When Apple first announced the iPad, it did not own the trademark on the name. Now, after some negotiating with Fujitsu, it does, and just in time for its touch-screen tablet to go on sale next week.
The blog PatentAuthority tracked down the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office document Friday that shows Fujitsu turned the iPad trademark over to Apple officially on March 17. Though it's not disclosed, we can assume that Fujitsu was compensated in some way for assigning that trademark, which it has owned since 2003, to Apple.
Here's the document showing Apple's ownership of the iPad name:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dp3J-GruePkJ:news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20001294-260.html+Ipad+vs+Fujitsu&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Oh, and the other thing I want: A *low-key* app store. A big reason I have little interest in the iPad is that it’s *all about* the app store. Apple isn’t selling us tablets; it’s selling developers and advertisers tablet buyers. The iPad has relatively little function until you splurge a few dollars here, a few dollars there. It is, in the very literal sense, a consumer machine, with little to offer a user with a creative or expessive bent. (Yes, there are counter-examples; I said little, not nothing.) My money goes to the first tablet that shows me not only an app store for those few items I think will enhance my creativity or expessiveness but also a pretty decent basic bundle of software that covers that need right out of the box, roughly competitive with the apps you get on a Windows or Snow Leopard box.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
BY THE 1930S KENNEDY BECOMES “KENNEDY”. WHO WILL BE THE NEXT IN 21ST CENTURY?
Medicinal dispensaries: controversial e-commerce, Is it ready for its own Amazon.com?
Medical Marijuana is California's biggest cash crop Generating sales estimated at $14 billion a year.
More and more people every day are realizing the advantages of e-commerce, including those interested in the medical marijuana industry. E-commerce is the wave of the future, and if you don’t have a website, there is a strong chance that potential customers will overlook your business.
With an efficient website and easy to use e-commerce system, your medical cannabis business will rise above the competition.
E-commerce is ideal for all aspects of the medical marijuana industry. It is an excellent resource for collectives, as you can sell all of your products (aside from the medicine itself) online, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. With the right design and e-commerce software backing your website, people will easily be able to find and buy your medical marijuana supplies, whether it is glass water pipes and medical marijuana related books or cannabis related products like hemp cosmetics.
There are millions of people shopping online at any moment, and a huge chunk of those people are interested in the medical marijuana industry and its related products. E-commerce lets people shop whenever they want, no matter where they are. While your physical business is limited to your local area, having a good looking, properly designed website will allow you to attract customers via the internet that you otherwise would never have. Also, good e-commerce software reduces processing errors, so your customers will get a more effective shopping experience.
The industry has challenges: Taxes, Invoices, Supply chain management, & Regulatory compliance.
PlainView Systems, a four-month-old Sonoma startup that aims to bring sophisticated business management tools to an industry that has only recently begun operating like one. "It's a business where everyone is very, very paranoid," PlainView's "compassionate care marketplace" is a B2B exchange for licensed providers of medical marijuana and their patients. Participants can band together to form growing collectives -- a legal requirement for those that want to sell pot -- and cut deals with other members to buy and sell their inventory. The system also helps sellers keep their records in order, generating invoices, sales reports and tax paperwork.
Note: My opinion on this subject is the U.S GOV’s laws & ethics must be the priority number one.
Source:
PlainView Systems - http://www.plainviewccm.com/
Websites tools such as Magento - http://www.magentocommerce.com/
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Protect bloggers around the world. How about that?
Interesting - Protect bloggers around the world. How about that?
Paris hosts cyber-shelter for battered bloggers
Paris-based media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders on Thursday launched a virtual "anti-censorship shelter" to protect bloggers around the world from repressive authorities.
The group (RSF) unveiled a room in its Paris headquarters set aside for fugitive journalists or bloggers from abroad to drop in and blog with secure Internet connections using software that masks their online identity.
The project also offers to provide carefully selected bloggers in other countries with free access to secure, anonymous online connections to make it harder for authorities to pursue them for their work.
"This will allow them to connect to the Internet securely, to help them continue their work as bloggers," the secretary general of RSF Jean-Francois Julliard told AFP at the launch of what he called the "virtual shelter."
He admitted that determined governments could find ways round the masked Internet addresses, but said the project could still help responsible bloggers avoid arrest -- a trend which RSF says is on the rise.
"If the CIA or other government agencies like that want to get round it they can, but this will make things much more difficult," Julliard said.
