Apple receives new trademarks

We learn from Apple Insider that Apple has been issues
two new trademarks in the past few weeks. One is for the word "VoiceOver," which refers to its upcoming spoken English interface for 10.4 Tiger.

Say what?

In case you missed that – and I can hardly believe Apple Insider has glossed this over in a "Briefly" roundup – Tiger is going to have a *spoken English interface.* Now, given that I just recently got totally immersed in the "Speech Command" functionality when a cursory 2-second re-review (I looked at it years ago and it was still just novelty)
turned up some seriously cool, Star Trek-type stuff. Luckily it's too cold to leave my home office these days, but come spring when I'm out and about at the WiFi coffee shops, folks are going to think I'm off my nut for sitting there talking to my computer. I'm already jazzed about the potentials therein, and to come across the news that this will only be beefed up in Tiger... well, smack me in the face and call me Sally, I'm out of my seat excited about this.

Oh – and the other trademark is for the word "Bonjour," which Apple specifies as "computer hardware or software." Uhhh,
gee, does it get any more uselessly generic than that?!