TG Daily: Intel urged the United States Supreme Court to hear Research in Motion’s (RIM) appeal. RIM has been locked in a multi-year legal battle with NTP, a Virginia-based intellectual property holding firm. RIM is appealing because they think some of the patent liability may not pertain to international activities. ...

TG Daily: Intel is on track to introduce its next-generation mobile processor "Merom", which will also serve for as foundation for a range of desktop and server processors, in September of this year, TG Daily has learned. Merom will launch at 2.33 GHz and bring 64-bit capability to a refreshed mobile processor ...

TG Daily: According to Variety.com, CBS will be offering slimmed down soap operas for mobile phones. Every week there will be five to seven episodes, each lasting three to five minutes.

TechSpot: Big players like IBM, HP, Cisco and Intel are teaming up with Universities and various institutions in an effort to further promote research and development for open source software of all sorts. The goals are pretty clear, and it’s in the best interest of these companies to do such as they all make ...

TechSpot: Ever drop a cell phone or a PDA? If you have, you know that it’s often one of the most terrifying digital disasters you can suffer. Often you may get lucky, but drop that brand new $200 phone onto concrete when you haven’t bought a replacement plan and... ouch. Companies are aware of this, and more ...

TechSpot: A major reworking of the GPL is due next week. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) will release and describe the first public draft of version three of the document, in a move that is expected to kick off a long discussion over the key foundation of open source programming. FSF founder and Open Source ...

TechSpot: BT has launched its network access business, Openreach. According to the company, Openreach will play a key role in enabling BT customers to get access to the most innovative and competitive communications market in the world.

TechSpot: Novell’s Linux security offering, AppArmor is to have its source code released. The application, which secures Web servers and e-mail and instant-messaging systems against network-based attacks, was acquired by Novell last May when the company took over Immunix. It now ships with SuSE Linux.

TG Daily: Nikon has announced that they are exiting most of the analog film camera market. In a Nikon UK press release, the company said it is stopping production of most film camera bodies and their associated lenses.

TG Daily: One day after the announcement of the first Intel-based Apple computers, Intel follows up on its new relationship with Apple: The company and released software that is designed to help Apple developers to create multi-threaded applications for the Core Duo processor.