Earlier this month, patent-holding company Lodsys started going after small-time iOS developers, sending them “notice” letters which claim the developers are infringing on one of Lodsys’ patents for in-app purchasing technology. In these notices, Lodsys demands that developers license the patent from them for 0.575% of the U.S. revenue generated using in-app purchases and...
Most of the time I settle for checking weather on the web at whatever site I happen to remember at that moment. That’s before I saw Weather HD over at Macstories. This is a fantastic looking weather app for the Mac that combines beautiful interface elements with a cool window that displays animated views...
The latest generation of tablets all feature HD video recording capability. Combine that with video editing apps, and you have an all-in-one video production unit that may not be able to compete with professional HD camcorders, but is still good enough for the web. But which of the tablets is best at recording HD...
Chinese technologist Fang Binxing is credited as the father of the Great Firewall of China, the ring of blocks and filters that keeps the Internet in that country under the political control of the ruling regime. Known as the “Golden Shield” in Chinese, is was begun as a way to seize economic opportunities for...
We noted it was about to happen a few days ago, and now it has. As of 1:11 PM ET, IBM is worth more than Microsoft: Image: Google Finance That’s a stunner for anybody who remembers the tech landscape in the early 1990s, when Microsoft’s embrace of the PC revolution sent IBM into a...
Hyde: Back in the 1980s, I was having lunch at a convention with a woman who is a faculty member at UC Berkeley. We started talking about the stereotype and then we confessed our SAT-Math scores to each other. One of us had an 800 and the other a 780! We instantly began to...
Image: Dan Frommer, Business Insider See Also: HP Is Blatantly Copying Apple’s Smart Cover iPad Case For The TouchPad Microsoft Closes Hip Consumer Design Office In Downtown Seattle Google Buys Patents From Bankrupt Israeli Company That Made Tiny Cellphones The HP TouchPad tablet will debut at the same price as the iPad, according to...
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If the Egyptian revolution was inspired and organized on Facebook, maybe the post-revolution is destined to run its course on Twitter. Wael Ghonim, the former Google executive who launched We are all Khalid Said, the Facebook page that acted as a clearinghouse for the uprising, has fallen under opprobrium for recent comments and a...
Google chairman Eric Schmidt has been taking some flak from large media and content companies for comments he made about copyright in Britain, where the authorities have been considering a rewrite of the country’s 300-year-old copyright laws. His critics believe Schmidt and Google are bent on promoting a lawless, Wild West approach to the...