Patent reveals iPhone translation via Siri

A patent filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office last spring shows that Apple is planning to equip its Siri voice recognition with a babel fish-like language translation capability. The patent describes a cloud-based system that captures audio in one language and then issues a translation in the user’s language. The voice commands …

Apple nabs more patents for multitouch, iWork

A depiction of Apple's latest patent related to multitouch (Credit:USPTO ) as the patent battles and bubbles continue to grow, Apple has secured the rights to several more patents of its own. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today published a series of 16 patents now owned by the Cupertino, Calif.-based company, according to Patently …