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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has re-filed his patent suit against Apple, Google and several other major tech companies, adding specific examples of the alleged infringement, reports “AppleInsider” (http://www.appleinsider.com).

In August it was announced that Interval Licensing, a tech licensing company controlled by Allen was suing 11 companies, including Apple, for violating patents on “fundamental web technologies” developed by Interval Research, the now-defunct Silicon Valley lab that Allen created with Xerox PARC veteran David Liddle in the 1990s.

“Antennagate” and Apple’s Ping are among CNN’s biggest “tech fails of 2010” (http://macte.ch/e82Fv), a list of the low points in the tech world.

McAfee (http://www.mcafee.com) has unveiled its “2011 Threat Predictions” report, outlining the top threats that researchers at McAfee Labs foresee for the coming year. The list comprises 2010’s most buzzed about platforms and services, including the iPhone, Mac OS X, Google’s Android, foursquare, and Google TV.

Per the report, all are expected to become major targets for cybercriminals. McAfee Labs also predicts that politically motivated attacks will be on the rise, as more groups are expected to repeat the WikiLeaks paradigm.

Tech, media, and telecom companies in emerging markets and those considered “digital innovators” are among the world’s tops in providing value to their investors — and that includes, of course, Apple, according to a new study by the Boston Consulting Group (http://www.bcg.com/).