iThink that Steve Jobs miGht be iN trouble with the namiNg of the new apple mac iPhone. AccordiNg to yahoo news Cisco systems are suiNg Apple Inc. over the use of the term "iPhone".

San Jose-based Cisco, the world's largest network-equipment maker, has owned the trademark on the name "iPhone" since 2000, when it acquired InfoGear Technology Corp., which originally registered the name.

After all the commotion of Apple not wanting people to use the word "pod" when naming things, this smacks of getting a taste of your medicine. Even though that Apple don't own the TM on the name, I think that they have a good chance of getting away with it. Although I'm no copyright lawyer, what do you think of when you here iphone? Cisco Systems? InfoGear? No you think apple mac don't you? iPhone has sunk into popular consciousness as being the mythical coolest mobile phone possible.

As in domain name cyber squatting, can one Trademark squat? Maybe Apple should countersue. :)

Apple Mac iPhone

There's a new phone available from apple mac. There's only one problem, it's not available yet. It's there on the apple's homepage, sitting there, just tempting us. Is this the long dreamed about iPhone from apple that has kept macfans in anticipation since the iPod first rolled out? Quite possibly. We'll just have to wait and find out.

It's more than an iPod though. It's an iPod, phone and pda device in one!

"iPhone combines three products - a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching - into one small and lightweight handheld device."

It has no visible buttons from the photo so it looks like it's a small touch sensitive screen.

Gurgling Baby Ringtone

While travelling on the bus today I heard a gurgling baby laugh. Other passengers looked around to see the happy infant, but there was none. The sound was a phone ringtone. Old people's reaction is usually to make eye contact with said infant and then make funny faces to said infant. There was a perplexed look on a few faces, as if their whole world view had just shifted quite a few steps. They looked at each other and then to the owner of the cell phone.
Hearing a sound without having an image to view can be disconcerting for those unused to modern technology. Maybe carrying a fake baby as a prop to go with the phone sound would help? Remember to exercise due care choosing your next ringtone to download, so as not to freak out too many people. Unless of course that is the intention. :)