Apple trademarks "Vingle"

"Read further on the article, it also defines Vingle as Computers; computer hardware; computer peripherals; hand held computers; computer terminals.." - "Just random stuff, it could be anything or it could just be nothing." That is only copyright law stuff, you state what type of products you want to register the trademark for. It hasn't got anything to do with product really, it's just about making sure nobody else uses the trademark in a similar product. I had to write an application like this for a small consumer electronics brand, that's how I know. I live and work in Sweden, so it's a little different, but I basically made sure to bring about examples of all related products I could think of.

so apple breaking away from iProducts... vingle: video tingle... some sort of wireless Force Feedback pad you can attach to your face? Vingle, sounds so un-cool. I'll wait till Steve J says it.

Domains by Proxy is not a cybersquatter, they're a service that lets you keep your WHOIS data anonymous so spambots don't harvest it.

Maybe Apple is going for what they (supposedly) wanted to originally do with the Newton. A 'total information access, anywhere' sort of thing. Of course the newton was made in the days when an internet connection wirelessly was all but unheard of.

Hmmm.... Maybe Apple is making a PDA! That would be so cool. Or maybe a kind of tablet? Or maybe it's a handheld computer! (Yes, there is a difference, a handheld computer is like Windows CE/Windows Mobile and a PDA is like Palm)

What about a service that would truely combine FrontRow with OSX with your TV? You have tv shows, video conferencing, email, blogs, movies, music, photos, blah blah.... all the stuff they mentioned. Use your living room as your office, but sync it with your iPhone/iPod/iPDA. Wow. I think I just wet myself.

Read further on the article, it also defines Vingle as "Computers; computer hardware; computer peripherals; hand held computers; computer terminals; personal digital assistants; electronic organizers; electronic notepads; apparatus for recording, transmission and reproduction of sounds, images, or other data; portable and handheld digital electronic devices for recording, organizing, transmitting, manipulating, and reviewing audio, video and still images files; magnetic data carriers; mobile digital electronic devices; telephones; computer gaming machines; monitors, displays, keyboards, cables, modems, printers, videophones, disk drives; cameras; computer software; computer software for use in authoring, downloading, transmitting, receiving, editing, extracting, encoding, decoding, playing, storing and organizing audio, video and still images; computer software for DVD authoring; prerecorded computer programs for personal information management; database management software; computer programs for accessing, browsing and searching online databases; blank computer and consumer electronic storage media; computer and electronic games; user manuals sold as a unit with the aforementioned goods" Just random stuff, it could be anything or it could just be nothing.

Perhaps Video jINGLE - a brief video that can be incorporated as an alert or startup???

Hmmm. Apple doesn't (currently) own the domain vingle.com -- it's registered to a cybersquatter named Domains By Proxy, Inc. Whois Server Version 1.3 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. Domain Name: VINGLE.COM Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC. Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com Name Server: WSC1.JOMAX.NET Name Server: WSC2.JOMAX.NET Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK Updated Date: 22-jun-2005 Creation Date: 30-apr-2003 Expiration Date: 30-apr-2006 Registrant: Domains by Proxy, Inc. DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com Domain Name: VINGLE.COM Created on: 30-Apr-03 Expires on: 30-Apr-06 Last Updated on: 22-Jun-05 Administrative Contact: Private, Registration VINGLE.COM@domainsbyproxy.com Domains by Proxy, Inc. DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States (480) 624-2599 Fax -- Technical Contact: Private, Registration VINGLE.COM@domainsbyproxy.com Domains by Proxy, Inc. DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States (480) 624-2599 Fax -- Domain servers in listed order: WSC1.JOMAX.NET WSC2.JOMAX.NET

"...on-line chat rooms, bulletin boards and community forums for the transmission of messages among computer users concerning entertainment, music..." How about a built-in iTunes Concert? Where you can actually watch bands perform live (in a garage?) over the net. Long shot but might be possible.