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Cisco:
Cisco Sues Apple for Trademark Infringement — Suit Filed to Protect Cisco's iPhone® Trademark — Cisco® today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple, Inc., seeking to prevent Apple …
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GottaBeMobile.com, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Apple Gazette, The Apple Blog, Law Blog, Computers.net, TechSpot, MacRumors, Blogging Stocks, O'Grady's PowerPage, PaidContent, Neowin.net, Silicon Valley Watcher, Byte of the Apple, Business 2.0 Beta, MobileTracker, Paul Kedrosky's … and Between the Lines
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Jordan Robertson / Associated Press:
Cisco Sues Apple Over Use of iPhone Name — Cisco Sues Apple Over Use of iPhone Name for Its New Handheld Device — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Cisco Systems sued Apple Inc. in federal court Wednesday, saying the computer maker's new iPhone violates its trademark.
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Gizmodo, Cisco, Techdirt, Gear Live, Hardware 2.0, Gadget Lab, John Tokash's Blog and GigaOM
Cisco PR / News@Cisco Notes:
UPDATE on Cisco's iPhone Trademark … Today's announcement from Cisco regarding our suit with Apple over our iPhone trademark has spurred a lot of interesting questions. Most importantly, this is not a suit against Apple's innovation, their modern design, or their cool phone.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Between the Lines, Mashable!, Apple Gazette and CenterNetworks
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name
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Strategic News Service, Engadget, The Apple Blog, Paul Colligan's …, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog and Lost Remote
Owen Thomas / Business 2.0 Beta:Cisco Sues Apple: Do They Have an iPhone Case?
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Nick / Rough Type:
Steve's devices — It's hard to imagine the pleasure Steve Jobs must receive from singlehandedly upstaging the entire Consumer Electronics Show. There was just one moment during his two-hour presentation yesterday when he went off script, but it was a telling one.
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San Francisco Chronicle, STEVE JOBS, Mickeleh's Take, The Blog Herald, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Technovia
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Peter H. Lewis / Fortune:
How Apple kept its iPhone secrets — Bogus prototypes, bullying the press, stifling pillow talk - all to keep iPhone under wraps. Fortune's Peter Lewis goes inside one of the year's biggest tech launches. — SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) — One of the most astonishing things about the new Apple iPhone …
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Engadget, Infinite Loop, Sadagopan's weblog …, Valleywag, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Digital Inspiration, digg and Slashdot
Mary E. Tyler / Infinite Loop:
iPhone is awesome (restrictions apply) — So, after watching the iPhone announcement—the gadget we've all been jonesing for—what's the first thing we all do? That's right, figure out all the things that are wrong with it and why it's not going to be the "killer app" for Apple.
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Gizmodo:
Gizmodo iPhone Hands On Part Deux: Why Isn't it White and Other Questions — When we got our sweaty palms on the iPhone, we weren't allowed to take photos for our usual gallery. But we got a Q&A with Apple's VP of Applications, Eddie Cue, and Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller.
CBC News:
Canadian coins bugged, U.S. security agency says — They say money talks, and a new report suggests Canadian currency is indeed chatting, at least electronically, on behalf of shadowy spies. — Canadian coins containing tiny transmitters have mysteriously turned up in the pockets …
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
VeriSign Offers Hackers $8,000 Bounty on Vista, IE 7 Flaws — VeriSign's iDefense Labs has placed an $8,000 bounty on remote code execution holes in Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7. — The Reston, Va., security intelligence outfit threw out the monetary reward to hackers as part …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
It's Official - eBay is Buying StubHub For $310 million — Update: Press release is here. It is surprisingly brief, reinforcing the rumor that eBay hastily accelerated the announcement due to the rumors. — It looks like the rumors forced eBay's hand and they are announcing the deal earlier …
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Darren Waters / BBC:
Public can purchase $100 laptop — Technology editor, BBC News website, Las Vegas — The backers of the One Laptop Per Child project plan to release the machine on general sale next year. — But customers will have to buy two laptops at once - with the second going to the developing world.
Valleywag:
BUZZMETER: Web 2.0 hits saturation — Web 2.0 hits saturation — It would be premature to say that Web 2.0 is over. But use of the cliched phrase in mainstream publications and news services dipped last month. Finally. Web 2.0, a catchphrase coined in 2004 by O'Reilly Media …
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Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:
Newspapers Set To Jointly Sell Ads on Web Sites — Gannett, McClatchy — And Tribune to Form — Nationwide Network — Yahoo's Competing Effort — The nation's three largest newspaper publishers are gearing up to sell advertising jointly on their newspapers' Web sites …
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Mark Slee / Facebook Blog:
Facebook Your Phone … Facebook was invented to make sharing information with your friends easier and better. Mobile phones were invented for pretty much the same reason. People needed an easier and better way to get in touch with each other, and mobile phones made it happen.
Jason McMaster / GigaGamez:
iPhone a threat to DS, PSP and Zune? — The portable gaming market has long been ruled by Nintendo. Since the days of the original GameBoy, no one has even come close to what the big N is offering. That's not to say they haven't tried, though, because almost every major gaming company …
P2P Blog:
Coming to your TV: RSS — Apple's iPhone is making some big waves this week. An editor at one of the papers I work for just told me that they will feature it on page three tomorrow. You heard it right: That in-depth, feature of the day page three that previously was reserved for global conflicts and portraits of world leaders ...
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TVover.net, Hacking NetFlix, RSS Marketing Blog, Niall Kennedy's Weblog and InformationWeek Weblog
Mike / Techdirt:
On Angels, Opportunities And Experience: Techdirt Welcomes Mark Fletcher To Our Board — from the exciting-times dept — Some of you may have noticed (judging by the emails we've received, more than a few of you) some reports last week about how Techdirt had raised an angel round (also reported here and here).
