Posts Tagged ‘name’

Last week we asked you which is the best name for the Apple Tablet from among the top rumoured names so far: iSlate, iGuide, iPad, iTablet, or none of the above.
The results are now in, and it turned out to be a very tight battle between two frontrunners. The final winner is iSlate, which at [...]

What is Apple going to name its tablet computer? iSlate? iPad? Slate? iBook? MacBook touch? iPod touch HD?
How about Canvas? (Or iCanvas?) That’s one of the potential names emerging from the Apple nerd camp, via Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber.
Why? Because the invitation Apple sent to reporters — splashed with paint blotches — looks like [...]

Another day, another potential name for the Apple Tablet, the device of mystery and wonder that has the tech world in a tizzy. As we get closer to the big reveal, we thought it a good time to take stock of the rumored nomenclature and find out what you fine Mashable readers think this thing [...]

Deep in the bowels of the Trademark Office is some fresh evidence that Steve Jobs intends to name his messiah machine the “iPad”: the company is in a fight with Fujitsu over the trademark.
In documents first uncovered by The Jesus Tablet blog, Apple first filed notice that it wanted to oppose Fujitsu’s “iPad” trademark application [...]

Here’s what we know, from MacRumors: last July, Apple dummy corporation Slate Computing, LLC applied for a trademark for an “iPad.” Similar applications have since been filed in England, Australia and Hong Kong. Also: what a terrible name.
We’d heard rumors of the iPad starting way back in August, when it appeared on a mysterious Border’s [...]

With growing anticipation that Apple will launch a Tablet early in 2010, another guessing game has emerged alongside trying to figure out the device’s specs. That game involves determining the actual name of what we’ve been calling the Apple Tablet since rumors first started popping up earlier this year.
A few days ago, iSlate emerged as [...]

Poking more at the info Apple secretly registered iSlate.com a couple years ago, TechCrunch found Apple’s possibly setup a shell company called Slate Computing, which has a trademark on “iSlate.” The signatory? Apple’s Senior Trademark Specialist, MacRumors discovered.
Regina Porter most recently signed for the “iSlate” trademark for Slate Computing this past August—showing Apple’s continued with [...]
News: Tablet name poll ends, 2010 product poll begins
With over 2,100 votes from iLounge readers, our latest poll, “What should Apple name its upcoming tablet device, assuming that it’s iPhone OS-based?” has come to an end. Readers were given a choice between iTab or iTablet, iBook, iPad, iPod touch XL, iSlate, or something else, the [...]
