BOSTON (Reuters) - Apple Inc is the target of a lawsuit that claims a technology the iPhone uses to surf the Web infringes on a patent filed by Los Angeles real estate developer Elliot Gottfurcht and two co-inventors.

The lawsuit was filed by EMG Technology LLC on Monday in the U.S. District Court in Tyler, Texas. EMG was founded by Gottfurcht, is based in Los Angeles with an office in Tyler, and has just one employee.

The suit alleges that the technology the iPhone uses to navigate and display some websites designed for small phone screens infringes on a patent obtained last month by Gottfurcht and his co-inventors and assigned to EMG.

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Internet firm Yahoo which has announced that Jerry Yang is stepping down as chief executive
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Internet firm Yahoo is set to replace co-founder Jerry Yang
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NEW YORK (AFP) - Yahoo announced on Monday that co-founder Jerry Yang, who spurned a 47-billion-dollar takeover offer from Microsoft earlier this year, is stepping down as chief executive of the pioneering Internet company.

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Regular physical activity can significantly lower a woman’s risk of developing cancer, but skimping on sleep can eliminate those gains, a new study has found.

In a long-term study of nearly 6,000 US women, researchers found that those who exercised the most had a 25 percent lower chance of developing cancer than those who were the least active.

But among younger, physically active women, those who slept less than seven hours a night had a 47 percent higher risk of being diagnosed with cancer than those who regularly got a good night’s rest.