People, stop calling iPhone

The cult of Mac leads Apple lovers to misname iPhone the upcoming iPod with voice over IP. But stop call it like that, readers. We won’t. And you won’t. Because the trademark is already taken by Nuvio.

Apple sure still reminds the bad experience of its Tiger operating system launch, a year ago. Right after the big announcement, the software company was punched by Tiger Direct with a trademark infringement charge.

So expect to see the device branded as iTalk, iMe, iCallYou, iHere.

Jul 25, 2006 | By Nuno

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#0 Cisco wants the IPhone to iPhone interoperability – 21talks (pingback):
[…] For its part, Apple has at least two counter tactics. One: Try to show Cisco didn’t adequately use or protect the iPhone trademark. Two: Convince the judge that Apple iPhone means cellphone, whereas Cisco iPhone means VoIP Skype phone, and that no confusion could be introduced in the consumers’ mind. To follow this scenario, Cisco iPhone might also bump into another iPhone, used by US VoIP provider Nuvio for its Internet telephony service. […]

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