Apple sues HTC for infringing 20 iPhone patents

Looks like Apple's going on the warpath, kids. Just a few months after Cupertino got into it with Nokia over phone patents, Apple's filed suit against HTC, alleging that the compa  ny is infringing 20 patents "related to the iPhone's user interface, underlying architecture, and hardware." Steve, you have something to say?

"We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We've decided to do something about it," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours."

Okay then. We're pulling the complaint filing now, we'll let you know the exact details as soon as we learn them.

I have the HTC Touch Pro2, iPhone on the way.  Yes, two phones, for development purposes :) 

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I was first introduced to this cat by Karl Lynn.

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• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Creating Observables (Matthew Podwysocki)
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• Agile Security Engineering and Three D’s for Motivation – Direction, Decision, and Dedication (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight for Developers (Part II) (Arian Kulp)
• Getting started with XAML (Umair Saeed)
• The State of Data Access in Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight YouTube Jukebox (Daniel Vaughan)
• This is what happens when two Toolkits fall in love… [The February 2010 release of the WPF Toolkit is now available!] (David Anson)
• WPF Shell Integration Library for .NET 3.5 (jwalk)
• 5 Simple Steps to Commanding in Silverlight (John Papa)

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• The Thirsty Developer 86: Talking SharePoint with Kirk Evans (Dave Bost)
• This Week in Silverlight – February 21 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 9 – UDP Multicasting (Mike Taulty)
• Ping 49: Live Labs Pivot, Win7 testers, Facebook wins, Search Assault (Laura Foy)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Android (Jeff Brand)
• ConnectedShow Podcast – Is That A Phone In Your Pocket?! (Dmitry Lyalin)

Community / Events

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• Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-How To Architect Killer Apps with Windows 7 and Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-Visual Studio Tools For Architects (Bob Familiar)
• IEEE Student Members Get Microsoft Developer Tools (Bruce Kyle)
• How to get Microsoft to speak at your event (Buck Woody)
• A weekend with Ken Schwaber (Anthony Borton)
• Interested in Working on CodePlex? (Matt Hawley)
• MIX – Microsoft, W3C and SVG (Patrick Dengler)
• Events This Week – February 22nd, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• SQL Server Triggers (Richard Carr)
• SQLAuthority News – Links to Book On Line – Data Mining Algorithms (Analysis Services – Data Mining) (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Connect to BdcService and GetEntities – BCS Object Model (Hrayr Diloyan)
• New SharePoint whitepaper published (Jon Fancey)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 1.0 SP1 Release Candidate Available for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft and Amazon.com Sign Patent Agreement (MS News Center)
• Small Basic: Sample of this week: Snake Bite (Vijaye)
• The 22nd of Diduary: Did you know what a Zune can really do? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Office 2010 and AppV 4.6 (Reed Shaffner)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The New Community Rules – Only $9.99! Use code DDNCR (O’Reilly Media)
• Deployment Process of an iPhone Application (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Coding: Effect sketches and the Mikado method (Mark Needham)

Top Links

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• Inversion of Control (IOC) with XAML (Rob Relyea)

