Reasons to care about Viacom vs. Google (FAQ)
Viacom has accused YouTube of looking the other way when clips from the Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures were once plentiful on the site. — (Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET) — Thursday's 200-page dump o...
Apple Bans Game, Days After Developer Publicly Trashes App Store
Last week, game developer Tommy Refenes publicly called Apple's app store “awful” and “horrible.” This week, Apple yanked his game from their store. — There are a couple of reasons that may have co...
Cool weird stuff: TUAW reader accidentally downloads 10.6.3 pre-release
Here's one for the freak occurrence archives. A TUAW reader e-mailed us after running Software Update on his new 2.8GHz i7 iMac last night. Something odd popped up. — “I got a new 27-inch iMac ear...
Check-In Fatigue. Or, Why I'm Rooting For An All-Out Location War.
I didn't have the same problems at SXSW this year that some people did. Was it too crowded at some events? Sure. But there were plenty of alternative things to do. Did some of the keynotes bomb? ...
iPhone 4G now available from Sprint, kind of
In the latest advertising campaign for its Sierra Wireless Overdrive 3G/4G WiFi hotspot, Sprint mocks AT&T and pokes fun at iPhone users whose smartphone is limited and whose style is cramped by the s...
The Hot News Doctrine Rides Again
Does a firm that expresses an opinion “own” that opinion, and thus have the ability to prevent others from reporting on the fact that the firm has expressed the opinion? When a newspaper or other ent...
Blackberry Internet Service 3.0 Coming March 28 With Gmail Syncing
In the wee hours of the morning on March 28, RIM will roll out Blackberry Internet Service 3.0. During the four hour upgrade, Blackberry users can expect their email service to be a bit wonky, but it...
feature: Smoking guns, dark secrets aplenty in YouTube-Viacom filings
Court documents in the $1 billion lawsuit between Viacom and YouTube were unsealed today, finally shedding some light on key questions: did Viacom have “smoking gun” evidence that YouTube was delibera...
Opera more than doubles download numbers in Europe after Choice Screen introduction
Following the introduction of the Choice Screen in Europe, Opera Software is experiencing a dramatic uptake on downloads of its latest browser, Opera 10.50. After the Choice Screen launch in early Ma...
iPhone will be first mobile device to fall at Pwn2Own 2010
The fourth annual Pwn2Own contest—which takes place at the CanSecWest security conference every year—kicks off next week. Like last year, 2010's contest will offer security experts and hackers the ch...
Wrapsol Ultra Film Protects Phones When They're Dragged Behind a Car at 35 MPH
The makers of Wrapsol Ultra adhesive film wanted to prove how well their product protects gadgets. So they took an innocent Nokia, wrapped it up like a sandwich, and dragged it behind a car at 35 mil...