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In its latest legal salvo, the iPhone maker has asked the ITC to dismiss five patents that Google issued to HTC last year. more

Bing gets Facebook social smarts and a great design to find people related to users' searches, but the new engine yields surprisingly sparse social results. more

There has, apparently, be an upsurge in people paying lots of money for skin-tightening treatments. One of the main causes is claimed to be the vast amount of time we spend bending over smartphones. more

After the kerfuffle over whether Siri believes that the Nokia Lumia 900 is better than her own iPhone 4S, objectivity comes to the rescue, courtesy of the brains at Wolfram Alpha. more

The company's latest S-1 Registration Statement reveals that the increase in available shares will come from investors and early shareholders, and not Facebook. more

So-called "Retina Displays" in Apple's notebooks are already in the supply channel, and bring an increase in cost, experts say. What's unclear is if consumers will pay more for the improvement. more

Search giant builds a 500-million-item database of people, places, and things. Its content will be appearing in your search results starting today. more

The new T-series ThinkPads offer a host of enhancements over the prior models. But the classic-style keyboard has been jettisoned in favor of the chiclet, or island-style, flavor. more

According to the latest report published by Nielsen, 1 in 2 mobile subscribers owns a smartphone of some kind and those smartphone owners average 41 apps per device. more

Even if you're not popular on Facebook, your clothes can be. Special clothes hangers at a Brazilian store show the number of Facebook likes each item has. more

A forum posting on XDA-Developers claims Google is now only allowing users to deauthorize four devices per year for its Google Music platform. more

Several of Microsoft's Metro apps will sport changes when the Windows 8 Release Preview debuts next month, says The Verge. more

Forget the pokey old Nook Color. For the same price, this e-reader/tablet has a faster processor, more RAM, and a microphone. more

Kodak remains strong in consumer printing with today's release of the ESP 3.2 multifunction and an accompanying Pic Flick HD iPad app coming in June. more

According to local-media consulting firm BIA/Kelsey, brands are expected to dramatically increase their social-media spending in the coming years. more

Music-only surround formats have failed again and again; is Onkyo's new high-resolution download scheme doomed from the start? more

The popular gaming platform is now on sale at Microsoft's online store for anywhere from $249 to $399 depending on the bundle. more

General Motors spent $10M in Facebook ad money badly and got a lousy response, I'm told by a knowledgeable-but-opinionated person. It's part of a pre-IPO backlash over Facebook's heavy reliance on ads for revenue. more

The iPhone maker says that the claims against its Siri offering are based on "vague" claims and therefore should be thrown out by the court. more

Questions about Facebook's business model and growth prospects explain why GM ending an ad experiment on the social network has gotten blown out of proportion. more

Samsung is outshining Nokia and Apple in mobile phone sales, but the iPhone maker saw its global market share more than double, says Gartner. more

The company says that the new user interface will be known as the Optimus UI 3.0, and run on top of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). more

The company has been buying larger-sized screens from its Asian suppliers, according to the latest tipoff received by the Wall Street Journal. more