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“Reuters” reports (http://tinyurl.com/meb9sr5) that an appeals court has ruled that Apple doesn’t use use patented technology owned by Motorola Mobility, a Google unit, in making its iPhones.

Smile has rolled out TextExpander 4.2 (http://www.smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/), an update to the typing shortcut tool. The update improves snippet expansion in Google Docs in Safari. It also improves interaction with Fast User Switching and the handling of accented letters in snippet searches.

TextExpander retails for US$34.95. Family pack licenses, for home use, are $44.95. Office pack licenses, which cover five users in an office, are $99.95. Upgrades from earlier versions of TextExpander are $15 and free to users who purchased after Jan. 15, 2012.

Google will pay $17 million to settle allegations by 37 states and the District of Colombia that it secretly tracked Web users by placing special digital files on the Web browsers of their smartphones, reports “Reuters” (http://tinyurl.com/llsrj97).

The deal settles a probe by the states into allegations that Google Google bypassed the privacy settings of customers using Apple’s Safari Web browser by placing “cookies” into the browser. Researchers at Stanford University said Google programmers developed codes that allowed them to avoid privacy settings created by Apple.

A German appeals court has lifted Google’s “bogus” patent injunction over push email against Apple’s iCloud, reports “FOSS Patents” (http://tinyurl.com/la8tceq).