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- Eminemdrdre00, on 04/01/2008, -4/+269#ed008c is the new 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
- sp89, on 04/01/2008, -7/+186EngadgeT-mobile FTW!!!
- Yankees368, on 04/01/2008, -2/+129Wait, Engadget Mobile sells T-Mobile services, correct? That shade of pink really confuses me!
- cgomez, on 04/01/2008, -4/+113I love Engadget.
- lukeydukey, on 04/01/2008, -5/+69wow the digg buttons are giving wierd symbols.
as for the magenta. freakin awesome. - KismetSky, on 04/01/2008, -4/+64Engadget, does indeed: blend, play doom, and in Russia, 'engadget' you.
- monkiboi, on 04/01/2008, -0/+55I own the letter "T" and am going after T-Mobile for disgracing my letter.
- joeydoo, on 04/01/2008, -0/+52... Engadget?? No, I've just loaded the page and it clearly appears to be a T-Mobile site. It's all pink and stuff.
Going to have to bury this as inaccurate. DevinOlsen you've ***** up somewhere... you'll have resubmit it. - Jamma27, on 04/01/2008, -2/+50How did you get that backwards b in that colour?
- Spanq, on 04/01/2008, -5/+44I keep reading it as Douche Telekom.
- biggy83, on 04/01/2008, -2/+25Mr. T - mobile approves this digg.
- Kauzman01, on 04/01/2008, -1/+20Yeah... did anyone else get a division symbol?
- scuba69, on 04/01/2008, -1/+19Way to give em the old finger.
- janko10, on 04/01/2008, -6/+23Stupid T-Mobile lol
- FoxOrian, on 04/01/2008, -0/+17Heh, when I heard about T-Mobile wanting to exlcusively use the color Magenta, I couldnt help but think of that episode of futurama..
"... 'Door' is a trademark of Moms Friendly Robot Company"
This is amusing. - breckinshire, on 04/01/2008, -0/+16I remember that episode of Sesame Street you sponsored.
- CPOliver, on 04/01/2008, -0/+14**** censorship.
- cyclades, on 04/01/2008, -6/+20*****. Awesome. Comment.
- Fryxell, on 04/01/2008, -5/+18[color=ed008c] could really use bbc codes for this story[/color]
- DevinOlsen, on 04/01/2008, -0/+13I cheated, obviously.
- Ganja420, on 04/01/2008, -0/+11another company to add to my ***** list
- Jmorrow76, on 06/03/2008, -0/+8This is one of the best displays of arrogant defiance I have seen in awhile. Props to Engadget for exposing T-Mobile for the petty fools they are.
- RetepNamenots, on 04/01/2008, -0/+7http://data.slovenska.sk/wobj-data/837/obrazky/825 ...
Set it as your Digg Profile pic. - jotty, on 04/01/2008, -0/+7i like the contextual advertising
http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/5392/tmobilecp5 ... - inactive, on 04/01/2008, -0/+6April FoolS?!!!
- doublebummer, on 04/01/2008, -0/+6Mr. T would like to have a word with you.
- celkin, on 04/01/2008, -1/+7but imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
- Viakenny, on 04/01/2008, -0/+6in a related story, AT&T buys Deutsche Telekom, the PANTONE Rhodamine Red trademark for telecoms, renames itself T-AT&T (after considering AT&T+T, ATandTundT, ATT&T, ATTT and TTT&A)
- celkin, on 04/01/2008, -0/+6You can' ake our 's away! We need hem!
- wild, on 04/01/2008, -0/+5Does this mean all of the catholic church's are going to have to take down their statues of Jesus?
- MattFromSeattle, on 04/01/2008, -0/+4While I agree with you that the letter from Deutche tried to remain polite, you can't tell someone to not use a color, that's ridiculous. I'll say that at least T-Mobile has tried to be civil, there is a snowball's chance in hell that someone would mistake the Engadget mobile site for T-mobile.
- eschompthis, on 04/01/2008, -0/+4who hires these PR idiots? first Creative with their drivers, now Tmobile asking a cell phone review website to change colors. I mean do these idiots expect no backlash over it?
- KDyneria, on 04/01/2008, -0/+4You "*****" websites?
- winmywii, on 04/01/2008, -1/+5I think it is random, I got some greek character.
- mdavis, on 04/01/2008, -2/+6***** you T-Mobile!
- Eccohawk, on 04/01/2008, -1/+5Trademarking of colors is allowed, but it is restricted to that particular industry. So, for example, UPS owns that particular color brown within the shipping industry. FedEx can't use that brown if they decide to change colors, as it would violate UPS' trademark. Coke owns the color of red that it uses on it's soda. No other soda company gets that same shade of red. There are a ton of trademarks like this. The same thing applies here. That color of magenta is a trademark of Deutche Telekom and it's subsidiaries, which include T-Mobile. So no other cell phone company or mobile service provider can use that color of Magenta. That being said, it's certainly true that engadget is not a mobile service provider...but Engadget Mobile is certainly sitting on the boundary of what could be considered a violation of that trademark, because they specifically make money (through ads or otherwise) promoting mobile devices and services through their website. And while it may not be confusing to you or I what engadget mobile does vs what T-mobile does...there are plenty of people out there dumber than a rock who can't tell their left foot from their right, and this could certainly potentially confuse them.
These trademarks don't just apply to colors, either. If one recalls the lawsuit brought up by Apple Records not so long ago, against Apple Computer...they'll realize that the suit only came about once Apple Computer stepped into the music business with it's ITunes software and iPod hardware. before that, there was no overstepping of boundaries between the companies, and nothing 'confusing' about the trademark of either company. And, as stated above me, a company has to defend its trademark, or it will get revoked. I believe this happened to Xerox and Kleenex a long time back, because the brand names became so synonymous with the products they produced that people would use their name instead of 'photocopy' or 'tissue'. The words just became commonplace. Anyways, there's the rub. - cyclades, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3Stick to the man!
- meruru, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3It was "Screen Door"
- SteveMax, on 04/01/2008, -1/+4I got a root (√) here. Possibly this is Digg's 01/04.
- ssulistyo, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3FAIL, confusing patents with copyright with trademarks
- FoxOrian, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3You are a greater Futurama fan than I.
- Viakenny, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3no, it's just infinity diggs.
- inactive, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3i think engadget is a pretty cool guy. eh is magenta and doesn't afraid of anything.
- t3rmv3locity, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2I think you are getting buried because it's not.
- Lemm, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2^facist^
- jazbek, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2i got a ≠ (not equals). then digg caused my firefox to freeze up. yay for APRIL FOOLS!!
- racco, on 04/01/2008, -1/+3thats the way to do it
***** em! - KiraDnote, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2I love the magenta emphasis on t--Mobile. Nice going Engadget and Digg!
- bwtaha, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2my name is charlesray and i hold the patent for that username on all of the interwebz, plz discontinue using it
if my assistance is needed in changing your userids and adding all of your friends back up please send your account name and passwords to the email address provided - bwtaha, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2isn't a parody still protected?
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