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Lodsys has returned fire on Apple in the courtroom, saying the company's move to defend app developers is full of holes. View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

Twenty-nine American Universities are working together to create ultra-high-speed broadband networks in their surrounding communities to spur innovation. View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

The Internet held so much promise as a new, less expensive distribution platform for the most sought-after films and TV shows. Those dreams are dying. View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

Datamation: "As the Android market grows it gets harder and harder to separate the golden apps from the dross. Here's a list of 50 Android apps that you don't want to pass by." View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

HowtoForge: "AWStats is a free and very powerful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. It can analyze log files from all major server tools and convert them into nice graphical display." View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

Using NASA's Nikon D3S, astronauts post images of newly retired shuttle Atlantis, Earth, and mission spacewalks via Twitter. View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

Web Upd8: "Mikogo can be used for web conferencing, online meetings, presentations or remote support and comes with built-in file transfer and chat features." View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

The H Open: "OCP mandates open formats and interfaces, interoperability and freedom of movement for users between systems. It expects vendors to cooperate with freely available, patent free or royalty free, standards and collaborate in open processes." View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

The American Heart Association has found that even a brief 60-second CPR video increases one's willingness to attempt giving CPR and improves outcome, so is encouraging users to try it out online. View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

Interbrand ranks global brands of companies that have green practices, products, and services. View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

Symform announces a new service that offers 100GB of online storage for what it calls "free." View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

A Huawei executive says the company was in "good faith negotiations" with InterDigital when the complaint over patents was filed. View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

On this day in 1981, Microsoft bought what was to become MS-DOS from Seattle Computer Products. What are your favorite MS-DOS memories? View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

Linux and Open Source: "Oracle unofficially debuted JDK 7 and a preview of MySQL 5.6 at OSCON 2011 this week and acknowledged it's trying to be a better open source citizen." View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

On the heels of its announcement that it had released to manufacturing the Windows Phone operating system 7.5 — better known as “Mango” — Microsoft execs said they’re now updating Mango developers with a near-final build. View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

Geek.com: "Kickstarter project isostick aims to take all of the hard work out of that process by giving you the option of a preconfigured USB stick that acts like an optical drive and recovery system." View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

Linux User & Developer: "I had to go to a large store that I don't like, and try to buy a unit in the quickest possible time. My mission was to avoid eye contact with the sales assistant until the last possible minute, and to give monosyllabic answers to any questions I didn't like the sound of." View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

The Selectric is still considered one of the most dramatic improvements in the typewriter space, thanks to its "golf ball" head. View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

In its latest message, the hactivist group expresses its usual outrage at the FBI but is also urging people to drop PayPal over the site's continued restrictions against WikiLeaks. View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

Vonage today introduced Extensions, a service that allows customers to make cheap international calls from their cell phones. View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

Targeting drivers of electric vehicles, the company will install ClipperCreek Level II chargers with solar option starting at $1,500. View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

Webopedia: "A type of botnet that targets mobile devices such as smartphones, attempting to gain complete access to the device and its contents as well as providing control to the botnet creator." View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

The update is available to folks who connect the device to their computers and run Sony Ericsson's PC Companion software. View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

The Microsoft social-media project formerly codenamed Tulalip is just one of many social-media experiments and incubations at Microsoft. Another is Microsoft Nuggets, a presentation about which I found recently thanks to a tip from Francisco Martin Garcia (@fmartin_garcia). (click on image above to enlarge) Nuggets — which is using a tag line of “Civilizing Tribal Knowledge” — is [...] View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!

piestar: Is the system setting debate a waste of time? View the full article here. Discuss it here or chat about it in #koachsworkshop here!