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PCMag: Judge Richard Posner has dismissed the Apple v. Motorola patent lawsuit with prejudice, which means that neither side can re-file the case in the same court. Earlier, the judge had temporarily dismissed the case, then changed his mind allowing some testimony. However, the judge later determined that neither side could prove that it was […]

The Wall Street Journal: Shortly after receiving a $2.17 billion acquisition bid from Insight Venture Partners and Vector Capital, Quest Software says it has received a $2.32 billion offer from an unnamed “strategic bidder.” Insight made the original bid of $23 a share for Quest back in may, but was later bested by the unknown […]

ZDNet: If a report that appeared in The Sunday Times over the weekend is accurate, the end could be near for RIM. According to unnamed sources, the Canadian company is considering selling off its BlackBerry smartphone unit while retaining or licensing to others its data network and BlackBerry Messenger software. The report speculated that Amazon […]

The Telegraph: Two hackers associated with LulzSec have pleaded guilty to attacking numerous websites. Ryan Cleary, 20, and Jake Davis, 19, admitted that they orchestrated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites belonging to the NHS, News International, Sony, Nintendo, Arizona State Police, 20th Century Fox, Westboro Baptist Church, Bethesda, Eve Online, HBGary, HBGary […]

Cnet: Researchers from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) have calculated that if you charge your iPad every other day, you will use just 12 kWh of electricity over twelve months, costing an average of $1.36 per year. By comparison, laptops consume about 72.3 kWh of electricity each year; 42-inch plasma TVs average 258 kWh […]

Computerworld: Thanks to the ongoing economic crisis in the region, European enterprises won’t be spending a lot on IT this year, said Forrester Research. The firm predicts just 0.3 percent growth in overall IT spending in Europe, with declines in key categories like computer equipment and software spending. Spending on outsourcing and consulting will likely […]

Wall Street Journal: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has filed a civil suit against Google, claiming that the company has withheld documents that provide important evidence related to the state’s antitrust investigation of the search giant. Google said the documents were covered by attorney-client privilege, but Abbott charged “Google has not met its burden of […]

CNNMoney: On Thursday, Twitter experienced its most significant outage since last October 7. The outage began at 11:59 a.m. ET. By 1:00 p.m., service was beginning to come back online, but then Twitter went dark again. Twitter didn’t completely resolve the issue until around 3:00 p.m. Hackers from UGNazi claimed to be behind the outage, […]

ZDNet: Security vendor Symantec is reporting that the Trojan.Milicenso malware has spread to thousands of enterprise offices in U.S., India, Europe and South America. One of the effects of the Trojan is that it causes printers to spew out pages and pages of indecipherable text until the printer runs out of paper or is shut […]

All Things D: The market analysts at Gartner believe businesses will spend more than $120 billion on enterprise software this year. That’s slightly lower than previous predictions due to the turmoil in Europe, but it’s still a 4 percent increase over last year. The top categories for enterprise software spending include ERP ($25 billion), office […]

Bloomberg: Motorola has offered to settle the ongoing patent disputes between itself and Microsoft. Motorola would pay Microsoft 33 cents for every phone that uses ActiveSync. In return, it wants 50 cents for every Windows system that uses the Motorola-patented industry standard for video compression and 2.25 percent of the cost of the Xbox gaming […]

The Seattle Times: At its Windows Phone Summit Wednesday, Microsoft revealed more details about Windows Phone 8. The new mobile OS will share a core kernel with the Windows 8 desktop OS. As a result, “developers working on Windows 8 will have incredibly easy transition to Windows Phone 8,” said Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore. New features […]