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Google is trying to navigate a "mess" in the technology industry's patent infringement lawsuit game by bolstering its own patent holdings. The company has purchased more than 1,000 patents from IBM.

Call it dictatorial or simply ironic, the residents of a Bedouin village in Israel's Negev desert are facing peculiar circumstances, where they are being forced to pay for the government expenses involved in demolishing their own homes!

Previous allegations that AT&T has charged users multiple times the actual data usage have come back in spotlight even as the carrier is bracing to face ire from users over its plan to throttle data speeds for high-usage customers.

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) appears to be shrugging off its image of a victim of vicious tech patent warfare and making up its mind on engaging the senseless situation from a pedestal of power.

Google, the Internet leader in search, confirmed on Friday that it has bought more than 1,000 technology patents from IBM.

Britney Spears' former body-guard Fernando Flores has accused the star of poor personal hygiene, drug abuse and ill-treating of her children, in a recent filing adding to the sexual harassment lawsuit filed against her last year.

People with low IQ are more likely to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) while the smartest ones prefer Camino and Opera Web browsers, a new survey suggests.

Britney Spears' former body-guard Fernando Flores has accused the star of poor personal hygiene, drug abuse and ill-treating of her children, in a recent filing adding to the sexual harassment lawsuit filed against her last year.

The couple?s split could now be the costliest in California history.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has acquired more than 1,000 technology patents from International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), after it lost the bidding war over more than 6,000 patent filings from Nortel Networks.

Hot Dogs are as dangerous as cigarettes, says a non-profit cancer Project president Neil Barnard.

Although the completion of the $4.5 billion sale of Nortel's 6,000 patents has been announced, the U.S. Department of Justice intends to continue scrutiny over the deal. It is reportedly intensifying an investigation into whether the deal would unjustly hobble competitors.

Good news for hackers, social networking giant Facebook has announced a bug bounty program, in which it will pay hackers for finding and reporting security flaws on its Web site.

Bank of America was sued by 15 former Countrywide Financial institutional investors who said they lost money after being misled about the mortgage lender's financial condition and lending practices.

Palomar Pictures and producer Sigurjon Sighvatsson have been slapped with a breach of contract suit by a film executive who claims he's owed credit and money for his work on the upcoming action film "Killer Elite."

Google acquired over 1,030 IBM patents in mid-July, as it readies itself for a potential onslaught of lawsuits.

European company sued two weeks after arriving in U.S.

Leaked photographs of an all-white Samsung Galaxy S2 Android phone has been doing rounds on the web sphere.

The heirs to the creators of these character wanted rights over these comic icons

Actor Joe Pesci has sued the makers of a movie about crime boss John Gotti and his son, accusing producers of reneging on a contract after he gained 30 pounds to play the notorious crime boss' right-hand man.

Actor Joe Pesci has sued the makers of a movie about crime boss John Gotti? and his son, accusing producers of reneging on a contract after he gained 30 pounds to play the notorious crime boss' right-hand man.