News@5: Suing, Sales and Gaming

HTC has accused Apple of infringing on five of its patents and has called for the ITC to ban the sale, marketing and import of related devices in the US.

Research conducted by Simpson Carpenter suggests that, apart from with iJunkies, the iPad is unlikely to be a UK market phenomenon.

Bellwether company Cisco have shown unexpectedly high third-quarter financial results suggesting that the US economic situation may be improving.

Valve has released its online game portal Steam for the Mac. Currently there are only 64 games available but new games will be released every Wednesday.

BT has announced a strategic partnership with the Silicon Vally-based cloud computing game company Onlive to allow people to stream games directly to their TVs.