Joel Falconer / The Next Web:
Despite reports, Amazon’s rumored tablet won’t be called the Scratchpad — Speculation started flying around the web today that domains registered by Amazon last week suggested a name for the company’s rumored tablet project: the Scratchpad. — Despite some reports suggesting that Amazon’s …
Cade Metz / The Register:
Apple’s ‘App Store trademark’: A farce of Jobsian proportions — Only Microsoft can save us — Microsoft has once again stood up to Apple’s epically ridiculous attempt to trademark the term “app store”, filing another request that the US Patent and Trademark Office deny Apple’s trademark application in full.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Microsoft Hunting Rustock Controllers — Who controlled the Rustock botnet? The question remains unanswered: Microsoft’s recent takedown of the world’s largest spam engine offered tantalizing new clues to the identity and earnings of the Rustock botmasters.
Ben Zimmer / New York Times:
The Great Language Land Grab — When tech companies engage in legal squabbles about who gets to use our everyday words, what are ordinary speakers of the language to make of it all? — Microsoft is suing Apple, and Apple is suing Amazon, all over the right to use a simple two-word phrase: “app store.”
Kevin Murphy / DomainIncite:
ICANN asks the US to cut it loose — ICANN has officially requested the loosening of its contractual ties to the US government. — In a letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (pdf), ICANN president Rod Beckstrom said the US should finally make good on its promise …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Meet ‘Disco’, The Group Texting App Built Secretly Inside Google — It seems like Google has made a foray into the group messaging space today with Disco, a new iPhone app and website. Well, they sort of have. — The service utilizes the Disco.com domain that Google bought at Domainfest last year for 5K.
MHB / The Domains:
Disco.com, Bought At Domanfest For 5K Is Owned By Google & Launched As A “Group Texting ” Site — The domain name Disco.com sold at Domainfest, New York in September of last year for 5,000. — Disco.com was ranked by DnJournal.com as the 31st highest domain sale of 2010.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Facebook Tries To Squash 21 Squatted Domain Names — Facebook is trying to gain ownership over 21 domain names that include the term ‘facebook’, including KillFacebook.com, FacebookStuff.com and FacebookSafety.com. — The domain names are all currently owned by a company called Domain Asset Holdings …
Launch:
L011: Color.com Stuns Valley with Implied Social Network — and a M Raise — LAUNCHERS: CEO Bill Nguyen is a brilliant serial entrepreneur who sold his most recent company, Lala, to Apple for M in 2009. Co-founder Peter Pham is the absurdly good business-development founder …
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L011: Color.com Stuns Valley with Implied Social Network — and a M Raise — LAUNCHERS: CEO Bill Nguyen is a brilliant serial entrepreneur who sold his most recent company, Lala, to Apple for M in 2009. Co-founder Peter Pham is the absurdly good business-development founder …