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Who owns the iPad trademark in China? Apple claims it does. But replica watches, evidently, Chinese government officials disagree.

Fu Shuangjian, the vice minister of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), an agency that enforces trade laws in China, said today that Apple gadfly Proview is still the holder of the iPad trademark in the country.

“According to the provisions of China Trademark Law, currently Shenzhen Proview is the legal registrant of the iPad trademark,” Fu told reporters at a news conference in Beijing.

Fu’s remarks are the first the SAIC has made on Apple’s ongoing battle with Proview for ownership of the iPad trademark replica watches, and while they certainly won’t determine its outcome, they do suggest that Apple’s chances of winning it in court might not be as good as evidence suggests. And if that’s truly the case replica watches, Apple may be better off settling with the opportunistic Proview — as much as the prospect of doing so must chafe.

Apple did not respond to a request for comment.

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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 shook the East Coast Tuesday afternoon, sending tremors from Washington, D.C. replica watches, all the way up to New York City and New Hampshire. Though there were no immediate reports of injuries, earthquakes always result in a flurry of questions to the Explainer’s email inbox. Here are a few questions and answers from the archives: Government officials are warning East Coast residents to be prepared for potential aftershocks. Is it possible for an aftershock to be as large as the main event?

By definition, no. If an earthquake is followed by a more powerful seismic event, it’s automatically redefined as a foreshock. The largest tremor is always classified as the earthquake; everything else is either a foreshock or an aftershock.

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There are two principles that describe the typical behavior of aftershocks. The first, called Omori’s Law, predicts that most shocks will occur immediately following the earthquake and become less and less frequent over time. The other, known as Båth’s Law, states that the largest aftershock is, on average, about 1.2 magnitudes smaller than the main quake. (The Richter scale is logarithmic, meaning that an earthquake measuring magnitude 6.0 is 10 times larger than one measuring 5.0.) While a stronger earthquake produces more aftershocks than a weaker one, big aftershocks are rarer than small ones. (For more, read “Can an aftershock be as large as the original quake?”)

What’s the best thing to do in an earthquake?

Drop, get under cover, and hold on. Many children learn this in school Beats by Dr Dre, but these lessons tend to evaporate during a disaster. Also, be warned that the Web is littered with misleading advice by Doug Copp, a “rescue expert” who argues that it’s dangerous to duck and cover. (He suggests lying down next to a large object, like a bed.) As the urban-legend-busting site Snopes point out, Copp’s theory has been disputed by a number of experts, including the Red Cross. When an earthquake strikes, don’t run or try to escape. Search for cover as close to you as possible; if you’re in bed replica watches, stay curled up and protect your head with a pillow. If you’re driving, pull over when it’s safe, and stay away from bridges and overpasses. (For more, read “How To Survive An Earthquake.”)

Can humans affect the frequency of earthquakes, just like we’ve affected the global climate?

Not significantly. While certain activities, like mining, oil extraction, and dam-building can trigger an earthquake by changing the weight on tectonic plates or lubricating the joints between them, there is no evidence that humans have caused a quake of greater than 5.3 in magnitude. Major earthquakes are natural and unstoppable events. If Earth’s plates are going to shift and cause a disaster, there is nothing we can do. (Read more from “Are There More Earthquakes Than There Used To Be?”)

Can an earthquake affect the way the planet spins on its axis?

Yep. As you’ll recall from science class, the rotating Earth resembles a spinning top: The planet’s axis does not always point in exactly the same direction but wobbles very slightly, describing small but measurable circles at the poles. A very large earthquake—one of a magnitude of 9.0 or greater—can shift enough mass relative to that of the entire Earth to alter, very minutely, the course of that wobble. But the planet’s speed of rotation (which, of course, determines the lengths of our days) changes by only the tiniest amount, so we don’t need to worry about adjusting our watches. * (Read more.)

Could Monday night’s earthquake in Colorado have caused the East Coast quake?

Even a smallish earthquake can lead to aftershocks, as the sudden shift unsettles the existing balance along nearby joints. Surface-level energy waves ripple out from the epicenter and travel for hundreds of miles, but their energy dissipates exponentially as they radiate outward. Most aftershocks occur within one fault-length—the length of the joint along which the plates slipped—of the original quake. The 1992 Landers earthquake in the Mojave Desert triggered a smaller tremor 144 miles away, nearly five times the length of the original rupture Tattoo Supplies, but that was considered a rare event. (Read more.)

Got a question about today’s news? Ask the Explainer.

Correction, Aug. 23 replica watches, 2011: The original said that an earthquake doesn’t change the planet’s speed of rotation. It does, but the effect is so small as to be insignificant. (Changes in atmospheric winds and ocean currents have a much greater effect.) (Return to corrected sentence.)

It’s been a while since we’ve heard about FoMoCo’s development of large rear-wheel-drive vehicles for Ford and Lincoln – no surprise considering the current climate. With fuel prices continuing their upward trajectory and CAFE standards looming on the horizon Replica Watches, Ford is apparently reevaluating the efficacy of offering RWD vehicles in a market starving for fuel efficient whips.

In addition to this morning’s story that Ford is considering offering an EcoBoost four-cylinder on its F-150 pickup Replica Watches, Automotive News is reporting that Ford’s use of turbocharged, direct-injected engines could expand to beyond 500,000 vehicles annually by 2012.

Starting next March Replica Watches, Mini buyers will be able to grab a set of Recaro seats off the option list for their cars. The upmarket buckets will be available for all Mini models except the Countryman and Convertible.

