Tag Archives: Apple

Sun 10th January 2016
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Apple to launch dating service, Forex trading - Apple car domains mean nothing. Just like its registration of .dating and .forex domain names. Hey mainstream tech press: STFU about these Apple Car domain names, will you? Last week everyone from MacRumors to Business Insider was having an Apple fanboy freakout over Apple registering Apple.car, Apple.cars and Apple.auto. “This means the Apple Car is coming!” they yelled. You know what? The Apple Car might be coming. But these domain names don’t mean anything at all. Apple registers or blocks ... read more ...
Fri 11th December 2015
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It was only a bug: .Com by-pass is behind in iOS 9.2 - Shortcut that dissapeared with iOS 9.1 is back in iOS 9.2. Last month I wrote about how Apple changed the functionality of the top level domain shortcut button on its keyboard for iPad devices. When you press and hold the period “.” key, it brings up a list of top level domain name options. Previously, if you didn’t select anything and just released the key, .com was inserted by default. When iPad devices were updated to iOS 9.1, however, the .com default didn’t work as usual. If you pressed ... read more ...
Mon 2nd November 2015
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.Com default disappears in iOS 9 on iPad - Keyboard loses its .com shortcut. Something weird happened when I updated our iPads to iOS 9.1. I’m not sure if it is an intentional change or a bug. Here’s the deal: When you press and hold the period “.” key on the iOS keyboard on an iPad, it no longer automatically inserts .com. Oddly, this behavior is different on the iPhone. For a long time, if you pressed and held the period key for a second in a field that might contain a domain, iOS would pop up a selection of five top level domain ... read more ...
Fri 18th September 2015
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Apple Inc. Getting Ready To Use New .apple gTLD Domain Extension? - Apple Inc. has applied for the new gTLD .apple and the status is currently delegated. Apple Inc. also is going to own the new gTLD .beats since it acquired Beats Electronics, LLC. On September 17, 2015 Apple Inc. has purchased 29 new .com domain names according to whois records and IMO, these domain name registrations appear to relate to what “will be” URL’s using the .apple gTLD as a typographical cover! IMO, these following 29 new domain name registrations maybe domain names used by Apple ... read more ...
Thu 3rd September 2015
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Apple Inc. Registers Several New iSurvey Domain Names - Apple Inc. may have something new to announce sometime soon? Maybe on September 9, 2015 at the Apple event we may hear a new “i” term, iSurvey? Well the above is speculation but it’s backed up by some solid facts! Apple Inc. has registered the domain names: AppleiSurvey.com and AppleiSurveys.com! They continued with protection domain registrations Apple-iSurvey.com, Apple-iSurveys.com and Apple-Surveys.com. The domain names were registered at corporate brand protection domain name registrar ... read more ...
Wed 2nd September 2015
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Apple Inc. Registers .org "News Publisher" Domains 87 Days AFTER Announcing Publicly - On June 8, 2015 Apple Inc. announced a new “News” app that will be included in the fall release of iOS 9, that is powered by Apple News Format™. Fast forward to today, September 2, 2015 and Apple Inc. registers the following domain names with MarkMonitor: AppleNewsFormat.org AppleNewsPublisher.org News-Publisher.org NewsPublisher.org All .org domain names. The domain name AppleNewsFormat.com was registered on the day of the announcement (June 8, 2015), but not by Apple Inc. According to whois ... read more ...
Fri 28th August 2015
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Apple Is Going Head to Head with iHeart Music Festival With Apple Music Fest: Domain Regs Say So - Is Apple planning on going head to head with Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio.com which has its music festival called iHeart Radio Music Festival? Well, Apple Inc. registered 11 new domain names relating to a Music Festival on August 4, 2015. Those new domain names are: AppleiTunesMusicFestival.com, AppleMusicConcert.com, AppleMusicConcerts.com, AppleMusicEvents.com, AppleMusicFest.com, AppleMusicFestival.com, AppleMusicFestivals.com, AppleMusicReviews.com, AppleMusicShow.com, AppleMusicTicket.com and ... read more ...
Thu 20th August 2015
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"Straight Outta" Viral Meme Launched On Days Old Domain By Apple / Beats By Dre - Maybe you have seen those images flying around the web recently on Facebook and Twitter etc with the block term “Straight Outta” and then you can type in the term you wish… Well, that viral meme is the works of Apple Inc. / Beats By Dre / Universal Pictures and was launched on the domain name StraightOuttaSomewhere.com that was registered only 28 days ago on July 23, 2015 at corporate domain name registrar CSC Corporate Domains. At the time and until yesterday, it wasn’t fully clear who ... read more ...
