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It’s another legal victory for Apple(s aapl) after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Friday ruled that Apple didn’t infringe on Motorola’s(s goog) patented technology, reports Reuters.

“We’re disappointed in this decision and are evaluating our options,” Motorola said in a statement.

The original case dates back to 2010, well before Google acquired Motorola and its patents. Motorola accused Apple of infringing on six patents, though in April 2013 the ITC ruled that Apple wasn’t in violation of any of them. Friday’s ruling was over just one of those patents.

This is a big loss for Motorola (and in turn, Google), which was hoping to get Apple’s iPhone blocked from selling in the U.S., as the iPhone is manufactured overseas and the ITC has the power to block the import of products that infringe on U.S. patents.

This isn’t the end of Apple’s legal battles…

O navio quebra-gelo americano Polar Star se dirige para a Antártica para socorrer os navios chinês e russo presos em um mar gelado, após o resgate de 52 passageiros, informou a imprensa local.

O navio quebra-gelo chinês Xue Long (Dragão de Neve) ficou encalhado no gelo antártico na quinta-feira passada após ajudar com seu helicóptero a resgatar passageiros do navio expedicionário russo Akademik Shokalskiy, que está preso desde o dia 24 de dezembro.

As autoridades de Austrália, Rússia e China solicitaram a ajuda do Polar Star, um dos maiores navio quebra-gelo dos Estados Unidos, para socorrer agora os dois navios, que não correm perigo de afundar e contam com suficientes provisões de mantimentos.

O comandante da Guarda Costeira americana, o vice-almirante Paul Zukunft, afirmou que…

Movimento nas ruas de Demasco na quinta-feira (3) (Foto: Diaa Al-Din/Reuters)

Dezenas de jihadistas morreram ou foram capturados nas últimas 24 horas na Síria por forças rebeldes que decidiram combater seus ex-aliados, aos quais acusam de abusos, informou o Observatório Sírio de Direitos Humanos (OSDH) neste sábado (4).

Segundo o observatório, ao menos 36 combatentes, entre integrantes e aliados do Estado Islâmico no Iraque e o Levante (EIIL), morreram desde sexta-feira na província síria de Idleb e outras dezenas foram capturados pelos rebeldes nesta região do nordeste do país.

Em um comunicado, a opositora Coalizão Nacional Síria demonstrou neste sábado seu apoio total ao combate dos rebeldes contra seus ex-aliados jihadistas, vinculados à Al-Qaeda.

Segundo o OSDH e os rebeldes, na sexta-feira explodiram violentos combates entre o EIIL e as três coalizões rebeldes nas províncias de Idleb e Aleppo (norte).

A Coalizão Nacional Síria considera crucial que “as forças rebeldes…

Federal health officials are ready to deep-six CGI Federal, the lead contractor behind the Healthcare.gov web site, according to The Washington Post and other outlets.  And, it looks like CGI Federal’s loss may be Accenture’s gain.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is getting ready  to sign a  $90 million, 12-month contract with Accenture, one of the biggest IT consultancies in the country, after months of problems with the healthcare.gov website and its underlying systems.  The site rolled out October 1 and pretty much fell on its face.

In a statement to USA Today, Aaron Albright, spokesman for the CMS, said:

“We are working with our contract partners to make a mutually agreed upon transition to ensure that HealthCare.gov continues to operate smoothly for consumers … We continually evaluate our needs and remain focused on ensuring consumers have access to affordable, quality coverage, and more than 1.1 million already have…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday announced that it will hear a closely-watched dispute between Aereo, a start-up that streams over-the-air TV for $8/month, and major broadcasters — including NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox — that say the service should be shut down for copyright infringement.

The news, noted on ScotusBlog, means the court will hear the case sometime in the coming months and issue a decision before early summer.

The case is important because Aereo, which is now live in New York and about a dozen other cities, poses the most serious threat in decades to the “bundle” model of TV where distributors require consumers large packages of channels even if they only watch a handful of them.

Aereo’s CEO Chet Kanojia hailed the Court’s decision to take the case in a statement:

We said from the beginning that it was our hope that this case would be…