OK, so let’s see if I’ve got this straight… This is an :

Apple iPhone

Up until gave his on Tuesday, this was an iPhone:

Cisco iPhone

According to Endgadget, Cisco Systems (which, as I’m sure you know, was a friend of mine) released the following to explain how Apple’s iPhone won’t run into any trademark issues with what had been their iPhone:

Given Apple’s numerous requests for permission to use Cisco’s iPhone trademark over the past several years and our extensive discussions with them recently, it is our belief that with their announcement today, Apple intends to agree to the final document and public statement that were distributed to them last night and that addressed a few remaining items. We expect to receive a signed agreement today.

But I’ve spoken about that third player in the game earlier. A Google search for [iPhone] still brings up the following at #3:

iPhone | Voice Over IP
iPhone offers local number service in the following areas: … iPhone offers competitive International pricing International Flags …
iphone.com/ - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

When I wrote the first post about that site, iphone.com was redirecting to iphone.nuvio.com, which promoted a service called “iPhone.” They didn’t have the trademark, but I guess that never stopped anybody. Yeah, alright, it’s stopped people a great many times. Earlier today, after reading about the lovely lovely new iPhone, I tried going back to that subdomain to see if they’d changed anything, and I was redirected to Apple’s iPhone page. Nuvio.com was still up, though.

But there’s more! While I was writing this, I went back to iphone.nuvio.com, and it was back! Here’s their page:

iPhone by Nuvio

Earlier in the day, I’d used some of my handy dandy SEO tools (yes, it’s true — I’m that qwerty) to find that, before the redirect from iphone.com to iphone.nuvio.com took place, the following page would load (I don’t have the images; I just grabbed the raw HTML):

Google cache of iphone.nuvia.com

That’s an affiliate site selling services! Vonage should be iPhone’s, or Nuvio’s, competition! Gah! My head, it spins!

Later in the day, the redirect was dropped, and iphone.com just took you to this:

iphone.com

Now that’s gone too. iphone.com takes you nowhere, and Google won’t show you a cached copy of anything there. Google, of course is working with Apple on the iPhone, and their CEO, , is on Apple’s board.

Oops. Now it’s back. Have I said “gah” yet? Anyway, that Nuvio iPhone page: if you try to go to http://www.iphone.nuvio.com now, you get diddly. If you drop the www, and just try for http://iphone.nuvio.com, you hit a 302 (found) redirect to https://iphone.nuvio.com/ (note the https protocol). That URL then redirects to https://iphone.nuvio.com/html/. It’s a freaking conspiracy, but this Nuvio iPhone thingie is somehow still there.

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