News of the weird: Remi Denis-Courmont, one of the developers of the VLC Media Player …

Facebook has invited press to its Palo Alto HQ in the US on Wednesday to unveil some big mobile news, with some speculating that this might be when the social-networking company introduces the world to a Facebook-branded smartphone. (Credit: CBSi) At first blush this may seem like an ill-advised move in a market where renowned manufacturers, like Nokia and Sony …

Apple has sued Motorola over multitouch patents in two separate lawsuits. The complaints, first reported by Patently Apple, were filed Oct. 29 and cover six patents. In the first complaint, the main document is only 9 pages, but one exhibit–patent 7,479,949–is broken into two parts and weighs in at a whopping 362 pages. Motorola on Oct. 6 sued Apple for …