German court grants injunction against Apple for infringement of Motorola patents (update: Apple responds)



Motorola just confirmed that earlier today, the Mannheim District Court in Germany granted an injunction against Apple for patent infringement. In addition to the confirmation, Motorola also issued the following, rather unrevealing statement:

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iSpy software can read texts and steal passwords with its little eye (video)



We spy, with our bleary eye, a new piece of software that could make it dramatically easier to steal personal data. The program, known as iSpy, allows devious voyeurs to remotely identify and read text typed on touchscreen displays. That, in and o…

Sony Ericsson uses six Xperia Neos to capture a 360-degree bike ride (video)



The company currently known as Sony Ericsson’s marketing arm (that’d be Xperia Studio) invites artists and scientists to demonstrate the prowess of its mobile phone stable in creative ways. This time, landscape photographer Joergen Geerds was aske…

IBM’s Watson takes Harvard, MIT business students to school, drops the mic



There was a massacre in Boston the other night, and Watson had blood all over his hands. The IBM supercomputer and undisputed Jeopardy champ made a virtual appearance in Beantown this week, ostensibly as part of a symposium on the ways in which adva…

Creative Zen X-Fi3 gets covered in FCC fingerprints



Remember the Zen X-Fi3, that little, bitty portable media player that we spent a bit of hands-on time with, back in September? Well, the FCC has had its crack at the thing, and the agency wasn’t quite as kind, ripping pint-sized music player apart…