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Apple trademarks 'Express Lane' and 'VoicePass'

by Mike Schramm (Dec 23rd, 2010)

Apple has filed two new trademarks right before the holidays this week. VoicePass is the first one -- it's filed in the category of "construction and repair services," so it likely has to do with supporting broken devices. MacNN says that the VoicePass service is used when calling in to customer ...

Apple files official app icon trademarks

by Mike Schramm (Apr 29th, 2010)

Apple has filed trademark motions on a number of its official app icons, and none of them are new (though the trademarks for the iDisk app and the MobileMe gallery app threw me a bit, not having MobileMe myself). Apple appears to be shoring up its official iPad and iPhone app icon library, and ...

Patent application hints at future of Magic Mouse

by Dave Caolo (Feb 18th, 2010)

The US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application that hints at the future of Apple's Magic Mouse. It describes three new sensors and a triple-axis gyroscope to detect the roll, pitch, and yaw of the mouse. This means that a user could tilt the mouse from side to side to produce a ...

Leo Laporte wants to rebrand podcasts as 'netcasts' - I agree

by David Chartier (Oct 7th, 2006)

If you're a TWiT fan (or a listener of almost any of Leo's other 200 podcasts), you might have heard in the past couple of weeks that he's pushing to change the term 'podcast' to 'netcast.' He's even gone so far as to start using it in his lingo on the shows (at least on the few of his shows I can ...

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