interesting. i wonder if the same people who say DRM is unworkable therefore i can download any artist's work i want, will take apple to the woodshed regarding their attempt to "appropriate" the iphone trademark? just asking.

Well done. Nice dig.

This is very interesting and invokes deja-vu (sorry, no accents on this English keyboard).

In his recent autobiography, Wozniak says that the name Apple was chosen for their 'invention' after Jobs returned from a trip to an 'apple orchard' in Oregon and when Woz raised potential issues with the Beatles' Apple Records, Jobs suggested it should not be a problem since "it probably was a totally different business" (Chapter 12, Pg 173/ 174, First Edition).

However, a more pertinent story - to the line taken about internet telephony versus a device for cellular telephony - would be about Sony's entry into the USA, narrated by Kenichi Ohmae in 'Made in Japan' (no reference here, I lost the paperback long ago in my country transits).

Sony found a chocolate or something branded 'Sony' selling in the US and took that company to court; the case turned, when Sony was able to demonstrate, to satisfy the Judge, that the roots of the name of their sound-focused business were in Latin 'sonus' for sound.

I find it interesting that Cisco says they will negotiate. Is there something we are still missing here?

So Apple registered under a pseudonym. Uhmm...Isnt' that standard?