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Macmillan, sole e-book publishing holdout, settles with Justice

Back in December, Penguin became the penultimate publisher to settle with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) in the alleged e-book price-fixing scheme. On Friday, Macmillan and the DOJ came to a settlement...

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Friday, February 8th, 2013 Net News No Comments

US trade commission won’t ban Samsung products anytime soon

Apple had two big wins against Samsung last year—its much-vaunted $1 billion victory in a San Jose federal court and a less-noticed, but also important, win at the International Trade Commission. While Apple may...

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Thursday, January 24th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Google Finally Launches Google Maps for iPhone

Google Maps, the widely-missed navigation app for the iPhone, finally returns. As every iPhone user knows, Apple, in its infinite wisdom, decided to drop the native Google Maps app with iOS 6, and for...

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Thursday, December 13th, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

Apple, Google said to be pooling $500+ million for Kodak patents

Apple and Google are indeed teaming up to make a bigger offer to buy Kodak's digital imaging patents, according to sources speaking to Bloomberg. The companies reportedly joined their two independent consortiums—which had been...

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Monday, December 10th, 2012 Net News No Comments

BitTorrent Beats10 Million Downloads Milestone for Mobile Apps

BitTorrent has recently announced that its collection of Android iOS, and Windows Phone apps has reached an impressive milestone: 10,000,000 mobile downloads for just over a year ago BitTorrent’s popularity is too large to...

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Sunday, December 9th, 2012 Net News No Comments