In a sweeping lawsuit, a Colorado shell company is suing the entire mobile phone industry over a patent for inventions where “Oral input is used to control a digital computer.” The lawsuit singles out Apple’s iPhone 4S and its Siri voice assistant as well as a range of phone makers like Samsung and Sony that use Google Voice technology.

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Firm claims Apple’s Siri, Google Voice devices violate 1998 patent

Snapguide, the three-week-old iPhone and web app that lets users create “how-to” guides with pictures and videos, is the first mobile app to integrate with Pinterest for “seamless sharing.” To get Pinterest integration, Snapguide users have to have the latest version of the Pinterest iOS app installed. Pinterest has  not yet  released its API to the public, and Snapguide worked with Pinterest to make the integration happen

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Snapguide is the first mobile app with Pinterest integration

As China’s two online video leaders merge to improve their position in the fast-growing field, three of their rivals are also teaming up to fight back. The Tencent and Sohu portals and Baidu’s iQiyi video service are collaborating to jointly license professional content.

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China video wars: rivals unite to gobble growth

Calls for big-six publishers to drop DRM have increased in recent weeks, coinciding with the DOJ price-fixing lawsuit. Many observers fear that the lawsuit will actually reduce competition in the e-book marketplace by cementing Amazon’s role as the dominant player — and they wonder whether DRM is simply another  weapon in Amazon’s arsenal , keeping customers locked to the Kindle Store. Here at paidContent, independent e-bookstore Emily Books ‘ Emily Gould and Ruth Curry have  argued  that DRM is crushing indie booksellers online. And Hachette VP, digital Maja Thomas recently  described  DRM as “a speedbump” that “doesn’t stop anyone from pirating.” Still, it may be a long way from this discussion to the first big-six publisher’s actual removal of DRM from its e-books

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“Why I break DRM on e-books”: A publishing exec speaks out

Facebook gave investors something to ponder ahead of its mid-May IPO, when it filed an amended S-1 to report lower quarterly revenue and net income for the first three months of 2012.

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Last-minute nerves? Wall Street digests dip in Facebook numbers

Maingear’s Shift is a force to be feared , but it generally requires an entire wing of one’s home to be assembled and configured. Hyperbole aside, there’s no question that Maingear’s aiming to branch out somewhat after the aforesaid rig’s successful run, today teasing an “all new line of desktops.” We’re told to expect smaller designs with “clean” aesthetics, Vertical Exhaust cooling technology and third-generation Intel Core processors (with factory overclocked options, naturally)

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Maingear teases incoming desktop line, promises smaller towers and Ivy Bridge CPUs

On February 8, 2012, we acquired paidContent, a media industry publication. As I explained at the time , our decision to buy the site — and its stellar editorial team — continued GigaOM’s strategy: If we see a hot market, we double down on it. We knew the iPhone will lead to an Apple boom, so in 2008 we acquired TheAppleBlog .

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Netflix continued the expansion of its streaming business in the first quarter, adding nearly 3 million subscribers to a global base that now includes over 26 million customers. The company said 1.74 million subscribers were added in the U.S.

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Netflix adds 3M subs and beats forecasts, but stock drops

With more and more developers jumping on the mobile apps bandwagon, standing out in the sea of apps is becoming more difficult. There are 25 billion apps in Apple’s App Store, 450,000 in Google Play and 82,000 in Microsoft Windows Phone Marketplace

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PRO: How to stand out in the app development game

China’s YouTube has found a place for itself in the country’s broadcasting industry as the host of submissions made by hundreds of contestants in a nationwide talent contest. Youku has partnered with satellite TV firms and record labels on Legendary Me , a televised music competition. It says videos it is hosting of would-be superstars auditioning to camera have been viewed more than 15 million times since March.

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China’s Got Talent – Youku powers the people’s pop hopes