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The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) ruled on July 15, that HTC had infringed on two of the four patents involved in its lawsuit with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL).

In a cutthroat competition, the success of one player could turn out to be a failure for another. And right now, Microsoft may be thanking Google's Android.

The patent battle Apple has engaged with Android OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturer) can have extremely grave consequences including ban on the disputed Android products, which could mean anything between a complete wipe-out to decreased US market share, to the Google's mega-hit mobile OS.

The online video ranking is rising month after month in the U.S., with YouTube surging ahead as the top online video content provider in June, according to ComScore.

Hotmail has introduced new measures that prevent users from choosing weak or flimsy passwords while signing up for an account or changing the password on an existing one.

ITC says HTC infringed on two Apple patents in the latest ruling. HTC plans on appealing.

Microsoft is trying to arrive at the social networking arena.

On Friday, technology blogs picked up on a possible Microsoft social media application called Tulalip. The app said on its front page With Tulalip you can find what you need and share what you know easier than ever, before Microsoft developers quickly took it down.

Office 365 is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, says Microsoft COO.

Microsoft might be working on a social project called Tulalip, according to details from a splash page that was accidentally published to Socl.com recently. Currently a message which reads, Thanks for stopping by. Socl.com is an internal design project from a team in Microsoft Research which was mistakenly published to the web. We didn't mean to, honest, is on the display as the unintentionally published page has been taken down.

The tablet war is on, as Amazon plans to release a tablet in October. Apple's iPad is the tablet leader by far, but Google's forthcoming Android operating system and Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 operating system will threaten to take marketshare, according to a new report.

A report says Google's forthcoming Android and Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 operating systems will take marketshare away from Apple and its iPad in the tablet space. But Apple is gaining marketshare with smartphones and personal computers, which could help the company fend off Google's Android and Microsoft 8.

Netflix has hit the Nintendo 3DS eShop with a free app that will eventually allow users to watch 3D movies without specialized glasses. The announcement comes amid a period of bad press for the movie service as it increased its prices by separating the previously combined cost of movie streaming and DVD rental.

Windows XP is one of the most popular operating systems on the planet.

The Windows Phone 7 powered smartphones without a contract, usually, cost around $300-400 and a few cost around $200.

Microsoft abandoned the retail store strategy in 2001, but after Apple's success with retail stores, Microsoft plans to aggressively expand, adding 75 retail stores in the U.S. in two to three years.

British intelligence eavesdroppers are suffering a steady loss of Internet experts to the private sector because the likes of Google and Microsoft offer much higher wages, a group of lawmakers said on Wednesday.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) said it has planned a new tablet HP TouchPad 4G that will be available exclusively in the United States on AT&T. The current version of TouchPad is a Wi-Fi one and sold at $499.99 for a 16GB version and $599.99 for a 32GB version.

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) said Tuesday it agreed to buy PopCap Games for as much as $1.3 billion in cash and stock to boost its digital gaming business.

Google will roll out a flexible tool to add more contacts on Google+ over the next few days. For users with contacts scattered across diverse email services and social networks, Google+'s new address book uploader would be the one click button to synchronize and manage all. The already existing one-click contact importer on Google+ imports contacts from Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail and also takes care of keeping the sync up to date.

Though Android and the parent company Google cannot be termed little guys, they are being bullied by the big guys, for being successful. Android team, Google and Android OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) are wading through rough waters with as many as 48 Android related lawsuits under the scrutiny of US laws.