Apple’s European filing 004481297 for “Numbers,” which has since received “registered status” on July 4, lists two additional classifications in respect to their trademark Macsimum News reports.
Class 35: Advertising; business management; business administration; accounting services; compilation of information into computer databases; computerized file management; database management services; business information services provided online from a computer database or the Internet; promotion services; information, advisory and consultancy services relating to all the aforesaid.
Class 42: Computer hardware and software consulting services; rental of computer hardware and software apparatus and equipment; multimedia and audio-visual software consulting services; computer programming; support and consultation services for developing computer systems, databases and applications; graphic design for the compilation of web pages on the Internet; information relating to computer hardware or software provided on-line from a global computer network or the Internet; creating and maintaining web-sites; provision of web-sites featuring multimedia materials; hosting the web-sites of others; information, advisory and consultancy services relating to all the aforesaid.
More in the full article here.
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I can barely read this article for all of the “contentlink” hover ads.
Move along folks. Most of these things never see the light of day.
I agree, the ‘contentlink’ ads are a real pain in the derrier! Soon we’ll have them in every frigging letter.
The hover AD’s are displaced in Netscape broswer (on PC)…..cant even read the articles. Its like reading “fill in the blanks.” Its like the CSS is all messed up. Especially with the Flash videos….covers up the entire article. Bleah!
You can turn them off by setting a preference stored in a cookie. Click the question mark on the hover, and follow the link at the bottom of the page.
bgmccollum,
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
bgmccollum – thanks and good bye contentlinks!!!!!
Now how do I turn off the other ads on MDN that I will never, ever click on????
I found a way to block the non-flash banner ads on MDN, using a custom CSS stylesheet in Safari.
See this site
Oh gosh yes! No more content link ads! No more seeing iPod in an iPod article highligted over and over!
What the … not even a comment to help us make sense of this over-contentlinked crud.
mw: industry. heh.
Ditto on the Thank-You
“graphic design for the compilation of web pages on the Internet”
This is more of a Word feature than a Excel feature. Do you think that this trademark is for an app that is part of a suite to compete with Office?
It appears that they cover much more than a spreadsheet app in the description.
bgmccollum,
I can only echo shuddo’s comment:
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
rasterbator
These are classifications at the trademark office, not descriptions of the “Numbers” trademark. Some of the descriptions apply, not necessarily all.
It looks like MDN has stopped all hover ads at this time. I cannot find any in any of the stories now, even though they were here earlier. They are probably revising the cookie so bgmccollum’s fix won’t work.
“I can barely read this article for all of the “contentlink” hover ads.”
The only way I could see this as being a problem is if you run the cursor along under each sentence and activate all the links as you go, do your lips move when you read too?
Hover links have been disabled via tip. Thank you!
For all those complaining about the ads, get over it. It’s not that much of a big deal for a great newsclipping service, (great and FREE), like MDN.
I think MDN should say screw you all, go to a subscription service for professional users with no ads. Maybe $100/year? I pay that to Stratfor. I pay $5/month to the WSJ, I’d gladly pay for the info MDN digs up every day.
Freeloaders could still get snippets of the articles with ads.
MDN secret word: account, as in I’m ready to open my MDN account right now!
this is apple’s database program…(jan ’09?)
Christ, not one friggin word about the ARTICLE! I get some of my best chuckles at this site.
Hey folks I just discovered that if you read something with these hover ads, but you don’t actually hover over anything, then articles become quite readable. Just move your mouse off the page.
Now, what to do about pop unders….
“Now, what to do about pop unders….”
What pop unders??
I agree with the contentlinks.
I’ve mentioned this many times before at this site, but the ads are too many, and at a minimum, they need to drop the advertisements in the text.
This site really needs to class it up a tad.
I hope the speculation is true:
Numbers is an excel replacement
Charts is a Visio replacement.
That would make iWork one fantastic suite. I’d buy it in a New York minute.
People, the ads are how MDN makes money and offers a way to deliver stuff for you to gripe about. You can’t always get something for free. Just don’t look at them, jeez.