Make way for the patent wars! Hot on the heels of Acer's warning of a patent war, HTC CEO Peter Chou says he is locked and loaded for an intellectual property rumble with Apple. It's like , but without all the great hats.

(TechCrunch)

Speaking of patents, Google senior vice president and general counsel Kent Walker dished to TechCrunch about the company . Walker also spoke frankly on the problems with patents in general, calling them "government-granted monopolies." Say, that gives me a great idea for a board game.

(Computerworld Australia)

Douglas C. Merrill, who formerly served as Google CIO and president of EMI's digital arm, spoke at a conference in Sydney, during which he revealed an interesting tidbit. During his stint at EMI, he profiled users of the Limewire file-sharing service and discovered that the heavy users of the service were among the biggest customers of the iTunes Store. Wow, this really meshes well with Johnny Depp's next film,