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  and Using CTRL + ALT + Down Arrow to Open the File Menu Dropdown List — vstipEnv0003 (Zain Naboulsi)
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• How to package COM component (Xinyang Qiu)
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• Avoiding Memory Leaks With NServiceBus And Your Own Castle Windsor Instance (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft Semblio – A set of tools for educators to create rich interactive content/training,
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• C#: A lack of covariance with generics example and C#: Overcomplicating with LINQ (Mark Needham)
• A basic proxy for intercepting method calls (Part – 3) (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Crystal Reports and Visual Studio 2010 (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• Making your ASP.NET application work as a service. and The Orchard Project as my new blog engine. (Al Pascual)
• Gummy Bear 1.2 is Fully Baked! (Dave Burke)
• Simple pager for ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman)
• Intro to jQuery Materials (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Announcing WeBlog – A Next Generation Blogging Platform (Mike Ceranski)
• Creating x.509 certificates with Pluralsight self-cert (Mike Hadlow)
• jQuery Custom Element and Global Events (Sergio Pereira)
• Partial Validation in ASP.NET MVC 2 (Steve Sanderson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Microsoft XNA Test Tools (February 2010) (MS Downloads)
• Ubiquitous language leaking in the wrong direction (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Leadership Tip: Avoiding Generic Whining Within Your Organization.
  and Soul Searching Question For Managers: Why Do You Want Manage Your Team?
  and Avoiding The Typical Software Development World Stereotypes – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)
• You’ll Never Get Sustainable Progress For Free (Davy Brion)
• Using an ORM is like kissing your sister part 2 and CQRS and CAP Theorem
  and Why use Event Sourcing? (Greg Young)
• BigTable concerns, or “How to put your trust in the cloud” (Kyle Baley)
• Event Sourcing and the Event Pipeline (Jonathan Oliver)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 – Accessing System Devices with Com Interop, such as a Scanner. (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Beta 4 Networking. Part 8 – TCP Sockets (Mike Taulty)
• Magellan Forms and Magellan Major Changes (Paul Stovell)
• Silverlight Lessons Learned Materials (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Exchanging Data between XAP files using Local Collection API in Silverlight 3 (Mahesh Sabnis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes Podcast 201 – The Making of a Open Source MonoTouch iPhone app with Chris Hardy
  and Hanselminutes Podcast 202 – A different way to do ASP.NET WebForms with WebFormsMVP (Scott Hanselman)
• Missing Screencasts (Rob Conery)
• geekSpeak: Advanced ASP.NET with Shaun Walker, founder of DotNetNuke
  and Lock Contention, Using Intel Parallel Studio to Improve Performance
  and geekSpeak: Advanced ASP.NET with Shaun Walker, founder of DotNetNuke (MS Podcasts)
• Windows Weekly 144: I Have Really Big Spreadsheet Needs (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9: Windows Phone 7 Series, Hanselcart, MS Deploy (Dan Fernandez)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #84 (Jeff Atwood)
• Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Working with Application ID
  and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Using the Taskbar Button Overlay Icons and Progress Bars
  and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar –Jump Lists, Part 1
  and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump Lists, Part 2
  and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Tabbed Thumbnails
  and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Custom Previews and Thumbnail Clips (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Cloud Cover – Episode 1 (Ryan Dunn)
• Engadget Podcast 184: MWC 2010 Roundup – 02.19.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Visual Studio Tutorial – Part 2 – Our First Project (Keith Elder)

Community / Events

• CodeStock 2010 Keynote: Rachel Appel (Michael C. Neel)
• MVPs Give Microsoft Reason to Listen (Toby Richards)
• RSS feed for SQL Server Connect feedback (Jamie Thomson)
• Visual Studio 2010 to launch on April 12 at DevConnections 2010 in Las Vegas (Imran Hussain)
• The 2010 MVP Summit from the eyes of a rookie (Joseph Mirabella)
• SQL Social Update – Bill Vaughn will be at the meeting on the 16th March (Simon Sabin)

Database

• SQL Server User-Defined Functions (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Recompile Stored Procedure at Run Time
  and SQL SERVER- IF EXISTS(Select null from table) vs IF EXISTS(Select 1 from table) (Pinal Dave)
• Data Type Precedence and Implicit Conversions (Seth Phelabaum)
• Renaming a computer and maintenance plans (Martin Bell)
• SQL Server Implicit String Conversion/Concatenation
  (XML parsing: line , character , unexpected end of input) (Chinh Do)

Miscellaneous

• Luke Wroblewski on Windows Phone 7 Series UX (Christian Schormann)
• Microsoft Releases Documentation for "Outlook Personal Folders File (.pst) Format Structure Specification"
  and Microsoft Releases "Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)" for Windows7
  and Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "SharePoint Outlook 2007/2010 Connector"
  and Microsoft Releases Free "Software & Database Shapes" for Visio 2003 & 2007 Standard Editions (Blake Handler)
• The 21st of Diduary: Did you know that you can stop your mouse from interrupting sleep mode? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Windows Live Meeting – Can’t it be Better? (William Vaughn)
• Top 10 Windows Media Center Plug-Ins and Boosters (Kevin Purdy)
• A Feed You Should Read #24 – CodePlex.com (Greg Duncan)
• Getting ‘hands-on’ with Microsoft’s vision (Ian Sands)
• Check out Mercurial version control with my CodePlex repository (Jeffrey Palermo)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 20, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Finds: 2010 02.20 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #93 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 133 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 404 and New and Notable 405 (Sam Gentile)