Techdirt (Thursday)
Nearly two years ago, we wrote about a company, called Leader Technologies with an incredibly broad patent (7,139,761) that covered associating a piece of data with multiple categories, that was suing Facebook for infringement. Our usual group of patent system defenders rushed to the comments to qu...

Techmeme (Thursday)

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Confirms: We're Not Currently Blocked In China  —  We've just received word from Google that they are not currently blocked in China and that a server issue was most likely the cause of their dashboard misread.  From Google: … ...

Techdirt (Thursday)
A bunch of folks have sent over the story from TechCrunch, based on a tweet from Chris Dixon that patent hoarding giant Intellectual Ventures isn't doing so hot for those who invested in it. Now, it's no secret that I'm no fan of Intellectual Ventures. I believe the company represents a huge tax o...

TechCrunch (Thursday)
According to the Mainland China service availability page it looks like Google Web Search, Google Images and Google News are down in China, again. In fact if you parse the chart it looks like just about the only thing still up is Gmail. However reports on Twitter say other wise, as many users claim...

Silicon Alley Insider (Thursday)

In April, location-services provider Skyhook Wireless lost one of its biggest, most important partners: Apple, which ditched Skyhook and Google for its own location-based services on its latest mobile devices and operating systems.

(The companies still work together on old Apple mob...

Silicon Alley Insider (Thursday)

In April, location-services provider Skyhook Wireless lost one of its biggest, most important partners: Apple, which ditched Skyhook and Google for its own location-based services on its latest mobile devices and operating systems.

(The companies still work together on old Apple mob...