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Google, Facebook sued on mobile notworking

Google, Facebook sued on mobile notworking

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Google and Facebook have been sued in New York  by a company claiming to own software patents that put social networks on mobile phones. Bloomberg reports that Wireless Ink Corp., which runs a mobile notworking service called Winksite, has complained that Facebook Mobile and Google's clumsily-implemented Buzz thing both infringe a patent issued in October, but filed back in 2004. Wireless Ink filed a complaint yesterday in a federal court in Manhattan, seeking...



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