Rambus, Nvidia sign patent licensing deal (AP)
AP - Technology licensing company Rambus Inc. said Wednesday it has signed a licensing agreement with chip maker Nvidia Corp. to settle a long-running patent dispute.

Watch the contenders for DARPA’s flying robot competition take to the sky (Yahoo! News)
Yahoo! News - DARPA was on the hunt for the best unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone designs, so it launched the UAVForge competition in late 2011. While helicopter and plane-like designs were expected, a few of the entries were actually rather unique. Take for example …

Relax, the PlayStation Network isn’t going anywhere (Yahoo! News)
Yahoo! News - Any time you tweak the vocabulary surrounding a network that millions of people use every day, there is bound to be some confusion. That's just what happened earlier this week when Sony announced it would be renaming PlayStation Network accounts as Sony …

British Cabinet Warns of Possible Internet Outages During Summer Olympics (Mashable)
Mashable - The British Cabinet Office has warned businesses in England that the country may not be able to fully accommodate a surge in Internet use during the 2012 Olympics in London this summer. Businesses have been told that Internet providers may be forced to ration access to the web during certain times of day and service may fall out altogether at other times.

Hackers post W.Va. police officers' personal info (AP)
AP - Hackers affiliated with the group Anonymous obtained personal information for more than 150 police officers from an old website of the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association and posted the data online.

AOL hires chief content officer for troubled Patch (Reuters)
Reuters - AOL Inc, which has been investing heavily in content to make up for declining revenue from dial-up Internet access, has hired an executive for the newly created position of chief content officer at its struggling Patch hyperlocal news network.

Nokia ends phone assembly in Europe, cuts jobs (AP)
AP - Nokia Corp. plans to stop assembling cell phones in Europe by year-end as it shifts production to Asia and will cut another 4,000 jobs, its latest attempts to cushion itself from stiff competition in the smartphone sector.

The Sims FreePlay expected on Android this month (Appolicious)
Appolicious - The Android platform is beginning to really prove itself in the gaming sector, but given our growing world of connected devices, the Android Market is really just the tip of the iceberg. Game publishers recognize that the consumer’s desire for on-demand gaming presents an opportunity for cross-device networks, and big players like EA and Gameloft are taking matters into their own hands.

Analysis: More than just Great Firewall awaits Facebook in China (Reuters)
Reuters - When it comes to China, Facebook should consider itself forewarned. Cracking the world's biggest Internet population might seem an obvious ambition for the social networking giant as it trumpets its global growth before a $5 billion initial public offering, but the chances it will succeed look slim.

Sprint loss widens on iPhone costs (Reuters)
Reuters - Sprint Nextel posted a wider quarterly loss, reflecting the higher costs of selling Apple Inc's iPhone. Plus its subscriber growth fell short of expectations, which sent the company's shares down 3.7 percent.

Five ways to lower your smartphone’s data bill (Appolicious)
Appolicious - Data plans for smartphones are not what they used to be. As more consumers operate apps, games and videos from their iPhones, Androids and other handheld devices, cellular carriers are raising data prices and at times restricting what heavy users can do on their networks.

India ministers quit after caught watching porn in parliament (Reuters)
Reuters - Three Indian politicians from a morally conservative party, including a women's affairs minister, resigned on Wednesday after being caught watching pornography on a mobile phone during a session of state parliament.

Amazon, Viacom close to Web video deal (Reuters)
Reuters - Amazon.com Inc is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom Inc in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix Inc.

Summary Box: Sprint's fourth-quarter report (AP)
AP - IPHONE IMPACT: Sprint started selling the iPhone in October, joining Verizon and AT&T. It's an expensive project for a company already losing money.

Kaspersky Lab's sales growth slowed in 2011 (Reuters)
Reuters - Russia's Kaspersky Lab reported that sales growth slowed substantially last year as the world's No. 4 maker of anti-virus software said its business was starting to mature.

Path iPhone app shown to be uploading iOS address books to its servers (Appolicious)
Appolicious - One of the most popular social networking apps available for iOS and Android devices is in a bit of hot water.