RSF estimates that about 120 people are in jail throughout the world as punishment for blogging and other forms of online journalism, singling out countries such as China, Vietnam and Iran.
The project won support from an editor of the Chinese news blog boxun.com, who said two of the site's contributors have been jailed in China for publishing material online criticising the authorities there.
"It's important to get round censorship, for the Chinese people and for everybody" said the man, who is based outside China and asked to be identified only by his family name Wang.
This can be done "by using software etcetera... but the most important aim is to convince the Chinese to overcome their fear."
Paris hosts cyber-shelter for battered bloggers
Paris-based media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders on Thursday launched a virtual "anti-censorship shelter" to protect bloggers around the world from repressive authorities.
The group (RSF) unveiled a room in its Paris headquarters set aside for fugitive journalists or bloggers from abroad to drop in and blog with secure Internet connections using software that masks their online identity.
The project also offers to provide carefully selected bloggers in other countries with free access to secure, anonymous online connections to make it harder for authorities to pursue them for their work.
"This will allow them to connect to the Internet securely, to help them continue their work as bloggers," the secretary general of RSF Jean-Francois Julliard told AFP at the launch of what he called the "virtual shelter."
He admitted that determined governments could find ways round the masked Internet addresses, but said the project could still help responsible bloggers avoid arrest -- a trend which RSF says is on the rise.
"If the CIA or other government agencies like that want to get round it they can, but this will make things much more difficult," Julliard said.
RSF estimates that about 120 people are in jail throughout the world as punishment for blogging and other forms of online journalism, singling out countries such as China, Vietnam and Iran.
The project won support from an editor of the Chinese news blog boxun.com, who said two of the site's contributors have been jailed in China for publishing material online criticising the authorities there.
"It's important to get round censorship, for the Chinese people and for everybody" said the man, who is based outside China and asked to be identified only by his family name Wang.
This can be done "by using software etcetera... but the most important aim is to convince the Chinese to overcome their fear."
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Hello iBusiness, is the iPad the next big toy for toddlers?
Even though it’s a toy with a grown-up price tag, it’s clear that kids and even toddlers have a natural knack for the iPad.
iMass: Priest develops missal application to let priests officiate with iPad
ROME - An Italian priest has developed an application that will let priests celebrate Mass with an iPad on the altar instead of the regular Roman missal.
The Rev. Paolo Padrini, a consultant with the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications, said Friday the free application will be launched in July in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Latin.
The Rev. Paolo Padrini, a consultant with the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications, said Friday the free application will be launched in July in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Latin.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Silly usage of iPad
Silly usage of iPad. So far Amazon's first response to iPad hype: A Better Browser for Kindle.
Here we go; throughout the course my blog will be regarding the iPad. My intentions are to critic and compare iPad with PDAs and other smart phones. I will concentrate with mostly iPad’s bad press. However, sometime I will give the iPad the benefit of the doubt and say something nice about it. Let’s see how it evolves. In addition, I am checking other blogs in the internet to gain consensus to support my blog content
Is the iPad hype real or use it is just for silly purposes? Please see the video and make comments.
Resource:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:P7oueBVaA3sJ:justanotheripadblog.com/+ipad+blog&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
It shows iPad + Velcro teaming up for a variety of basic (eg car mount) to madman uses (mounted on motorbike or recipe reminder inches away from a frying pan).
I have to admit, even the more basic usage examples are not for me – I need my little $700 baby wrapped in layers of strong protection.
How about you all? Is there a Velcro plus iPad hookup in your future?
Here we go; throughout the course my blog will be regarding the iPad. My intentions are to critic and compare iPad with PDAs and other smart phones. I will concentrate with mostly iPad’s bad press. However, sometime I will give the iPad the benefit of the doubt and say something nice about it. Let’s see how it evolves. In addition, I am checking other blogs in the internet to gain consensus to support my blog content
Is the iPad hype real or use it is just for silly purposes? Please see the video and make comments.
Resource:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:P7oueBVaA3sJ:justanotheripadblog.com/+ipad+blog&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
It shows iPad + Velcro teaming up for a variety of basic (eg car mount) to madman uses (mounted on motorbike or recipe reminder inches away from a frying pan).
I have to admit, even the more basic usage examples are not for me – I need my little $700 baby wrapped in layers of strong protection.
How about you all? Is there a Velcro plus iPad hookup in your future?
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