Another day, another lawsuit. A company called Microunity (http://www.microunity.com) has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in a Texas court against Apple, Google, HTC, Samsung -- and well, all the main players in the mobile space.

According to court documents, Microunity is suing over patents that mostly deal with multi- and parallel processing technologies, as well as methods for dealing with data. The "IntoMobile" web site (http://www.intomobile.com/2010/03/16/microunity-sues-the-entire-mobile-i...) calls the company a "patent troll" and says me of the patents mentioned in...

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find 'em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

The Dove Foundation (http://www.dove.org) has announced a free mobile app for iPhone and iPod touch. The Dove Foundation publishes reviews from a family-friendly perspective of the latest movies and DVDs, and the app offers access to Dove's reviews.

UK-based online news service TheBusinessDesk is offering a free iPhone app that allows users to access its three business news sites while on the move. The app will complement the online news service's web sites in Yorkshire, the North West and the West Midlands. Registered users of the website will have full access to every story published on the site's three regional home pages and more.

ScavoMed has released Pocket Therapy 1.0 for...

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra was on the West Coast last week, where his schedule included meetings with Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Mozilla, and other tech companies. According to "InformationWeek Government Blogs" (http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/03/federal_cio_se...), he says that U.S. government employees are at a disadvantage when it comes to the technology they use, and he's looking for better ways of working.

Kundra was named federal CIO by President Obama a year ago this month, and closing the technology gap between the private sector and the public sector has been a pursuit of his since day one, the article adds. In a recent blog post, Kundra makes...

Speck has introduced our new limited-edition Fitted Artsprojekt cases (http://www.speckproducts.com/products/fitted-artsprojekt/iphone-3g-iphon...) for the iPhone: Waves, Campsite, Chemical Girl and Bosque. They sport original and authentically crafted artwork, according to Irene Baran, CEO of Speck.
 
All are printed on soft but durable fabric, which is then fused to Speck’s Fitted two-piece snap-together hard shell design. The upholstery-style exterior increases in-hand ease while helping to secure iPhones when set down on surfaces, says Baran.
 
These awesome new Fitted Artsprojekt edition designs, as well as previously released editions for the iPhone 3G and 3GS, are available now exclusively at Apple Stores for a manufacturer's suggested retail price of US$39.95 each....

BiddingForGood (http://www.biddingforgood.com), a cause-related e-commerce platform connecting affluent consumers and marketers to online fundraising auction events, has announced the top performing brands and categories in its platform. And Apple is in the top 10.

Our favorite tech firm places number six on the list. Ahead of it are the Hillton family, the Marriott family, Starbucks, the Starwood family and Nintendo. Trailing it in the top 10 are Mary Kay, Four Seasons Hotel, Ritz-Carlton and the Cheesecake Factory.

Charity auctions are a unique cause marketing channel because they reach the nations most affluent consumers through their trusted causes just as they are making purchasing decisions in specific categories, such as travel, says BiddingForGood CEO Jonathan Carson. These affluent consumers are educated females who, in bad economic times, retain the buying power for luxury...

Razer (http://www.razerzone.com), a manufacturer of high-end precision gaming and lifestyle peripherals, has announced the USS$59.95 Razer DeathAdder Left Hand Edition, a gaming mouse designed with the professional left-handed gamer in mind.

The Razer DeathAdder Left Hand Edition was created to meet community demands for a mouse that was purposefully engineered to give lefties the competitive edge, combining a comfortable ergonomic form factor with a powerfully precise 3.5G infrared sensor, according to Robert “Razerguy” Krakoff, president, Razer USA. It boasts five programmable Hyperesponse buttons, as well as the trademark 1000Hz Ultrapolling technology.

Loaded with a 3500dpi Razer Precision 3.5G infrared sensor that offers over four times more precision than a standard 800dpi mouse, the Razer DeathAdder Left Hand Edition is "fully equipped to frag, especially when you strike from the blind...

Digital Anarchy (http://www.digitalanarchy.com), a provider of software for photographers and digital artists, has announced a free update to their ToonIt! Photo plug-in for Aperture, Apple's software for pro and semi-pro photographers.

