Barnes & Noble to pull Amazon Publishing titles from shelves over exclusivity concerns

Barnes & Noble bans aren’t just for superheroes anymore. The bookseller let it be known this week that it will be pulling Amazon Publishing titles from the shelves of its 700-odd retail locations, in protest of exclusivity deals struck by [...]

Screen Grabs: Big Bang Theory’s Raj falls head over heels… for Siri (video)

Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dot com. Finally! A TV show that we’ve actually seen (sorry, Gossip Girl). The [...]

WTO ruling revives debate over China’s rare earths trade

China suffered another setback at the WTO yesterday, thanks to a ruling that could spell trouble for its controversial rare earths industry. In a decision issued Monday, a WTO panel determined that the Chinese government has been acting in violation [...]

Samsung faces EU antitrust investigation over mobile patents

Samsung’s European legal woes don’t look to be abating anytime soon, as the EU today formally launched an investigation into the Korean manufacturers’ competitive practices. At issue are, not surprisingly, a collection of patents that Samsung has used to launch [...]

Outrage Over Kingdoms of Amalur Content Lock Brings Studio Head Out To Debate

Studios and publishers are fighting back hard against the used game market, with the upcoming title Kingdoms of Amular, the latest to declare it'll use a content lock. In this case, KoA ups the ante by locking out part of [...]

Triple Town developer sues over iOS knock-off

Spry Fox, a social developer most recently known for its Facebook game Triple Town, has filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit against iOS development house 6Waves LOLAPPS (seriously) over Yeti Town, a mobile app that Spry Fox CEO David Edery claims is [...]