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Apple may have just thrown a big bucket of cold water all by the Palm Pre love fest, courtesy of the U.S. Patent Office. The company has officially secured the rights to the technology behind the distinctive multifunction touchscreen found on the iPhone and the iPod

touch — it’s what gives you the ability to pinch and spyour fingers to zoom in and out of a photo or a Web page. The patent plus covers convinced aspects of the iPhone’s hardware, the OS and the camera functions.

[Source] ECT News Staff

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