Tom's Hardware US. Steve Jobs and Jony Ive named as the smartphone's inventors. Nearly six years after its debut, Apple's original iPhone has won a patent, with Steve Jobs and Jony Ive being named as the device's two inventors. Recently granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the patent is for the design of the handset. Specifically, it's for "the ornamental design of an electronic device. " As well as Apple's head design chief Jony Ive and the firm's late co-founder Steve Jobs, other employees credited for the invention are Bartley Andre, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Richard Howarth, Duncan Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Rohrbach, Douglas Satzger, Calvin Seid, Christopher Stringer, Eugene Whang and Rico Zorkendorfer.
The original iPhone was unveiled by Jobs himself during the January of 2007 at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Apple, however, was taken to court by Cisco Systems, who argued that it owned the rights to the name "iPhone" in the United States. Groupon Adds Self-Serve Deal Platform, Says It's the "Future" Groupon is testing a new feature called Groupon Stores, which allows local businesses to create Facebook-like pages where fans can follow them and access deals. The businesses can add their own deals, bypassing Groupon's long waiting lines in each city, but do they have more than enough to keep track of already?
Each business that signs up receives its own page with a web address that begins "groupon.com/merchants/" and can offer details about itself along with deals similar to those hosted on the main section of the Groupon website. Only a few businesses are testing the feature at present. Despite the small scale of the roll-out, Groupon describes Stores as "the future of Groupon" on its website. This would seem to imply that someone at the startup believes that these selve-serve deals and pages may eventually eclipse Groupon's featured daily deals. Certainly, Groupon has been bottle-necked somewhat because it can't serve every business that wants to offer a deal to its local community. Enterprise Social Software | Wikis, Microblogging & Feeds - Wiki communities for everyone! -- Wikia.com. Exotic Liability - ...home of the best InfoSec community on the.