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[OPINION] Apple suing HTC is bad for consumers, Android or otherwise

I am sure that most if not all of our readers have heard about the recent Apple, Inc. lawsuit against mobile handset maker and Android pundit HTC. The 20 different patents that Apple is protecting can be torn apart, criticized, mocked, whatever but the real issue at hand is Apple is trying to destroy any [...]

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Popular Android Market apps being removed because of legal issues

Thousands of Android fans have enjoyed ported versions of the HTC Sense widgets, Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein games on Android phones. There’s only one problem with that: those apps were ported by people who do not have a legal right to alter or distribute these products. LevelUp Studio announced via its Twitter account that HTC had [...]

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Verizon trashes AT&T’s network in lawsuit response

Ouch! That’s all I could say when I started reading Verizon’s response to the AT&T lawsuit that seeks to block Verizon’s “There’s a Map for That” advertisements. AT&T alleges that the ads are misleading, but in its court filings in response to the lawsuit, Verizon had this to say: “AT&T (T) did not file this lawsuit [...]

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