Microsoft hit with $200 million patent verdict
A federal jury in Tyler, Texas on Wednesday ordered Microsoft to pay $200 million in a patent infringement case. — The jury ruled that the custom XML tagging features of Word 2003 and Word 2007 infr...
Introducing Jetpack, Call for Participation
Exploring new ways to extend and personalize the Web. — The add-ons community for Firefox is arguably one of the largest, most vibrant sources for innovation on the Web today. If you want to affect...
4chan, eBaum's World carpet bombing YouTube with porn videos
YouTube is the latest target for pranksters looking to amuse themselves. Today, May 20, has been deemed “Porn Day” by denizens of 4chan and eBaum's World, with an organized group of users from the si...
Gawker Chief: ‘Original Reporting Will Be Rewarded’
Q&A: Gawker Media Founder Nick Denton — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Gawker Media impresario Nick Denton, one of the more vocal Cassandras of media collapse last fall, got a surprise this spring when thin...
Congressmen want automakers to cough up diagnostic codes
Like everything else these days, cars are getting increasingly computerized, with embedded microprocessors controlling everything from the fuel-air mixture in the engine to the air temperature in the ...
Google Book-Scanning Pact to Give Libraries Input on Price
SAN FRANCISCO — In a move that could blunt some of the criticism of Google for its settlement of a lawsuit over its book-scanning project, the company signed an agreement with the University of Michig...
CL Sues SC AG For Declaratory Relief
craigslist has filed suit against SC AG Henry McMaster in federal court in South Carolina, seeking declaratory relief and a restraining order with respect to criminal charges he has repeatedly threate...
Netflix comes to Windows Media Center
Starting tomorrow, Windows Media Center users who are also Netflix members will gain access to more than 12,000 movies and TV episodes from Netflix directly within Windows Media Center on their PCs. ...
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone
Inventory Destocking Adds 25 Million Units to Sell-In — Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 269.1 million units in the first quarter of 2009 …
Palm Pre's Irritating $100 Rebate Will Be Instant At Best Buy
Annoyingly, you won't be able to get a Palm Pre for the advertised $199 without redeeming a $100 mail-in rebate—something Sprint is depending on you not doing. Solution: get yours at Best Buy.
Look at This Article. It's One of Our Most Popular
Top-Ten Lists Abound Online, but Following the Herd Can Make You Wonder About the Wisdom of Crowds — Popularity is, unfortunately, still all the rage. — The Internet has facilitated an outbreak of...
The Freemium Model And A Desktop App Get The Thumbs Up With Pandora One
You'd be hard pressed to find someone who tries the online streaming radio service Pandora that doesn't like it. In fact, some users like it so much that they actually ask for ways to pay the company...
Amazon Updates The Kindle App To Be More iPhone-ified
As a Kindle owner, I love the fact that Amazon released an iPhone app to allow me to continue reading my content even when I don't have the actual Kindle with me. Of course, the experience of reading...
Palm Pre to run $549 off-contract
We'd ventured a guess that the Pre would run close to $500 off-contract, and it looks like we were in the ballpark — Sprint customer service is apparently telling people that Palm's first WebOS device...
Energized about our first Google PowerMeter partners
Earlier this year I blogged about energy information and a tool our engineers developed called Google PowerMeter, a Google gadget that can show consumers their personal electricity consumption right o...
Open Source Developer Intends To Block Belgian Government From Using His Technology Over Tax Dispute
Open source developer Bruno Lowagie is about to set a remarkable precedent in the F/OSS world by restricting any government body in his (and my) home country, Belgium …
Dell Demonstrates the Mini 10v Running Android Cupcake
Warning: Dell has not announced that their 10-inch, $299 Mini 10v netbook will be optionally loaded with Google's smartphone environment Android (Cupcake). But that hasn't stopped Dell from demonstra...
Google chief Eric Schmidt hints at partnership with Twitter
Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, hinted that a partnership with Twitter could be close, although he dampened speculation that he is planning to buy the microblogging phenomenon. — Speaki...
BlackBerry Location Apps Are Expensive; Apple Has More
Apple's iTunes App Store has the largest number of location-based applications: 2,300, according to data collected by Skyhook Wireless, a location information platform provider based in Boston. Nearl...
Former MySpace Execs Get Funding For New Venture; Some Details Leak
Remember when MySpace lost three key execs before the whole chaotic reorganization? They announced their departure in March. And we've now confirmed that they are closing a substantial round of fund...
Cable: let us experiment with metered Internet
In the wake of Time Warner Cable's data caps debacle, Ars talks to the head of cable's DC lobby group about metered pricing, Internet access, and the importance of doing the experiment before pontific...
iPhone Push Notification Settings and Screenshots
Apple began high volume testing of the upcoming Push notification system for iPhone applications earlier this week. The system offers 3rd party applications the ability to push notifications to the u...
New Facebook Application Directory Goes Live
Along with the new application pages which were rolled out this morning, Facebook has also pushed the new application directory live. The new directory provides a much needed improvement over the pre...
Elemental Shakes Up Video Servers With Parallel Processing
Elemental Technologies — aka the smart young startup in Portland that makes video processing better by doing it in parallel — is beta-releasing a video encoding and transcoding server. — In the last...
Virgin America first to offer fleetwide Wi-Fi, gives other airlines the bird
Whether we realize it or not, there's a race going on in the skies above us. With the advent of wireless Internet access creeping into what once our sanctuary of solitude at 37,000 feet has now becom...