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  • Facebook pulls out a shiney patent on GPS

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    The guys over at Facebook have been granted a patent which could threaten a large number of companies from Social Networking to Satellite Navigation technology. The patent application, filed in 2007 titled “Systems and methods for automatically locating web-based social network members” comes equipped with an almost PhD thesis level of vagueness. The patent describes…

  • Oracle and Apple gang up on Google

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    Many of us may remember there was a lawsuit filed against Microsoft by Sun over Microsoft’s inclusion and distribution of the Java Run time in its operating systems. In essence, Microsoft was voluntarily offering a Sun product to its customers at no cost to Sun or the end user. The problem with this was that…