Year: 2010

Make of it what you will, but “Patently Apple” ( http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/03/hmm-apple-has-renewed-their-newton-logo-trademark.html) reports that Apple’s filing pertaining to their Newton logo design trademark that appears to have been renewed or has been automatically set to renew on Oct. 13, 2010.

Apple’s trademark applications (77946787 and 77946791) for “iFrame” have appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. When Apple introduced iMovie ’09, it also introduced iFrame, a new video format it developed.

Four Apple patents have appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office that show Apple is working make sure future Macs and other devices run even cooler.

Worldwide computer shipments are projected to total 366.1 million units in 2010, a 19.7% increase from 305.8 million units shipped in 2009, according to the latest preliminary forecast by Gartner (http://www.gartner.com). And the iPad will figure heavily into the equation.

According to the research group, worldwide computer spending is forecast to reach $245 billion in 2010, up 12.2 percent from 2009. This forecast is more optimistic than Gartner’s December 2009 forecast, which anticipated 13.3% growth in computer shipments in 2010 and 1.9% growth in spending.