Swedish prosecutors defend WikiLeaks about-face
STOCKHOLM — Swedish prosecutors defended their handling of a rape allegation against the founder of WikiLeaks, saying Sunday that they had made no mistakes in issuing an arrest warrant and withdrawing...
Why Apple's iTV Will Change Everything
The rumor: Apple will be releasing a revamped/renamed version of their ‘Apple TV’ set-top box, called ‘iTV’. The box will run the Apple iOS (same as the iPhone/iPad), and be priced around $99. — Wh...
Roommates Who Click
MADDI GILJE, who will soon leave home in St. Louis to start at New York University, has chatted all summer with her new roommate, Amelia Dudley of Baltimore. She could be talking to her twin. — The...
Virgin Mobile USA fortells unlimited prepaid mobile broadband for $40 a month
Whereas AT&T's move to tiered smartphone data pricing signaled “the end of unlimited” to some, Sprint subsidiary Virgin Mobile USA has just defied that notion with an all-you-can-eat broadband buffet ...
Motorola clamps down on Droid X's leaked Android 2.2 upgrade with cease and desist scare
Hoping to spoon-feed your Droid X some Froyo before the official OTA rollout? You'd better do it now — Motorola's sending out cease and desist emails in an attempt to shut the leaked ROM down.
Patent Office Back To Approving Pretty Much Anything
In the late '90s and early '00s, the US Patent Office saw a massive jump in patent grants — including tons of really, really bad patents, that have been tied up in huge, expensive lawsuits for years, ...
Buzz Kill
Something happened tonight that made me question everything I've done with social media since I first joined Twitter in late 2006. — You know me - I'm a complete web whore. I sign up for every site...
Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested Over Anonymous Source
About four months ago, Ed Felten blogged about a research paper in which Hari Prasad, Rop Gonggrijp, and I detailed serious security flaws in India's electronic voting machines. Indian election autho...
Skype Etiquette
Skype is one of the most important work and social tools I use. It's nearly perfect. Except that you people are using it to drive me crazy. — It's made my list of “can't live without” products for...
You Can Block Any Facebook User Except Mark Zuckerberg
The title of this post kind of says it all. As pointed out by blockzuck.com, you can block anyone on Facebook except CEO Mark Zuckerberg. If you try to do it (we did), you'll get a message saying “G...