Everybody hates patent trolls, but no one’s ever put a number on how much they cost innovators and society in general. Moreover, NPE or non-practicing entities — a new age acronym for scumbag — aren’t targeting innovation in general, they’re going after software companies that have created real products.
Where there’s sex, there’s money. And where there’s money, there’s lawsuits.
Internet regulator ICANN and ICM Registry are being sued in US District Court in Los Angeles over their handling of the recently launched .XXX domain. The case could have implications for the entire domain name system.
Google Music has officially launched, with everyone in the U.S. now invited to sign up and begin using the service. But is it worth doing so?
Google has publicly launched BigQuery, a cloud-based data analysis service. It could be another example of the scaling of cloud computing slashing costs, though security and privacy issues have already been raised.
Apple has finally unveiled iTunes Match, at least in the U.S. But I can’t quite work out whether it’s a stroke of genius or an unnecessary hassle. As usual it depends on whether you’re a fanboy or not. They will love it, the rest of us won’t care.
Too often the words “open and free” can be summarized with a single word, “infection,” thus presenting an increasingly dire situation that Google and its Android partners ignore at their peril.
Ahmed Rushdie has prevailed in a lengthy dispute with Facebook over his profile page. He’ll now be allowed to use his better-known middle name, Salman.
The Amazon Kindle Fire reviews are in and you can do all of that reading or just read this. Blorge has the head to head hardware and service comparisons, as well as the conclusions you need to make an informed buying decision.
Try to challenge iTunes and your biggest enemy is often the record industry rather than Apple. It turns out that could be the case even for Google, which looks set to launch a music sales service with some major gaps on its virtual shelf.
The RIAA has a new target in its sights: Apps on the Google Android platform which could be used to download copyrighted music to smartphones.
Pop quiz — what’s the closest bookstore to where you live and are you sure it’s still there? Borders stores nationwide are either closing or just plain gone, and the reasons for the extinction are unmistakable: the economy (still) sucks and ebooks are growing by leaps and bounds.
It appears Facebook is close to agreeing a major settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that would overturn the most annoying part of its privacy policy: the way that it makes changes and then waits for users to put settings back to normal.
Amazon has hit on a winning strategy with its new Kindle range: sell at a slight loss and make the money back with interest at a later date.
There are several reports today that a survey of teen internet users suggests overall, everything’s just dandy. The problem is this is based on a single vague and uninformative question, and the rest of the results show cyberbullying is at least as bad as you’d expect.
Steve Jobs has been nominated at Time Person Of The Year. And he has to be a shoe-in for the title, surely.
How hip is Spotify? Their current VP of engineering is a former LimeWire VP of engineering and peer to peer is cool, right? Thereupon, I’m guessing the blush has come off the original launch bloom, which saw millions sign up and thousands pay.
Only weeks after his death, it appears Steve Jobs has won his final battle. A leaked Adobe announcement reveals the company is to stop work on bringing Flash to mobile devices.
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