Reportedly, Applecorps has filed a lawsuit in London against the computer firm over a 22-year-old agreement that Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) use the Apple name only for computer products--not music-related enterprises.
On the hardware side of the tech business, gurus were eager to lock in some profits on some big-name winners such as Dell Computer and Motorola.
On the hardware side of the tech business, gurus were eager to lock in some profits on some big-name winners such as Dell Computer (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) and Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ).
"These latest additions to our lineup of products and features demonstrate yet again why the Clickfree name has become synonymous with effort-free computer backup, " said Storage Appliance Corp.
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Apple Computer is one company taking advantage of the consumer appetite for brand-name electronics.
Tencent Holding company owns a number of Tecent name brand internet and computer companies principally engaged in the value-added services markets online and in telecom.
Announced May 17 with the cryptic model name PCV-RX490TV, it's a personal computer that lets you watch TV, DVDs and home videos on its monitor.
Acer acquired the California-based computer company in 2007 and continues to sell products under the Gateway name, particularly at big box stores like Best Buy.
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The British commercial broadcaster ITV has reportedly sent a warning to Apple after rumors that the computer maker was mulling a re-launch of Apple TV with new hardware, under the name iTV.
Tim Slater was the driving force behind the project, though ideas were contributed by a number of well-known market technicians, and the programming was done by a computer expert by the name of Jim Schmidt.
Its early successes in the personal computer business caught the eye of Applecorps lawyers, and in 1981 the two companies signed a secret pact giving Apple Computer the right to use the Apple name for computer products, but reserved for Applecorps the right to use it for music-related enterprises.
After all, the former UC Santa Cruz music professor's name has, over the past several decades, become closely tied to the world of computer-generated music -- it figures that the journey that began with punch cards would have eventually led to tablets and smartphones.
The company name Apple fell from a tree, dropping right into Jobs' vision of what a computer should be--simple and approachable.
Greedy takes its name from a kind of computer algorithm that emphasizes the virtues of the practical over the precise in problem-solving.
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