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Nokia sues Apple in Wisconsin for infringement of Nokia patents — Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced that it has today filed a complaint against Apple with the Federal District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin, alleging that Apple iPhone and iPad 3G products infringe five important Nokia patents.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Nokia sues Apple again, says the iPad 3G infringes five patents — Looks like settlement negotiations in the various Nokia / Apple patent lawsuits aren't going too well — Espoo's just hit Cupertino with a second federal patent lawsuit, this time alleging the iPad 3G and iPhone infringe five patents related …
Apple:
iPad Available in Nine More Countries on May 28 — Apple® today announced that iPad™ will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on Friday, May 28. Customers can pre-order all iPad models from Apple's online store in all nine countries beginning on Monday, May 10.
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Leo Lewis / Times of London:
Rivals are invading its patch, but Nintendo is ready to go to war — Nintendo is preparing to unleash the full force of its development and marketing artillery against Apple after profits tumbled at the Japanese giant for the first time in six years. — The reversal of fortunes …
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
CBS Will Have Full Slate of Web Video on the iPad — CBS may have the most aggressive plans to enable viewers to watch web video on the iPad, but so far, that's all they are — plans. The broadcaster has made only a limited number of promotional clips available for viewing on the tablet device …
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David Wang / PC World:
Android Now Running On iPhone 3G — After just a couple more weeks of work, we've made tremendous progress and brought Android to the iPhone 3G. Although this port is slightly more rough than the previous Android on first-generation iPhone port, this marks an important milestone …
AdAge:
Facebook to Add Location As Soon As May, Integrate Brands Later — Marketers Line Up to Try Out New Updates, Which Will Allow Users to Share Their Whereabouts — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Facebook will start allowing users to share their location in status updates, a move that extends …
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Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Everybody Is Wrong About Facebook's Foursquare-Killer
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For War Against Facebook With Zynga Live — The relationship between Facebook and its biggest gaming partner, Zynga, are at an all time low, we've heard from multiple sources. The level of stress, says one source, is “intense.”
Chromium Blog:
The future of O3D — We launched the O3D API about a year ago to start a discussion within the web community about establishing a new standard for 3D graphics on the web. Since then, we've also helped develop WebGL, a 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2.0 that has gradually emerged as a standard …
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Bing / Search Blog:
Shop and Share with Bing — A lot of us don't shop alone. Going to the mall is often a social thing, so why should shopping online be any different? 75% of shoppers seek advice from others even when shopping online and now Bing shoppers can too! In the last announcement we refreshed …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
AT&T Palm Pre Plus and 3G MicroCell available nationwide on May 16 (update: not quite nationwide) — You've waited long enough AT&T customers. So long that the Palm Pre is now the Palm Pre Plus and Palm, well, isn't even Palm anymore. But you just never mind all that …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Now Borders Has A Kindle, Too: Here's The $150 ‘Kobo’ (BGP, AMZN, AAPL) — If black-and-white “e-ink” e-readers have any chance to compete with more sophisticated tablets like Apple's iPad, they had better be cheap. — And that's the best feature of Borders' new Kindle clone: At $150, “Kobo” is by far the cheapest of the bunch.
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Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Here's How Much Tech Companies Spend On Advertising (YHOO, GOOG, AAPL, MSFT) — Yahoo plans to spend $80 million on the next leg of its big ad campaign. If that sounds like a lot, that's because it is. It's almost double the amount Yahoo spent on advertising last year …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Toshiba building world's lightest 13-inch laptop with fast charging SCiB battery? — Toshiba has a long history of making highly desirable ultraportables. Now, if today's rumor pans out, it seem set to bust out another in the form of the world's lightest (less than 1Kg with SSD) 13 incher.
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Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
U.S. Lets Hollywood Disable Home TV Outputs to Prevent Piracy — The film industry can block outputs on home television equipment so studios can offer first-run movies while preventing viewers from making illicit copies, U.S. regulators said. — Temporarily disabling the outputs will …
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Needs To Fix Its App Store Spam Problem (AAPL) — Even with Apple's ham-fisted control over the App Store, it's still filled with spammy applications, notes Marco Arment, the developer behind the popular “Instapaper” app. — Case in point: Marco wanted to download a popular game called “Angry Birds” (iTunes Link).
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Duncan Geere / Pocket-lint:
Jimmy Wales plans Wikipedia porn purge — “Images that are of little or no educational value” to be excised — Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has waded into a minor row brewing on the site over whether pornographic content should be hosted on Wikimedia Commons - the place where all Wikipedia images are hosted.
Serkan Toto / CrunchGear:
New NEC technology detects pirated online videos “in seconds” — Software that helps to detect “illegal” video content on the web automatically isn't really new, but NEC claims its technology has two selling points that sets it apart from similar solutions: speed and accuracy.
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Google Reader Adds HTML5 Support — Google Reader has released a slew of new updates today, the most prominent being support for HTML5-powered videos and audio. — As HTML5 gains steam, partially due to Apple's war against Adobe Flash, more and more websites are switching to HTML5 interfaces …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Yahoo CMO Steele On Ad Campaign: Word Of Mouth Isn't Enough For Us — Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) announced the second phase of its $100 million international ad campaign this week—a series of ads that push Yahoo's services. The slogan: “Your favorite stuff all in one place. Make Yahoo your home page.”
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