Mitt Romney’s narrow victory in Iowa looks ugly on the stat sheet, but it accomplished quite a bit when you consider the broader context.

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FiveThirtyEight: Winning Ugly, but Winning

The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled Monday on the first definitive case of the smartphone patent wars, handing a narrow victory to Apple. The commission ruled that HTC devices that use “data tapping” technology in a specific way will be hit with an import ban starting April 19, 2012. The technology, as outlined by patent expert Florian Mueller in his blog , allows devices to look at phone numbers in unstructured data formats such as e-mail and allows other applications — such as a dialer app — to process that kind of data. The ban applies only to devices that use the technology and, Mueller said, if Google and HTC can create a workaround in the Android system, the ban won’t apply to any HTC devices. Read full article > >

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Apple wins small victory over HTC in smartphone patent battle

France make it two wins from two in the Six Nations with a narrow victory over Ireland in Dublin.

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Ireland 22-25 France

Celtic take over at the top of the Scottish Premier League after a narrow victory over Hibernian in Glasgow.

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Celtic 2-1 Hibernian