Archive for the 'Apple' Category

This is going to be all over the place today and I saw it on TechCrunch, but it’s too funny to not post it.

I’ve had Parallels installed on my MacBook Pro for a while and used it to connect to my employer’s VPN for a while (for some reason I could only get a Cisco VPN on a PC to connect) but haven’t used it much since. My buddy Lew also has a MacBook Pro and when [...]

Saw this on Valleywag - it came from TED. Pretty slick. If Apple wasn’t already headed in this direction, I bet they are now.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ”>
…and the hip-hop version.

iPhone suit follow-up

Here’s an IP attorney that thinks iPhone is too commonly used to be held by anyone. That is a possible outcome, although if Apple makes that argument and they really did try repeatedly to buy it from Cisco, they will have significantly undermined their position. This will be interesting. If I were [...]

This is pretty interesting. Cisco holds the tradmark “iPhone”, which they acquired when they bought Infogear a while back. There is actually already an iPhone and according to Cisco, Apple knew about it and repeatedly asked them if they could buy it. It will be extremely interesting to see what comes of [...]

Blogger, the blogging platform run by Google that I use for this blog, crashed right when Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google joined Steve Jobs on stage at MacWorld to help him announce the iPhone. I guess that combo is a little too much heat for the blogosphere…

So NBC and Google announced yesterday…that they will announce today at CES…that NBC will be going straight to the net with some of it’s prime time shows, a move foreshadowed by the uncensored SNL release of the JT “D*ck in a Box” skit last month…
The word is that Apple is going to be releasing the [...]




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