How to Find Your Stolen i-Phone or Android Phone

First of all on any phone that is missing "Change Your Passwords", File a Police report with the police in the city where the phone was stolen, and Call Your Cell Phone Company

FOR i-PHONES...

 Track the iPhone... http://ipod.about.com/od/theappstore/The_App_Store_for_the_iPhone_3G_iPhone_and_iPod_touch.htm


There are a number of ways to use the iPhone's built-in GPS to track a stolen iPhone. Apple's free Find My iPhone service (the link above takes you to more information about it) and many third-party apps from the App Store will help you locate the phone geographically. Getting this data can be crucial for recovering the phone. Some of these apps, including Find My iPhone, also allow you to remotely change security settings.

FOR ANDROID PHONES...

Why is Plan B for Android Better Than "Find My iPhone?"
How to Use Plan B... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb

So how do you use Plan B? It's simple:

Go the app's page on the Android Market and click on the blue "Install" button next to the app's icon. (You must be signed in to your Google account first).

A pop-up box will appear asking you to confirm which device you're sending it to (if you have more than one) and displays the permissions the app is requesting. Click the "install" button again to complete the process.

Plan B will download directly to your phone and then emails you at Gmail with its location. (If that doesn't work, borrow someone's phone and text "locate" to your phone number).
That's it!

You'll initially get one email when the app starts and then up to five more when your phone's location changes over the next 10 minutes. Each location will have an accuracy rating next to it, to help you better determine the phone's exact location. If you aren't able to find your phone in the first 10 minutes, just text "locate" again to re-trigger the tracking process and emails.

Some users report annoyance with the frequency of emails sent, so for now, it's recommended that you uninstall the app after you find your phone. Also, it should be noted that GPS isn't implemented in the same way on all Android devices, it relies on your phone having access to a signal and it won't work if the phone is switched off. In tests, Plan B wasn't always accurate in some of its emails, but other emails (the ones with a higher accuracy rating), the location was more precise.

Plan B only works in the U.S. at present.

Plan B may not always be a free option for Android user, unfortunately. Lookout tells us that it's free for now because it's still in the experimental phase. That may or may not change in the future. Hopefully, you'll never have to use an app like this, of course, but if you ever do need one, Plan B is one is good to know about.

Sources.... http://readwrite.com/2011/03/04/how_to_find_a_lost_or_stolen_android_phone_for_free#awesm=~o96Pe2lgBofNfJ      
AND   
   http://ipod.about.com/od/iphonetroubleshooting/tp/What-To-Do-When-Iphone-Is-Stolen.htm  

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Apple Pays Out $53 Million For Water Damage Lawsuit

The plaintiffs in this class-action lawsuit claimed that Apple instructed its retail store employees to deny warranty coverage for products that sustained liquid damage.

This isn’t anything new: many tech companies have strict policies for water damage in their products to prevent consumer abuse.

However, it appears that the small strips of paper within every Apple product – paper that changes color when exposed to water, verifying the device’s cause of death and voiding the warranty – have also been known the change colors when the iPhone or iPod was subject to moisture or humidity in the air during normal use.

Apple vehemently denied these claims, refusing to honor the warranty of their consumers. However, it was finally decided that Apple was to pay for the damaged products, resulting in a $53 million paycheck made out to about 150,000 members of the class-action lawsuit, each eligible to receive about $300.

This isn’t Apple’s first time getting involved in class-action trouble – CEO Tim Cook was forced to apologize to Chinese consumers on the grounds that Apple was discriminating against the Chinese as well as supplying them with shoddy products.

Read More... http://www.thetechupdate.com/apple-pays-out-53m-for-water-damage-lawsuit/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Judge Slashes Apple's $1 Billion Victory Over Samsung by $450 Million

A new trial will be held to determine damages over Samsung's utility patent infringement.

Cutting a huge chunk out of a $1 billion jury verdict? There's an app for that.

The judge who presided over Apple's patent and trademark lawsuit against Samsung last summer has determined that the jury made a mistake in coming up with damages and has slashed the award by more than $450 million.

After the August verdict, there was, of course, an appeal, as well as the parties' respective attempts to get the judge to up and lower the amount of damages awarded.

On Friday, Apple lost a bid to increase damages while Samsung prevailed on one point that will mean a new trial on damages for several products.

After a review of how the jury came up with $1 billion -- or $1.05 billion for those who like to round to the nearest $50 million -- it was determined that the jury awarded 40 percent of Samsung's profits on a wide range of products, and in some cases, added Apple's lost profits.

In some instances, like trade dress and design patents, that's fine, but not with respect to infringement on "utility patents," which protects a new and useful process.

Among the utility patents that Apple had alleged Samsung had violated was one that covered enlarging documents by tapping the screen, the bounce-back effect that a mobile user sees when scrolling down to the end, and the pinch to zoom feature.

"The jury's award was apparently based on Samsung's profits, which is an impermissible type of compensation for utility patent infringement," writes Judge Lucy Koh.

Had the jury calculated solely on Apple's lost profits rather than the infringer's profits, the jury award might have been in the clear, but now, the judge says it is "tainted."

Judge Koh also notes that the jury's awards for patent infringement was based on an Apple expert's numbers using a calendar date that Samsung was put on notice. But the judge says that the jury may have been told a too early notice date, which might have resulted in "excess compensation covering the period before Samsung had notice of the relevant IP."

Read More... http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/apple-verdict-samsungs-1-billion-425647