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Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Copyright Infringement

By Jay, January 11, 2007

Yesterday, Cisco Systems, Inc. filed a law suit against Apple Inc. for copyright infringement over the “Apple iPhone”. Cisco has owned the trademark to the name since they acquired the company Infogear, who had obtained the rights to the name on March 20, 1996. Mark Chandler the vice president of cisco said:

Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco’s iPhone name.

He also stated:

There is no doubt that Apple’s new phone is very exciting, but they should not be using our trademark without our permission.

Cisco is said to be seeking injunctive relief to prevent Apple from copying their trademark. Cisco’s official press release can be found here.


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My MacBook is a CrackedBook

By Nick, January 5, 2007

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Adobe pulls a U-turn, brings Premiere for Mac back from the dead [UPDATED]

By Nick, January 4, 2007

Apparently Adobe has been working a little bit of voodoo or black magic, or something (or maybe they just used a defibrillator), as they’ve managed to bring Premiere for Mac back to life, according to Macworld. Premiere, Adobe’s digital video production application (akin to Final Cut Pro), disappeared from the Mac in 2003 partially due to Final Cut Pro.

Premiere will become part of a new digital filmmaking bundle along with Encore DVD and Soundbooth (a new audio application currently under development). Adobe cites two main reasons for bringing Premiere back: the growth of the Mac market as of late and Apple’s switch to x86. Quoth Macworld:

“If you look at the industry as a whole, Mac customers are very important to us, said Simon Hayhurst, director of product management for dynamic media at Adobe. Pulling Premiere from the Mac was probably the hardest decision we ever made. It was always our intention to bring that back, and AppleԒs move to Intel made it easier.”

Premiere will be re-written and will “have everything that the Windows version has, including tight integration within the suite,” according to Macworld.

Currently the Mac digital film editing marketplace is dominated by Apple’s Final Cut Pro and Avid’s Xpress Pro.

Adobe plans to demonstrate prerelease versions of the new Premiere at its booth at Macworld Expo. Deep Thought will be at MWSF and hopefully we’ll get the chance to check it out.


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How iLife ruined my Christmas

By UnnDunn, January 4, 2007

Now, whenever I see one of those Apple commercials, I feel like reaching into the screen and strangling Justin Long.

It all started simply enough.  In early November my Uncle’s granddaughter turned one year old and we had her birthday party.  During the party, I ran around with a video camera recording everything so that I could make a nice video of the occasion.  The taping went well; I captured well over an hour of footage.  My plan was to take it down to a ten-minute video which I would put on DVD using iDVD.  I would present this, together with a photo book from iPhoto, as a Christmas present to the parents and grandparents.

The first problem I had was importing the video into iMovie.  My camera was one of those DVD burning models, and it turns out that Mac OS X is not capable of reading those natively.  I had to download a number of applications, each one costing a little money in order to read a DVD created by the camcorder.  No matter, I bought the applications (spending upwards of $100) and imported the video.

Over the next couple of weeks, I spent a few hours a day editing the video. You must understand this was my first video editing project, and also my first use of iMovie, so it was slow going, as I learned the ins and outs of the software.  But I was surprised as to how easy things were.  I’m no Francis Ford Coppola, but I was able to put together some basic edits, splice in audio, add bumpers, titles and captions, and ultimately…
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Coming January 2007…

By Eric, December 26, 2006

Well 2006 is almost over, and we can’t help but look around the corner to what is coming up in 2007. January is going to be a huge month for the technology community. To start off the new year, we have two gigantic events. Both taking place during the week of January 8, CES and Macworld Expo San Francisco are going to make us dizzy. Then, just in time for the end of the month, Microsoft will be releasing its long overdue Windows Vista.

Macwold San Francisco is the biggest Mac event of the year, and is always a platform for many releases from Apple, such as new iPods, new Macs, and the new year’s software. Last year, Apple introduced the FM tuner remote for the iPod, the Intel iMac, and the MacBook Pro, as well as iLife and iWork 2006. The upcoming Apple phone is also suspected this year, but as it is with Apple, we won’t know till it happens.

CES, or Consumer Electronics Show, is always one of the biggest tech events of the year and is always a big launch time for a multitude of exciting new products. Last year, Bill Gates/Microsoft introduced Urge (whatever happened to Urge?), Creative launched its Zen Vision:M, Pioneer went Blu-Ray, and thousands (yes, thousands) of other products were released. CES 2007 will be lighting up Vegas from January eighth to the eleventh, and is sure to make a big splash.

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