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HTC and Apple Settle Patent Dispute — All Patent Litigation Between the Companies Dismissed — HTC and Apple® have reached a global settlement that includes the dismissal of all current lawsuits and a ten-year license agreement. The license extends to current and future patents held by both parties.
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| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Apple and HTC settle all patent litigation with 10 year license agreement — Apple and HTC have settled their patent dispute, with all current lawsuits dismissed, according to an HTC press release.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Does Apple's HTC Agreement Indicate A Softening Of Its Approach To Patent Litigation? — Apple and HTC today announced jointly a settlement of all ongoing patent litigation between the two, in a licensing agreement with a 10-year term, any further terms of which were not released.
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| Agence France Presse: |
Apple pays Swiss rail $21mn over clock dispute: report — GENEVA — US tech giant Apple has dished out 20 million Swiss francs ($21 million, 17 million euros) to compensate Swiss national rail operator SBB for using its famous clock without permission, a Swiss daily reported Saturday.
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| Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
UK court orders Apple to pay Samsung's legal fees in full after ‘false and misleading’ notice — The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has ordered Apple to pay the legal fees of competitor Samsung on an ‘indemnity basis’ after the company published a “false and misleading” notice in the wake of a patent lawsuit over the iPad.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Seriously, Apple Is Doomed — Dan Crow, another former Apple employee from the 1990s, also says Apple has shown itself to be doomed without Steve Jobs, in a piece for The Guardian headlined “We've Passed Peak Apple”: … On the contrary, for better or for worse, iOS 6 Maps is exactly …
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
It's Time For Apple To Unleash A Major Software Overhaul — The Apple backlash is in full swing right now. — But it really started this summer. — In our office, the people who review gadgets started grumbling that iOS was stale. These grumbles were crystallized in Farhad Manjoo's story … | Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Apple loses bid to nix patent troll's ‘screen rotation’ suit — Court rules that patent lawsuit against Apple can go to a jury. At issue: whether the iPhone's screen rotation and call rejection features violate patents originally held by Sony and Nokia. — You might think it's obvious …
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| Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: |
David Petraeus Was Brought Down by ... Gmail — The CIA director's path to resignation began with some email messages. — Reuters/Joshua Roberts — While David Petraeus was serving as a four-star general in the U.S. Army, he began exchanging emails with the woman who would eventually write his biography.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Killer fail: how Romney's broken Orca app cost him thousands of votes — An attempt to harness big data turns into a nightmare of crashes and confusion — A few days before the presidential election, Mitt Romney's campaign announced what it hoped would be its secret weapon at the polls.
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| Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
Outbrain Expects 25% Revenue Hit As It Cuts Off Spammy Content Marketers — Move Seeks to Eliminate Deceptive Headlines and Get-Rich-Quick Schemes to Improve Quality — Content-recommendation engine Outbrain is banning some of its biggest customers from buying web traffic through its service … | Rani Molla / GigaOM: |
Kickstarter launches are up 50% in the last six months [charts] — Kickstarter has taken a bit of heat lately for entrepreneuers not delivering on their projects, but the number of Kickstarter launches continues to climb. It's up 50 percent, to over 76,909, in the last six months.| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
RIM Plans To Woo Would-Be BlackBerry 10 Game Developers With Money And Hardware — As work on BlackBerry 10 continues behind closed doors, Waterloo-based RIM is gearing up to make yet another attempt to woo would-be BlackBerry 10 developers to its cause. — This time though the company …
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