Apple's claim that it owns the trademark "app store" has been dismissed by a US court.

The computer giant was seeking a preliminary injunction to stop Amazon calling its "app store" the "Appstore".

Apple claimed that "App Store" was a distinctive mark, even though the words app and store are well-known and well-understood.

This claim was rather undermined by Apple's own Steve Jobs, who called Apple's app store:"the easiest-to-use largest app store in the world, preloaded on every iPhone": a claim which suggests that there are other app stores and that people understand what that phrase means.

Apple filed for trademark protection with the US Patent Office in July 2008. Microsoft has already opposed the mark on grounds that it is generic – which could be seen as funny coming from the company which trademarked the word "Windows".

Judge Phyllis Hamilton denied the motion for a preliminary injunction because Apple had failed to establish likelihood of success in its infringement claim.
Apple's lawyers are unlikely to let the case lie. The full hearing is due later this year; seeking a preliminary injunction was just the first step in the case.

The fruity cargo cult faces similar arguments in Europe, where Microsoft, Nokia and HTC are challenging Apple's parallel attempt to trademark Appstore and App Store.

Amazon also insisted that it could not confuse customers because Amazon is not allowed to sell Apple software through its "app store", sorry "Appstore".
Scribd has an apparent copy of the judgment here. ®

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Google: Go public on Profiles or we'll delete you - munna-bujji

Posted: 08 Jul 2011 04:33 AM PDT

Google: Go public on Profiles or we'll delete you

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Posted in Networks, 7th July 2011 14:47 GMT

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Comment Google's efforts to get more Web2.0-social online have had an interesting but not altogether surprising side-effect: Profiles will no longer be hidden from view as of the end of this month.

The company, which is busily crafting a social network dubbed Google+, has put the policy on how it handles its user profiles on notice.

From 31 July, people who have created private profiles in, say, the ad broker's free email service Gmail will be deleted by Google unless individuals switch it to public view.

"The purpose of Google Profiles is to enable you to manage your online identity. Today, nearly all Google Profiles are public. We believe that using Google Profiles to help people find and connect with you online is how the product is best used. Private profiles don't allow this, so we have decided to require all profiles to be public," said the company.

Google said that it would only require a user's full name and gender to be displayed on the public profile. Any other information an individual doesn't want to reveal to the world can be edited or deleted.

"If you currently have a private profile but you do not wish to make your profile public, you can delete your profile. Or, you can simply do nothing. All private profiles will be deleted after July 31, 2011," said Google.

The move is part of Mountain View's wider ambition to bake social products into its search and email products.

As a result, anyone planning to use Google+ will need a public profile with, at minimum, their full name and gender displayed.

Google would argue that providing those details via its service will increase trust among participants within its social network.

The notion of identity online is currently undergoing a significant shift away from the old model of individuals having separate accounts for different parts of a web giant's online estate.

Google has arguably been at the forefront of that shift even if it has arrived late to the social party – setting aside the failed Buzz and uninspired Orkut.

Facebook has been insisting for years that users who sign up to its private network can only do so using their real names. Staggeringly, it can and does routinely ask users whose accounts are temporarily disabled to submit proof that they are who they say they are before they are allowed to return to the site.

Photocopied versions of an individual's passport or driving licence are the price. And users, more often than not, comply. Facebook temporarily stores that information on its servers.

In some circles, the method is known as "identity assurance" and the handling of such data is being considered even by the UK's Cabinet Office, which seems to think it is easier to shift the responsibility of an ID database over to any number of third parties, including social networks, rather than keep the whole thing in-house – which, as the previous Labour government learned, is a different kind of headache.

Microsoft, too, has recently made the single sign-in shift with its Windows Live estate, and some users aren't happy about it.

But the reality is that identity is becoming a lucrative and even essential part of an online business that trades its data for ad revenue. And now that the practice is seemingly industry-wide, web surfers are being forced to make decisions about what networks they want to make uneasy concessions with, or else opt out for good. ®

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Windows Short Cut Keys – Collection - munna-bujji - Windows Shortcut keys for you

Posted: 08 Jul 2011 03:52 AM PDT

Here is the biggest Collection of Windows Shortcut keys for you,In this article we gives Windows,Word,Excel,Outlook Shortcut keys

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House hold register software free ware

Posted: 08 Jul 2011 03:46 AM PDT

House hold register software free ware

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