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    The issues surrounding peer-to-peer file swapping and other potential copyright infringements are garnering increasing interest. Are you keeping an eye the implications?

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    In one of the most anticipated announcements in recent years, Apple introduced the "iPhone," a mobile device that CEO Steve Jobs promised will reinvent the phone.

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    Palm has agreed to license keyboard technology from the maker of the popular BlackBerry wireless devices.

  • Apple's patent bending

    Apple learnt its lesson when it tried - and failed - to sue Microsoft for copyright infringement of its interface. It has since turned its attention to patents but should not be allowed to succeed here either.

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    America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software.

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