The patent squabble between Apple and Nokia just reached new heights. As expected, Apple has chosen to go on the offensive while reacting to Nokia’s lawsuit.

Everything we know about the Google Hack Attacks (dubbed Operation Aurora) originating out of China.

Linux no doubt powers millions of servers across the world, however, it might come out as a surprise to many of you that Windows is ahead of Linux in the Enterprise server segment.

HP Slate is a collaboration between Microsoft and HP alright for the HP Slate, albeit only for the OS and technology. However, other than that HP will take the OS collaboration one step ahead for laptops and PCs, by setting the default search engine on browsers to Bing and the default homepage to MSN.com.

Google homepage is usually free of advertisements, and very seldom do you see links to any other sites or services, except for maybe Google Doodles. However, SE Land just spotted that Google is now promoting the Nexus One phone on the most popular homepage on earth.

After blocking thousands of websites in the past, China’s authorities seems to be interested in blocking iPhone apps. Dalai Lama iPhone Apps, which are available for download in others countries, seems to be unavailable for iPhone users in China.

FreeAllMusic is all set to launch a service in January, where users can download free DRM music. However, users will have to view video ads of approx 15-30 seconds lenght before they can download the free music. FreeAllMusic is currently in beta stage and will go public in January 2010.

According to a study by University of California, women spend more time in online role playing games than men. The study was conducted by Dmitri Williams and surveyed 7000 anonymous players of EverQuest II. Among the surveyed players, 80% were men. Among the surveyed players, females spent 29 hours a week as compared to 27 by male.

The most pirated games of 2009. The pirated games include Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 which was illegally downloaded more than 5 million times, The Sims 3, Prototype, Need for Speed Shift, Street Fighter IV, New Super Mario Bros, Punch-Out and Wii Sports Resort.

OpenDNS is now serving 20 billion DNS Queries per day, this is double of what they were serving back in April 2009.

Microsoft Bing has been sued by Bing! Information Design LLC, a small design company based in St Louis, Mo, USA. However, nothing much will come out of this case as both companies are in different verticals.

A Paris court has fined Google for breaking France’s copyright laws over displaying snippets of books in their search results. The court has fined Google €300,000 to be paid to French publisher La Martiniere, which filed the court case on behalf of several other publishers.

We take a look at the top search queries from Google for the year 2009 in the World and India. Google Zeitgeist 2009 has published the list of most popular and fastest rising search queries of the year globally, for India and many other countries.

Rediff has scrapped their earlier blogging platform Rediff iLand, which they had created in-house and launched a new portal called Rediff Blogs, which runs on WordPress MU. Rediff Blogs is available in 9 Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, Gujarati, Malayalam and Kannada.

McDonald’s will soon start offering free Wi-Fi for customers in collaboration with AT&T starting mid-January. Currently, McDonald charges customers $2.95 to access Wi-Fi for two hours. Free Wi-Fi in McDonald’s will be launched in 11000 locations across US.