Apple, not happy with the name of a trade show revolving around its trademark, has started to put legal pressure on the organisers ofAppleexpo, an event which is due to commence London’s Earl’s Court in May 2012. Whilst organisers Indigo Media are quick to point out that Apple does not endorse the event, the Cupertino-based company sent its legal representatives to issue a 30-page ‘you can’t call it that’ letter which notified the organisers of its trademarks in Europe:...

If yesterday was Lion day, then today is clearly “holy crap that’s a lot of bandwidth” day. Apple has just released aPR statementshowing that Lion was downloaded over 1 million times on its first day: “Lion is off to a great start, user reviews and industry reaction have been fantastic.” – Phil Schiller Admittedly, Lion is a pretty great operating system. With a load of enhancements and changes over Snow Leopard, parts of it have left some users confused but we’ve found many functions that we thinkyou’ll love....

Apple has hit a small open source startupAmahiwith a cease and desist notice over the App Store trademark suit. The notice was posted onAmahi’s blogin an attempt to help publicise the suit. We noticed it after it wastweetedout by Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents. The company says that it was served with the notice due to the use of the term ‘App Store’ on its site. Amahi says that the action is most likely being taken by Apple in an effort to show that it is defending its claim to the term....

Apple could soon get a little more active in cracking down on its smartphone rivals after the Cupertino-based company was able to finally secure the patent rights to how capacitive touch-screens are used in smartphones. PCMag reportsthat on Tuesday, Apple’s 40 months of waiting came to an end when it was awardedU.S. patent number 7,966,578for “[a] computer-implemented method, for use in conjunction with a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display, [that] comprises displaying a portion of page content, including a frame displaying a portion of frame content and also including other content of the page, on the touch screen display....

Apple sold 13.5 million mobile personal computer units in Q2 of 2011, as long as you consider the iPad a computer, according to a report today fromDisplaySearch. The maker increased its shipments 136% year over year, overtaking second place HP. Of those 13.5 million units, almost 80% were iPads. According to the report, Apple’s combined portable sales eclipsed HP, the next closest contender, by 3.9 million. This brings Apple’s market share in the mobile PC market to 21....