Novell filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) over their WordPerfect computer program. Jurors were unable to reach a decision over the lawsuit. The jurors at a federal court in Salt Lake City told the judge yesterday that they have been in a deadlock after they had been deliberating in a deadlock for 3 days. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz had dismissed the 12-member panel and some of them left in tears. The trial started on October 18th.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has been putting a lot of their software on non-Microsoft mobile platforms. For example, Microsoft recently released SkyDrive for the iPhone, OneNote for the iPad, Kinectimals for iOS, Lync for Android, and Hotmail for Android. Microsoft Senior Director of Office 365 Tom Rizzo said that they plan to submit more software on various mobile platforms in 2012.

Ronald Wayne is the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) co-founder that spent less than a week working there. He gave up his shares for $800 and sold a copy of the founding contract of the company for thousands of dollars. The buyer of the contract sold it at a Sotheby’s auction for $1.6 million. That means that Wayne lost out on the opportunity to make millions, possibly billions of dollars in two separate opportunities. But it turns out that he has some other material that could be worth some money as Engadget discovered.

Path is a “smart journal that helps you share life with the ones you love” including the music you are listening to, where you are, when you wake up, when you sleep, etc. You can also share photos and videos on public networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook directly from Path. Path was founded by Dave Morin and he refused to sell his company to Google for $100 million when he was offered.

This past May Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced a partnership at the I/O conference that they have made a deal so that any new Android phone would receive OS updates for at least 18 months following the launch. The partnership is called the Google Update Alliance. Motorola, Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sony Ericsson are a part of the Update Alliance. Sony Ericsson is the only company that has kept up with the partnership. In fact Sony Ericsson released new versions of Android to all phones that are less than 18 months.

Looks like we jumped the gun about one month ago. Heather Harde has now OFFICIALLY left AOL. Harde isn’t the only TechCrunch employee that has left since AOL acquired the technology blog. Michael Arrington was fired and he started the CrunchFund. MG Siegler only writes occasional articles for TechCrunch and now he works full-time for CrunchFund. Sarah Lacy, Paul Carr, and Vaughn Brown have all resigned as well. [BusinessInsider]

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The House Judiciary Committee had adjourned before they could send the the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill to the floor. No date has been sent to continue the proceedings, which means that the vote on SOPA has been delayed. The bill was expected to be voted on today by the House, but now it is not expected to be voted on until at least January. The problem with SOPA is that it allows the recording industry and the government to regulate the Internet entirely. The reason why the vote was delayed is because Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) urged Smith to postpone the session until technical experts would be able to assess whether altering the domain name system for fighting copyright-infringing websites would cause security risks. [Wired]

Facebook is asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit from Paul Ceglia, which claims that he is entitled to 50% of Mark Zuckerberg’s ownership in Facebook. Ceglia cites a contract that he had with Mark Zuckerberg from 2003.