Steve Jobs shakes hands with Eric Schmidt.

Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs threatened Palm CEO Edward Colligan with patent litigation if he did not agree to stop poaching Apple employees, according to a court filing that was made public on Tuesday.

Confidential emails between the pair, along with documents from Adobe and Google, have surfaced in a civil lawsuit that claims a number of major companies in Silicon Valley violated antitrust rules by entering into agreements not to recruit each other’s employees. Five employees are now fighting for class action status and damages for lost wages as a result of the “no-hire” agreements.

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show has already seen the unveiling of several impressive Android handsets, including the Sony Xperia Z, the Huawei Ascend D2, and the Pantech Discover. But we haven’t quite seen them all yet. Lenovo just announced a new smartphone of its own, and it’s quite a looker. Equipped with a 5.5-inch 1080p display, the K900 is yet another “phablet,” but unlike the rest, this one’s equipped with an Intel Atom processor.

Motorola’s new lineup of RAZRs has me wondering if they’ll be changing their name to Gillette in the not so distant future (yea, I know, horrible joke). Motorola has unveiled yet another RAZR, only this one sports a 2.0GHz Intel Atom processor. They’re calling it the RAZR i (get it, i for Intel), and aside from the Intel processor, it’s nearly identical to the RAZR M.

Apple, Google, Intel and four other tech giants failed to convince a judge to dismiss an antitrust suit brought against them. The suit alleges that the companies conspired against hiring each other’s employees and District Judge Lucy Koh in her decision said:

“The fact that all six identical bilateral agreements were reached in secrecy among seven defendants in a span of two years suggests that these agreements resulted from collusion, and not from coincidence,”

While Apple, Google, and Intel are the three largest firms in the suit, other major companies, including Adobe, Lucasfilm, Pixar and Intuit are included.

It looks like we only have one more month before the world’s first Intel-powered smartphone is launched and we’ll finally get to see just how well the Medfield processor performs. Sean Maloney, chairman of Intel China, announced that the Lenovo K800 will be launching next month, and although he didn’t give us any specific dates, he did reveal the inclusion of Intel’s “Avatar” technology (nothing to do with James Cameron).