Handset management software firm Mformation Technologies said on Friday it has sued BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, claiming patent infringement.
New Jersey-based Mformation claims RIM has infringed two of its patents by making and selling the BlackBerry and the BlackBerry’s management software. It did not specify what remedies it is seeking.
“After refusing to license Mformation’s disclosed [...]
A bomb planted near a Baghdad mosque killed three Shiite worshippers as they were leaving Friday prayers, Iraqi officials said, as Sunni and Shiite preachers condemned a draft security pact with the United States.
Police and health officials said seven people were wounded in the blast, which occurred in the primarily Shiite neighborhood of Shaab of [...]
An Anchorage judge has ordered Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to preserve e-mails from private accounts she has used to conduct state business.
Superior Court Judge Craig Stowers on Friday also ordered Alaska’s attorney general to recover messages from a Yahoo.com account of Palin’s that was breached by hackers last month.
That break-in prompted Sen. John McCain’s presidential [...]
Ecuadoreans voted Sunday on a new constitution that would significantly broaden leftist President Rafael Correa’s powers and let him run for two more consecutive terms.
Correa says approval of the Andean nation’s 20th constitution will spur “rapid, profound change,” benefiting the hardworking, humble majority and helping him eradicate a political class that made Ecuador one of [...]
Jerusalem, Sept 09: An Israeli Cabinet minister and onetime spy, who helped kidnap Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann and bring him to trial, thinks the same tactic could be used on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Ahmadinejad is feared and reviled in Israel because of his repeated calls to wipe the Jewish state off the map. His aggressive [...]
Turning the screws on the Chinese to ensure compliance with the Nuclear Suppliers Group waiver on the civil nuclear deal, the External Affairs Ministry had summoned China’s ambassador to India Zhang Yan to South Block late on Friday night. Zhang was told in no uncertain terms that India had concerns about the Chinese position at [...]
A former foreign minister and ruling party stalwart emerged quickly Tuesday as the front-runner to replace Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, whose sudden resignation has thrown Japan’s political scene into confusion and opened the door to early nationwide elections.
Fukuda, in office less than one year, said Monday he was stepping down because he was unable to [...]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected Israel’s idea of an interim peace agreement at a Sunday summit, a Palestinian negotiator said, insisting on an all-or-nothing approach that virtually ruled out an accord by a January target date.
The latest meeting between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was their shortest, lasting less than an hour. Neither [...]
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic refused to enter pleas Friday to charges including genocide and crimes against humanity.
Karadzic faces a total of 11 charges at the U.N.’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. Judge Iain Bonomy, who presided over the hearing, entered not guilty pleas on Karadzic’s behalf.
He is charged with genocide for allegedly masterminding atrocities, [...]
A teenage Iraqi girl wearing a vest packed with explosives turned herself in rather than go through with a suicide bombing in a violence-torn city north of Baghdad, police and the U.S. military said on Monday.A U.S. military statement said the girl surrendered to police on Sunday in Baquba, capital of Iraq’s restive Diyala province, [...]