Three researchers from Boston University have put a dollar figure on patent trolling in the US. The figure is a massive $500 billion, starting from 1990, with most of it generated within the last four years.
Broken mobile phone screens and bulky tablets could be over as soon as 2012, with Samsung engineers creating a bendy phone that can withstand some of the harshest blows.
Microsoft is being attacked for incorporating a new security feature in their upcoming Windows 8 OS that may prevent the installation of open source operating systems on Windows branded PCs.