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As Apple’s fight to trademark the phrase “App Store” continues, the iPhone-maker has again sent a cease and desist letter this time to small software development company Amahi for the firm to stop using the phrase for one of its tabs on its website.
Amahi, being the small company that it is, lamented that it is nothing as big as Apple and instead opted to hold a contest for users of …

Apple would definitely hope that they have more than a shot of winning the motion for temporary injunction versus Amazon about the name “Appstore” but if the comments of the judge hearing the case are any indication, it seems that the Cupertino, California-based company might just be beaten on this one.
The iPhone maker has earlier filed suit against Amazon and also sought a temporary injunction on Amazon in using the “Appstore” name for one of its market places.
Reports say that U.S. …

Apple has moved to Texas federal court to protect its App Store ecosystem and get permission to intervene in patent infringement suits filed by Lodsys against smaller developers of Apple, reports CNN Money.
Nine days back, Lodsys had threatened to ruin the software ecosystem that supports over 90,000 iOS developers. The ecosystem has also produced over half a million apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
A statement from Apple says, “Apple Inc. hereby respectfully moves to intervene as a …

Drilling through Apple’s App Store to find just the right iPhone app can be a challenge, and time consuming, so the announcement by The Bing Team on its blog this week that it has introduced a new Bing app search feature that pushes relevant links to other iPhone apps is welcome news.

The Bing team said that it is introducing the app search feature in order to help people with “‘serendipitous discovery’ by surfacing relevant apps automatically in the context of normal search …

Apple is set to launch the Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in July, reports CNET.
The new OS will be priced at $29.99 and include a number of iOS features. It will work with iCloud and be able to be integrated with iOS devices.
The OS will offer users integration of data (or centralization or of the content), whether present on a desktop, iOS device, or iCloud.
 
Apple has indicated that it is adding lots of new gestures in addition to what are already used on Mac laptops, Apple’s Magic Mouse, etc. …

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: An “App Store” is not a store for apps.

Well, that’s exactly how Apple, which is locked in a bitter battle with tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon over a trademark over the phrase “App Store”, wants you to think about its App Store.
Apple has again reiterated that “App Store” is not generic, according to documents filed on Thursday by the Cupertino, California-based consumer electronics giant at a California district court.
“Apple denies …

Tech giants Microsoft, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and HTC have each filed separate requests to invalidate Apple’s trademark in the European Union of the terms “App Store” and “Appstore”.

The four companies filed requests at the EU’s trademark agency in Alicante, Spain earlier this week saying that the terms were too generic to merit a trademark.
Microsoft has said in a statement that the companies are “seeking to invalidate Apple’s trademark registration for ‘APP STORE’ and …

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There is good news coming for Android users, who are not indifferent to getting things coming their way for free. Judging by the latest report by Dutch company Distimo for 2011, currently the number of free applications available for Google’s Android operating system has exceeded the number for free apps for iPhone.
More precisely, at the moment number of such apps offered by Android …

Apple has refused to place on App Store a game for iPhone and iPad called Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration. This led the developers to change the name of app and its characters were replaced by animals so as to get it released on Cupertino Company’s store, reports PC Magazine.
Initially, the essence of the game, developed by Boston-based company Owlchemy Labs, was to carry through the U.S. border with Mexico, the maximum number of illegal migrants without dropping them from the back of …

Amazon recently filed a countersuit seeking to dismiss a case filed against it by tech industry giant Apple regarding the purported illegal use of the term ‘app store’.

Apple has sued several large tech companies for using the term in the iPhone-maker’s fight in the courts to trademark ‘app store’.
However, Amazon contends that it has not licensed the use of ‘app store’ from Apple, and that it does not need to because the two terms and their combination is generic, an argument …