Lawsuits

Okay, Who Gave Palm Pre Keys to the iTunes Sync Kingdom?!

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, May 28, 2009 a 8:57 am

Fortune scoop'let'ed the story: the Palm Pre syncs with iTunes. No, not like a dumb USB disk. Not even like a 3rd party-enabled BlackBerry on the PC. Somehow, when Jon Rubinstein joined Palm, someone at Apple forgot to frisk him for iTunes keys.

Our friends over at PreCentral.net, of course, are all over this:

Apple, AT&T Sued over... Shazam App Existing?

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, May 14, 2009 a 2:20 pm

We typically don't follow every little Apple or AT&T lawsuit that closely because, frankly, there are too many of them and the frivolity of some just harshens our collective mellow. Case in point, according to Apple Insider:

Apple, AT&T and several others have been named in a new patent infringement lawsuit, presumably for their connection to Shazam, a maker of music identification software distributed under the same name for the iPhone and several other mobile devices.

EFF Powered BluWiki Sues Apple: Leave Our iTunes Database Hacks Alone!

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Apr 28, 2009 a 6:05 am

Apple Insider reports that the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) is helping OdioWorks LLC file suit in an attempt to get Apple to stop threatening to sue them. Complicated much?

Apple Sued Over Multi-Touch Patents

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Apr 8, 2009 a 11:38 am

We all know Steve Jobs sculpted the iPhone from unicorn tears through a sheer act of singular will and hutzpah -- along with buying FingerWorks and winning a glove-full of multi-touch patents of their own along the way (which may or may not still result in several rounds of pugilism with Palm's Pre).

New "Cracking" Lawsuit: Leave the iPhone Alone!

By Jeremy, Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 a 12:00 pm

For the love of Steve Jobs, leave Britney ehh... I mean the iPhone alone!

Back at the end of July, Casey reported on white iPhones having issues with the plastic housing cracking in certain areas. As most of you are probably aware of, there have been a few lawsuits filed against Apple regarding the iPhone 3G.

This go around a New York man, Avi Koschitzki, filed a 23 page lawsuit stating the iPhone is not "twice as fast" as the original and exhibits cracks in the housing of the phone.