Apple and clone maker Psystar have reached an Alternative Dispute Resolution process to discuss in privacy in order to avoid higher legal cost of their legal disputes. Apple suited Psystar for distribution of Mac OS X in mac clones computers without Apple expressed permission and Psystar hit back with a Monopoly Suit claiming Apple is trying to have a Monopoly selling Mac OS X.

This new chapter is evolving too fast …

A recent study said that the rise of violent crime in the United States could be due to the ownership and spread of iPods.

Experts from the Urban Institute gathered data that implied the rise of violent crime, as compared to vehicular and house-related crimes, rose at the same time as the availability of the iPod.

Noting that the iPod entered the market from 2004-2006, the scientists have identified that during 2005 and 2006, there was a 6 percent …

The five-page complaint by Romek Figa, who does business in the eastern US state as Abraham & Son, claims that “certain Apple telephones” use technology at the heart of a 1990 patent that describes a system which displays both the phone number of an inbound call. The technique matches up phone numbers with a contact list stored on the phone, allowing the device to associate a name with any incoming calls.

At least superficially, Apple’s iPhone recalls the …

THE release of Apple’s iPhone in Australia could be illegal under current trade practices laws, according to a group of Queensland law researchers.

The legal hiccup in Australia could delay the arrival of the must-have gadget phone

The legal hiccup could delay the arrival of the must-have gadget phone, which is expected in Asia and Australia some time this year.
However, some are concerned that the phone’s exclusivity deals with mobile carriers is anti-competitive.

“The iPhone is breaking new …

Apple has fired a cease and desist order against the developers behind the open-source Hymn Project.

Hymn develops software that strips Apple’s FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) technology from user’s iTunes purchases, allowing music fans to play their music on devices other than those from Apple.

iTunes customers can legitimately lose FairPlay DRM in order to play their music on other devices by burning a CD of their songs, and ripping that CD into a different format.

Hymn has complied …

As many as 400,000 unlocked iPhones were running on China Mobile’s cellular network at the end of last year, according to market research firm In-Stat.

Apple sold 3.7 million iPhones in 2007, and more than 10 percent of them are in China, In-Stat said, attributing that information to China Mobile. That helps explain part of the “iPhone gap” created by the difference between Apple’s shipping totals for 2007 and the activations reported by its carrier partners in the …

Here the first 100 tips and tricks of the 1000 list, I have collected them from all over the internet to my own usage, but found it interesting to let you master them while I upload the next 100. Some of them work fine on the ipod touch, but not all tips are guaranteed to do so.

Read the complete post with the complete first 100 Tips and Tricks at iphonenews.desinformado.com

1.- How To Create …

The popularity of itunes+ipod has transformed Apple from a tiny Computer maker that was working its ass off for a success to the most important computer company in the world, and that transformation has brought some free enemies, those that in a time were friends and willing to help now are preparing a contra attack to tumble down what took Apple years to make, itunes music store.

First was Apple Records that prohibited Apple Computers to enter in …

When Apple decided to call one of the system sound “sosumi” based on its litigious adventures against Apple Records, it surely didn’t think about how well this name will fits their corporate life. Every day, week and month we read dozen of lawsuits about Apple, everybody can join and sometimes it seems like some kind of sport. Unthinkable lawsuits that go from personal ipod scratches to price reduction in a product too soon those, it is very very difficult …

Leaper Footwear, LLC, a Utah based company filed a lawsuit agains Apple and Nike for the Nike+iPod Sport Kit, alleging that Nike stole the whole idea that they patented in 1995, Apple+Nike are celebrating their second lawsuit related to the Nike+iPod Sport Kit.

But what I see here is a pedometer and if Leaper Footwear invented and patented the pedometer then Apple+Nike are in real problems. This Business As Usual for Apple and they will fight, pay it or change …

This time a disgrunted iphone user is requesting some money compensation and punishments to Apple, Steve Jobs, AT&T over iPhone price reduction and the $100 refund.

This time is Dongmei Li, a New York resident that accuses Apple, Steve Jobs, AT&T of price discrimination, discrimination in rebates, deceptive actions, and other wrongdoings for their role in the Sept. 5th price drop on iPhone, which saw the handset’s price slashed by $200 less than two months after its debut.

Apple will be mark …

If there is busy job in Sillicon Valley, it’s being a legal representative of Apple. It doesn’t matter if you send or receive legal notices you will have the most difficult task to accomplish.

As usual, Apple is in the news against the law, this round:

1) Danish government ruled against Apple in the faulty Ibook G4 that causes the machine to stops working. Apple should refunds users.

2) Steve Jobs is subpoenaed for deposition in the backdating scandal. Let’s see …