Patent cloud looms over Google Web video plan

In mid-May, Google launched an ambitious effort called WebM to make it as easy and cheap to put video on the Web as it is to put photos there today.

At the heart of WebM is Google's new royalty-free, open-source technology called VP8 that combines modern streaming-video f

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20006245-264.html

Transaction Apples Mobile Payment System Unveiled

The patent may have been filed in 2008, but this is the first time that we have had a chance to see it.

More than a year ago, Apple filed for a patent concerning mobile payments using your iPhone and has dubbed it "Transaction."

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http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/05/12/transaction-apples-mobile-payment-system-unveiled/

This is why Apple denied Google Latitude from the App Store

Another Apple patent today looks remarkably similar to the functionality of Google Latitude which Apple relegated to WebApp status earlier this year.

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http://www.9to5mac.com/apple-google-latitude-functionality-maps-2546345