Digital piracy. It’s an illicit activity undertaken by college students in their dorm rooms or by teenagers in their parents’ basements, right? Wrong, according to a recent survey by the British law firm Wiggin. Or wrong when it comes to e-book digital piracy at least. According to the firm’s annual Digital Entertainment Survey, one...
A Saudi woman, Manal al-Sharif, has been arrested after posting a video of herself driving on YouTube and Facebook, according to Al Jazeera. She was taken into custody Saturday, not by the country’s police – driving as a woman is not illegal – but by the mutaween, the “religious police” of Saudi Arabia. Her...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. One of the better cloud computing bargains can be found at “Cloudshare.com. For...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Citrix announced yesterday at its annual Synergy user conference that it has acquired...
More and more magazine publishers are signing up with Apple to offer subscriptions through their iPad apps, including Conde Nast — which rolled out in-app subscriptions for Wired and GQ today — and Hearst. The appeal of that method is obvious: Apple handles the details, and publishers get to keep (most of) the money....
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See below for some footage we took today at the Windows Phone 7 “Mango” launch event, where Microsoft revealed many new features coming this fall to Windows Phone 7 users. For a full list of features and announcements at the event, click here. In this video, you’ll see SkyDrive, Windows’ cloud storage service, and you’ll also see what happens when...
Aside from being a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, Bing Gordon writes tech related poetry. When our very own Mike Arrington asked him to write one up on the fly about 45 minutes before he went on stage, this is what he came up with (Disclosure: it’s pretty good). Chris Dixon apparently...
Yes, it sucks. But still, I’m feeling way better than I did in 2009! Image: Wikimedia via David Shankbone Henry Blodget The New York Times’s paywall launch seems to be off to a fine start, with management proudly announcing 100,000 new web-only subscribers shortly after the launch. If each of those subscribers stick around...
PCH International is one of those quirky, successful mid-size companies you’ve probably never heard of. For starters, PCH is a Chinese manufacturing company named after a California highway that has headquarters located in Ireland. If you have a lot of gadgets lying around, you’ve probably used one and you may not even know it....