A company linked to Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen is suing 11 major corporations, including Apple, Google and Facebook, accusing them of infringing on technology patents.

Love him or hate him, Bill Gates was, and still is, the face of Microsoft. What Microsoft doesn’t want you to know though is that Gates has almost nothing to do with the company anymore.

German singer Lena has won the Eurovision Song Contest, the continent’s biggest musical competition, which allowed musicians from 25 countries to shrug off the economic gloom shrouding Europe, at least for a day.





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Google Inc, its YouTube video service, and Yahoo Inc on Thursday filed counterclaims against Xerox Corp in a lawsuit accusing them of infringing the document management company’s patents on Internet searches.

In filings in Delaware federal court on Thursday, the defendants sought declarations that they did not infringe the two patents at issue, or variantly that the patents are invalid and thus cannot be enforced by Xerox.

Just a day after the phone’s specs leaked entirely, Verizon officially announced the HTC Droid Incredible as “the next chapter in the Droid saga.” Are other companies even making Android phones anymore? It seems like HTC has it totally locked up.

Microblogging sensation Twitter. which has now signed up more than 100 million users, outlined on Wednesday several revenue-generating initiatives, declaring that making money was now a primary goal.

The popular Internet service hopes to snag hundreds of millions more users in coming years by making the service easier, integrating Twitter directly into Web sites and focusing more on customizing the service for mobile devices.

At the company’s first conference for Twitter developers on Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer Evan Williams said generating revenue was among the key priorities going forward — a change of tone for a firm that had previously said it focused mainly on improving the user experience.

Intel is talking to several companies to use their Web software programming tools with the AppUp store, including Adobe Air and Microsoft Silverlight, but it’s having a hard time finding anyone to talk to about Java.

“It’s been a little bit of a problem since Oracle acquired Sun,” said Don Harbert, general manager of Intel’s software and services division, answering questions at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing on Tuesday. “Sun didn’t want to make any new deals once they were acquired by Oracle,” he said, “and now we don’t know who to talk to at Oracle.” Oracle closed its purchase of Sun Microsystems, which developed the popular Java programming language, in late January.

Intel has been courting software developers and programming tool makers for its AppUp Center, an application clearinghouse like Apple’s App Store or Google’s Android Market, but designed for netbooks, tablet PCs, MIDs (mobile Internet devices) and smartphones that use Intel Atom microprocessors. Applications for the AppUp center are designed for either Windows or MeeGo, a Linux-based OS that combines Intel’s Moblin OS and Nokia’s Maemo OS.

The chip maker hopes developers will create free and paid software programs for the AppUp Center.

Microsoft Corp launched two new phones aimed at young people on Monday, marking a fresh assault on the low end of the growing smartphone market, where BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd and Apple Inc now dominate.

The software company’s first foray into designing its own phones comes six months before it rolls out its new Windows software for phones made by handset makers HTC Corp, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and others, which should be a more direct challenge to Apple’s iPhone and Google Inc’s Android phones.

“Kin is an interesting attempt to target the 15 to 25 market,” said Ross Rubin, consumer electronics and wireless industry analyst at market research firm NPD Group.

Success will depend heavily on the pricing of data plans, said Rubin, which is not expected for a few more weeks. Microsoft did not say how much the phones would sell for.

Apple’s plunge into the advertising market announced this past week gave Google a big boost in arguing for regulators to approve its acquisition of mobile advertising leader AdMob, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said on Sunday.

U.S. antitrust enforcers are apparently concerned the AdMob purchase could hurt applications developers, who often sell their apps for very little and make their money by selling advertising space on them.

But Schmidt, speaking after a speech at the American Society of News Editors, said Apple’s plan to make a foray into the advertising market with iAd, was “evidence of a highly competitive market.”