pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/steve-jobs-psystar.jpg" width="520" height="320" style="display:block;" /In a new turn of events after the a href="http://gizmodo.com/5092638/apple-gets-judge-to-dismiss-psystars-antitrust-counterclaim"judge dismissed Psystar's anti-trust claims/a, Apple is now on the offensive, accusing them of being associated with a group of shady John Does breaking the law:/p blockquote p18. On information and belief, persons other than Psystar are involved in Psystar’s unlawful and improper activities described in this Amended Complaint. The true names or capacities, whether individual, corporate, or otherwise, of these persons are unknown to Apple. Consequently they are referred to herein as John Does 1 through 10 (collectively the “John Doe Defendants”). On information and belief, the John Doe Defendants are various individuals and/or corporations who have infringed Apple’s intellectual property rights, breached or induced the breach of Apple’s license agreements and violated state and common law unfair competition laws. Apple will seek leave to amend this complaint to show the unknown John Doe Defendants’ true names and capacities when they are ascertained./p /blockquote pIn other words: There's somebody else behind Psystar. Someone who is worth prosecuting by Apple's mighty lawyers. Groklaw says that this is important because it may explain why Psystar has been ignoring Apple and continue to boldly sell their crappy PCs running Hackintosh, a hacked Mac OS X version that runs in generic Intel hardware./p pApple is also asking for a preliminary injunction against all Psystar activities related to Mac OS X. Groklaw speculates that the people and corporations behind Psystar may be important and that, when Apple finally identifies them, they will obliterate them. [a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081202230318899"Groklaw/a via a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2008/12/03/apple-suggests-possible-conspiracy-behind-psystar/"MacRumors/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=321d8ae94b786812d00a196150a339e8p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=321d8ae94b786812d00a196150a339e8p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=321d8ae94b786812d00a196150a339e8" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=WvT51SCm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=PPU9MKsA"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=v1cunSEe"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=v1cunSEe" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=naJbEP9z"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=naJbEP9z" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/ec6QDv6naE8" height="1" width="1"/

Barack Obama may be the President-elect at this time, but it's not a certainty that he will become the next president (at this time). I wonder why the MSM isn't covering this, they're taking a backseat to bloggers. Oh yeah! They're in the tank for Obama, perhaps already (...)

A judge has granted an injunction request by Mattel Inc. that permanently bars MGA Entertainment Inc. from manufacturing Bratz dolls.

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=482098a2796c7a2300f553e6maxX=389maxY=258" border="0" alt="Eric Schmidt 1.jpg" title="Eric Schmidt 1.jpg" width="389" height="258" /Did Google really walk away from the Yahoo search deal because of the "risk" of litigation, as Google suggested at the time? No. Because of theem certainty/em of it. When Google walked, the Justice Department was three hours away from suing it for violating the Sherman Act:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"a href="http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2008/12/hogans-litvack.html"AmLaw: /a"We were going to file the complaint at a certain time during the day," says [Sandy Litvack, the bulldog litigator who the goverment brought in to handle the case]. "We told them we were going to file the complaint at that time of day. Three hours before, they told us they were abandoning the agreement.".../p p style="padding-left: 30px;"strongThe never-filed government complaint would have charged that the agreement violated Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act... /strong"It would have ended up strongalso alleging that Google had a monopoly and that [the advertising pact] would have furthered their monopoly,"/strong Litvack says./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"strongThe complaint would have sought a preliminary injunction to stop the agreement from going forward/strong. "strongThe fact that we filed a lawsuit would not by itself have stopped them," he says. "We would have had to get an injunction from the court, and we would have sought that."/strong/p pAfter Google walked away, the DOJ released a href="http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2008/November/08-at-981.html"a statement /asaying that it had informed the companies it was planning to file suit. The release did not specify how close Google came to getting sued, however, and Google's explanation for why it walked didn't mention the government's explicit intention:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/google-walks-away-from-yahoo-search-deal"Google counsel David Drummond on November 5: /a[A]fter four months of review, including discussions of various possible changes to the agreement,strong it's clear that government regulators and some advertisers continue to have concerns about the agreement. Pressing ahead risked not only a protracted legal battle/strong but also damage to relationships with valued partners./p pAnd remember who was behind the effort to get regulators to block the deal? That's right: Microsoft. Payback for Google's (currently successful) attempt to break up a possible Microsoft-Yahoo deal./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"a href="http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2008/12/hogans-litvack.html"AmLaw:/a Litvack acknowledges that a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx"Microsoft Corporation/a and other companies lobbied the department to block the agreement, both publicly and and in private meetings. Litvack insists, though, that Microsoft's lobbying had no bearing on his recommended course of action or on the division's ultimate decision./p p(Via a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/28037962/site/14081545?__source=yahoo|headline|quote|text|par=yahoo"Jim Goldman at CNBC/a)/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/J4HjbT9GE42sPVfToFXAKz_tOwM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/J4HjbT9GE42sPVfToFXAKz_tOwM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=OJH5NMt9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=OJH5NMt9" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=vlxSw5LT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=hCXjojGr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Fb3OwzSo"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=Fb3OwzSo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=5KRPeozg"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=BUe4EcZR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=m3n9gTiV"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Q7mWJnvP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/2lV3gDUqP-c" height="1" width="1"/