App Store trademark lawsuit: Apple Inc. v. Amazon.com Inc.

Cupertino, California based Apple has again taken offensive stance against it competitors, and they have taken the offensive to the court of law. In a latest barrage of lawsuits and counter lawsuits Apple has taken on Amazon for alleged trademark infringement charges. Steve Jobs legal team has asked for court order banning Amazon from using the words App Store while waiting for the results of the lawsuit.

Meanwhile Amazon has claimed that App Store is only a generic term and not suitable for granting exclusive rights. And even more there is no way that Apple could demonstrate, users are being confused by two similarly named services. The clear difference according to Amazon is that Apple sells only iOS apps in their store.

Amazon working on a new tablet?

When asked by an reporter from Consumer Reports if Amazon is developing a new tablet different from their worldwide successful ebook reader Kindle, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos has answered without hesitation that customers should stay tuned to new developments coming from Amazon. This is quite unexpected for someone like Jeff Bezos who is as tight with his promises and speculations as Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs is with his hints on new Apple wonders. Recently a lot of online rumors are mentioning Amazon’s plans for expanding their Kindle line of devices. Earlier this year Amazon has offered job opening for programmers targeting mostly developers with impressive Android background. While the details of Amazon’s plans are not known, it seems that most of the pointers indicate that Amazon wants to develop some kind of Kindle tablet running Android OS.

Amazon trying to gain upper hand in the cloud race?

Amazon’s Cloud Player hits the news again. The Cloud Player which was announced and then released recently has steadily improving its interoperability. It seems that some relentless iOS users found by testing that Amazon’s cloud player is able to run on iOS devices when accedes with Safari browser. When Amazon has launched the service for the first time luring users with 5 gygabytes of free space, it was only working on browsers with flash support and on Android based smartphones and tablets.

Cydia working stable again!

If you have used Cydia recently you have noticed problems with it. It was a big news in the online world that Amazon cloud service failed to deliver the promised 99.99% uptime. And unfortunately Cydia is also hosted on the troubled segment of the Amazon cloud. While many online systems have crashed during this crisis (including Sony play station gaming network) it seems that Cydia is now up and again working well.

During the problem with Amazon services, Cydia users had encountered various difficulties including loss of download packages, unavailability of SHSH options, some apps couldn’t be purchased in Cydia Store and more. Even some already bought and installed apps didn’t work properly and required repeated installation.

Amazon cloud player

Seattle giant Amazon has just recently highlighted their new service, which is basically a “cloud” computing service serving individual users. The service is named “Cloud Drive” and “Cloud Player”.
This new service offers users to upload their digital content (music) to Amazons servers for online storage and retrieval. A user can upload and then stream his music to any device connected to internet including their desktop computer, notebook, smartphone, tablet or other.