Fri 3rd July 2015
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Could Apple Surpass Google in Search One Day ? - There was an interesting article on of all places LearnBonds.com with regards to Apple going after Google in search. The article discussed the fact that Applebot has been crawling the web for close to a year and that back in May, Apple made that clear. The article also delves into why Apple cannot collect as much data as Google does due to their differing policy when it comes to privacy. From the article: Apple sticks its head into search Applebot has been crawling webpages for the better part ... read more ...
Sat 13th June 2015
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Apple Inc. Acquires 170 iCloud Domains From Xcerion - In April 2011 Apple Inc. reportedly paid $4.5 Million dollars for the one domain name iCloud.com from a company named Xcerion. Fast forward some 4 years later and now 170 iCloud related domains have transferred ownership from Xcerion to Apple Inc according to whois records. Some Facts 167 of the domain names “start with” the term iCloud 2 start with My 1 starts with OS (osicloud.com) All of the domain names are either .com, .net and .org All the domain names were registered at Network Solutions ... read more ...
Thu 11th June 2015
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Mobile Advertising Prospects Take A Hit - Mobile Advertising has been a hot topic for the last couple years, back in April there was an article by Business Insider titled, “Mobile is growing faster than all other ad formats.” From the article: Mobile is growing faster than all other digital advertising formats in the US, as advertisers begin allocating dollars to catch the eyes of a growing class of “mobile-first” users. Historically, there has been a big disparity between the amount of time people actually spend on their smartphones ... read more ...
Wed 3rd June 2015
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Apple Loses Trademark Case in a Philippines - PhoneArena.com reported that Apple lost a trademark case in the Philippines. Apple was not applying for a tm but rather objecting to a tm filing from Solid Broadband who was looking to get a tm for my|phone name. PhoneArena.com wrote: When Solid Broadband attempted to trademark the my|phone name in the Philippines, Apple objected saying that it was “confusingly similar” to the iPhone and was “likely to deceive or cause confusion.” And while the Philippines’ Intellectual Property Office ... read more ...
Mon 1st June 2015
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Apple Inc. Wins AppleId.com and AppleAccount.com In UDRP - Apple Inc. has secured two domain names recently with two different UDRP filings on the domain names AppleID.com and AppleAccount.com . AppleID.com The AppleID.com domain name was registered on May 26, 2004 and was secured by Apple Inc. in a UDRP case #D2015-0582 with a status of “Terminated”. The terminated status often relates to the respondent not putting up a fight and transferring the domain name. According to whois records, Apple Inc is now the owners of the domain. I tried to find an ... read more ...
Tue 19th May 2015
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Apple Inc. Secures AppleID.com Domain Name - Apple Inc. has secured the domain name AppleID.com according to whois records from a Hiroshi Kaneko of Toyko. The domain name was registered May 26, 2004 and held the same registrant email ever since being created, which indicates that Hiroshi has owned the domain name ever since creation. The Apple Id is a “user name” used for iTunes, iCloud and many of Apple’s products and services. Interesting to note, Apple also registered the domain name AppleIdStore.us on May 16, 2015.  The .com was ... read more ...
Wed 3rd December 2014
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Australia Denies Apple’s Bid To Trademark “App Store” In Australia - Jenni Ryall reported for Mashable that Australia has said no go to Apple trademarking the term “App Store” in Australia. This latest ruling was an appeal of their 2013 trademark attempt. The judge did not see app store as distinguishing itself to be Apple centric. From the story: Apple can not exclusively use the term “app store” in Australia after a ruling in the Federal Court on Wednesday. Apple was appealing a 2013 decision by the Australian Registrar of Trade Marks, that rejected an ... read more ...
Tue 21st October 2014
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Chinese Government Launches Attack Against iCloud Users - According to Ars Technica it seems that China is running a man-in-the-middle attack on iCloud users. They have a screenshot of this on their website, this was discovered by a group called GreatFire.org. From the article: GreatFire.org, a group that monitors censorship by the Chinese government’s national firewall system (often referred to as the “Great Firewall”), reports that China is using the system as part of a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack on users of Apple’s iCloud service within ... read more ...
