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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Proview Wants $1.5 Billion From Apple for Infringing Its iPad Trademark

Beijing authorities have reportedly opened an investigation into Apple's possible infringement of Proview's iPad trademark in China, reports GlobalTimes.

According to the Beijing Evening News, the Xicheng District Administration for Industry and Commerce has investigated the case, as it is the district where one of the five Apple stores in China is located. Apple has been denied the rights to the trademark for the term "iPad" in China, after a legal battle with Hong Kong-based Proview Technology. Proview registered the iPad trademark in markets as early as 2000, long before Apple unveiled the iPad in [2010].

"Proview made a formal complaint to the Xicheng administration in 2011 and they had planned to slap Apple with a 240 million yuan ($38 million) fine, but it was suspended after Apple's objections," said Xie Xianghui, a lawyer from the Shenzhen branch of Grandall Law Firm. Xie says that Proview has also filed lawsuits against Apple authorized retailers and plans to ask for 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion USD) in compensation from Apple.

The Xicheng District Administration says the situation is under investigation and they haven't announced the possibility of a fine for Apple.

Apple filed an appeal on January 5th with the Higher People's Court of Guangdong Province, after losing its claim to the trademark in the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court. Apple says that a Proview subsidiary in Taiwan sold the trademark rights to a UK company called "IP Applications" which then sold the mark to Apple in 2010.

*thanks iclarified*

This reminds me of that lodsys case with Apple and it's App developers.

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Monday, February 6, 2012

AT&T is Now Throttling 'Unlimited' Data Plans After 2GBs of Data Use

AT&T is now throttling customers on unlimited data plans after they've surpassed 2GBs of data use, reveals John Cozen.

Cozen, an AT&T customer who had been grandfathered in to the 'unlimited' data plan with AT&T, was surprised to receive a high usage alert from the company after reaching only 2.1GB of data use. The alert informed him that he was in the top 5% of data users and would be subjected to near unusable speeds.

Thinking there was a mistake he contacted AT&T where he was informed that anything over 2GB is top 5%.

To give you a baseline - the average data use across the country by the top 5% of AT&T smartphone customers was 2GB per month, effective August 2011.

This is a pretty despicable move by AT&T to stay within their legal requirement to offer 'unlimited' data but at speeds so slow that you would be better off switching to a tiered data plan.

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*thanks iclarified*

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- Posted using my iPhone 5

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Apple's iPhone Business is Bigger Than All of Microsoft Put Together

Apple's iPhone business alone is now bigger than all of Microsoft put together, notes MG Siegler and Business Insider.

In the December quarter, Apple's iPhone business generated $24.4 billion of revenue. Microsoft's whole company, meanwhile, from Windows to Office to servers to XBox, generated $20.9 billion.

That's a pretty impressive observation. Applying Apple's average overall profit margin of 38%, the company generated about $9.3 billion for its iPhone business alone. Microsoft generated only $8.2 billion in profit.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Apple Adds Genius Recommendations to the Apple TV

Apple has updated the Apple TV with Genius recommendations for Movies and TV Shows.

The 'Genius' option can be found under the Movie and TV Show menus. You will need to be signed in with your iTunes ID to see your personalized suggestions.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Signs You May Be Working on a Fake Apple Project by JoyofTech

The Joy of Tech offers a flow chart to help Apple employees identify the signs that they may be working on a fake Apple project.

"Earlier this week, it was leaked that we sometimes put new employees on fake projects until we can trust them.

Here's a flowchart to help you figure out the... Signs you may be working on a fake Apple project."

Thursday, February 2, 2012

JVC iPhone Dock Replaces Your Entire Nightstand

The JVC N-BX3 is an iPhone/iPod speaker dock that replaces your entire nightstand, notes Akihabara News.

Available in both black and white, the N-BX3 weight 20kg for a size of 500x300x110mm and offers all the comfort that can be found in other iPhone/iPod speaker dock with an FM tuner and SRS StudioSound HD for a bit less of 40,000 Yen ($525 USD)!

The N-BX3 features a 2x30W speaker, comes in black and white, and is now available in Japan.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

ZEVO Brings ZFS Storage Support to Mac OS X

After months of beta testing, Ten's Complement has released ZEVO to add ZFS storage support to Mac OS X.

You spend hours creating, designing, analyzing, developing. Data corruption is not an option for you. We at Ten's Complement are passionate about data integrity and believe that your data deserves the best - ZFS. The ZFS storage technology used by Z E V O was designed from the ground up to meet the 21st-century demands of your digital data. Developed with data integrity as the foundation, Z E V O contains all the goodness of ZFS, such as self-healing and checksums. To meet your varying needs for capacity, simplicity, price and features, Z E V O is available in 4 editions: Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Developer.

MacRumors notes that Ten's Complement is headed up by Don Brady, the 20-year Apple engineer who had helped transition to the HFS+ file system for Mac OS X and also headed up Apple's internal ZFS team from 2006 until it was disbanded in 2009. It's thought that Apple gave up on ZFS due to licensing issues.

ZFS (ZEVO) Features:
● Never overwrites existing data
● Every single byte validated
● Automatically detects silent corruption
● All of your data is verifiable
● Always in a consistent state on disk
● Disk Repair Utilities not required!

Unfortunately, there isn't support for booting from a ZFS volume; however, it is still very useful for storing your data safely. The Silver Edition is now available to purchase for $19.95. The Gold Edition will be available soon for $39.95 and includes more advanced features such as Time Machine-like rotating data snapshots and data redundancy. A Platinum Edition is set for launch this spring and will offer RAIDZ support, data duplication, and an advanced management utility.

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