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By Brian Garner Published: 07:00 PM EST Apple has extended the time available for it to make a legal argument against Fujitsu over the “iPad” name according to Trademark Office documents, and AT&T may be prepping its network for “unannounced devices.” Evidence points to iPad as possible name According to US Patent and Trademark Office documents [...]

Here’s what we know, from MacRumors: last July, Apple dummy corporation Slate Computing, LLC applied for a trademark for an “iPad.” Similar applications have since been filed in England, Australia and Hong Kong. Also: what a terrible name. We’d heard rumors of the iPad starting way back in August, when it appeared on a mysterious Border’s survey. Since then, though, [...]

Apple isn’t going to use LaLa to launch a subscription service, a “variety of insider sources” have told the founder of MP3.com. It’s exactly what we speculated: Storing your iTunes library in the cloud and access it from anywhere. It’s a bit hard to tell where his insider sources stop and his own thoughts begin, but Robertson says that the next version of iTunes will [...]

After discovering that Apple had registered iSlate.com in late 2006 (we dug a little deeper and found trademarks had been filed for ‘ISLATE’ in both the United States and Europe by a company that was most likely a dummy corporation set up by Apple), MacRumors has now discovered another possible name for the upcoming Apple tablet. MacRumors bases its report on the filing for a US trademark [...]

Nice scoop by MacRumors, which reportedly retrieved historical evidence that Apple has acquired the domain name islate.com back in 2007. Apparently, the Cupertino company registered the domain through brand protection firm Mark Monitor to conceal the fact that the domain name is theirs, as usual, but was briefly listed as the owner at some point in the past nonetheless. If correct, that means we can [...]