Having sued pretty much everybody from Adidas to Best Western, Lodsys now finds itself on the receiving end of the legal system, thanks to a suit by the . The Gray Lady is fighting back against Lodsys's assertion that the publication has violated its patent with the use of click-through tracking on ads. Is it just me, or is it becoming increasingly obvious that Lodsys's technical acumen is at about a ?

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Ever wondered what it costs to run the iTunes Store? Well, due to Apple's secretive ways we may never know, but number cruncher extraordinaire Horace Dedieu has extrapolated that it may be around $1.3 billion per year. That's based on the store's estimated income and Apple's insistence that it continues to do slightly better than break-even with the business. And it about gibes with the quick estimate of the store's income that I did .