'Amicable Settlement' Kills Popular Apple Rumor Site
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Apple rumor site Think Secret agreed to close shop on Thursday, concluding a two-year court battle with the Cupertino, California company over trade secrets.
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The Motley Fool - Yesterday, I wrote about how everyone and their neighbor seems to gunning for a slice of Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) iPod and iTunes business. And while I still believe it's possible for News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS - News) MySpace, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - News), and Sony (NYSE: SNE - News) to erode some of Apple's market share for downloadable music, I don't expect the company to passively stand by as revenues drop.
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Also: When iPods die. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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(InfoWorld) - The beta build of Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" that Apple handed out to developers June 11 at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) has leaked to the Internet and is being downloaded by users of PirateBay, the Swedish torrent tracker. Last Monday, CEO Steve Jobs spent most of this 90-minute WWDC keynote address touting the upcoming OS, which is set for release in October. Eight days later, the beta labeled build "9A466" was uploaded to PirateBay. The first upload on Tuesday didn't take -- there was only one "seeder," the term for a computer that has a complete copy of the torrent file -- but the second yesterday is being downloaded and assembled, according to comments left by numerous users. As of late yesterday, only four seeders were available, with 181 "leechers," or computers that have downloaded only part of the complete torrent. By 3 p.m. today EDT, however, the numbers had climbed to 44 seeders and more than 1,500 leechers. The beta was also posted to the private, invitation-only torrent tracker Oink yesterday, according to CrunchGear, a tech blog. But when CrunchGear exposed the leak, Oink pulled the beta. That sent downloaders into a verbal rage during which they vented their collective spleens at the blogger who outed Oink. "Go [expletive deleted] yourself you [expletive deleted] rat," ranted one. Based on the PirateBay listing, the Leopard 9A466 beta weighs in at a bit more than 6GB. But the exact byte count worried a user tagged as "konelli." "It's definitely not my intention to spoil the party, but how do we know that this is the real thing? Last time I checked, the WWDC version was supposed to be 6.94GB (or 7,450,640,384 bytes). This is, well, less. Has anybody finished downloading who could confirm that this is genuine?" Apple was asked if it planned to pursue the person or persons who leaked the build to BitTorrent, or what actions it might take against PirateBay. It did not immediately respond with comment, however. The first question is especially important in light of past history. The last time an under-development version of Mac OS X ended up on BitTorrent, the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker brought out its lawyers. In December 2004, Apple sued three men, as well as 25 others identified only as "Does," for releasing a developer preview of Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4, via the BitTorrent file-sharing network. All three were members of the company's own Developer Connection, Apple claimed, and had illegally leaked their copies of Tiger. But after several Apple notables, including co-founder Steve Wozniak, pleaded for leniency in blogs and other online postings, Apple backed off a bit. During a 10-month span from March to December 2005, Apple signed a settlement with the three named defendants: students Vivek Sambhara, David Schwartzstein, and David Steigerwald. Each promised to never again release information about the company or its products, while media accounts reported that Schwartzstein and Steigerwald also distributed repentant statements and paid damages to Apple. "We are pleased that Mr. Steigerwald has taken responsibility for his actions and that we can put this lawsuit behind us," Apple spokesman Steve Dowling told the Associated Press in March 2005 after the company settled with David Steigerwald, then a 22-year-old North Carolina college student.
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Rumor says e-commerce provider may soon allow game downloads to iPod.
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Cisco Systems Inc. and Apple Inc. said yesterday they have settled the trademark-infringement lawsuit that threatened to derail Apple's use of the "iPhone" name for its new iPod-cellular phone gadget.
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ITUNES owner Apple settled a longrunning trademark dispute with the Beatles' Apple Corp over their fruit-shaped logos, in a decision that could pave the way for Lovely Rita to play in Cyberspace.
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Agreement reached out of court Apple has settled a lawsuit alleging the company ripped off another firm's design when it coded its iTunes software's user interface. Terms of the deal reached with the plaintiff were not made public, but the case is now closed.â¦
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A Web site devoted to rumors and gossip about Apple Inc. has shut down as part of a deal with the company after a legal fight. But the lawyer representing ThinkSecret's owner says the battle was a win for his client.
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Also: iPhone lawsuit on hold. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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APPLE could be facing the largest legal settlement in history - and the money will go to APPLE. The electronics giant Apple Computer has been in legal wrangles with Apple Corps - The Beatlesâ holding company
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So says JP Morgan Yesterday's report from JPMorgan that Apple is building some sort of slimline iPhone? It's been discredited. By JPMorgan.â¦
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SAN FRANCISCO _ Apple dropped "computer" from its name, but not from its identity.
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Apple Inc. has settled its long-running  trademark dispute with The Beatles' company, Apple Corps Ltd,  in a deal that could finally pave the way for the Fab Four's  songs to be sold on the iTunes music store.
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The blogosphere pretty much predicted everything Apple announced yesterday. Is the company losing its touch?
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IPOD MAKER Apple has come down hard on a man who made an add-in that allowed file-sharing on iPods. iPodDownload&#39;s creator has stopped distributing the iPodDownload software after a visit from Apple lawyers who applied pressure.
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Yesterday's announcement of a $200 price drop for Apple's 8 GB iPhone, and the cancellation and clearance of the 4 GB edition, was all some investors took away from CEO Steve Jobs' gala rollout. Meanwhile, among the Apple faithful, there emerged clear signs of discord.