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Spring Design: Here’s How Barnes & Noble Turned Our Reader Into the Nook

Peter Kafka in Media on November 3, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

Puzzled by the weird story of the “Alex,” the would-be e-reader that looks something like the “Nook,” the e-reader Barnes & Noble introduced last month? Then this won’t clear anything up: Spring Design’s court case against the bookseller, which it says broke an “implicit promise” and stole its idea for a two-screen device.

Your Karma Ran Over My Tesla

John Paczkowski in News on November 4, 2008 at 8:16 am PT

Tesla Motors has lost its Sturm und Drang race with Fisker Coachbuild. On Monday, an arbitrator ruled that Fisker did nothing untoward by introducing an electric-powered luxury sports car after doing some design work for Tesla.