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I think we’ve all come to accept that lawsuits involving Apple and rival companies are just a part of daily life now. They come and go so fast it’s hard to keep up with who wins what legal battle where. Today however, our theatre of patent warfare is Germany. The device in question, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 N Last year Samsung lost a patent ruling…
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On Thursday, iTunes and Apple TV users will be treated to a free, HD stream of a live Paul McCartney concert, courtesy of Apple. The concert will start tomorrow at 7 p.m. Pacific, 10 p.m. Eastern, and take place at Capitol Studios (and thousands of living rooms and offices across the country). For those interested, you can access the concert by…
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If you read the news surrounding Apple for one entire year, I imagine around 50% of the content would in some way or another relate to a lawsuit. It makes you wonder whether there is something within the system that could be changed to stop all this nonsense tit for tat legalism. Apple is now pushing for that change, in a letter to the European…
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On Saturday, February 4, something strange happened to Qihoo 360, a security software company. Their apps, at least the ones in the Apple App Store, were missing.
After reaching out to Apple, the company learned that Apple had removed their apps based on “unusual user rating activities by unknown sources on certain Qihoo 360 applications.” There was no further explanation.
However, today Apple has reinstated Qihoo 360′s iOS apps, without asking the company to modify any of them.
Seems fishy, right?
Bloomberg reports that these “unusual user rating activities” included both negative and positive comments towards the company, but didn’t have any further information on the nature of these ratings.
In the interim, Qihoo fell 6.1 percent on the NYSE on February 6 for a share price of $17.89, the company’s lowest share price since January 4. Luckily, analysts speaking with Bloomberg estimate that only about five percent of the company’s user base are Apple product owners.
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A while back a struggling Hong Kong manufacturer came up with a great way of boosting their finances: they sued Apple. The lawsuit was based around the iPad, Proview International claimed that they had registered the iPad trademark outside of China in 2000. Proview Shenzhen registered two iPad trademarks in China, and claimed they held the right to the…
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