Isn't It Ironic, Microsoft?

Release Date 13 Jan, 2011 in Motley Fool

 
   

Microsoft fights Apple's claim on 'app store'

CBC.ca - 13 Jan, 2011
Apple announced Jan. 5 that App Store downloads for the iPhone and iPod Touch have surpassed three billion. (Canadian Press) Microsoft has taken the next ...

Mac App Store simplifies buying and installing software

USA Today - Edward C. Baig - 13 Jan, 2011
In the old days of buying software, you'd enter a store, stroll the aisles and schlep home a shrink-wrapped box containing disks and a ...

Microsoft Not 'Appy' About Trademark Request

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Ashby Jones - 13 Jan, 2011
Do you associate the word with Apple Inc. specifically? Or, in your mind, does the word refer to something more generic â€" an application used ...

Future Apps Announces its Speak it! Text to Speech Application is now on the ...

San Francisco Chronicle (press release) - 13 Jan, 2011
Future Apps, one of the leading iOS development companies, announces entry into the Mac Platform with its Speak it! Text to Speech App. Speak it! is part of ...

Microsoft Fights Apple's 'App Store' Trademark Claim

Wall Street Journal - Ian Sherr - 13 Jan, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is fighting Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) attempt to trademark the term "app ...

Microsoft fights Apple claim to "App Store" name

AFP - 13 Jan, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO â€" Microsoft is fighting rival Apple's claim that it has dibs on the name "App Store," arguing the term is generic and can be used by any shop ...

Microsoft Fights Apple's Attempt To Trademark 'App Store'

PC Magazine - Sara Yin - ‎Jan 12, 2011‎
Microsoft has motioned for a summary judgment to block Apple from trademarking the phrase "app store," as it filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office ...

Why Apple shouldn't be allowed to trademark 'App Store' - by the folk who ...

The Guardian (blog) - ‎Jan 12, 2011‎
The Mac App Store. Photo by jediduke on Flickr. Some rights reserved Microsoft has raised objections to Apple's attempt to trademark the phrase App Store. ...

Microsoft's 'App Store' Spat with Apple: And 5 More Trademark Absurdities

PC World - Jared Newman - ‎Jan 12, 2011‎
Microsoft is picking a fight with Apple over the phrase "App Store" in the latest example of tech trademark ...

Microsoft Sues Apple Over 'App Store' Trademark

InformationWeek - Paul McDougall - ‎Jan 12, 2011‎
Microsoft has filed a complaint against Apple with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, claiming that the ...

Microsoft opposes Apple trademark

BBC News - ‎Jan 12, 2011‎
Microsoft has said that it has asked US officials to block Apple's attempt to trademark the words "App Store". Apple submitted an application for the phrase ...

Microsoft fights Apple on 'App Store' name

Financial Times - Mary Watkins - ‎Jan 12, 2011‎
Microsoft is disputing Apple's move to trademark the name “App Store”, arguing that it would be unfair to allow ...

Microsoft Objects to Apple's App Store Trademark

Techtree.com - Samir Makwana - ‎Jan 12, 2011‎
Microsoft has filed a motion yesterday with the US Patent and Trademark Office stating that the "App Store" term is too generic and restricts competitors ...

Microsoft: Apple shouldn't get App Store trademark

ZDNet UK (blog) - David Meyer - ‎Jan 12, 2011‎
Microsoft has challenged Apple's attempt to trademark the term 'app store', claiming the phrase has ...

Microsoft fights Apple over 'App Store'

Inquirer - Edward Berridge - ‎Jan 12, 2011‎
SOFTWARE MONOPOLIST Microsoft has asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to reject Apple's attempt to trademark the term "App Store". ...

Android Beats Apple App Store's Growth, Distimo Says

BusinessWeek - Diana ben-Aaron - ‎Jan 12, 2011‎
(Company corrects first five paragraphs of story published on Jan. 10 to show application figures are for US only.) Jan. ...

Microsoft opposes Apple trademark for 'App Store'

CNET (blog) - Steven Musil - ‎Jan 11, 2011‎
Apple's effort to trademark the name "App Store" has run in to opposition from Microsoft, which argues the phrase is too generic to register ...

HTML5: An antidote for Apple App Store-itis

Register - Matt Asay - ‎Jan 11, 2011‎
Open...and Shut To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Or in the case of our idea-starved tech ...

Microsoft disputes Apple's 'App Store' trademark

Register - ‎Jan 11, 2011‎
Microsoft is contesting Apple's trademark claim for the term "App Store", calling that term too generic to be granted protection. ...

The App Store is Open

Manila Bulletin - Rom Feria - ‎Jan 11, 2011‎
iOS device owners are familiar with the iTunes App Store. Linux users are familiar with the application repositories. ...

Microsoft Fights Apple Trademark on 'App Store'

PC World - Stephen Lawson - ‎Jan 11, 2011‎
Microsoft is asking the US Patent and Trademark Office to deny Apple a trademark on the name "App Store," saying the term is ...

iPhoto, other apps not launching after 10.6.6 update

CNET (blog) - Topher Kessler - ‎Jan 11, 2011‎
A few Mac users who have installed the latest OS X 10.6.6 update have found that a few applicaitons, especially iLife applications like ...

Don't like the App Store? Delete it!

CNET (blog) - Topher Kessler - ‎Jan 11, 2011‎
The new Mac App Store can be a useful way to find software for OS X, but a few people have expressed their dislike of the store and prefer ...

Android vs. iPhone: The GPL Question

ZDNet (blog) - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - ‎Jan 11, 2011‎
You can't sell GPL software on the Apple App Store, but you can do it on Google's Android App ...

Apple launches app store for Mac computer software

Tehran Times - ‎Jan 11, 2011‎
SEATTLE (AP) â€" Apple Inc. is expanding the “app store” idea that caught fire on the iPhone (News - Alert) and iPad to its line of Mac computers. ...

Mathemagics Adds to Mac App Store Offerings

PC World - Joel Mathis - ‎Jan 11, 2011‎
The makers of an iPhone app that teaches "math tricks" to aspiring mathletes have brought the program to desktop computers. ...

Android Market saw greatest surge in 2010

CNET (blog) - Lance Whitney - ‎Jan 11, 2011‎
Apple's App Store remains the mobile-app marketplace king with the largest number of titles, but Android Market saw the highest growth last ...

Apple's Iphone app store is challenged by rivals

Inquirer - Edward Berridge - ‎Jan 11, 2011‎
THE WALLED GARDEN that is Apple's Iphone app store is getting a good kicking by rival app stores run by Google, RIM and Nokia. ...

Dr. Mac: App Store offers the new and the familiar

Houston Chronicle - Bob Levitus - ‎Jan 10, 2011‎
Last Thursday, Apple opened the (virtual) doors of its Mac App Store â€" bringing the vaunted App Store experience it ...

Apple's Mac App Store arrives and the world doesn't end

ZDNet (blog) - David Morgenstern - ‎Jan 10, 2011‎
No Chicken Little, the sky didn't fall with the arrival of the Mac App Store the other day. ...

 

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