Apple iPhone ad banned by Advertising Standards Authority over misleading internet claims
A TV ad for Apple's iPhone has been banned by the UK's advertising watchdog for misleading consumers after it over-hyped the internet capabilities of the smart phone.
Transcoding Is Not A Crime, Says Court In Veoh Porn Case
Update: More analysis of the decision here. — Finally, a judge who may have actually visited the Internet once or twice before deciding a case. Judge Howard Lloyd, a judge on the U.S. District Cour...
Apple bans a comic book, firestorm ensues
Murderdrome is not Ulysses, Lolita or Lady Chatterley's Lover. It's a dark, bloody comic strip marked by the type of over-the-top violence that has made its genre so popular among young readers with ...
A Photobucket Bonanza, for Insiders
A Web-Site Bet Was Lucrative For Venture Firm, but Not Its Investors — When the photo-sharing Web site Photobucket.com was acquired last year for about $300 million, executives at New York-based ven...
Chase Jarvis RAW: Advance Testing the Nikon D90
Woot! Today I get to be among the very first to share with you the planet's newest camera: the much-anticipated Nikon D90. You may have been attuned to all the recent leaks, buzz and rumors of a new...
Computer viruses make it to orbit
A computer virus is alive and well on the International Space Station (ISS). — Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG. — The worm...
Huge iPhone Security Flaw Puts All Private Information at Risk
There's a huge security problem in the latest iPhone 2.0.2: if you have your JesusPhone password protected, using a very simple trick gives anyone full access to your cellphone private information in ...
Why Cisco Bought Mail Startup PostPath for $215 Million
In order to fight its ongoing battle against Microsoft & Google on the whole issue of “collaboration”, Cisco today added yet another weapon to its arsenal. — The San Jose-based company today announc...
lonelygirl15's Second Incarnation: The Resistance
There may never be another lonelygirl15, especially given its origin as a hoax and as one of the first experiments in what episodic web content could be. But now that it's finally over, more than 500...
RIAA nears win (by default) in Atlantic vs. Howell
So much for that one. A federal judge in Arizona has all but dispensed with an intriguing legal battle between the Recording Industry Assn. of America and an accused music infringer, ruling that the ...
TiVo's Latest Bell And Whistle: Entertainment Weekly Viewing Picks
In the battle to keep viewers from migrating to cable DVRs, TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) has been adding a series of partnerships and features to separate itself from the pack. The latest feature comes from Tim...
Amazon Beefs Up Kindle Franchise
Purchases of startups including Web site Shelfari could harness the e-reader's success and bolster the online retailer's share price — Amazon.com wants to add some social media savvy to the growing ...