Several major content providers, including the AP and the , have fired off cease-and-desist letters at iPad app Zite, which they claim is reformatting and republishing their content without permission. "Plus," one letter concluded, "how do you even 'Zite' anyway? Does it rhyme with 'kite'? Is it 'zeet'? What is up with these crazy app developers? Why can't they use real words?"

(The Loop)

Continuing in the legal vein, a company called H-W Technology sued Apple and 31 other companies on Wednesday over--you guessed it--a software patent. For what amounts, essentially, to a smartphone. Allow me to propose something I like to call Moren's Theory of Patent Trollosity: I posit that the trollosity (J) of a company suing over patents (r) is to the number of companies sued the vagueness of the patent (k) multiplied by the factorial of the number of lawsuits the company has previously filed (s!). Or, in other words, J=rks!

(Microsoft on the Issues)

We're shooting for the courtroom trifecta: Microsoft, of all people, has filed a complaint with the European Commission over alleged antitrust violations by Google. Well. Isn't that the pot calling the kettle, uh, Microsoft?