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News to know: HP, Motorola-RIM, AT&T data

By | June 14, 2010, 2:00am PDT

An HP acquisition, a settlement for a long-running dispute between Motorola and RIM and AT&T on a lonely limb are today’s top headlines. Get the rolling posts, RSS, or email.

Here’s a look at Monday June 14, 2010

It sounds like the tools in HP’s garage are about to kick into gear. The company has dropped $12 million to acquire Phoenix Technologies HyperSpace assets, the technology behind instant-on boot-ups. Team that with Palm’s WebOS and one might think that some new platform is in the works.

Motorola and RIM have officially kissed and made up. After being caught up in a patent lawsuit battle for several years, the two companies have finally reached an agreement that settles all of their worldwide disputes.

AT&T put itself out on a limb when it pulled the plug on its unlimited data package - and it’s starting to feel lonely out there. As for what’s next, neither of the two scenarios offered by a Wall Street analyst is too appealing.

Pew says the cloud is the future - by 2020, most people will conduct everyday computing tasks by way of cloud-based apps. But with a global footprint, can the cloud avoid government?

And finally, for some Monday morning eye-candy, check out the electric version of the car that Smart USA is expect to bring to market in 2012.

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