Techmeme @ 8:30 AM ET, January 11, 2007

8:30 AM ET, January 11, 2007

Top Items:

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.

Discussion: Paul Mooney, Mashable!, Telegraph Blogs, Between the Lines, Engadget Mobile, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Apple Gazette, Engadget, CenterNetworks, Indiskretion Ehrensache, Paul Kedrosky's …, Geek News Central, Sparkplug 9 >> bizhack, Scobleizer, @rgumente and Joe Duck

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 …

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.

Discussion: Gizmodo, Gear Live, Gadget Lab, Techdirt, Hardware 2.0, John Tokash's Blog and Cisco

BBC:

Cisco to sue Apple on iPhone name — Cisco Systems is suing Apple for trademark infringement in a US federal court, for using the iPhone name. — Apple launched its new handheld mobile phone device under the iPhone name on Tuesday, at the hotly anticipated Macworld event in San Francisco.

Discussion: I4U News, O'Reilly Emerging Telephony and Gizmodo

Owen Thomas / Business 2.0 Beta:

Cisco Sues Apple: Do They Have an iPhone Case? — "You know, of course, that this means war." —Bugs Bunny — And now the iPhone name saga goes Looney Tunes. Cisco (CSCO) has sued Apple (AAPL) for trademark infringement over the iPhone. Cisco's claim: InfoGear, a company which it bought in 2000 …

Discussion: Associated Press

John Markoff / New York Times:
Cisco, Claiming Ownership of 'iPhone,' Sues Apple

Discussion: PaidContent

Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name

Discussion: Strategic News Service, Paul Colligan's …, Crave RSS, Lost Remote and Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog

Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Cisco sues Apple over the iPhone name

Discussion: GigaOM

Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Holy Toledo! Cisco Sues Apple over iPhone Name

Discussion: Daring Fireball

John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
You know, if the analyst gig doesn't work out, there's always …

Discussion: Kotaku, Time, Memex 1.1 and Kelsey Group Blogs

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.

Discussion: San Francisco Chronicle, The Blog Herald, STEVE JOBS, Mickeleh's Take, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Technovia

John Biggs / CrunchGear:

Apple iPhone FAQ — Just got done with an interview with some folks from Cingular on the iPhone and they tipped their hand just enough for us to compile a quick FAQ on the parasitic relationship that is the Apple-Cingular partnership. — I'm a X subscriber. Can I get an iPhone? — If X=Cingular then

Discussion: digg

Peter H. Lewis / Fortune:
How Apple kept its iPhone secrets

Discussion: Engadget, Infinite Loop, Sadagopan's weblog …, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Lost Remote, Valleywag, Digital Inspiration, digg and Slashdot

Gizmodo:
Gizmodo iPhone Hands On Part Deux: Why Isn't it White and Other Questions

Discussion: Forever Geek, O'Grady's PowerPage, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, The Universal Desktop, InformationWeek Weblog and digg

Mary E. Tyler / Infinite Loop:
iPhone is awesome (restrictions apply)

Discussion: Webomatica and digg

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 …

Discussion: Mark Evans, UNEASYsilence, Engadget and Globe and Mail

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 …

Discussion: SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks, eBay Strategies, PaidContent, Rex Hammock's weblog, VC Ratings, Mashable!, CenterNetworks and Web X.0

Om Malik / GigaOM:
eBay Scalps StubHub

Discussion: TechCrunch and pc4media

Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:

@ CES: PodTech's Bloghaus: To See It Is To Believe It — As I write, I'm at one end of a vast conference table strewn with cables, laptops in every size and make, and enough cameras to set up an eBay shop. In the room beyond the open glass doors, people are sitting on couches, on beanbags and on the floor, laptops lit.

Discussion: Eric Rice

Amy Gahran / E-Media Tidbits:

Backfence Backpedals: Money Lessons — Last week, Backfence (which runs a high-profile family of hyperlocal citizen-media sites) announced a substantial retrenchment. CEO and co-founder Susan DeFife resigned, citing differences with the company's board of directors. Also, 12 of 18 employees were laid off.

Discussion: Silicon Valley Watcher and Journalistopia

Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Tech shakeout continued: Friendster, Backfence, Insider Pages, Orb updates

Discussion: TechCrunch

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 …

Discussion: TechSpot, Neowin.net, Between the Lines and Slashdot

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:

Netflix is dead — Ahh, I was right. The coolest stuff at CES is over at the Sands. Too bad Dave Winer left before he could get over there. And I'm not talking about the adult entertainment convention that's going on there right now either. — As an example over there I dropped in on Verisign's booth.

Discussion: Hacking NetFlix

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 …

Discussion: PaidContent

MediaShift:

DIGGING DEEPER Google Search Snafu Can Have Huge Impact on Niche Blogs — What happened? Where's the love? You used to bring me flowers, you used to sing me love songs. You used to bring me traffic, at any rate... Google, baby. Let me back in. Me and my pretty dumb things …

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