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  • Google-Motorola Mobility merger will be done this week

    Now that Google has gotten permission from China's Anti-Monopoly Bureau to acquire Motorola Mobility, the companies are expected to complete their merger by the middle of this week.

  • Do software patents stifle innovation?

    Software patents are stifling innovation and should not be applied to computational information processing, according to a Victorian software developer.

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    What's at stake in Oracle v. Google?

    The stakes in Oracle's lawsuit against Google over Android are high for developers, with the recent finding by a jury that Google infringed Oracle's Java copyrights by, among other things, implementing Java's application programming interfaces (APIs] for Android.

  • Microsoft, Apple free to flex Nortel patent muscles

    Apple, Microsoft and a handful of other tech companies are now free to license $US4.5 billion in patents they bought at auction last year from bankrupt Nortel, which could open up a can of worms for companies using technology covered by the patents.

  • Apple v Samsung case set for 8 March

    An official early final hearing date has been set in the Federal Court for the case brought against Apple by Samsung, in which the latter is seeking to ban the sale of the iPhone 4S in Australia.

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