Mon 29th September 2014
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Law Enforcement Is Not Happy With Apple’s New Privacy Policy - Apple changed its privacy policy with iOS 8 and it has many in law enforcement up in arms. In an article on Mashable written by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, members of law enforcement expressed their displeasure with some saying that the new policy could cost lives. One even went so far as to say that the iPhone will become the phone of choice for pedophiles. From the article: “[Criminals’] phones contain contacts, texts, and geo-tagged data that can help police track down accomplices,” ... read more ...
Tue 9th September 2014
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Apple combined a i-era. Is it abandoning it? - Apple makes an interesting branding shift. Apple introduced a few new products today. As expected, it introduced the iPhone 6. It also introduced the iWatch– –Wait, no it didn’t. It introduced the Apple Watch. It also introduced a new payments solution called Apple Pay. This is a big shift. Apple obviously can’t change the name of the iPhone, but it chose to brand its new products and services as Apple instead of i-. Apple created the ‘i’ brand, but it ... read more ...
Tue 15th July 2014
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USPTO Refuses Apple Trademark Application on Touch ID - Patently Apple posted a piece about the USPTO refusing the trademark application of Apple  for the term “Touch ID.” Apparently the application was denied over likelihood of confusion. The domain name TouchId.com is registered to a company in the Cayman Islands (Not Name Administration), it was registered 13 years ago. The domain is parked. From the article: Today, the US Patent Trademark Office published an official letter that was sent to Apple regarding their trademark application for “Touch ... read more ...
Wed 4th June 2014
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Apple’s HealthKit causing problems for association called HealthKit - This company is based in Australia, not California.Apple introduced HealthKit, a sort of framework for health data on iOs devices, earlier this week. As with many other Apple product announcements, the name choice ran smack into an existing one. In this case an Australian firm has already been offering healthcare data services under the company name HealthKit. It also uses the domain HealthKit.com. While the confusion might seems like a huge blessing, it’s also ... read more ...
Tue 6th May 2014
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Swatch Plans to Fight Apple on Trademark for “iWatch” - Mark Gurman of 9 to 5 Mac did a piece on Swiss watch maker Swatch stating that they will look to fight Apple on trademarking “iWatch”. Now Apple already has trademarked the term in Japan, Mexico and Turkey according to the article. From the article: The company is seeking to block Apple trademarks for the name “iWatch” because of its own line of watches called “ISwatch.” A representative for Swatch told Watson: We assess the likelihood of confusion as given, the marks are confusingly ... read more ...
Wed 23rd April 2014
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Apple Reports Second Quarter Earnings – Stock adult in After Hours Trading - Apple just reported second quarter earnings and the stock is up in after hours trading. The stock closed down 1.31 % to $524.75 on the trading day but is up $43 in after hours trading. NASDAQ: AAPL – Apr 23 5:25 PM ET From 9 to 5 Mac Apple just announced its second quarter results for 2014 with revenue for the quarter coming in at $45.6 billion. That’s compared to the guidance it previously provided of $42 – $44 billion and estimates by analysts averaging approximately $43.5B. Apple’s ... read more ...
 
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It looks like a Apple Smartwatch will be called a iWatch - It looks like Apple is going to name their smart watch the “iWatch” In an article written by Chris Smith for BGR.com, it seems that a trademark registration filed by Brightflash USA LLC  has the same address that Apple has used in the past when trademarking iSlate. The same address was used to register the Car Play trademark by a company called, Carplay Enterprises. From the article Now that Apple has been seen further extending its company trademark to cover Class 14 devices including watches, ... read more ...
Fri 21st March 2014
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Apple, Yahoo and Google All Reserve The Right To Read Your Email - So there was a story out this week that Microsoft had read the emails of a French blogger who had received code from a former Microsoft employee, the employee has been arrested in Seattle, accused of leaking Windows 8 to the tech blogger. The blogger actually contacted Microsoft to verify what was going on, Microsoft then went through his hotmail and messenger and found the email from the former employee. This of course has created quite a stir about privacy and what providers can and cannot do. ... read more ...
Mon 3rd March 2014
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Apple Announces Car Play Without Securing a .Com - Apple announced a new  iPhone in car integration system and named it Car Play. Vlad Sanov reported for The Verge As was rumored on Friday, Apple is today finally ready to launch a new iPhone integration setup for car infotainment systems. Calling it CarPlay, the Cupertino company claims it’s “designed from the ground up to provide drivers with an incredible experience using their iPhone in the car.” CarPlay is built primarily around the use of Siri voice commands and prompts, providing an ... read more ...