Apple faces $600m damages claim

Apple has asked a court to reconsider an impending decision that could cost it more than $600 million in damages, says BBC.

On 1 October, a US jury found in favour of Mirror Worlds in a patent wrangle over technology to display documents on computer screens.

Mirror Worlds had alleged that Apple had infringed four of its patents.

The elections in Brazil, which are automated, will be fully carried out through biometric identification by 2018, the president of the Superior Electoral Court, Ricardo Lewandowski, says, according to People Daily.

A pilot programme of the biometric identification technology was carried out in this year's presidential election, with the participation of over 1.2 million voters in 60 municipalities of 23 states.

By 2018, Brazil will have 155 million eligible voters from the 135 million at present.

Google has challenged Oracle's claim that it infringed several patents regarding its use of a virtual-machine technology in the Android operating system, states PC Magazine.

In a court filing, Google presented several defences as to why Oracle's claims should be overturned, including that the patents were invalid and unenforceable, and that Google had not infringed upon them.

Google asked the judge overseeing the case in a Northern California court to declare that it had not infringed the seven patents that Oracle had asserted.