Support Our Site
Get Better Gear!
- Notability For iPad: Much More Than A Note Taking App from Ginger Labs, Inc, US$0.99
- Scosche’s RH656m Headphones With Microphone Are Wonderful from Scosche, US$129.99
- IPEVO’s Typi Folio Case & Keyboard for iPad is First-rate from IPEVO, US$79.99
- Scosche’s boomSTREAM BT Speaker: Features & Compromises from Scosche, US$99.95
- FX Photo Studio HD: iPad Painting of Effects Made Easy from MacPhun LLC, US1.99
Premier Sponsors
Top 5 Free Apps
iTunes New Music Releases
Top 5 Paid Apps
Discover New Music
- Nine Inch Nails
- For years I wanted to make music that sounded like something between Love and Rockets and Ministry. In 1989, Trent Reznor beat me to it with this genre-defining album, and it smacked me upside the hea
- Congo Norvell
Very few albums manage to capture snapshots of a quality of life in the manner that Congo Norvell's sophomore record, "Abnormals Anonymous," does.
Comparisons to the Velvet Underground are
- Asylum Street Spankers
The Asylum Street Spankers are...well...The Spankers. Hailing from Austin, where I saw them live dozens of times, the band played entirely acousti
Music Has The Right To Children
- Boards of Canada
- This one will haunt you. From the first notes to the last, their sound surrounds you. BOC has put out a fantastic catalogue, and this album is a great starting point for a new listener. Jump straight
- Bauhaus
Go Away White is an album I've been waiting more than 20 years to hear, and the good news is that it was worth the wait. The latest -- and last, no...for real this time -- album from
Reader Specials
Visit Deals On The Web for the best deals on all consumer electronics, iPods, and more!
News
Cisco CEO: iPhone Lawsuit a "Minor Skirmish"
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 at 2:00 PM - by Jeff Gamet
Had Apple been willing to negotiate over the use of the term iPhone, the lawsuit over the name could have been avoided, according to Cisco CEO John Chambers. He describes the lawsuit itself as a "minor skirmish," reports the International Herald Tribune.
Cisco acquired the trademark to the iPhone name in 2000, but didn't use it until releasing its VoIP phone product recently. Apple announced its iPhone - a smartphone product that does not use VoIP technology - during Macworld Expo 2007 in early January.
Mr. Chambers said that his company told Apple for five years that it was willing to license the iPhone name. "All we ask is that people respect our trademarks and our intellectual property. We would have traded that for just interoperability," he said.
Apple contends that it does not need to license the iPhone name from Cisco, claiming that several products already use the moniker.
During Apple's first quarter financial report, COO Tim Cook commented "We think the Cisco trademark lawsuit is silly... There are already several companies that use the name iPhone for voice over IP products, and we believe that Cisco's U.S. trademark registration is tenuous at best. We are the first company to ever use the iPhone name for a cell phone, and if Cisco wants to challenge us, we're confident we'll prevail."
Recent Headlines
- Reading, Writing, & Saving the World
- Free Retro Gaming for iOS - Activision’s Kaboom!
- Apple Adds Chomp Bits to iOS 6 App Store Discovery
- Notability For iPad: Much More Than A Note Taking App
- Scosche’s RH656m Headphones With Microphone Are Wonderful
- Tim Cook & Larry Page Reportedly Discuss Patents
- Analysis: Amazon Kindle Fire Sold Out, Kindle Fire 2 Pic Leaked
Post Your Comments