Your morning countdown: Google just spent a lot on ... patents

August 16, 2011, 8:14 AM —

1. 'Skinemax' sneaks smut onto the iPad [ITw]
2. Beth Bacheldor: Death comes from the sky for your data center [ITw]
3. America: Nation of smartphone addicts [MSNBC]
4. RIM developer guru: Don't give up on BlackBerry [ITw]
5. Brian Proffitt: Android violating GPL? Not so fast! [ITw]
6. Crooks covet US, UK zombie PCs [ITw]
7. Kevin Fogarty: Pentagon dithering while losing cyberwar [ITw]
8. No thanks, IT: Kids today will fix their own computers [ITw]
9. Firefox 6 arrives early PCW]
10. Chris Nerney: Google-Motorola really all about patents [ITw]