Global electronics firm Panasonic Holdings has begun a lawsuit against Chinese smartphone companies Oppo and Xiaomi over some 4G patents which it refers to as "standard-essential patents for cellular communications".



As the Linux kernel gets set to mark 32 years since its public announcement, a senior developer from German open source firm SUSE has reminded the world at large that it is the de-facto standard for running business-critical workloads.

Motorola and Microsoft have collaborated to produce new features for Motorola’s ThinkPhone, a smartphone designed for PC-to-smartphone-connectivity.

Home and small office connectivity company Linksys is unveiling a new feel and design for its Designer Series, featuring conventional Wi-Fi routers, which will roll out gradually and be available in stores over the next months and at the end of this year.

Microsoft has been forced to pull an update it issued as part of its August Patch Tuesday after it was found that the patch in question, meant to fix a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server, would not install properly on non-English systems.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire



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