Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Dell desperately wants a bigger share of the netbook market, but it also wants to be able to call them netbooks and is taking the trademark fight to Psion.
Both Dell and HP have announced new 10 inch netbooks this week, while Asus
has lost the netbook crown to Acer according to recent reports.
Apple, meanwhile, fervently denies any
interest in entering the netbook market and Psion wants everyone to
remember that they cannot call these small, value for money sub
notebooks netbooks.
Psion, a British outfit that launched a 'netBook' back in 1999 has been
sending cease and desist letters warning that it owns the
netbook trademark.
Google, it would appear, has been listening as it banned the word from
its advertising network recently. Dell, on the other hand, remain to be
convinced of the validity of the Psion claim.
In fact, Dell has gone as far as to challenge Psion over ownership of
the netbook trademark. It has filed a petition for trademark
cancellation
with the US Patent and Trademark Office.
In the six-page filing, Dell argues that as Psion no longer offers
laptop computers being sold as netbooks and that it has no plans so to
do. As a result, it insists, Psion has effectively abandoned the
netbook mark.
Things get a little nasty deep in the petition when Dell accuses Psion
of being economical with the truth when it swore that the company was
using the netbook mark in commerce as recently as November 2006.
David Bass
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