The court thus reversed an injunction issued at the request of Vodafone Deutschland GmbH in mid-November barring T-Mobile - which has an exclusive deal with Apple Computer Inc.
New York-based patent-holding company Klausner Technologies announced on Monday that it has become the latest plaintiff suing Apple Computer and AT&T, this time for alleged patent infringements.
"The topic was the traumatic insemination performed by some insect males, such as bedbugs, where the male injects sperm into the female through her body wall and certain sites," said Schmid-Hempel. "It has now been shown these sites are very immuno-active, and that this feature is essential to keep out infections that typically enter via the insemination act."
Life on Earth may have originated as the organic filling in a multilayer sandwich of mica sheets, according to Helen Hansma of the National Science Foundation and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Researchers in New York believe they have solved one of the great mysteries of the flu : Why does the infection spread primarily in the winter months? The answer, they say, has to do withthe virus itself.
A conservation group that has vowed to disrupt Japan's annual whale hunt launched its Antarctic campaign Wednesday by renaming one of its ships after "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, the late environmental campaigner.
Celebrity polar bear Knut who won the hearts of millions around the globe as a roly-poly orphan cub celebrated his first birthday Wednesday with a cake made from 300 eggs and 20 pounds of marzipan.
A young professor has used her favorite childhood toy, a laser printer, and a toaster oven to make microfluidic devices - tiny computer chips with plumbing that are usually fabricated in multimillion dollar labs.
