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Apple and Samsung are facing off in a San Jose, Calif., court. Shara Tibken/CNET SAN JOSE, Calif. — Samsung didn’t infringe on Apple’s patents for quick links, universal search, slide-to-unlock, and autocorrect, several expert witnesses hired by the Korean giant testified Tuesday. Kevin Jeffay, professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, said that Apple’s ‘647 …

Google’s Project Ara project coordinator David Fishman and team leader Paul Eremenko Seth Rosenblatt/CNET MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google’s first phone for its ambitious Project Ara modular smartphone project will be a boring gray, Ara leader Paul Eremenko said at the first Ara developer’s conference on Tuesday. And that’s by design. Eremenko told an audience of around 200 people at …