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Out come the defendants. You may remember a lawsuit filed a couple of months ago by interval licensing, one of the holdings held by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

That suit said that AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot,

Office Max, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube, each infringed on four patents for fundamental web technology

used for online commerce and search.

Now most of those companies, led by Google and minus Apple, have filed as one to have the case dismissed.

Apple has filed separately to have the case dismissed.

Electronista says the Alliance of Companies calls the interval lawsuit Scattershot

since it not only targeted many companies

doing many different things, but the suit didn't or couldn't identify specific

services each company was utilizing that allegedly infringed on the patents.

Google said it couldn't even mount a defense since there weren't enough details in the

suit to say against what it should be defending.

Google and Apple have also filed separate secondary complaints arguing the suit should be dismissed since the company's suit are too indirectly linked to be targeted in one complaint.

I Fixit has taken apart a new Macbook air and found it's really hard to take apart

a new Macbook air.

Wired says the Cupertino company is employing unusual 5-point torques screws inside the device with one apparent purpose, keeping people out.

The virtual keep out sign starts with the new computer's bottom case cover, though it extends

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