Apple can not use the IPhone trademark in Samba District

Regulator copyrights and patents Brazil decided Apple can not use the iPhone trademark in Samba District, Wednesday (02/13/2013). IPhone is a trademark owned by the local Brazilian companies also produce mobile phones.

The electronics company is Gradiente Electronica SA, which has exclusive rights first iPhone trademark in Brazil since 2008.

Apple predicted to not remain silent and will oppose the decision. However, a spokesman for Apple in the United States was reluctant to comment on the issue.

Long before Apple market the iPhone in 2007, Gradiente Electronica has filed a trademark registration IPhone Institute of Intellectual Property in Brazil (National Institute of Industrial Property / INPI) in 2000. The company officially get the brand on January 2, 2008 and will manufacture and market the brand in 2018.

They did not immediately put the iPhone brand as being focused on restructuring the organization for continued efforts hampered due to financial problems.

Gradiente Electronica released a series of iPhone smart phone brand Neo One in mid-December 2012. This mobile phone operating system Android. In addition to phones, Gradiente claim one of the first to start a business CD, DVD, and has other interests in TV and video games.

IPhone and iPad trademark dispute

Previous Apple patent dispute related to legal issues with the company's iPhone trademark and service provider of computer networks for the corporate segment, Cisco Systems.

Cisco sued Apple after the iPhone was introduced in the Macworld conference in January 2007. Cisco said Apple approached the company network device several times to negotiate. Both agreed terms in February 2007.

IPad is a trademark name for a tablet computer Apple also had trouble in China since 2010. Proview Technology from Taiwan, who opened the factory and have the iPad trademark in China, sued over iPad trademark and asking Apple to pay cash compensation.

In 1998, Proview began developing computer type All-in-One PC called iPad, stands for Personal Internet Access Device. Proview iPad goes on sale in 2000, ten years earlier than the Apple iPad tablet.

After passing through various legal proceedings and negotiations, the two companies eventually reconciled and Apple to pay 60 million dollars (or approximately USD 560 billion) to "liberate" the name iPad.

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5 Disease Detector Mobile Applications

5 Disease Detector Mobile Applications. The trend has also hit the world of mobile health. New technologies for the detection of Parkinson's disease using a mobile phone is being developed by The Parkinson's Voice Initiative, a project to help people with Parkinson's.

The project was initiated by a scientist Mathematics from the University of Oxford, England, named Max Little. He developed an algorithm to detect abnormal sounds that can help detect Parkinson.

Parkinson's is a degenerative neurological disease that primarily affects people over the age of 50 years. The disease is named according to the name of the inventor in 1817, namely Dr. James Parkinson. People with Parkinson's difficult to move due to muscle stiffness. Some of them even had dementia.

Symptoms of this disease are sometimes difficult to identify due to growing together and slowly. Most people, for example, began to feel shaky in some parts of the body when they are exhausted.

Max Little and his team have tested the applications made by them, as well as to detect the sound of people who suffer from Parkinson's. The level of accuracy is obtained, according to little, was as high as 86 percent. Currently, they are analyzed 10,000 samples collected voice over the telephone network.

Elsewhere, a variety of mobile applications is also developed to detect the disease. The Wall Street Journal reported, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are testing 4 applications to analyze hundreds of pictures of moles and dark spots, which have previously been examined by a dermatologist.

The best application is able to detect skin diseases, including skin cancer, with an accuracy rate up to 98 percent. While most applications have only earned 6.8 percent accuracy rate. Unfortunately, the research conducted by these researchers did not mention the names of the applications they are testing.

Previously, there are mobile apps are being created to detect the disease in the lungs. Application called SpiroSmart developed by researchers at the University of Washington. SpiroSmart works by analyzing the sound of breathing users.

In addition to developing specific applications, researchers and scientists also utilize existing applications to detect disease. One of them is Twitter. Social media is used by researchers and computer scientists from Johns Hopkins University for the detection of influenza cases in the United States. They collect the chirp-chirp of flu neighbors Twitter users to map the location of the contracted flu epidemic.

In Indonesia, a mobile application for detecting the actual disease has also been developed. For example, MOSES, an acronym for "System and Endemic Obervation Malarian Surveliance". The app was created by a team of students of the Institute of Technology Bandung to diagnose malaria. The application was elected as the first winner in the category of Mobile Device Award, the Imagine Cup 2009 competition held by Microsoft Corp.

In essence, future trends point to the mobile world. A variety of health applications being developed aims to help people detect the disease and care for the environment.

Before it can be used by many people, of course there needs to be a serious and comprehensive research on the application and related diseases. But keep in mind; no matter how great an application to detect the disease, the application was not developed to replace the role of a doctor.

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