Apple PR? & Cisco PR Cisco® and Apple® today announced that they have resolved their dispute involving the iPhone trademark. Under the agreement, both companies are free to use the iPhone trademark on their products throughout the world. Both companies acknowledge the trademark ownership rights that have been granted, and each side will dismiss any [...]
Browsing Posts published in February, 2007
Well Dell do… Dell launched an ideas forum to? capture feedback and ideas from its customers, it is over at www.dellideastorm.com? and having been launched on the 16th of February already has nearly 1000 ideas. The most popular seem to be around Linux and OpenOffice to be made available as pre-installs. Other ideas range from [...]
Taken from the BBC. AOL has joined Microsoft in supporting Open ID, giving the free identification scheme 63 million new users. OpenID is a decentralised identification system that lets individuals use a single password for any site that supports it. This is great news for Open ID which has been slow to take off despite [...]
PC sales rose the week of Vista’s launch, but apparently they won’t last. Sales of desktop PC sales for the first week in February rose 180.6% compared to the same week last year. Likewise? sales of notebooks also rose 187.8% for that first week in Feb. Also interesting to note that the average selling price [...]
Or so say some… A senior executive for the Aussie telco Telstra says that Apple’s iPhone is pretty much doomed. Operations chief Greg Winn said that Apple was not a mobile phone manufacturer and should have “stuck to its knitting”. and… “You can pretty much be assured that Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and ZTE [...]
Daring Fireball has posted a humorous, and accurate PR-speak to Plain English translation of Macrovision’s CEO’s response to Steve Jobs’ Open Letter on DRM. Bookmark to: Hide Sites
Intel have released the technical details of the Teraflops research chip at the ISSCC – Intel Corporation researchers have developed the world’s first programmable processor that delivers supercomputer-like performance from a single, 80-core chip not much larger than the size of a finger nail while using less electricity than most of todays home appliances. This [...]
Yahoo have released a service and it is one straight from the labs of Yahoo and not bought in for a change. It is also a first and a brilliant idea!! It is called pipes and is a free service that lets you catch popular feed types and then manipulate them and mix them up [...]
The Apple v Cisco battle isn’t over yet. Both companies have agreed to extend talks aimed at “reaching agreement on trademark rights and interoperability”. Apple launched it’s iPhone last month in San Francisco and immediately Cisco sued Apple for trademark infringement of its own line of internet-enabled iPhones. Cisco makes much of the hardware that [...]
Apparently the smell of the sea is more important than the cure for cancer!! Scientists from the University of East Anglia have discovered exactly what makes the seaside smell like the seaside and bottled it. The age-old mystery was unlocked thanks to some novel bacteria plucked from the North Norfolk coast. Bookmark to: Hide [...]
