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No it wasn't a joke. The objections to Apple's 'iPad Mini' Trademark Application issued on 1 April by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) were all too real. These objections though, one week later, have officially been withdrawn.According to MacRumours the primary objection, related to the 'iPad mini' name being determined as "descriptive" rather than a distinctive product name was removed as well as the secondary objection, relating to the use of the iPad mini overview ...
Alright, so Funny or Die is really doing this. The humour-based video site has made its own Steve Jobs movie based entirely on the late Apple founder's Wikipedia page. The project will be the longest project by the site to date with a running time of 60 to 75 minutes.The teaser trailer is essentially a collection of Apple buzzwords, Jobs' melodramatic moments and an iFan product display presentation. It's pretty cliché driven and not very serious at all so ...
Trouble is brewing in Apple's second largest market -- and it's not a quiet affair.According to the Wall Street Journal, the Chinese government's traditional mouthpiece, The People's Daily, ran a front page article criticising the tech giant's response to a recent broadcast by China's official state-run TV network. In it, the newspaper said Apple refused to grant its journalists interviews and instead simply offered "empty and self-praising" responses to the complaints raised.The broadcast, which was spotted by Tech ...Even if you're not an iDevotee, you have probably heard about the competing Steve Jobs movies due to hit our screens shortly. There's the indie one starring Ashton Kutcher that premièred at Sundance this year, and there's the 'official' one in pre-production, based on Walter Isaacson's biography and featuring assistance from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and written by The Social Network's Aaron Sorkin. But now it seems there's a third movie about the life of the late Apple co-founder, brought ...
The design wars between Apple and Samsung are the stuff of legend. The two tech giants have fought battles in courtrooms across the globe, with each accusing the other of copying unique designs and infringing on valuable design rights.The culmination of those battles saw Samsung ordered to pay US$1-billion to Apple following a lengthy trial in a California court.On the surface much of the conflict seemed to be around rectangles with rounded corners. As Professor Charles Gielen of ...
Picture this: you're a fruity tech company (no, not BlackBerry), which is suing its competitor, Samsung, for patent infringement in courts around the globe. You win a case in the US, requiring Samsung to pay you more than a billion dollars in damages, but the judge fails to grant you a sales ban to stop the company from selling its gadgets and eating up your marketshare. You file an appeal, asking the court to reconsider. And who should step in ...
If you've been watching Apple's share price slump with dismay, Tim Cook has some words to comfort you: they're working on some nice new products to help the company on its return to the top again.According to the CEO, the company has "some great stuff" in the works ready for eager consumers in the not-too-distant future. Speaking at Apple's yearly shareholder meeting, Cook said he and the rest of the Apple management team were concerned about the drop in company's ...
Through history, the best artists included easter eggs in their works. Little hidden messages, or inside jokes. Steve Jobs was an artist. If you're fortunate enough to own one of the very first Macintosh computers, you might find the signatures of the original Macintosh team inside the case -- it's well documented that Jobs had his team sign the case mold.If you think about Steve Wozniak's playful nature, it makes complete sense that the culture of easter eggs would fit ...
It's not often that Number One Infinite Loop admits to weaknesses, but today Apple admitted that hackers had breached its employees' computers.The hackers are believed to be the same Chinese ones who caused chaos at Facebook late last week when they targeted employees' laptops.Apple says the attack it faced is much less severe and only affected a few its employees' Macintosh computers and that "there was no evidence that any data left Apple."The Cupertino-based giant said it would ...
You'd think that as CEO, Tim Cook would be seriously concerned if Apple shareholders sued the company. But it seems that Cook is downplaying the recent legal attempts by Greenlight Capital to prevent Apple from instituting new rules that require a common shareholder vote to issue preferred stock, calling the suit a "silly sideshow".According to the Wall Street Journal, the suit, lead by Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn, argues that the changes Apple proposes would violate US Securities and Exchange Commission ...
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