in 10 states: Texas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Illinois, South Dakota, Michigan, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Colorado.

Texas has been the hardest hit, accounting for more than a third of all cases, with Dallas-Fort Worth at the center of the outbreak.

According to the latest tally from the Texas Department of State Health Services, 1,718 people in the state have contracted the virus this year, and 78 people have died.

“We’re still seeing new cases, but we’re seeing the pace slow down quite a bit,” said Chris Van Deusen, a spokesman for the Texas Department of State Health Services.

CDC officials said warm weather is a factor in a West Nile outbreak and colder weather suppresses mosquito activity. The worst year for West Nile-related deaths was 2002, when 284 people died as a result of the virus, the CDC said. (Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Stacey Joyce)

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MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin legislators sent a letter to a suburban Milwaukee police chief accusing his department of allowing a man who fatally shot his wife and two others at a spa to elude accountability in his past run-ins with the agency.

The letter asks for an independent and transparent investigation of the Brown Deer Police Department’s interactions with Radcliffe Haughton and the department’s domestic violence policies and practices. Haughton opened fire on Oct. 21 at the Brookfield spa where his wife, Zina Haughton, worked before killing himself.

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This is clever. Instead of joining the fray with just another small, wireless speaker, JBL made the Soundfly, which is a small, wireless speaker that supports itself from an electrical plug. Talk about plug and play, amirite.

Using a standard electrical jack, the Soundfly plugs into an outlet, where it can live out its days hanging from the wall, playing Dashboard Confessional streamed from a wireless device. There’s a Bluetooth and Airplay versions, for $179 and $199, respectively.

The Soundfly joins the rest of the small speakers currently flooding the market. But it’s different. It’s not portable and is semi-permanent. But by hanging from an outlet, JBL ingeniously resolved two of the inherent downfalls with portable speakers: where do you put it and how does it stay charged. Sure, this little speaker might not be the best solution for everyone, but it’s a fine alternative to a Jambox or Jabra Solemate (my personal fav) if the speaker is just going to be used a single location anyway.

If you’re an avid Amazon Cloud Drive user and happen to use an Android device as your daily driver, you might be pleased to know that Amazon released an app to help you take care of all your photos. The Cloud Drive Photos app from Amazon looks to put your photos in the cloud and organize them for quick and easy access.

Amazon is making it easy to save photos that you take with your Android device to your Cloud Drive with the new app. All you have to do is press and hold down on a photo on your Android device, and select “Upload to Cloud Drive.” After that, you can view the photos in any web browser or on your other Android devices.

You can also share photos directly from your Cloud Drive accounts to other social apps, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and even email. However, the app doesn’t have an automatic upload feature like Google+ and Dropbox, but for those who want a simpler photo storage app that looks good, Amazon’s offering seems to be a good bet.

Amazon says that it’s Photos app, along with its MP3 app, is already integrated into the company’s new Kindle Fire HD tablet, but now you can take advantage of the service on your own Android device. Amazon’s Cloud Drive provides 5GB of storage for free, and you can purchase more storage starting at $10 per year for 20GB.

The Cloud Drive Photos app is a free download and is available now in the Google Play Store as well as the Amazon Appstore for Android.

Amazon Cloud Drive Photos app launches for Android is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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