Facebook, perhaps echoing the thoughts of users, pundits, and other observers of the surging social media space, said it was “puzzled” by Yahoo’s huge patent infringement lawsuit against the social networking giant.
 
The social media world is buzzing with news of  Yahoo’s lawsuit, because Yahoo’s fortunes have been on the wane in recent years as it struggles to regain market share, while Facebook’s has been surging as it prepares to enter what it hoped to be a “quiet …

A company linked with software giant Microsoft has filed a new patents infringement lawsuit against consumer electronics powerhouse Apple.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Core Wireless Licensing SARL asserts that Apple has been infringing on eight patents it owns.
Microsoft is said to have a financial interest In Core Wireless.
According to the company, the patents which were allegedly violated by Apple are concerned with 2G, 3G and 4G communication standards.
The Luxembourg-based company …

A man from rural northwest France has sued Google over a photo published online by Google’s Street View application, reports Reuters. The photo showed the person urinating in his backyard.
The person is about 50 years of age. He lives in village located in the Maine-et-Loire region. The Frenchman complains that he has become the laughing stock of his village due to this published photograph. The face of the man was blurred in the photo, but despite that, locals recognized him in the picture. …

After the furor caused by a report from the Wall Street Journal towards the end of this week about Google reportedly sidestepping privacy settings of the Apple-developed Safari browser, a new report says that it did not take long for one of those Safari browser users to lodge a complaint against Google.
According to a report from Bloomberg through The Washington Post, a Safari browser user filed a lawsuit against Google officials in a federal court in Delaware on Friday.
The lawsuit was filed …

Apple has again lost a bid to ban the modified Galaxy Tab 10.1N from Samsung, a report from Bloomberg notes.
The news comes after a court in Munich also denied Apple’s request to stop the sales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N.
This time, the Düsseldorf Regional Court in Germany denied Apple’s request for a ban on the Samsung tablet saying that “the Galaxy Tab 10.1N now sufficiently differs from the form Apple has registered as a design right.”
The Düsseldorf court further said that …

Motorola Wins a New Lawsuit against Apple / Image via Flickr

Motorola has won today a new lawsuit against Apple. Motorola claimed that one of its patents named “multiple pager status synchronization system and method” is violated in the technology implemented by Apple in its devices using iCloud. Today, a court in Manheim, Germany, gave green light to Motorola through a final court decision that allows the company to request blocking the iCloud service and the terminals using it. The …

Intel Buys 190 Patents From RealNetworks / Image via Flickr

Intel has signed a deal with RealNetworks through which buys 190 patents as well as 170 patent applications for $ 120 million.
The agreement between the two companies will also include the hardware manufacturer’s involvement in developing and distributing the Real video encoding software, writes BBC News.
This agreement will be sealed in February, RealNetworks planning to use these funds in developing new technologies. On the other …

Novell Inc. attorney Jeff Johnson has accused Microsoft, the software giant, of purposefully duping the Utah-based company Novell, reports AP. Johnson has told jurors that Microsoft first promised Novell of including its writing application, WordPerfect, in Windows 95 rollout, but later used its own product in the operating system to gain market share.
“It was purely a predatory action,” Johnson told jurors.
Johnson was augmenting for $1 billion antitrust lawsuit against the Microsoft. The …

Taiwanese smartphone giant HTC has filed a lawsuit against the Taiwan unit of Citigroup blaming the financial institution of causing a share price decline of the company, a report claims.
According to Reuters, the criminal lawsuit from HTC was revealed by a Taiwanese prosecutor on Tuesday.
HTC is accusing Citi of publishing false information about the smartphone maker leading to a drop in the share price of the company.
Reuters quotes Huang Mou-hsin, the deputy chief prosecutor from the Taipei …

The man from San Francisco whose house was searched earlier this year as Apple and authorities were looking for a reportedly lost prototype of the next-generation iPhone may sue Apple, a report claims.
Back in July, it was reported that Apple has lost another prototype iPhone again this time in a “tequila lounge” located at San Francisco’s Mission District.
The news then was broken by CNet and now the publication is reporting that Sergio Calderon, the man whose house was searched in the …