Google sued over Chromebook name

In a delicious piece of irony, Google is being sued by a Salt-Lake City-based company named ISYS that manufactures notebooks for Google’s own Chrome OS, with the aim of stopping the crew from Mountain View from marketing their own Chrome OS notebooks as Chromebooks. ISYS makes custom built PCs designed to run on Chrome OS, and according to them, has been working to get the ChromiumPC trademark for the past 18 months. They contest that Google’s “Chromebook” and “Chromebox” terms are too similar to their own trademark. According to a report on PCMag, ISYS also contends that Google originally sought to call its Web-based netbooks the “Speedbook,” but switched to Chromebook after discovering the Speedbook mark was already taken. Google then filed “unnecessary extensions of time” on the ChromiumPC trademark application before introducing its Chromebooks at a May 11 press event. Xi3′s ChromiumPC was unveiled on May 23.
Source: PCMag

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iCloud to be unveiled on June 6

A couple of weeks ago, there were rumors of Apple’s entry into the cloud-based music service race alongside Amazon and Google.
Today, it is finally official: iCloud will be unveiled on June 6 at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), by none other than Steve Jobs himself.
We will all have to wait until the official public unmasking to find out exactly what iCloud has to offer. Regardless, I bet that Jobs is hoping Apple will be enough to feed our insatiable digital appetites.
Rumored to be a cloud storage/music locker/content delivery service, iCloud will supposedly build people’s online music libraries by initially scanning people’s hard drives and subsequently finding the corresponding song on the company’s servers. This will eliminate the need for users to manually upload their massive digital library onto their cloud storage/music locker.
Apple also has an edge over other companies with cloud services because they’ve secured deals with almost all of the major recording companies. Furthermore, it is also rumored that Apple is close to signing agreements with publishers and that they are negotiating with several film studios as well.

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