As you likely guessed Replica Watches, they don’t come cheap. Be prepared to fork over a heady $3,000 for the better seats. There are other constraints. The Recaros only come in black leather and Dinamica and can only be had with built-in heaters. Still, they look the ruckus and should make Cooper S and JCW drivers even happer when they attack the twisty stuff.

For the last umpteen years (since about 1979, to be exact) Replica Watches, Ford has owned a significant share of Japanese automaker Mazda Replica Watches, growing in 1997 to a 33.4-percent controlling stake. As such, the two automakers have historically shared a significant amount of resources and product architectures – a system that has helped both companies remain competitive in the increasingly tough automotive market.

At present, the Ford Fiesta, European Focus and Fusion sedan all borrow unseen bits and pieces from Mazda platforms, and the Japanese automaker offers its own versions of the Ford’s compact and midsize crossovers.

Lately, though, it seems Ford and Mazda have been seeing less and less of each other. About a year ago, Ford sold off 20 percent of its stake in the Japanese company, and while it’s likely the two automakers will continue to enjoy cooperation in some capacity, Bloomberg is reporting that product sharing may very well be diminished moving forward. Drat. And to think, for all these years, we’ve apparently been wasting our time holding out hope for a Ford-badged fixed-head coupe based on Mazda’s ever-delightful MX-5 Miata.

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In July of 2011, Maserati announced we would be receiving the hotted-up GranTurismo Convertible Sport here in the States. Known as the GranCabrio Sport elsewhere around the world Replica Watches, this beautiful droptop is packed with a more powerful version of the mill found in the GranTurismo S.

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If you just can’t wait for SEMA 2011, head to this year’s Chicago Auto Show. Lexus is bringing a little Las Vegas to the Windy City with a version of the company’s CT 200h hybrid hatchback tuned by the go-fast gurus at Five Axis. The car wears a custom widebody kit, unique paint and a lower suspension courtesy of Tein.

Stoptech hardware handles braking duties, and the interior has been saddled with enough tech to put a man on the moon. The Five Axis CT 200h will be joined by the crowd of tuned Lexus vehicles that we saw at SEMA 2010 too, including cars by VIP auto salon and Paul Tolson.

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Blockbuster (BBI) shares are trading sharply lower after the company said in its new 10-K filing with the SEC that it may have to file for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code. The company is groaning under a heavy debt burden Replica Watches, and its operations have taken a big hit from new competitors Replica Watches, including the rapidly growing Redbox chain of video kiosks operated by Coinstar (CSTR).

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It’s a little surprising that even in today’s world of decoded genomes, retina scanning and 128-bit encryption that the doddering old signature continues to plod along as the primary method of identity verification.

But the concept of signing is about as ingrained in our culture as the handshake. We sign on the dotted line. We sign here. We sign there. We sign our life away.

And even DocuSign made its name porting that oldest of identity verification methods over to the digital world.

But last weekend, the software-as a-service provider did something it had never done before.

The company filled coolers with beer, rented a nacho machine and opened its doors to a bunch of hackers who would vie for $25,000 in prize money to build new uses for an old service.

That’s because the world has changed in the eight years since DocuSign started, and business services aren’t the only way forward now, at least according to Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Tom Gonser.

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But according to it’s not really a problem of ink.

It’s one of paper.

Gonser explained: “In replacing paper Replica Watches, you have to integrate with any system that paper interacted with.”

And taking the paper out of the equation isn’t easy.

Paper is interoperable. And it’s the most readable file format–at least by humans.

So, to get its hands on more consumers makes sense for DocuSign, considering a good portion of them now carry touchscreens around in their pockets and a little white fob allows anyone to accept credit card payments, complete with signature.

The hackathon is DocuSign’s way to get a bunch of coders–who haven’t spent their lives thinking about enterprise software–together to solve the problems that modern living has with the decidedly unmodern signature.

When I stopped by, groups were picking away at projects that seemed like a pretty good cross section of all the places signatures enter our lives.

There was a plug-in for Google’s Gmail, a budding solution for signing NDA’s on the fly, a developer who wanted to end the paper permission slip for school activities and even someone trying to enable authors to digitally sign individual copies of e-books.

While the overall winner turned out to be the developer who worked on a solution for signing petitions, every one of the ideas seemed like a better alternative to what goes on today.

Here’s a quick video with Evan Jacobs, a former developer for Amazon, whose hackathon entry–Kindlegraph–allows authors to send a personal message and verifiable signature to an individual Amazon Kindle e-book reader.

Time Warner Cable Inc. and ESPN are planning to serve up a bold cable-TV experiment in making programming available online behind a paywall, starting with this week’s “Monday Night Football.”

The two companies say they will make ESPN’s flagship channel available online for TV subscribers of Time Warner Cable. Those who can confirm their TV subscription through an online registration process can watch live programming on the Web just as it appears on TV for no additional charge—a model known as “TV Everywhere.”

Most of the industry’s forays in TV Everywhere so far have put scripted shows online in an on-demand format—usually sometime after they air on TV. For the most part Replica Watches, TV networks have yet to put their channels on the Web in real time, and doing so with one of the most popular cable networks and live sports programming—the best source of high audience ratings for TV—offers a high-profile stage for a risky experiment.

“We think this can be a catalyst to drive the industry towards broader adoption of the authentication model,” said Sean Bratches Replica Watches, executive vice president of sales with ESPN. “We anticipate doing this with a number of other affiliates.”

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