Yeah, well, get used to the name -- it's just sued RIM, Apple and Palm for violating ten patents on things like detecting the difference between silence and voices, mobile device power management, and altering music to accommodate voices.

ENGADGET: Apple, RIM, Palm sued over vague GSM patents

So the silence between us was comfortable, even a relief.

NEWYORKER: The Reptile Garden

It is strange watching a man decide whether to shoot or not, to watch his eyes on a target, to see the battle in his head for choices, to see a conversation happen in silence between two men on patrol.

FORBES: Remembering the Road to Baghdad

Meanwhile, Mrs Buffet has lost face by her embarrassing inability at a recent football match in Paris between France and Algeria to silence the whistles that greeted the French national anthem.

ECONOMIST: The party is probably on the skids, whoever runs it

They sat in silence, the longest silence that had ever passed between them.

NEWYORKER: Found Objects

What to me has been noticeable is that there was much more and better communication between staff with individual office solutions, and a deathly silence of open-plan in a larger open plan office.

BBC: The pleasures and perils of the open-plan office

European tolerance of cavorting politicians carries the risk of creating a culture of silence and immunity that too easily blurs the lines between a consensual affair, harassment and outright assault.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

As American voters prepare to choose between Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney, Afghans fear that the silence over this war during the campaign means it has been relegated further down in U.S. foreign policy priorities.

CNN: Obama, Romney: Ignore Afghanistan war at your own peril

Hong Kong has observed three minutes' silence to mourn the 38 victims of Monday's fatal collision between two boats, as investigations continue.

BBC: Hong Kong mourns victims of Lamma Island boat collision