Live video of HTC's “Dream” Android phone?
Yeah, it's not the highest quality video we've ever seen, but if you can look past the blurriness and Darth Vader breathing noises you might be pleasantly surprised. Thanks to an eagle-eyed tipster, ...
Intel's Nehalem chips to get ‘Core’ branding
Intel's next-generation desktop processors will be branded “Intel Core” with an “i7” identifier for the first wave of products. — The i7 identifier will apply to the first crop of high-end desktop p...
uTorrent 1.8 Released, Mac Version Coming Soon
After months of hard work and more than six months since their previous stable release, the uTorrent team has released version 1.8 of their BitTorrent client, with significant improvements and updates...
Innocent infringement defense may reduce damages to $200 per song file in Maverick v. Harper
In Maverick v. Harper, a San Antonio, Texas, case of which we were unaware until yesterday, the RIAA has been pursuing a college age defendant who admitted to having committed copyright infringement u...
Apple's Rotten Decision
One of the more hotly-discussed topics among attendees of this year's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas was Apple's last minute decision to cancel its scheduled presentations, and the somewhat disenga...
The Noncompete Ruling Won't Change Anything, Anywhere
Earlier this week, California's Supreme Court reaffirmed the state's position on noncompete clauses: they're almost never valid, except for in a few specific circumstances. While this has been the st...
Return To Sender
Almost all of the complex exploits that make news at the Defcon hacker conference are scary. But the network vulnerability that Anton Kapela and Alex Pilosov will present is frighteningly simple. — ...
eBay: It's a Gamble!
This I know: A brand has definitively jumped the shark when it's turned into a slot machine. It's happened to That Girl and Blondie (the comic strip, not the band) and poor Dean Martin, who isn't aro...
Does Google Have An Organic Growth Problem?
Google pulled in $5.37 billion in revenues last quarter, and $1.25 billion in net profits (nearly ten times what Yahoo made last quarter). Yet behind the consistently amazing financial performance, a...
Innocent infringement defense may reduce damages to $200 per song file in Maverick v. Harper
In Maverick v. Harper, a San Antonio, Texas, case of which we were unaware until yesterday, the RIAA has been pursuing a college age defendant who admitted to having committed copyright infringement u...
Vatata: Chinese P2P TV Coming to Set-Top Boxes
Chinese P2P solutions provider Vatata, whose similarly named P2P streaming platform Vakaka we wrote about last year, has developed a set-top box solution to bring a Joost-like P2P TV experience to the...
Found Footage: ‘I Am Rich’ walk through
Apparently, eight people actually bought the famed “I Am Rich” iPhone application. If you weren't rich stupid lucky enough to buy the app, or if you are merely curious what the fuss was all about — t...