Patents in Apple-HTC case filed in 1994 and 1996, long before smartphones existed
Lost in the clamor over Apple Inc.'s preliminary patent victory over rival phone-maker HTC Corp. are that the two patents in question are so old they predate smartphones. — A judge at the U.S. Inter...
Breaking News: 33% of Google+ Users Are Female
A lot of misinformation about Google+'s male to female ratio is going around Google+ and even being reported on by respectable media sites. For example: — Mashable Headline: Google+ Users Are Nearl...
U.S. banks changing out core systems for real-time processing
It has been years since the banking industry made any large investments in core IT systems, but some of the largest financial services firms in the U.S. are now in the midst of rolling out multi-milli...
App developers withdraw from US as patent fears reach ‘tipping point’
App developers are withdrawing their products for sale from the US versions of Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market for fear of being sued by companies which own software patents - just as a ...
Redesign set to make Firefox more responsive
Mozilla has begun turning the Firefox crank faster with a rapid-release development cycle. So what's in store now that we can expect a new version every six weeks? — A lot, including 64-bit support...
The supply of Apple's iPad 2 finally catches up with demand
A week after shipping times were cut to 3-5 business days, they shrank again to 1-3 — Apple's (AAPL) has been having trouble keeping up with demand for the iPad 2 from the day the product launched i...
CHART OF THE DAY: Google's Headcount Continues To Soar
Last night Google reported strong earnings with big revenue growth. It also reported that headcount is still soaring upwards, a trend that started a year and half ago. Below we've charted Google's g...
Google Maps Removes Driving With Traffic Estimates
I am not sure exactly when this happened, but Google Maps has dropped one of the more useful features. The feature is, estimating how much time it would take to drive somewhere with traffic, either l...
Analysts: iPod sales expected to decline 7.2% year over year
For once, the amateurs and the professionals are in agreement — iPod sales hit 22.7 million in the Christmas quarter of 2008 and have been going downhill, with seasonal spikes, ever since. — The q...
Internet Explorer 9 utterly dominates malware-blocking stats
Internet Explorer 9's dual-pronged approach to blocking access to malicious URLs—SmartScreen Filter to block bad URLs, and Application Reputation to detect untrustworthy executables—provides the best ...
Google wields data openness against Facebook
Google is accelerating efforts to make its new social network look like a more open and attractive alternative to Facebook. — The latest: Google will allow users to export a list of Web sites that t...
Beligian Newspapers Claim Retaliation By Google After Copyright Victory
Perhaps the lesson is: be careful what you sue for. The French and German-language Belgian newspaper consortium that successfully sued Google for copyright infringement got more than it bargained for...
Pentagon Wants a Social Media Propaganda Machine
You don't need to have 5,000 friends of Facebook to know that social media can have a notorious mix of rumor, gossip and just plain disinformation. The Pentagon is looking to build a tool to sniff ou...