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Sue happy together: Yahoo threatens patent suit against Facebook; Proview wants iPad name back from Apple

Everybody jump into the Pool of Patent and Trademark Fights. • A new swimmer is suiting up: Yahoo. The Sunnyvale company has threatened to sue Facebook over patents, according to the New York Read More →

Quoted: Gordon Gekko cooperates with the FBI

"In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real." — Actor Michael Douglas does a public service announcement Read More →

Off topic: Odd book titles, U.S. presidents’ net worth, movies’ predictions, a literal periodic table, old wives’ rules

"Cooking with Poo" and other books contending for the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. (via Marginal Revolution) For what it's worth at the moment: the net worth of U.S. presidents. Remote-control bodies Read More →

Adobe, Google and Facebook make splashes in Barcelona

All the news in the tech world today seems to be coming from the Mobile World Congress convention in Barcelona. Here's a tapas-like serving of the latest: • San Jose-based Adobe has released a stripped-down version of Photoshop for Read More →

Mozilla makes headway in web-based mobile apps

Mozilla has taken two big steps toward its ambitious mobile-phone project. On Monday, the Mountain View-based nonprofit announced it will partner with Spain-based telecom giant Telefonica to build its free browser-based B2G operating system, and announced Qualcomm will make the hardware Read More →

Quoted: A look inside Anonymous

“Anonymous is a handful of geniuses surrounded by a legion of idiots.” -- Cole Stryker, an author who has researched the Anonymous hacker movement, as quoted by the New York Times. Stryker went on: “You have four or five Read More →

Off topic: Snow art, literary Pictionary, Death Star, ‘Game of Thrones’ sneak peek

Who needs crop circles when we have these amazing snow drawings? Hey everyone, let's play Cormac McCarthy Pictionary! The Death Star may actually be a cost-effective weapon. And if you haven't already gotten fired Read More →

Follow-ups: Apple vs. Proview; Tesla speaks about ‘bricked’ Roadsters ‘rumor’; HP shares

• Proview Technology, the Chinese company doing battle with Apple over the iPad name, has taken the fight to Apple's back yard. Proview reportedly filed a lawsuit against the Cupertino company in Santa Clara County last Read More →

Cable TV, Net-connected glasses coming from Google?

A couple of interesting tidbits about Google, besides the controversial stuff we've mentioned on GMSV lately: • Larry Page, cable guy? OK, probably not. But the search giant has reportedly applied to provide video services to Kansas City, which Read More →

Quoted: Twitter co-founder calls too much tweeting ‘unhealthy’

"To me, that sounds unhealthy." — Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, on people who spend hours and hours using the microblogging service. "I like the kind of engagement where you go to the website and you leave Read More →
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