Will HTC sue Apple over 'Touch'?
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Apple's iPod touch uses the same name as HTC uses for its iPhone competitor, but the head of the Taiwanese company won't say yet whether his company will sue.
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(InfoWorld) - High Tech ComputerÂ (HTC) celebrated its 10th anniversary on Thursday with a rare compliment from Apple: the company adopted the same name HTC uses on one of its smartphones for the iPod Touch. HTC, the Taiwanese handset and PDA (personal digital assistant) maker, earlier this year launched the HTC Touch, a Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Professional OS smartphone designed with one-touch screen features, viewed by many as a rival to the iPhone. Upon hearing of the name of the new iPod, HTC president and CEO Peter Chou said, "HTC Touch is a trademark, but I can't comment right now," on whether HTC might file suit against the company. Apple's use of the moniker, however, proves it's a good product name, he added. Apple launched the iPod TouchÂ Wednesday. The digital music player sports a 3.5-inch wide-screen display, and Wi-Fi capabilities so users can connect to the Internet. The device will be priced at $299 for an 8GB model and $399 for the 16GB version. The touch will go on sale in a few weeks. HTC is the largest maker of mobile devices based on Microsoft Windows operating systems, and its focus on a 2.8-inch touch screen in the HTC Touch is similar to Apple's emphasis on touch screen features in its iPhone. TheÂ HTC Touch beat the iPhone to marketÂ by a few weeks back in June, but theÂ iPhone was unveiledÂ much earlier, at MacWorld Jan. 9. A trademark lawyer in Taipei, speaking on condition of anonymity, said descriptive words normally can't be trademarked, but added that if the HTC Touch and the iPod touch share similar functions, such as allowing users to play digital music, then Apple may face a legal hassle. The HTC Touch does allow for digital music storage and playing. Â
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By May Wong Associated Press  SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Get your fingers ready.  Apple Inc.'s iPhone is leading a new wave of gadgets using touch- sensitive screens that react to taps, swishes or flicks of a finger.
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Om Malik has an interesting post and speculation about mobile carrier Orange, mobile device maker HTC and Google teaming up for a Google-branded phone. Here&#8217;s the original source (the UK&#8217;s Observer): Their plans centre on a branded Google phone, which would probably also carry Orange&#8217;s logo. The device would not be revolutionary: manufactured by HTC, a [...]
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With its innovative touch-screen technology, the HTC Touch is poised to join the ranks of would-be iPhone killers.
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Apple Inc. has another week to respond to Cisco Systems Inc.'s trademark infringement lawsuit that threatens to keep Apple from using the name "iPhone" on its much-hyped cell phone-music player.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.  --  Cisco Systems Inc. said late Thursday it has given Apple Inc. nearly another week to respond to its trademark infringement lawsuit that threatens to halt Apple from using the "iPhone" name on its much-hyped new iPod-cellular phone device.
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Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC sold 2 million of the Microsoft-based mobile phones it developed to compete with the iPhone last year, the 'Touch' family of handsets.
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Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC sold 2 million of the Microsoft-based mobile phones it developed to compete with the iPhone last year, the &#39;Touch&#39; family of handsets.At last week&#39;s Macworld Expo in San Francisco Apple CEO Steve Jobs said his company had sold 4 million iPhones since launch.The HTC Touch&#160;uses Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 software and has a touch screen that takes up most of its face, similar to the iPhone. The Touch was launched in June of last year, just weeks ahead of the iPhone.The company sold 11.8 million handsets overall last year, an roughly 12 percent increase over 2006, executives said.Strong sales of the handset helped HTC&#39;s revenue grow nearly 12 percent last year as well, and the company already sees good prospects for the first quarter of this year.&quot;The first quarter looks good, it will be a lot better than our first quarter last year,&quot; said Peter Chou, president and CEO of HTC, at a year-end party Friday evening. Companies in Taiwan and throughout China typically host parties around this time of year as the Lunar New Year is approaching.Some of the global economic issues that have hurt stock markets, including subprime mortgages and fears of recession in the U.S. have no impacted HTC so far in the first quarter.&quot;We&#39;ve seen no impact from global economic turmoil. We feel pretty good about this quarter,&quot; said Chou.&#160;
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Like the iPhone, the HTC has a touch-navigation interface, although it's designed for a different audience. Still, it's pretty impressive.
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Er. That's it Apple has filed to protect an invention it calls a "multi-functional hand-held device," a device with a user-interface that changes according to function.â¦
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Cisco Systems Inc. said late Thursday that it has given Apple Inc. nearly another week to respond to its trademark infringement lawsuit that threatens to halt Apple from using the "iPhone" name on its much-hyped new iPod-cellular phone device.
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HTC shot back at Apple on Tuesday, introducing the Touch mobile handset that boasts many of the innovative features of the iPhone in a similar package.
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InfoWorld - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC sold 2 million of the Microsoft-based mobile phones it developed to compete with the iPhone last year, the 'Touch' family of handsets.
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Apple faces calls to open iPhone Office 2.0 Conference Apple is facing fresh calls to open the iPhone as new evidence emerged of the technical and legal challenges developers face putting their software on the device.â¦
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iPod Touch users will get new features for their handheld device. But unlike a free iPhone update, iPod users will have to pay for their new capabilities.
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Taiwanese electronics specialist HTC has a touch-screen phone of its own.