Meawhile Kootol Software of Mumbai announced that it has sent a notice to Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, IBM, Research in Motion, LinkedIn, MySpace, Research in Motion and a number of other companies - including Iconfactory - claiming that they infringe US patent application 11/995,343 - "A Method and System for Communication, Advertising, Searching, Sharing and Dynamically Providing a Journal Feed" - which it said has also been applied for in India, Canada and Europe.

Based on preliminary results, Apple showed the strongest growth among the top-tier vendors in the U.S., as it climbed from fifth place to third, overtaking Acer and Toshiba (see Table 2). The preliminary findings show Apple's performance far exceed the industry average, partly driven by an iMac refreshment that attracted both consumers and buyers in the education sector.