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Fusion Garage Moves to Dismiss CrunchPad Tablet Lawsuit

Fusion Garage filed a legal motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who insists that the company ripped off the design for his never-released CrunchPad for its JooJoo tablet PC. In the filing, Fusion Garage describes the legal action between the two entities as the fallout of a failed merger. Arrington originally intended for the CrunchPad to be a cheap, open-source device retailing for around $200. The announcement of the Apple iPad has superheated the tablet PC space lately, with a number of companies planning competing devices.
– Fusion Garage filed a motion on Feb. 1 to dismiss the lawsuit
filed against it by TechCrunch, the publishing entity founded by blogger Michael
Arrington, which alleges that Fusion Garages JooJoo tablet PC is a rip-off of
Arringtons never-released CrunchPad.

The legal action continues a saga t…


Apple Announces Launch Event, Rumored in Talks with HarperCollins

Apple will host a launch event for its latest creation in San Francisco on Jan. 27, in what many media and analysts expect will be the rollout for the long-rumored tablet PC. At the same time, several media outlets are reporting Apple in negotiations with HarperCollins Publishers, and possibly other publishing houses, to port content onto the hypothetical device. Although Apple has refused to officially confirm it is working on a tablet PC, months of rumors and analyst conjecture have driven chatter that the company is indeed developing something big.
– Apple will debut its quot;latest creation quot; in San
Francisco on Jan. 27, according to an official invite
sent to media and analysts, who widely expect the device in question to be a
tablet PC.

In typical Apple fashion, the invitation itself is short on details and
big on style, featurin…