One Small Keyboard for Logitech, One Giant Leap for iPad Productivity

Logitech’s $100 Ultrathin keyboard for iPad might just be worth the high price.
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JuiceTank Aims to Juice Up Your Phone, Without a Cord

Begone, iPhone battery drainage! (Assuming you have access to a wall outlet …)
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Typing With the Original iPad

Walt answers a reader’s question about keyboard cases for the first iPad.

How to Outfit the iPad 2 to Make Typing Easier

Walt tests four combination keyboard cases and a full-size keyboard accessory designed to make the iPad 2 more typing-friendly.
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You Will Know Jack–Square CEO Dorsey Added to D9 Speaker Lineup

We’ve added Jack Dorsey, one of Silicon Valley’s hottest entrepreneurs, to the D: All Things Digital conference stage. He’s now busy disrupting the online payments space with his Square start-up, and before that invented a little service called Twitter. Heard of it?
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You've Got Labor Problems, Again! AOL's HuffPo Gripe Seems Very Familiar.

The good news for angry HuffPo bloggers who want to get paid for their unpaid work: AOL volunteers made the same argument during Bubble 1.0 and ended up winning! The bad news: It took a lawsuit, and more than a decade, to extract the cash. (And the HuffPo writers may not have a case, anyway.)

HP Plans Another Probe Into Hurd Departure

A new set of independent lawyers may be tapped to revisit the circumstances of how Mark Hurd came to resign as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, court filings show.

Government May Sue Google to Block ITA Deal

After six months of waiting for approval, Google invoked a law that requires the government to decide on its proposed acquisition of ITA within 30 days. Department of Justice lawyers are readying legal papers just in case.

Intel Will Pay Nvidia $1.5 Billion to "Maintain Patent Peace"

A cross-licensing agreement brings to an end what could have been an ugly and expensive trial.

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Court Undoes Microsoft Win in Patent Case

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled today to reinstate a jury decision from an April case that found Microsoft’s anti-piracy software installation system infringed a patent held by Uniloc Singapore Private Ltd. The judge in the original case had thrown out the jury’s finding. The court also ruled, though, that a new trial is required to determine how much Microsoft should pay, stating that the jury’s $388 million award to Uniloc was “fundamentally tainted.”

Viacom Asks for a Do-Over on YouTube

Ellison Taunts HP CEO a Second Time

Tablet Schmablet: How About a Mud PC?