Apple wins software and design patent judgements against most Samsung devices in trial over iPhone and iPad  —  The jury reached a verdict in the Apple v. Samsung case, reports Bloomberg, and the they're going to be admitted to the courtroom shortly.  The Verge has a liveblog of the verdict up and running.

After meeting with Apple execs, analyst expects no television solution any time soon  —  The company's prospects for a near-term TV breakthrough appear to be bleak  —  FORTUNE — It's hard to know what to make of the signals coming out of the meetings with individual analysts Apple's (AAPL) executive staff has been holding lately.

Evernote Announces Evernote Business With Company-Wide Sharing And Phone Support  —  Evernote CEO Phil Libin just announced a new product aimed at small- and medium-sized companies (or small- and medium-sized teams within large enterprises) — appropriately, it's called Evernote Business.

Court affirms $675,000 penalty in music-downloading case  —  Joel Tenenbaum, penalized $675,000 for illegally downloading 31 songs online, looks on as court upholds the size of the damages fee.  The fee had been lowered once; then reinstated.  —  A federal court in Massachusetts today upheld …

iPhone trails at No.7 in China's smartphone market, report says  —  The Chinese hold Apple's products in high regard, but the iPhone is too costly and isn't hooked into China Mobile's network, analysis firm IHS says.  —  Despite Apple's popularity in China, the iPhone is only No. 7 …

Apple, Samsung Must Stop Some Korea Sales In Patent Fight  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL), the maker of the iPhone, and Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) infringed each other's patents for mobile devices and must stop selling some products in South Korea and pay damages, a Seoul court said.

Wall Street Journal offers free Wi-Fi in NYC and San Francisco  —  Newspapers have been trying all sorts of gimmicks, from paywall promos to “open houses,” to get readers to discover their websites.  The latest by the Wall Street Journal is clever: thousands of free Wi-Fi hotspots throughout New York City and San Francisco.

MacBook Pro Mountain Lion Battery Life: 10.7 vs 10.8 vs 10.8.1  —  TMO TALK (139)  —  Shortly after the launch of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, users of portable Macs began to report significant reductions in their battery life on Cupertino's latest cat.  Reports varied, but independent testing showed …

Guggenheim Architect To Design Facebook HQ's New 3,400-Employee Tree-Topped Engineering Building  —  Share price be damned, Facebook is expanding.  It's just announced that Guggenheim Museum architect Frank Gehry will design a 3,400 employee engineering office connected to its Menlo Park Headquarters by an underground tunnel.

Facebook acquires Threadsy, the company behind social graph analysis tool Swaylo  —  Today, Threadsy, the company behind social analysis tool Swaylo, has announced that it has been acquired by Facebook.  —  Here's what the company had to say on its blog:

Empire State Building shooting leads to social media payday for one Instagrammer  —  As the world tries to figure out the motives of the Empire State Building shooter, one random Instagram photo provides a window into the dirty underbelly of photo licensing for wire services.

Twitter Joining the Linux Foundation  —  The overwhelming majority of web-based services today rely on Linux.  More and more of these companies are joining the Linux Foundation, the “nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux.”  The Linux Foundation provides a neutral ground …

Watch this: Samsung's design team tells the story behind the Galaxy S III  —  Samsung has released a video called “Galaxy S III Design Story” which explains the development history of their latest, well-received flagship phone.  The company's design team doesn't have as high a profile as that of Apple …

Carriers Love BlackBerry 10, Says RIM  —  Research In Motion's new BlackBerry 10 operating system and the handsets on which it will run are still months away from shipping, but the company's leadership is already showing them off to their carrier partners.  And it says responses so far have been quite positive.

Another Piece In Twitter's Money Puzzle: Teaming Up With HootSuite To Cross-Sell Ads  —  When Twitter published its latest thinking on how its API would evolve, and what it wanted to leave behind, it noted one of the areas it wanted to emphasize more was enterprise.

Is a federated Twitter even possible?  —  Toward the end of my last post, I mentioned that I'd like to see App.net move toward a federated architecture.  Broadly, what that means is that instead of being a central service that each client connects to directly, it would become a loosely organized mesh of independently controlled nodes.

Damages being read in Apple-Samsung: more than $1.5 billion so far (live blog) http://cnet.co/Rjz1M1

Google URL Takedown Requests Up 100% In a Month, Up 1137% On 2011  —  While many sites comply with DMCA-style takedown requests in order to maintain their ‘safe harbor’ status, sites such as The Pirate Bay routinely refuse to take anything down.  —  For a long time there was little …

PC growth slowing, and Windows 8 won't fix that soon, says IDC  —  Can Windows 8 save the traditional PC and spur growth again?  Maybe — but it doesn't look like that's going to happen this year, a market-research firm suggests.  [Read more]