Oracle v Google: Why?
When Android debuted in 2007, I couldn't figure out how Google had managed to apply an Apache license to the project. Java, like Linux, was governed by the GPL and thus incompatible with the more per...
Google never removed Oracle from its index
Some folks have been reporting a strange behavior assumed by Google after the lawsuit filed by Oracle against Android and Google: it supposedly removed oracle.com pages, and all the pages that talk ab...
Apple manager arrested in kickback scheme
A midlevel Apple manager was arrested and accused of accepting more than $1 million in kickbacks from half a dozen Asian suppliers of iPhone and iPod accessories, according to a federal indictment uns...
Is this the burger joint of the future?
NEW YORK—The team behind 4food, a burger shop opening next month on Madison Avenue and East 40th Street in midtown Manhattan, might have put forth the most idealistic concept that the fast-food indust...
Myspace Music Romeo is like Pandora for music videos
Pandora is a wonderful service for discovering new music that matches your tastes, but it does little to capitalize on the iPad's glorious 9-inch display. Enter MySpace Music Romeo, an iPad app that ...
Cyberwar Against Wikileaks? Good Luck With That
View WikiLeaks insurance seeders in a larger map — Should the U.S. government declare a cyberwar against WikiLeaks? — On Thursday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a gathering in London that ...
Bike Nerds To Create a Low Cost Bike Sharing System For New York
A group of charming fellows have created something they're calling “Social Bicycles,” a bike-sharing system that allows you to drop bikes off almost anywhere there is a bike rack, locate them, and acc...
Liquidmetal May Be Used For New iPhone Antenna Says Inventor [Exclusive]
Apple may be planning to use Liquidmetal for a new iPhone antenna, says the co-inventor of the sci-fi metal alloy. — Interviewed exclusively by CultofMac.com, Dr. Atakan Peker says Liquidmetal might...
Kindle and iPad Displays: Up close and personal.
This really isn't meant to be a contentious post. It really only came about because I got a new toy, something I've been wanting to get for a while - a USB microsope! Here's the model I got: — Veh...
Real Reason for Ousting H.P.'s Chief
The resignation of Mark V. Hurd last week from his seemingly secure post as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard has got to be one of the great head-scratchers in recent times. — Here's a guy who walk...
Google and the Search for the Future
The Web icon's CEO on the mobile computing revolution, the future of newspapers, and privacy in the digital age. — To some, Google has been looking a bit sallow lately. The stock is down. Where on...
I Love The Smell Of OAuth In The Morning. OAuthpocalypse Now!
Some of you may recall back in 2009 when there was not one, but two Twitpocalypses. As a quick refresher, it was an issue with the unique identity number for tweets and the 32-bit signed and unsigned...
Suit alleges Disney, other top sites spied on users
A lawsuit filed in federal court last week alleges that a group of well-known Web sites, including those owned by Disney, Warner Bros. Records, and Demand Media, broke the law by covertly tracking the...
The huge obstacles facing Murdoch's new tablet newspaper
Rupert Murdoch is launching a new national newspaper, which will be “distributed exclusively as paid content for tablet computers such as Apple's iPad and mobile phones”. — The interesting thing her...