Paul Allen (Co-Founder of Microsoft) Is suing Apple, Google, AOL, Facebook, ebay, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube over 4 separate patents which cover key parts of how these companies do business For example, one patent allows suggestions for people, based on contents of the page they’re currently viewing, while another allows related articles to be suggested while reading the news. Basically, this guy (if these claims are true) owns A LOT of patents.

The lawsuit, (filed today), doesn’t reveal the amount of damages he is wanting. Allen is one of the richest men in the world, being worth an estimated $13 Billion.

A LG Vice President, in an interview, said that their upcoming tablet will be better than the iPad because it will allow for more content creation.

The Wall Street Journal have reported that, Chang Ma, who is vice president of Marketing at LG has said that the “LG tablet will best the iPad by allowing content creation”.

He acknowledged the iPad as a ‘great device’, but claimed that LG’s upcoming tablet (to be released by Q4) will be better than it”.  Ma said that he doesn’t use his iPad work and that is where LG’s tablet will succeed.  The tablet will focus on allowing users to create documents, programs and videos.

The display should not be a problem for LG either,  they make the screens for the iPad and should be able to match its display easily.

I’m still not convinced about the tablet, and I don’t think it will be an iPad ‘killer’ as it will most likely be running Windows 7, an OS not designed for the touchscreen.  iOS however has been built for a touchscreen so it is really nice to use.

Microsoft has announced that Office for Mac 2011 is to be released in October in the United States. There will be three version in thirteen diffrent languages. This version will also be 32 bit only.

Source: AppleInsider

The three version will be:

• Office for Mac Home and Student 2011
• Office for Mac Home and Business 2011
• Office for Mac Academic 2011

See all the details and pricing after the jump.

Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Beta is now available!

Forefront Endpoint Protection simplifies and improves endpoint protection while greatly reducing infrastructure costs. It builds on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2, allowing customers to use their existing client management infrastructure to deploy and manage endpoint protection. This shared infrastructure lowers ownership costs while providing improved visibility and control over endpoint management and security.

Download available at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ff182914.aspx

IT professionals can now download Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta through the TechNet Evaluation Center. This combined service pack includes changes to both Windows platforms. The beta release is not available to home users.

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level, provides ongoing improvements to the Windows Operating System (OS), by including previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms based on customer and partner feedback, and is easy for organizations to deploy a single set of updates.

The download is available from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ff183870.aspx

Microsoft are, after all, allowing skinning on Windows Phone 7.  HTC’s Drew Bamford told Forbes their phones will have Sense on their Windows Phone 7 creations.  He also said that Sense should live on through Android 3.0.  “Microsoft has taken firmer control of the core experience” he acknowledged, adding that Sense wouldn’t be fully integrated and that HTC will “augment” the Windows Phone 7 experience.  Whatever is coming from HTC, it will certainly be interesting.