Twitter harassment declared free speech
December 16, 2011
The US constitution prevents legal constraints on the right to free speech. And according to one judge that right trumps the right not to be stalked online.
Category: Blogosphere
Groupon is in trouble in the UK
December 3, 2011
Groupon has suffered a string of problems this year. There have been questions concerning its accounting practices and complaints by businesses and consumers. Now Groupon UK is under investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for multiple violations.
Is Apfelkind’s apple a ripped off Apple logo?
October 22, 2011
When is a logo a rip off? Clearly, a logo is a rip off if it looks exactly the same, but how different does it have to be to avoid trademark or copyright infringement? That seems to be an issue that a small German café is having to answer. Apple recently sent a cease and desist letter to the owner of the café Apfelkind, Christin Römer.
TechCrunch: The Soap Opera continues…
September 14, 2011
You won’t want to miss the latest installment of TechCrunch: The Soap Opera, the new weekly comedy drama everyone is talking about. It really is compelling viewing, even though viewers are turning off in their droves.
AOL ditches Arrington, Schonfeld nabs TechCrunch, Huffington wins fist fight
September 12, 2011
Arrington’s TechCrunch is no more. So what next for the technology blog which focuses on making or breaking startups?
TechCrunch vs. AOL = Arrington vs. Huffington – A bloody fight to the end
September 6, 2011
When Michael Arrington and Arianna Huffington scrap it’ll be both bloody and entertaining. Can I watch it on PPV, please?
Tumblr notches up 10 billion posts, growing exponentially
September 2, 2011
Tumblr is growing exponentially, notching up 10 billion posts across 28 million blogs. Facebook and Twitter better watch their backs.
Google Plus asks ‘What’s in a name?’
July 25, 2011
Google is continuing to experience problems with its policy of requiring Google+ users to register only with a real name. But it’s sparked debate about whether such a policy is valid in the first place.
How to add a user and set security rights in WordPress
May 1, 2011
Many blogs are always written by the same person, but there are a lot of reasons why people need to add a second user to their WordPress blogs. If you’ve not done it before, it can be intimidating. Here’s how.
Samsung laptops do NOT have key loggers
April 1, 2011
Crazy though the rumor may have sounded, it was spread far and wide on the Web these last few days that Samsung was shipping key logging software on their laptops. It is now an official false alarm. They are not.
Top 40 best technology websites 2011
March 29, 2011
With no further adieu, we present our 2011 list of the best technology Websites, listed in alphabetical order so that no one can think that we’re playing favorites or making comparative judgments. :)
China blamed for WordPress attacks
March 7, 2011
Attacks on major blog platform WordPress have been traced back to China. But it appears the motivation may be commercial rather than political.
AOL spends $315M on Huffington Post
February 7, 2011
Just when you think that AOL has gone down for the last time, their name is back in the papers. This time it was announced, just after the Super Bowl, that AOL had purchased the Huffington Post.
Mubarik’s Egypt keeps the net shut down
January 29, 2011
The Internet is still shut down in Egypt, underscoring how quickly and completely a government with power over the Internet can close its citizens off from the rest of the world. It is a cautionary tale.
Google to go after ‘content farms’
January 22, 2011
Google says that it is ready to take action against content farms, low quality Web sites with millions of articles of questionable value, which cause problems for search engines trying to return valid content.
Does it really matter if Tim Cook, Steve Jobs’ replacement at Apple, is gay?
January 21, 2011
Apple’s likely next CEO Tim Cook may be gay. And that is big news, apparently.
Cheezburger funding: I can has $$$?
January 17, 2011
Who would have thought pictures of cats with quasi-English text explaining what is going on would be worth $30 million.
