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billywows
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11-Jan-2007 22:30
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What a JOKE!!! ------------ SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Cisco Systems Inc. on Wednesday sued Apple Inc., claiming that the maker of computers and media players doesn't have permission to name its newest device the iPhone.
Cisco has owned the trademark for "iPhone" since 2000, the result of its purchase of InfoGear, which owned the trademark previously. Since December, Cisco's wireless division, Linksys, has been shipping a family of cordless and wireless phones under the iPhone brand.
"We think Cisco's trademark lawsuit is silly," said Natalie Kerris, an Apple spokeswoman.
Several companies already use the name "iPhone" for Voice-over-Internet products, Kerris said.
"Apple is the first company to ever use the 'iPhone' name for a cell phone," she said. "We believe that Cisco's trademark registration is tenuous at best."
Kerris added: "If Cisco wants to challenge us on it, we are very confident we would prevail."
Late Wednesday, Cisco asked a U.S. district judge for Northern California to order Apple not to use the name for a device that it introduced on Tuesday during an annual trade show.
Apple intends to begin selling its iPhone sometime in June, which provides a five-month cushion for both sides to reach some kind of settlement. Should that not happen, the suit could impact sales of the device.
The lawsuit follows years of negotiations between the two companies, which continued even as Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs was introducing the iPhone Tuesday during the Macworld show in San Francisco.
Cisco took the iPhone's introduction as a sign that Apple had agreed to Cisco's terms for use of the trademark. In a statement issued Tuesday, Cisco said that it suspected Apple had agreed to terms, and was expecting to hear from the company later that day.
But the paperwork never arrived, a Cisco spokesman said Wednesday.
"Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco's iPhone name," Mark Chandler, Cisco's senior vice president and general counsel, said in a statement. "There is no doubt that Apple's new phone is very exciting, but they should not be using our trademark without permission."
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iPunter
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10-Jan-2007 11:40
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Great products... life-enhancing innovative creations... time and technology marches on ceaselessly! |
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tanglinboy
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10-Jan-2007 10:26
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How can Media Ring compete with this ??!! |
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10-Jan-2007 10:21
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Apple debuted its much-anticipated take on the smart phone, a sleek device with a large screen that combines a phone, an iPod and instant messaging in a new push beyond computers that sent its shares to a new record. Lacking the diminutive keypads found on other smart phones, Apple's iPhone has a single button and a 3.5-inch (9-cm) touch screen to navigate between playing songs and videos, displaying pictures, typing instant messages, or even making phone calls. The iPhone is thinner than some of the cellphone industry's sleekest devices, such as Motorola Inc.'s RAZR. It will cost US$499 to US$599 when it debuts in the United States, and is expected to hit Europe in the fourth quarter and Asia in 2008. The iPhone is 11.6-millimeters (0.5-inches) thick, has five hours of continuous talk time and 15 hours for playing music, and includes a camera. It runs Apple's OS X operating system, has the Safari browser for Web access and e-mail functions that can handle graphics and work with external services. The iPhone can connect to the Internet wirelessly via Wi-Fi and has Bluetooth, a short-range wireless technology that supports wireless headsets or links to devices like printers. Separately, Jobs said AppleTV, the newly renamed device for streaming movies, music, photos, podcasts and TV shows to home entertainment systems, would ship in February. AppleTV, which comes with a 40-gigabyte internal hard drive, will cost US$299. Apple has now sold 70 million iPods and consumers have bought more than 2 billion songs for about 99 US cents each on iTunes. More than 220 TV shows are also available on iTunes. Here's a picture of the iPhone. 
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billywows
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10-Jan-2007 00:03
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Wow! You hear it first from JS here, guys ... ------------ SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is widely expected to announce the company's first mobile phones at its annual Macworld show today.
"We expect that four phones will be launched," Nomura analyst Richard Windsor said in a research note Tuesday.
Analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray estimates Apple plans to make 12 million phones over the next six months. The new phones, which may be called "iPhone" and incorporate music-enabled features, aren't expected to be sold until mid-2007 or later.
Jobs is scheduled to hit the stage at Macworld at noon (S'pore time 1am tonite), or 9 a.m. Pacific time.
Cingular Wireless is expected to provide wireless service for Apple's new mobile phone, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Cingular isn't the only well-known company expected to announce a deal with Apple on Tuesday.
Apple is expected to announce that it's working with Google Inc.'s Sketchup feature for creating and uploading "3D" images onto the Internet, a person familiar with the matter told the Journal. The development with Google is among the first collaborations between the two companies since Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt was voted onto the Apple board of directors late last year.
In early morning trading Tuesday, Apple shares rose 1% to $86.48.
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