ToonIt! 2.5 is now fully compatible with the 64-bit mode introduced by Apple’s Aperture 3, while still supporting 32-bit architectures and Aperture 2. The plug-in automatically takes photos and gives them a variety of cartoon and illustrated looks.

A "toon" effect is created, and Aperture users have a control in customizing the cartoon with different paint styles, shading and outlines. The software uses algorithms from Toonamation to create its cartoon shading and lines. One of the key features of ToonIt! is the ability to turn people and faces into believable cartoons. It’s never been so easy to turn photographs into illustrated portraits or a graphic...

Xeric Design has released version 5.3 of EarthDesk (http://www.xericdesign.com/earthdesk.php), the real-time dynamic desktop map for Mac OS X. It provides a work-around for a long standing screen saver hang in Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard").

EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with a photo-realistic image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination as well as real-time global cloud coverage (hurricanes, storms, and worldwide weather systems) on your desktop. It operates silently in the background, keeping your desktop updated while you work. Unlike a screen saver, which only appears when your system is idle, EarthDesk's dynamic desktop is continuously displayed as your desktop background (and optionally as a screen saver).

EarthDesk requires Mac OS X 10.5 or newer. Single user copies may be purchased online for US$24.95. Upgrades are available...

Seznick Scientific Software has updated Password Wallet for Macintosh (http://www.selznick.com/products/passwordwallet/mac/index.htm) to version 4.5. The app now allows the user to automatically share all of their passwords between their Mac, iPhone and MobileMe accounts, as well as their Windows, Android, Windows Mobile and Palm Pre devices.

PasswordWallet is designed to offer a secure place to store all your usernames, passwords, PIN numbers, or combinations. For security, it uses the BlowFish encryption algorithm with 448-bit keys to protect your data. For safety, it lets you copy your password to the clipboard and clear it automatically after you paste. PasswordWallet can save URLs with your entries and launch your default browser for you. One "master" password unlocks all of your other passwords. It can automatically add your...

Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced that one of their newest development partners, Phyx., has released Phyx Color for the FxFactory platform.

Phyx Color is a collection of professional color processors designed to work inside Adobe After Effects CS3/CS4, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion and Apple Final Cut Express applications. Its range of color processing tools let users add diffusion, sample color, control saturation and process a color shift/tint.

Artists can also use Phyx Color to simulate the legendary Technicolor 2-strip process utilized in such films as "Gone with the Wind," and "The Wizard of Oz," and actualize dramatic imagery with its Bleach Bypass process as seen in a multitude of cult films, including "300" and "Fight Club."
       
Phyx Color is available for $99 USD via the Noise Industries web site (...

Monkeybread Software (http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/) has released version 2.0 of the MBS plug-in for FileMaker. It purportedly extends Filemaker with over 400 functions.

New in version 2.0 are URL Scheme, GraphicsMagick and RPC. The URL Scheme handling functions allow you to register a filemaker runtime solution as an URL handler on Mac OS X. MBS plug-in version 2.0 adds over 200 functions for GraphicsMagick. You can load picture files from a container field or a file, modify them and write them back.

In your FileMaker database you can crop, scale, flip, rotate and roll images. There are image effects like Colorize, Emboss, Enhance, OilPaint, Quantize, Solarize, Shear, Sharpen, Swirl, Unsharpen and more.

With version 2.0 of the MBS plug-in, a FileMaker database can send a request to, for example, a REALbasic application and receives a response. This communication...

Google's Nexus One phone is selling at a a slower pace than the first iPhone, reaching about 135,000 units in the time it took Apple to sell one million, according to Flurry Analytics (http://www.flurry.com/) -- a cross-platform mobile application analytics provider.

The original iPhone hit the one million mark after 74 days on sale in 2007. The Nexus One will have sold about one-eighth as many units on its 74th day on March 19, estimates Flurry.

Google introduced the Nexus One in January, selling it through its web site. U.S. consumers aren’t accustomed to buying phones that way, which may have hurt sales of the Nexus One, Peter Farago, vice president of marketing at Flurry told "Bloomberg" (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&...