Exactly one month away from the rumored launch of Apple's tablet computer, people are going mad around finding out the slightest bit of news.
After the interaction method, the buzz is now back to the device's name. Indeed,
Macrumors claims to have found proofs that the domain iSlate.com was purchased by Apple in 2007.
This wouldn't sound like much if it wasn't for
Techcrunch's Robin Wauters that dig deeper and found an entire net of related information. What they discovered is no hard proof, however the amount of clues and coincidence is overwhelming.
What Apple apparently put together over the course of the last 2 years is quite an impressive net.
Basically, Apple created a shell company, Slate Computing LLC, to officially appear in most of the paperwork. They then used this company to secure not only the trademark "iSlate" in the US and Europe but also most of its related domain names, like islate.biz, info and so on.
What's particularly interesting is that all the transactions around "iSlate" were made between November and December 2007 and they always involve either Apple directly, it's shell company, Slate computing, or Apple's lawyers or partners.
Well, we know that Apple likes to leak fake news around its product launches to get more attention, but this seems like a lot of effort for some extra free PR.
What do you think?
