Israeli media dutifully gathered for a press conference in Ramallah to air the views of the Fatah chieftain. Abbas apparently accepted Olmert’s peace offer which would allow Israel to keep the settlement blocs with one-to-one land exchange in Central Israel. The only point of contention is that Olmert, in the last attempt to preserve a modicum of self-respect, agreed to abandon the Temple Mount to international consortium where Muslims would have three votes (Palestine, Jordan,... Full Story

Redmond, Washington, USA Microsoft and TomTom have finally come to an agreement over patent suits and counter patent suits between the two that had been going on over the last 1 year. The financial details have still not been revealed but it seems like TomTom is going to pay Microsoft for the patent infringements but Microsoft won't The patent suits involved Microsoft suing TomTom over the use of the eight car navigation and file management system patents while Microsoft was sued over the use of TomTom's four... Full Story