Thursday's top stories will fill you up on patent spats, better maps and creepy apps:
Apple must declare Samsung not copycat
There's a laughable twist in the never-ending global patent battle between Apple and Samsung. A U.K. judge (the same judge that said Samsung's tablets were "not as cool" as the iPad) ruled that Samsung did not copy the iPad's design. But the judge also ordered Apple to publish a notice of this fact on its U.K. website and in British newspaper ads for six months. Awkward.
Nokia has promised "something amazing" to be announced Sept. 7. Nokia just posted a $1.7 billion net loss for the quarter. It needs amazing.
Microsoft set a date: Windows 8 will arrive Oct. 26. But still no word on when the Surface tablet will land.
And if you're still hanging on to Windows XP or Vista, you won't be able to install Office 2013. Microsoft said the new Office will only work on Windows 7 and Windows 8.
If you use Bing for maps, well yo... [Read more]
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