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Apple's HTC lawsuit: Is it biting off more than it can sue? (ZDnet)

Apple’s high-profile patent lawsuit vs. HTC could set off a wide range of unintended consequences including a big two-front legal battle with well-heeled foes like Google and Microsoft.

Wall Street Journal, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, New Yorker, Glamour, Penguin Apps Coming to iPad (iPhone Blog)

Search your Android phone with written gestures (Google Mobile Blog)

Say you want to call your friend Anne. Just open Gesture Search and draw letter “A”, and Gesture Search returns a list of items that have words starting with “A”…Now you can either scroll down the list to find Anne or write more letters to refine the search.

How Many Enterprise Workers Will Work in the Mobile Cloud? Try 130 Million (ReadWriteWeb)

Juniper Research has come out with more analysis that shows just how big the mobile enterprise market will be for cloud computing…According to Juniper, the advent of collaboration tools will mean that 130 million enterprise workers will use the mobile cloud by 2014.