Twitter Investor Defends New ‘Tweet’ Usage Rules
Twitter is taking heat in the tech blogosphere (here and here) over its new guidelines about how others can use the words “Twitter” and “Tweet.” Now some well-known technology investors are also sayi...
Microsoft's Silverlight dream is over
Remember “WPF Everywhere”? Microsoft's strategy was to create a small cross-platform runtime that would run .NET applications on every popular platform, as well as forming a powerful multimedia playe...
Apple Files Lawsuit against Motorola to Defend Multi-Touch
The inevitable: When Motorola preemptively launched their declaration judgment action against Apple earlier this month, we knew that Apple was likely to launch multiple patent infringement lawsuits ag...
Why Twitter's C.E.O. Demoted Himself
AT the annual South by Southwest gathering of techies in Austin, Tex., in March, conference organizers had chosen a hangar-size room to accommodate their star speaker: Evan Williams, the co-founder of...
Jacksonville mom shakes baby for interrupting FarmVille, pleads guilty to murder
A Jacksonville mother charged with shaking her baby to death has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. — Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, was arrested after the January death of 3-month-old Dylan Lee Edmo...
“Dead Drops” preview
I am pleased to preview ‘Dead Drops’ a new project which I started off as part of my ongoing EYEBEAM residency in NYC the last couple weeks. ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-s...
Sprint CEO: Our 4G Strategy Is WiMAX, Full Stop!
“Our 4G strategy is WiMAX, full stop,” said Dan Hesse, CEO of Overland Park, Kan.-based mobile phone company Sprint. In an interview, Hesse, a 33-year veteran of the telecom industry, said people sho...
Inside Google's Anti-Malware Operation
TORONTO—A Google malware researcher gave a rare peek inside the company's massive anti-malware and anti-phishing efforts at the SecTor conference here, and the data that the company has gathered shows...