Mar 4, 2010, 10:07PM There are two aspects surrounding Apple’s patent litigation against HTC that demand further consideration. First, the severe problems with the U.S. patent system as a whole, particularly with regard to software patents. [#]

Mar 3, 2010, 4:32PM Greg Sandoval, reporting for CNet:The company’s representatives have recently spoken with some of the major film studios about enabling iTunes users to store their content on the company’s servers, two people familiar with the discussions told CNET. [#]

Mar 3, 2010, 8:00PM Last week, Valve Software generated some excitement among gaming fans who noticed Mac OS X menu components and other items in the most recent release of the company's Steam distribution platform for the PC. Combined with reports of Valve recruiting ... [#]

Mar 4, 2010, 12:47PM As mobile devices become the next wave of computing, large technology companies have begun suing one another over patents. [#]

Mar 4, 2010, 12:09PM Fortune:As BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer puts it, “The whole world held its breath before the iPad was announced. That’s brand management at its very best.”Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Johnson & Johnson, and Amazon round out the top five. [#]

Mar 4, 2010, 4:55PM The second report in a week claiming Apple has experienced iPad production delays surfaced Thursday, with the latest suggesting the company is currently able to produce between 200,000 and 250,000 devices per month. [#]

Mar 4, 2010, 3:20PM The buzz kickstarted by Apple with its long-awaited iPad is expected to produce a total of 10.5 million shipped tablet devices in 2010, representing a new and significant change for the PC market. [#]

Mar 3, 2010, 7:31PM Apple PR:Apple today filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. The lawsuit was filed concurrently with the U.S. [#]

Mar 2, 2010, 5:28PM The Register:Start-up airline Virgin America has decided HTML is “good enough” for animating online content on its brand-new website, which went live Monday, dumping Flash. […] Virgin picked HTML to give users of iPhones and other mobiles the... [#]

Mar 3, 2010, 7:20PM Valve is indeed planning to port some of its most popular games to the Mac, confirms the developer's marketing VP, Doug Lombardi. A teaser image (seen below) makes reference to Apple's famous "Get a Mac" ads, and the characters of Mac and PC played by... [#]

Mar 2, 2010, 8:54PM PaidContent.uk writes about a recent presentation made by Penguin Books' CEO John Makinson, who was demonstrating the company's ideas for how to offer content on the iPad. Penguin plans to offer books as applications, primarily, to take advantage of... [#]

Mar 4, 2010, 7:00AM Penguin Books demonstrated of a series of interactive ebook titles the company is preparing for Apple's iBook Store for iPad, in a presentation looking at how the company plans to accommodate a transition to digital ebooks. [#]

Mar 3, 2010, 7:31PM John Paczkowski has PDFs of Apple’s two filings. (Click the orange down-arrow button to download the PDFs rather than read them in the inline Flash dingus. [#]

Mar 4, 2010, 2:00PM Filed under: Accessories, Humor, iPhone, iPod touchThat headline is probably a bit of an overstatement, since this is probably the only iPhone stand made out of cutlery. ForkedUpArt of North Salt Lake, Utah, is actually selling two different stands. [#]

Mar 5, 2010, 12:35AM Filed under: Apple After a many-hours outage, the Apple developer site is back -- and the changes are profound, at least on the Mac end of things. On the iPhone side, users are required to update their profiles, take a rather obnoxious survey and agree... [#]

Mar 4, 2010, 7:27PM We've been holding off on posting this to see if it was just a blip, but now the iPhone developer site has been down over an hour so perhaps something interesting may come up -- like the ability to submit iPad apps? [#]

Mar 3, 2010, 12:00AM The lawsuit could lead to changes in the workings of Android smartphones, although it could be settled quickly. [#]

Mar 4, 2010, 6:55PM Current iPad production levels are indeed low, claims Think Equity's Vijay Rakesh. The analyst cites checks with Taiwanese manufacturers, which suggest "some minor delays" in ramping up production for the tablet. [#]

Mar 3, 2010, 7:59AM In response to reports that initial volumes of Apple's iPad in late March will be lower than originally planned and the launch will be only in the US market because production by Foxconn Electronics has been delayed, Foxconn's component suppliers have... [#]

Mar 3, 2010, 2:50PM A new report claims Apple has attempted to push music publishers away from participating in Amazon's MP3 Daily Deal promotion, which features timed exclusives for popular tracks. [#]