Apple has brought its fight with Apple about the iPad name to a court in the U.S., a new report from The Wall Street Journal reveals.
According to the publication, the now bankrupt Proview filed a case against Apple at the Superior Court of the State of California in Santa Clara Country Friday last week.
However, the lawsuit has just been discovered even though many were expecting Proview to also sue Apple in the U.S. as the company has previously warned that it will take Apple to court in the …

OnLive, better known for its gaming services, has launched a new service that allows you to have access to a virtualized Windows 7 machine, on your iPad.
The new service, dubbed OnLive Desktop Plus will give users access to most of the popular Windows 7 applications such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, Adobe Reader, and Internet Explorer (including Adobe Flash support) delivered on an iPad.
The new product will be billed at $5 per month and will allow users to get access to a …

Apple iPad owners in the U.S. are mostly richer and older people, a new study by the NPD Group has revealed.
According to the research firm’s Tablet Adoption and Insights Report, over 40 percent of American iPad owners had household incomes reaching $100,000 and more.
This is compared to 26 percent of Americans who own non-iPad tablets who also have $100,000 or more in annual household income.
“As the demographic of the tablet owner continues to change the tablet market is beginning to take …

Apple’s fortunes in China seem to be taking a turn for the better as a second national carrier signs on as a partner seller for the iPhone 4S in China.
China Telecom, which had 38.7 million 3G subscribers at the end of last month, will sell the iPhone 4S to its subscribers on a two year contract for about $62 a month.
This new development will increase the market for Apple iPhone 4S devices to up to double of what it currently is in a country that boasts the highest cellphone sales in the …

Apple sold more iOS devices in last year alone than it has sold Mac computers in 28 years, a new report says.
The statistic comes from Asymco which says that for the past year, Apple’s iOS devices sales have surpassed the sales of Mac computers since 1984.
The report from Asymco, written by Horace Dediu, says that the curiosity of how many iOS devices Apple has sold was triggered by this quote from Apple CEO Tim Cook about iPad sales:
“This 55 (million iPads sold) is something no one would …

After getting at least one city in China to seize Apple iPad tablets, Proview has admitted that it will be much harder to get a country-wide import and export ban imposed, a report from Reuters says.
According to the news organization, a Proview official has told them that Chinese authorities have hinted to the company that a ban on the import or export of the iPad in China may be hard to do.
This is because of the sheer size of the market for iPad tablets, Reuters says.
“The customs have …

California-based iPad-maker Apple may be forced to issue an apology and pay a hefty fine of $38 million for the use of the name iPad in China, a new report reveals.
According to the Global Times, the news comes from a representative of Hong Kong-based Proview Electronics who said that the company is anticipating that aside from a demanded apology, Apple will have to pay them a $38-million fine for using the iPad name.
Proview previously owned the trademark for the term iPad but it was …

A German appeals court in Karlsruhe has now overturned the ruling that banned Apple from selling some of its products in the country, reports Skynews.
Motorola Mobility had filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the latter of certain patent infringements. The lawsuit was filed against  Apple’s 3G iPhone, iPad and its remote storage service iCloud.
There is a system in place called Frand (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) as per which the companies give licenses to other companies to …

Last year saw one of Netflix‘s worst years come home to roost; the on-demand streaming and DVD rental company shed 800,000 subscribers which saw the company’s shares lose 61% of their value, something that had shareholders starting to get jittery. The decision to split the DVD service from the streaming business coupled with shifting rates saw the huge loss in subscribers over 2011.
But in developments that will definitely give shareholders a sigh of relief, the company has bounced …

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has said that the fear that the Amazon Kindle Fire will eat into iPad sales has been only that: a fear.
The reaction was made by Cook in a conference call after the iPad maker reported record-breaking quarterly results on Tuesday.
“I looked at the data – particularly in the US – on a weekly basis after Amazon launched the Kindle Fire, and in my view there wasn’t an obvious effect on the (iPad sales) numbers,” Cook said in a conference call …