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No BlackBerry keyboard for you, and other news for March 31, 2014

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<p>Sorry folks, it looks like those of you who dreamed of having a BlackBerry-type keyboard for your iPhone will have to just keep on dreaming. The company has won a court order against Ryan Seacrest's Typo iPhone keyboard (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/29/us-blackberry-typo-idUSBREA2S02J20140329?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=technologyNews). The Typo had been expected to go on sale this Spring, but once BlackBerry got wind of it they filed a lawsuit against Seacrest's company in January. As Reuters reports:</p>

<p>U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco said that the Canadian mobile phone maker had established a "likelihood" of proving that Typo infringed its patents, while mentioning that Typo had not sufficiently challenged the patents in question.</p>

<p>The preliminary injunction prohibits Typo from the sale of its keyboard, which is a part of the relief sought by Blackberry.</p>

<p>"BlackBerry is pleased that its motion for a preliminary injunction against Typo Products LLC was granted. This ruling will help prevent further injury to BlackBerry from Typo's blatant theft of our patented keyboard technology," a spokeswoman for BlackBerry said in an email.</p>

<p>Typo said it was disappointed and plans to appeal the decision.</p>

<p>In other news:</p>

<ul>
   <li>Square has begun notifying (http://9to5mac.com/2014/03/29/square-notifying-existing-customers-to-update-to-new-card-reader-for-free/) customers that can get a new card reader for free.</li>
   <li>Apple has sent out a new letter to residents (http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/03/28/apple-sends-out-letters-to-cupertino-neighbors-with-updates-on-campus-2-construction-) in the area of the Campus 2 HQ notifying them of updates on its construction.</li>
   <li>New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella seems pretty pleased (https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/449604995361411073) about Office for iPad's App Store rankings.</li>
   <li>iTunes apparently still dwarfs subscription streaming services (http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2014/03/subscription-and-streaming-music-services-still-dwarfed-by-downloads-led-by-apples-itunes.html).</li>
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