Salesforce.com sues MS

Salesforce.com is accusing Microsoft of infringing five of its patents, in a lawsuit countering the suit Microsoft filed in May against the cloud-based software company, reports eWeek.

Microsoft indicates that it plans to press forward with its own lawsuit, which accuses Salesforce.com of violating nine of its patents. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has referred to Microsoft as a patent troll.

Salesforce.com says in its report: "Microsoft's continuing acts of infringement have caused and are causing irreparable harm to Salesforce.com, for which Salesforce.com has no adequate remedy at law.”

Apple has released official advice for iPhone 4 owners to overcome the problem of the device losing signal when held by the lower left corner, states BBC News.

The iPhone 4 went on sale on 24 June, with hundreds of people queuing outside Apple's flagship store in central London for the launch. Many new owners reported that signal strength dropped when the phone was held.

The official advice from Apple is to "avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band". Apple CEO Steve Jobs says: “All phones have sensitive areas."

Pakistan claims it will monitor Yahoo, Google, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Amazon, and Bing, and will block links and content that it deems anti-Islamic, says The Register.

"If any particular link with offensive content appears on these Web sites, the [link] shall be blocked immediately without disturbing the main Web site," according to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority spokesman Khurram Mehran.

The monitoring and blockage comes in response to a court order, as did Pakistan's recent ban on Facebook due to its hosting of an "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" page - a page that was subsequently taken down, although Facebook officials claimed to have had no part in its removal.

Google has remotely removed two free apps from several hundred Android phones because the apps misrepresented their purpose and thus violated Android developer policies, says Cnet.

This marks the first time Google has used the remote application removal feature that allows the company to delete apps for security reasons that have been installed through Android Market.

The apps were proof-of-concept programs designed to test the feasibility of distributing a program that could later be used to take control of the device in an attack, according to Jon Oberheide, the developer who wrote and distributed them.