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Unlike with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, the US Court of Appeals has temporarily lifted a ban on Galaxy Nexus sales issued late last week. The key word here is “temporarily,” as the ban is only suspended pending a response from Apple that would help the court decide whether or not to allow sales of the device until a final decision is reached in the patent infringement case against Samsung. The stay on the ban was the result Samsung had hoped to achieve when appealing the temporary injunction on their Galaxy Tab 10.1, but the Court of Appeals did not see eye to eye  with the Korean tech maker when it came to that device. Google and Samsung are already hard at work to restore sales of the Galaxy Nexus by way of a software patch that would remove infringing elements. The plan was to have the device back on sale next week regardless of the result of the appeals process. [via The Verge ]

Greenpeace activists are accusing Apple of using dirty energy to power the giant data center behind its iCloud. Following a rather negative Greenpeace report on Apple’s energy practices, protestors have taken their objections to another level by blocking the trains that supply the coal for powering Apple’s Maiden, North Carolina data center. Seven Greenpeace activists took to the train tracks used by Duke Energy and Apple for shipping coal. Four of the protestors locked themselves to the tracks near Marshall Steam Station in Catawba County, while two others hung a sign that read “Save Our Mountain Clean The Cloud.” The protestors also branded the trains with the Apple logo to show that the Maiden data center will only be using more coal as it expands. Police were called in and disbanded the protestors shortly. All seven were taken into custody and charged with trespassing. Apple has been denying the claims in the Greenpeace report, saying that the environmental group’s estimate of the...