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Apple trademarks "Vingle"
On October 7th, Apple trademarked the term “Vingle” at the U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office. Included in the trademark is the logo at right (exciting, isn't it?). It reads:“Telecommunication services, namely, electronic transmission of streamed and downloadable audio and video files via computer and other communications networks; providing on-line chat rooms, bulletin boards and community forums for the transmission of messages among computer users concerning entertainment, music, concerts, videos, radio, television, film, news, sports, games and cultural events; web casting services; delivery of messages by electronic transmission; provision of connectivity services and access to electronic communications networks, for transmission or reception of audio, video or multimedia content.”
I imagine a merging of "video" and "single" is the obvious origin of the term, but I'm intrigued by the section that reads, "...on-line chat rooms, bulletin boards and community forums for the transmission of messages among computer users concerning entertainment, music..." etc. What's that all about?
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Chris said 9:20AM on 10-14-2005
A second possibility, though I think your's is the most accurate, is "mingle" + "video".
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chris hollomon said 9:29AM on 10-14-2005
yeah I'm thinking mingle too, it make more sense
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myname said 9:38AM on 10-14-2005
i agree, mingle seems to make more sense
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Jason said 9:41AM on 10-14-2005
How about Video + Dongle? Vingle... Vongle... Whatever the combination is, it still sounds silly.
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TTR2 said 9:54AM on 10-14-2005
Could this be Apple's telecom service - 3G Apple PDA/Music/Video/Phone?
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Ed Commaro said 11:09AM on 10-14-2005
Vin (Diesel) + Pringles = Vingle
Vin Diesel, hip and cool among the young and meida savy, not to mention his forray into budding media mogul'ness
and
Pringles a popular snack while enjoying said media in the above blog column.
=
Vingle
aieet.
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Tommy Palmer said 11:14AM on 10-14-2005
It seems like a more user-centric iTunes kind of program, with a built in browser of some sort.
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AnDy said 11:19AM on 10-14-2005
"...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.
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timbck2 said 11:27AM on 10-14-2005
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
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15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax --
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15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
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(480) 624-2599 Fax --
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WSC1.JOMAX.NET
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Radu Dutzan said 2:06PM on 10-14-2005
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.
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Sean said 2:45PM on 10-14-2005
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.
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ChrisPyLord said 7:00PM on 10-14-2005
Perhaps Video jINGLE - a brief video that can be incorporated as an alert or startup???
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Joseph said 7:11PM on 10-14-2005
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)
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Brett Berish said 9:02PM on 10-14-2005
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.
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Callum said 4:50PM on 10-15-2005
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.
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Chris Griego said 8:30PM on 10-15-2005
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.
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doc manhattan said 9:19PM on 10-16-2005
"Read further on the article, it also defines Vingle as Computers; computer hardware; computer peripherals; hand held computers; computer terminals.."
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"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.
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