Microsoft is taking on Apple, protesting at the latter firm’s claim to a trademark on the name ‘App Store’. Ballmer’s boys are arguing that the term is generic and competitors should be able to use it.
Apple applied for the trademark in 2008. It is to be applied in goods and services, including those for computer software solve via the Internet. The App Store is now available for iOS and OS X devices.
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Google has decided that future versions of its Chrome Web browser will not support H.264, citing the ‘proprietary’ nature of the Apple-preferred standard. Proprietary, non-open, buggy Flash, of course, will be supported.
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Well it has been announced and isn’t on sale yet but, oh look, the US FCC has published its approval of the new CDMA iPhone 4 for Verizon, there’s even a letter which provesAAPL asked nicely if publication could be made following the event.
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COMPUTERWORLD: As expected the iPhone 4 is coming to Verizon following (it was revealed) a two-year strategic consultation between the firms, and there’s good — and bad — news in this reality. iOS developers meanwhile should get ready to party as the iPhone economy is about to go “boom” all over again.
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Time to move onto the next hot rumor, iPad 2.0 — and here is the best fake iPad 2.0 video we’ve seen today. Though we’d like to let the protagonists know they need to work a little on their fonts and apps icons, m’kay?
Open source advocates are breathing a sigh of relief this afternoon — and that’s not because the iPhone has reched Verizon, but because a Microsoft-led, Apple-supported consortium has withdrawn from attempts to buy a host of Novell patents.
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Alright folks, the waiting is over and it has been confirmed — the iPhone 4 is coming to Verizon — the result of a two-year strategic consultation between the firms.
It will be available on pre-order (online only) to existing Verizon customers from February 3. Everyone else will be able to pick one up from Feb 10.
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Disparate reports this morning shed a little more light on the Verizon iPhone deal we expect to hear about at 11am (Eastern). It seems the deal may cost Verzon as much as $5 billion in subsidies in year one — but is also set to steal share from AT&T while flatlining Android device sales.
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COMPUTERWORLD: After a CES no-show, Verizon is teasing us with an iPhone-generated Tweet today on the eve of its press event where it is expected Verizon will at last introduce the iPhone, meaning US customers will now enjoy some choice of which network carries their iPhone. The move should also boost Apple in its battle with Android. So, what do we know?
Park Chan-wook is one of South Korea’s best directors, and he’s generated a huge story with the revalation that his latest short film was shot entirely on an iPhone 4.
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More news from Apple’s AirPlay partner, BridgeCo, the company which manufactures the silicon used in AirPlay devices.
AirPlay devices weren’t so apparent at CES this year, though iHome, B&W and Klipsch all showed solutions implementing the standard, which enables users to stream audio from an iOS 4 device to an enabled speaker system.
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The British Library has introduced its first ever smartphone app, providing access to many of the Library’s most precious titles to iOS (and Android) users.
The app (available in HD for iPad users) is called ‘Treasures’ and offers over 100 library items, including the first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Codex Sinaiticus which is thought to be the oldest bible in the world, the battle plan written by Nelson before his victory at Trafalgar, and the original draft of Nicholas Nickleby handwritten by Charles Dickens.
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Hackers have finally managed to get Android 2.3 Gingerbread working on a jailbroken iPhone 3G — based on the iDroid project, you should be able to keep both iOS and Android in dual-boot configuration on your iPhone. more on this and a video (Flash, so we didn’t embed it here) over at Redmond Pie.
(Sony and Dell’s Android phones are still running Android 1.6!)
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To paraphrase Donna Summer, Apple CEO Steve Jobs works hard for his money, drawing his annual $1 salary once again from the company he helped create — though the value of his shares in the firm reached a new zenith — a mighty $1.8 billion!
Revealed within the firm’s regulatory filing with the SEC today, other tasty fiscal tidbits include:
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CUPERTINO, California—January 7, 2011—Apple today announced that over one million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store in the first day. With more than 1,000 free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store experience to the Mac, so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes account, download and install them in just one step.
Consider this a general tip: The Mac App Store won’t update third-party applications that you’ve bought elsewhere, despite recognising that they are installed.
It will tell you if software you acquire through the store is updated, but existing installs from outside the store won’t be noted in this way.
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Apple opened its Mac App Store yesterday, offering Mac users an easy way to pick up and install new software on up to five machines — but within hours hackers began claiming to have hacked store security.
The crack will not be available until February 2011, according to Hackulous member, Dissident:
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Something for our professional DTP and publishing readers (we know you’re out there) Quark today announced that customers who purchase one new, qualifying full license of graphic design and page layout software QuarkXPress 8 between now and 31st January 2011 can receive one additional full license of QuarkXPress 8 for free.
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There’s been an unconscionable gap in time since the last time anyone mentioned the Mac App Store might build the market for Mac software, so here’s an early sighting — this Tweet from Evernote (fab app) which tells us, well, it suggests some (ahem) strong early interest in buying from the store.
On price, then ponder the words of respected Mac developer, Rich Siegel, founder and CEO of Bare Bones Software, Inc, (they make BBEdit, TextWrangler, and my essential friend, Yojimbo) who told me today:
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Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg didn’t use his keynote address today at CES 2011 to announce the iPhone is on its way to his network, despite AT&T slashing iPhone 3GS prices and certain reports claiming Apple retail staff have been told to forget about vacation time — though that latter shocker won’t be until February/March. Wonder what’s coming?
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Twitter for Mac has arrived, as have 999 other Apps at the all-new Mac App Store — so why are we mentioning Twitter? Because it keeps a promise made by MacHeist, offering exclusive access to secret Twitter features.
We’re watching a dizzying array of App announcements as new software hits the all-new Mac App Store, but here’s a special something from the team at Boxee, who are showing off their new Boxee iPad App at CES.
Here’s what Boxee (who today announced a new deal to offer video from CBS via their devices) had to say on the new app:
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COMPUTERWORLD: Super-fast and really easy to navigate, the Mac App Store is going to generate huge wads of cash for everyone involved, Apple and its partners — but I do worry that app navigation and developer access to the Mac platform may suffer.
Psst: Professional photographer? Keen amateur? It really doesn’t matter — head over to the Mac App Store now and you’ll be able to purchase Aperture for a fraction of its normal $199 price — it’ll cost you just $80 —that’s even cheaper than Amazon!! Here in the UK it costs £44.99 — that’s a whole lot cheaper than the £173 retail store price.
I’m willing to bet someone at Adobe just started sobbing.
