The Patent World War

Even though Google lawyer David Drummond laid into Apple, Microsoft and Oracle in his public critique of their anti-Android patent lawsuits, it was Microsoft that really ended up tussling with the search giant on open ground. But that doesn't mean Apple and Oracle are easing up their own patent battles; so far, they're just saving their arguments for the courtroom.

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Qualcomm Explores A New Market: Finding Your Lost Dog

Qualcomm. You've probably heard of them. Hell, chances are pretty solid that you've got a bit of Qualcomm in your pocket right now ? if you've got any recent, popular Android phone in there, at least. More-likely-than-not, it's running on Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset. Qualcomm has been up to all sorts of fun stuff lately: they've got an SDK that makes it feasible for just about any developer to build otherwise insurmountable augmented reality projects, they're doing all sorts of work around location-based peer-to-peer technology, and now they're... uh.. building rechargeable GPS collars that help you track down your lost dog.

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Google: Buying Friends And Influencing Handsets

Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility is, in the end, a mercenary effort to cement Android's position in the handset ecosystem and to prop up a stalwart proponent of the platform. That's fine. Google is a big company and it can now pick and choose - and buy - its own friends without input from the peanut gallery. But what does a Googorola merger mean? First, we must understand that this is not a merger of equals. Motorola split itself in January after years of lagging phone sales. Motorola's revenue dropped from a high of $10.6 billion to $4.89 billion in Q3 of 2010. They lost half of their portion of the handset market between 2008 and 2009, thus forcing the split from what is now called Motorola Solutions, a company that does everything except make handsets.

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Apple patent application proves that Steve Jobs hates fingerprints as much as you do, probably more

Steve Jobs doesn't like fingerprints any more than you do, and given the man's focus on aesthetic perfection, we suspect that smudged displays are the sort of thing that keeps him awake at night. Apple has certainly flirted with oleophobic anti-grease displays in the past, but a newly surfaced patent application takes the whole thing to a new level. "Direct Liquid Vaporization for Oleophobic Coatings" outlines an intense process for the application of a grease resistant coating, whereby the substance is "placed in a liquid supply system coupled to a vacuum chamber," pressurized, vaporized, and then deposited. Take that, finger grease.

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Audi A0 monocycle concept takes you for a jaunt around the park (video)

Segways can be tiring, what with all that required standing, but now even the laziest among us can enjoy the self-propelled fun with a sitdown solution. The Audi A0 concept, developed as a joint collaboration between Technische Universität München and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, combines an electric motor with a single, hollow wheel for a self-stabilizing, tilt-controlled stroll. Cruising along at a maximum speed of up to 15 km/h (that's 9 mph to you Yanks), this leisure-minded monocycle isn't meant for rush hour commuting, but can be folded up to fit in your car's trunk for a casual ride around the great outdoors. Don't expect to get too far on that sightseeing trek though, as the cycle's battery only lasts for up to an hour. Curious to see this one-wheeler in motion? Then skip past the break for a full video demo.

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