Apple News � Apple Sends Out Cease and Desist to Startup Using �App Store�

After Amazon, Microsoft, and many others, Apple has filed a Cease and Desist order against a home server software startup that uses the term �App Store.� In response, Amahi temporarily changed it to App Mart, all while asking users for a new name to call their app store.

Of course, you wanted a small company to �fight back,� but they do not have the enough cash to throw away like Amazon did. Besides, Apple has every right to claim that the term �App Store� is their trademark, and Amahi can always change App Mart back to App Store if the court decision goes not in favor of Apple.

Meanwhile, Amahi has come up with a contest for its users to suggest a new phrase to call its App Mart. Currently in the lead is �iStore,� but I don�t think that will be used unless the startup wants more legal headaches. Other suggestions include �App Shop,� �Amahi Store,� �Amahi Market,� and �Appalog.� If you want to join for a chance to win a computer and a pro membership, head over to Amahi.

Source: CrunchGear

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Gadget News � Steve Jobs to officially announce iCloud and iOS 5 at WWDC 2011

Next week, I am leaving for L.A. to go to E3, but I�m sure that most of the news before the big video game conference will be devoted to what Apple is doing.

At WWDC 2011, Steve Jobs will be on deck to announced three new big things (at least) with iCloud, OS X Lion, and iOS 5.

So what is iCloud? Right now, there isn�t anything on that website, but it is the cloud service that we have all have been wanting on Apple for a long time now. I am guessing that the iCloud will be some sort of new streaming music service like on MobileMe, or something, just like Amazon and Google are doing. The rumors are that this streaming could apply to more than just music, but to movies and television.

I suppose we shouldn�t be too surprised, as cloud computing is everywhere these days, and yet somehow nowhere. The OS X Lion and iOS 5 should come as no shock to anyone.

I guess what surprises me most of all is that I haven�t heard much about any introduction of an iPhone 5 at this event. Wasn�t the iPhone 4 introduced last year? Why yes, it was, and if Steve pulls out the next version at WWDC, I wouldn�t exactly be surprised. I would be more surprised that it would have been kept a secret, honestly.

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/icloud-and-ios-5-to-be-unveiled-at-wwdc-2011

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