Nortel to Jump on the iPhone-Lawsuit Bandwagon
Earlier this week Cisco handed a lawsuit against Apple and claimed rights to the disputed name, iPhone. Many analysts and legal-experts are claiming that Cisco’s chances of winning and walking away with the name in their pocket are not miniature as previous lawsuits handed against Apple.
Cisco’s own iPhone is an affordable, simple VoIP device that hit the market last spring, unlike Apple’s baby, which got a lot of people excited when it was presented Tuesday.
By now hardcore (Apple) iPhone fans already know about Cisco’s lawsuit, but according to the Inquirer, Nortel may be jumping on the bandwagon as well, this time, claiming rights for visual voice-mail facility introduced by Job’s the other day.
Nortel’s product – which incidentally is resold by Citrix – provides a visual display of the voicemails a company employee might receive. Those voicemails can then be played back using an IP Phone supplied by Nortel.
So in principal, it works exactly the same as the Visual Voicemail facility built into Apple’s new iPod phone.
