When is an iPad not an iPad? When it’s an iPad in China. From MarketWatch: Apple lost a trademark dispute in China, where it had accused Proview Technology Shenzhen Co. of infringing on its iPad trademark. A Chinese court rejected the lawsuit, according to reports Tuesday citing Chinese media, ruling that Proview — a unit … Read More »

Thanks to the internet and a plethora of apps which bring me the news, I stopped buying newspapers and magazines a few years ago. 2011 must be the year of the aggregator. My favorite new app, both iPad and iPhone, is Flipboard. Dozens of publications, updated all day, only a touch away. Nice. Did I … Read More »

We shop at a few stores which have a self checkout system. Walmart, Safeway, and Home Depot. Overall, the experience is mixed. Whenever the self checkout doesn’t work it takes longer to finally make the purchase and leave the store. The local Apple Stores now have a self checkout called EasyPay. Geek.com has the details, … Read More »

Dwight Silverman in Chron complains that people who use Siri, the intelligent assistant in Apple’s new iPhone 4S, are disenchanted. Siri serves two purposes for Apple. It gives the company the chance to hone what could be a hugely disruptive new product – an Apple TV – and it gives the iPhone 4S a real … Read More »

Amazon’s best-selling book for the year, in hardcover and e-book, is Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. Deadline reports that Sony Pictures is working on a deal for a movie version. My take on the biography is simple. Steve Jobs was troubled, brilliant, and lucky.

Since somewhere near the turn of the century, all of Apple’s Mac OS X versions have been named after cats. Big cats. The first was Cheetah. It wasn’t as fast as the name implied. Then, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Leopard, Snow Leopard, now Lion; the king of the jungle. What’s next? Brian Caulfield in Forbes: There … Read More »