Yahoo's Historical Hit: The Obamas On Election Night
Barack Obama's longtime campaign photographer David Katz took 82 pictures of the soon-to-be first family election night. Later, Katz uploaded them to Yahoo's (YHOO) photo-sharing site, Flickr. Gawke...
U.S. judge orders Apple executive to stop work
A U.S. District Court judge in New York ordered a newly hired Apple Inc (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) executive to stop work immediately because he might be violating an agreement wit...
AT&T to Buy Centennial for $944 Million in Cash
In its second wireless deal in two days, AT&T announced Friday evening that it would buy Centennial Communications, a regional wireless phone company, for $944 million in cash, a price that is more th...
Zuckerberg's Second Law
There's something about the crisp autumn air that brings out the philosopher in Mark Zuckerberg. At this week's Web 2. Summit, the Facebook founder mused, according to Saul Hansell of the New York Ti...
StarOffice No Longer Part of Google Pack
While Google Docs has been ramping up recently, it seems the Google Pack has been cutting back. Sun's $70 productivity suite StarOffice, which was added to the free Google Pack just over a year ago, ...
China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites
China is not new to censoring the Internet, but up until now, BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. Recently however, several reports came in from China, indicating that popular BitTorrent sites ...
Help, We're Being Digitally Bombarded
I love the Web and the fascinating number of useful and useless tools but it can also a huge time-suck and productivity killer. — Like many digital animals, the Web constantly seduces you. Just whe...
AT&T Quickfire is Being Sold Early...Like Today
AT&T Quickfire On Sale Today — One of our ninjas informed us that the AT&T Quickfire is being sold in an AT&T wireless store right now. The super slick sidekick rival was spotted in a small town in...
Cory Doctorow: Why I Copyfight
Why does all this copyright reform stuff matter, anyway? What's at stake? — Everything. — Until a very short time ago, copyright was an industrial regulation. If you fell under copyright's domai...
Opinion: Neo-Retro - Movement Or Passing Fad?
[In this opinion piece, Japan-based journalist Nayan Ramachandran considers the appeal of Mega Man 9 and other “neo-retro” titles that hinge on gamer nostalgia, and ruminates on the potential shelf li...
Halliburton Tries To Patent Form Of Patent Trolling
We see all sorts of ridiculous patent applications and patents, but my favorites tend to be the patents that have to do with patents themselves (such as the patent app on a method for filing a patent)...
Ballmer: Microsoft working on App Store-like software distribution
But he rejects the idea of using WebKit to power IE — Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. is working on a software distribution scheme along the lines of Apple's iPhone App Store, CEO Steve Ballmer said ...
Google CEO on Obama tech czar job: No thanks
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Friday he would not serve as technology czar in Barack Obama's administration if he was asked. — “I love working at Google and ...
TeleNav Shotgun Web-Connected GPS Delivers Real-Time Traffic, Finds Cheap Gas for $300
Just as Dash—makers of the internet-connected, traffic-terminating GPS—is bailing out of the hardware game to sell its awesome software to other companies, TeleNav is officially doing the exact opposi...