Judge denies Apple's motion to dismiss claim that they intentionally broke FaceTime

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ruled Friday that proceedings may continue in a class action suit leveled by iPhone 4 and 4S users claiming that Apple intentionally "broke" FaceTime for iOS 6 users. This suit comes after a series of court cases between Apple and the alleged "patent troll" company VirnetX, which in 2012 won a lawsuit against the company for infringing on peer-to-peer patents used in FaceTime.

At the time, iPhones used a combination of peer-to-peer communication and relays sent over servers owned by Akamai to connect users via FaceTime. After the ruling, Apple was ...