• Bloomberg, Thursday, February 22, 2007 12 PM

Cisco Systems and Apple have settled a six-week dispute by agreeing to share the iPhone name and calling for their products to work together in the future. The settlement puts Apple on schedule to start selling its combination iPod music player and mobile phone under the iPhone brand in June.

Cisco claimed last month that Apple's iPhone violated a trademark owned by San Jose, California-based Cisco since 2000. Apple, which unveiled the device on Jan. 9 in San Francisco, called the suit "silly" because its iPhone differs from Cisco's Internet-based home phone.

Cisco's iPhone, which sells for less than $100, enables Web-based calls through EBay Inc.'s Skype service and Yahoo! Inc.'s Messenger. They are part of its Linksys home-routing unit, which the company purchased in 2003 to tap the consumer market.

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