BlackBerry maker wins UK patent battle [Reuters]
RIM smacks down InPro Licensing Sarl, a Luxembourgeois patent troll, in London's Court of Appeal. So sayeth the Lord Justice Jacob, "they owed nothing to the patent." InPro already lost the U.S. mirror image of the case, last year.
Despite lawsuits, digital music downloads grow [Reuters]
Retuers buys hook, like and sinker the notion that the music industry has been destroyed by piracy. "The problem is so-called peer-to-peer networks," the story states in the narrative voice, as an immediate prelude to the RIAA president's quote in the next graf: "Peer-to-peer remains an unacceptable problem." Monkey hear, monkey write.
Japanese phone subscriptions top 100M [AP]
Seventy-eight percent of Japan's 130m people now have a cellphone subscription, though the count doesn't take into account those who might have two.
Whither the web? Geneva conference plots way ahead [AFP]
Swiss "Lift" conference features everything from debate on internet censorship to the withering tedium of speeches by European bankers.
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