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Apple has filed a new “antisuit lawsuit” aimed at unraveling Motorola’s litigation efforts and attempts to block iPhone 4S using standards essential patents. Apple is also asking for damages that could reach multibillion dollar figures. In its patent battles with Apple, Motorola chose to rely upon its standards essential patents that are required to build [...]
Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48. Houston’s publicist, Kristen Foster, said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death [...]
This week Apple announced a new textbook App called iBooks 2, as well as iBooks Author, a new book publishing app that allows normal people with little to no coding know-how to create impressive ebooks complete with photo galleries, video, 3-D images and other super cool graphic elements. Nothing too controversial there, right? Wrong. By [...]
Friday night’s 92-80 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers was perhaps the most awkward night of this young season for Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic. The Lakers, as one of three teams Howard’s agent can negotiate trades with, are linked to new rumors involving the Magic’s superstar center almost daily. And the man opposite [...]
The original death-dealer is back. After taking a break from the third Underworldfilm, Kate Beckinsale zips into the full-body black leather sheath once again to play Selene, the trigger-happy supernatural sheriff who targets werewolves, humans, and even her own kind, vampires. You want a herd thinned, Selene’s your girl. As this sequel begins, Selene has [...]
The Internet’s watershed political moment in the U.S. arrived this week. You can Google it. The role of Google itself, however, in the so-called Web blackout is more interesting than a quick Google search would indicate. First, some background. On Jan. 18, to protest a pair of anti-piracy bills in Congress, Wikipedia posted a blackout [...]
Looks like the iPhone 4S is getting its “Shawshank Redemption” moment today. A jailbreak for the new iPhone and its A5-based cousin, the iPad 2, has been spotted. The “corona untether” jailbreak for A4 devices running iOS5 was released in December, and since then a “dream team” of iOS hackers including the iPhone Dev Team, [...]
She’s funny, she’s raunchy, and she’s pretty easy on the eyes. Actress and ‘Daily Show’ alum Oliva Munn has no problem with being sexy – in fact, with so many scantily-clad photo shoots under her belt, it appears Miss Munn can hardly keep her clothes on. Don’t believe us? Take a look for yourself … [...]
The wait will soon be over for fans of AMC’s Mad Men. The basic cable network has announced that the award-winning period drama — which has been on hiatus since its fourth-season finale aired in October 2010 — will return with a two-hour season 5 premiere on March 25 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The episode [...]
The U.N. chief demanded Sunday that Syria’s president stop killing his own people and said the “old order” of one-man rule and family dynasties is over in the Middle East. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, delivering the keynote address at a conference in Beirut on democracy in the Arab world, said the revolutions of the Arab Spring [...]
Apple attacks Motorola’s efforts to block iPhone 4S using standards patents, asks for huge damages
Singer Whitney Houston dies at 48
If you publish with iBooks Author, does Apple ‘own’ you?
Despite the rumors, Howard all business
Selene is unfrozen, but man is she cold
Google Plays Both Sides in the Web Piracy Fight: Susan Crawford
Fly, be free! Jailbreak for iPhone 4S, iPad 2 released