Microsoft sues Salesforce.com alleging patent infringement
Microsoft is suing software-as-a-service business Salesforce.com claiming it has infringed nine patents. The case seeks to prevent Salesforce.com from providing efficiency features for its CRM software that Microsoft claims it has patented, according to US reports.The patents cover features such as alerts if the software needs to be updated, tool bars and navigation menus.
Computer Weekly

Google's Eric Schmidt: privacy is paramount
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has defended his company's record on privacy in the wake of the discovery that its Street View camera cars had accidentally recorded data from unsecured domestic Wi-Fi networks, insisting that Google has the "most consumer-centric privacy policy of any service online".
The Guardian

Mayor promises free Wi-Fi for London by 2012
Boris Johnson has promised free Wi-Fi across the whole of London in time for the 2012 Olympics. The capital’s mayor said that the Wi-Fi London project will put access points in “every lamp post and every bus stop”. Johnson said that 22 of London’s 32 boroughs have already signed up to the scheme.
Mac User 

Which smartphone will be the king of the ring?
From Betamax to HD-DVD, the battlefield of technology is strewn with the corpses of great ideas that fought bravely but ultimately succumbed to public taste. Only occasionally is an uneasy truce declared. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates fought it out in the late 1980s as Apple and Microsoft went head to head in desktop computing, but 20 years on peace has largely broken out between the two, except in the field of mobile computing
The Times Online 

Vodafone profits double to £8.7bn despite write-off in Indian market
Vodafone more than doubled its full-year profits after strength in its emerging markets business and a cost-cutting drive helped to offset declines in Europe and Africa. This came despite a £2.3bn write-off in India.
The Independent 

HP profits jump on renewed PC buying
HP has reported that quarterly sales were up 13 per cent last quarter at over $30bn after strong PC buying from businesses and consumers.
The company beat analyst’s expectations with the results, which saw growth in HP’s PC business of 21 per cent, with desktop revenues rising 27 per cent and notebooks by 17 per cent, although portable computers make up over half of the company’s sales.
V3

Average Brit spends one day a month online
The average Brit spends nearly one day each month online, according to a new study, with most of that time spent on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. The new survey shows that Brits spend 65 per cent more time online than they did three years ago.
Tech Radar

Half of all games to be produced in 3D by 2012
50 per cent of all console games will be produced in 3D by 2012, according to French publisher Ubisoft.
Around 15 to 20 per cent of current consoles' games will get 3D versions over the next year, a Ubisoft rep outlined this week.
Tech Radar

Yahoo! buys! city! of! bloggers!
Yahoo! has bought Associated Content - which brands itself "the People's Media Company" - a sort of Wikipedia with a business plan.The site collects content from its contributors - short articles or videos mostly - on a variety of subjects and then sells ad space alongside them. Payments to contributors are tiny - between $2 and $15 upfront followed by $1.50 per thousand page impressions your article receives.
The Register

Facebook Launches Mobile Site For Emerging Countries; It’s Fast And Free
Facebook has unveiled a new mobile web site that will allow people in more than 45 countries, who aren’t accustomed to paying for data plans on the phone, to access its site quickly and for free. According to a company blog post, the deal has been inked with more than 50 mobile operators around the world, ranging from carriers in Barbados to Indonesia to Madagascar. Facebook says more countries are on the way.
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