Burst.com Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dude, he invented the friggin' iPod. Have you heard of it?

by Robert Palmer (Sep 8th, 2008)

Meet Kane Kramer. In 1979, he filed a patent for a device called the IXI, an early digital device that held about three minutes of music. He let the patent lapse a decade later, and never saw a penny from Apple's blistering success with the iPod. You might think this was a story of a bitter man with ...

Patent infringement lawsuit hits Apple

by David Chartier (Apr 18th, 2006)

In a move that screams 'I was waiting for the right time to mention it,' Burst.com yesterday filed a patent counterclaims lawsuit against Apple Computer, claiming that their iTunes, iTMS, iPod and QuickTime Streaming infringe on four of their patents. It appears that this time around Apple actually ...