Cisco Systems Inc. has owned the name “iPhone� since 2000 and today announced that it is suing Apple Inc. in federal court. Cisco obtained the trademark by acquiring InfoGear Technology Corp. over 6 years ago, which originally registered the name. It has been three weeks since Cisco’s Linksys division released a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone for which the trademark was put to use. Apple had tried to gain legal rights to use the iPhone name but upon failure chose to unveil their iPhone yesterday anyway, a touch-screen cell phone with music, video, web, voicemail and e-mail capabilities.

“Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco’s iPhone name. There is no doubt that Apple’s new phone is very exciting, but they should not be using our trademark without our permission.” said Mark Chandler, Cisco senior vice president and general counsel.

Link: Linksys iPhone | Apple iPhone
Source: Breitbart

Looks as though PodTech (Robert Scoble anyone?) sat down with Matt Jubelirer, product manager of the Zune program and got a 40 minute video out of it. The video runs through the Zune in detail and really gives a nice overview of Microsoft’s answer to the iPod. (PodTech has an awesome demo of Cisco’s new TelePresence 3000 system as well over here if you’re into Video Conferencing)

Video weighs in at around 120 Megs, but well worth the download if you’re considering buying one, on or after, November 14th.

View: PodTech: Indepth Look at the Zune
View: Zune Details (Wikipedia) | ZuneInsider Blog

An interesting trivial article about the 10 biggest computer flops of all time including:

The Xerox Alto
NeXT computer
IBM PCjr
Apple Newton
Apple 3
Apple Lisa
Microsoft Windows ME
Microsoft Bob
IBM OS/2
Gary Kildall’s CP/M

Source: www.miguelcarrasco.net