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Oct 20, 20080

Apple and Psystar to fight their problems in intimacy

Categories: Apple, Legal

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 and as we know Apple will try to force out Psystar's Open PC loaded with Mac OS X, Apple is known for its ferocious legal team and the expertise accumulated along these years.

Mar 8, 20080

AHN: Study Recognizes Possible Link Between iPods And Crime Rate Increase

Categories: Apple, Legal

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 decrease in theft, 5 percent in auto theft, and a 0.3 percent increase in burglary. However, robbery rose by 9 percent. Analyzing the ages of robbers, 2005 showed an 11.4 percent increase in under-18 robbers, and only 1.1 percent for adults - a trend that the study pointed out as a reversal of the primarily-decreasing juvenile crime. Also, according to a study copy provided by Urban.org, the robbery rise coincided with the time of the iPod sales. An increase of 3.9 percent in robberies occurred in 2005, when the iPod sold 32 million units. The following year, a 6 percent increase in robberies occurred, during the time when the iPod had sold 46.6 million units. Read the complete article at www.allheadlinenews.com Notice: Whataboutmac.com is not recommending this product ...

Feb 28, 20080

Appleinsider: Lawsuit claims iPhone infringes call display patent

Categories: Apple, Legal

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 patent through its software database of contacts. Inbound calls to an iPhone from a number associated with a contact display the caller's name. However, the patent also references 1990s-era technologies, including a two-line LCD as well as a separate receiver. Read the complete article at Appleinsider.com Notice: Whataboutmac.com is not recommending this product and is not endorsed by any company which products are portrayed in any of our post. Right Now We do not have any business relationship with the manufacturer of this product or service. If you do business with them, Nice, but we are out of that equation.

Feb 25, 20080

Australian IT: iPhone could breach Australian law

Categories: Apple, Legal, internet, iphone

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 ground in using technology to restrict customer's choice in technology markets," Queensland University of Technology (QUT) law researcher Dale Clapperton said. The finding comes from an analysis of the Apple iPhone under Australia's competition laws by Dr Clapperton and fellow QUT law expert Professor Stephen Corones, which was published in the QUT Law and Justice Journal. In the United States iPhone buyers are required to sign a two-year mobile contract with AT&T before the iPhone will operate. Similar agreements in the United Kingdom, France and Germany tie iPhone owners to one network. However, if Apple employ a similar strategy in Australia it could fall foul of the Trade Practices Act provision dealing with third-line forcing. "This law will greatly simplify the task of ...

Feb 25, 20080

Hymn sings not more: Apple shut down open source project

Categories: Apple, Itunes, Legal, internet, iphone, ipod

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 with Apple's legal letter, removing download links to its software from its website and warning forum users not to post links to alternate download sources within its forums, or risk a ban. Read the whole Article at Macworld.com Notice: Whataboutmac.com is not recommending this product and is not endorsed by any company which products are portrayed in any of our post. Right Now We do not have any business relationship with the manufacturer of this product or service. If you do business with them, Nice, but we are out of that equation.

Feb 16, 20080

News.com: China Mobile running 400,000 unlocked iPhones

Categories: Apple, Application, Hack, Legal, internet

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 U.S. and Europe. Somewhere around 1 million iPhones are thought to have been unlocked, and 400,000 are in China. Despite Apple's attempts to keep iPhone unlocking under wraps with new software and changes to the iPhone's bootloader, enterprising entrepreneurs are apparently giving the people what they want. This is a bit of an opportunity lost for Apple, since the company has signed lucrative revenue-sharing deals with its carrier partners that don't apply if an iPhone is unlocked from its respective network. Via news.com

Jan 20, 20080

One thousand iPhone Tips and Tricks in your fingers

Categories: Application, Applications, Finance, Games, Graphic Suite, Itunes, Legal, accesories, internet, iphone

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 A WebClip Icon For Your Site This is a good tip for those of you who design web sites and applications geared toward the iPhone. Dan Dickinson posted instructions for creating the icon for your site that shows up on the springboard when someone creates a web clip for it. Create a 57×57 PNG. Name it “apple-touch-icon.png” Throw it in the root folder of your website. (Not the root of your server ,the root of your web documents.) You can also place the image in a link tag in the head of your document, like so: You can get more info at the iPhone Dev Center under “Create a WebClip Bookmark Icon”. 2.- What to do if your iPhone gets wet Whether the culprit is a sink, toilet or rainstorm, getting your ...

Oct 28, 20070

There is a War waiting to happen, Apple should shot first…

Categories: Apple, Itunes, Legal, internet, online

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 the music business, suit here and suit there, everything is now resolved and couldn't be better, even the Beatles albums are rumoured to be in Itunes someday... Then NBC Universal and Universal Music were reluctant to negotiate a new contract with Apple, because they want more control of their music and content, this December the content from NBC, Bravo and others NBC Universal properties will be gone from itunes. Now is Warner Music, that has been telling the media that they will pursuit a better pricing scheme in itunes, now says that won't renew Apple itunes contract yearly, and will only negotiate its contract in a monthly basis. So is really more important for Apple to secure content for itunes, the success of this online ...

Oct 15, 20070

Sosumi has always fits Apple perfectly

Categories: Application, Legal, Mac Hardware

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 for Apple to avoid million of users, people that are new to the platform, men and women that want other people to solve their frustrations and of course they shoot to the shinier point in the dark, Apple. Apple has been a litigious company, has been in hundred of lawsuits and has a well earned background of being nasty with everybody that try break its intelectual properties. Because its recent success in almost everything Apple embark, people has seen a good oportunity to get money from them, every new Apple product carries a lawsuit or has one waiting to happen. Sosumi is now more actual than in its time, it really represents Apple legal culture. - whataboutmac.com

Oct 2, 20070

The Apple Lawsuit of the Day…

Categories: Legal, Mac Hardware

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 something to not infringe on Leaper Footwear products... From now on I will be counting and calculating any Apple lawsuit and the money around it to see how many Apple gets in a month and how much it cost to them. More info: here - whataboutmac.com

Sep 29, 20070

Another day another Apple lawsuit

Categories: Legal, Mac Hardware

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 in our modern history as the only company that can have multiple demands in multiple products simultaneously, some of them frivolous and some with merits, but they are more than enough for any company. Thanks God Apple doesn't have any other distraction... imagine Microsoft with these numbers of lawsuits... Related Article: Apple the lawsuits magnet - whataboutmac.com

Sep 21, 20070

Apple vs the Law

Categories: Legal

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 how Steve masters this real presentation, maybe there won't be an "One more Thing". 3) Apple is seeking dismissal in the burst.com, Ipod and Itunes patent infringement. Apple doesn't wants burst.com to mixes patents, creating this way a master patent where Apple infringes. 4) European antitrust authorities will seek if there is evidence of any violation of the antitrust laws by Apple. Apple can be fined 10% of is annual global revenue if found guilty. Want more for a single week? No way, lawyers are reading, writing and making yoga excercises to stand long hours depositions in courts around the globe. - whataboutmac.com

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