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| 12.07.2011 | Apple Wins Two Original iPhone Patents Regarding Rotation Heuristics
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Search | Granted Patent: Portrait-Landscape Rotation Heuristics for a Portable Multifunction Device
Apple has been granted another original iPhone related patent. This particular granted patent generally relates to portable electronic devices, and m... |
| 20.06.2011 | Is This The Device Nokia Is Announcing Tomorrow? | Nokia’s all set to announce something at the CommunicAsia expo in Singapore, and all signs are saying that it’s the MeeGo-powered N9. The N9 has shape-shifted a few times in its laps around the rumor mill, having started life as a QWERTY-sl... |
| 19.05.2011 | After Amazon And Google, Masterobjects Sues Microsoft Over Instant Search Patent | We recently broke the story of a small search software outlet named Masterobjects taking on Amazon.com in a notable patent infringement lawsuit, later also taking Google to court.
Now it’s apparently Microsoft’s turn to get sued by the comp... |
| 05.04.2011 | Apple Wins Patent for All-New Hybrid DisplayPort/USB 3.0 Connector
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Search | Granted Patent: All New Connector
Apple has been granted a powerful patent that packs quite the wallop. Somehow they snuck a secret patent application through the system for an all-new high speed connector that will combine at least USB 3.0... |
| 25.03.2011 | Dot Obits: First Woman to Design Computer | Betty Jean Jennings Bartik, one of the first women in the IT industry, has passed away at the age of 86. Bartik was on the team that programmed and de-bugged the first general-purpose computer, the ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator ... |
| 18.03.2011 | EU Realizing It Got The Short End Of The Stick In Agreeing To Let US Spy On Bank Data | A little over a year ago, the EU agreed to a deal with the US, called the SWIFT agreement, which said that the US could get access to EU citizens’ financial transaction data. This was so that the US could (in theory) better track down terro... |
| 10.03.2011 | Libya Shuts Off Internet Again: This Week in Online Tyranny | Libya shuts down the Internet again. Libya shut down the Internet for a brief period in mid-February. Then again on March 3, it shut it down completely and it has remained off.
This has not had what we can presume is the desired end of this... |
| 10.02.2011 | CrunchGear’s Valentine’s Day Gift Guide: Gifts For Girls | With Valentine’s Day fast approaching it’s time to start thinking about the dreaded gift for the gal in your life. Even if you think Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark holiday designed to rake in millions of dollars in cash – it is – so you bett... |
| 09.02.2011 | How the rot set in for Meego over a pint of Guinness | On Friday Nokia has its Capital Markets Day where it is rumoured to be making a big announcement about its future direction (Update: They did it). Or it could happen at Mobile World Congress, starting Sunday. At any rate. The “burning platf... |
| 11.01.2011 | Amazon Stops Selling Book On How To Game Amazon | Remember Amazon’s recent statement that: |
| 28.12.2010 | Dell's Ultraslim Adamo Series, Now $200 Cheaper | I don’t suppose this news will really rock anyone’s world, but if you’re in the market for an ultraslim laptop, this $200 price drop might be the factor that pushes the Dell up to the top of the heap. The Adamo (not the XPS, but the vanilla... |
| 02.12.2010 | MS strikes deal with WP7 jailbreakers | By Contributor
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The team working on the ChevronWP7 jailbreaking tool has discontinued it after contact was made by Microsoft to integrate its homebrewin... |
| 29.10.2010 | Getting Closer To Autonomous Cars: Vans Make The Trip From Italy To China | Back in July we mentioned that some researchers had begun an attempt to have an autonomous vehicle drive safely from Italy to China. Then, about a month ago, we also noted that Google had been successfully testing autonomous vehicles on the... |
| 20.10.2010 | Amid Microsoft buyout rumors, Linden Lab founder leaves CEO post | The game of musical chairs in the executive suite at Second Life parent company Linden Lab continued today, as founder Philip Rosedale, who had been serving as interim CEO since June, announced he was stepping down from the job immediately.... |
| 08.10.2010 | Microsoft Acquiring Second Life Would Kinect Well With Gamers | Microsoft (MSFT) has reportedly put a bid in to buy Linden Lab's Second Life. Neither party will confirm, but it would be a good match: The Microsoft Kinect virtual controller needs an active community and the once-buzzworthy Second Life ne... |
| 28.09.2010 | What you need to know - Thursday 9/28/10 | AOL buys 5min Media, TigerText raises $1.9M, e-Rewards buys Peanut Labs, NetShelter raises $15M
AOL might buy TechCrunch. Well, for now its mostly in theory, since according to the posters of this rumor the talks are in a "delicate sta... |
| 06.08.2010 | Wikileaks: an ugly transparency posterchild | In the tech blogs, it's hip to dope-slap DC. But hugging Wikileaks is like kissing your executioner.
Lots of drama this week over Wikileaks, the whistle-blower website that continues to publish sensitive classified documents from the War in... |
| 03.08.2010 | U.S. Congressman Calls For Execution Of Wikileaks Whistleblower | What should happen to PFC Bradley Manning, the young man now charged with the unauthorized access of and subsequently leaking of classified military information, namely the video that Wikileaks released under the title “Collateral Murder”? ... |
| 29.06.2010 | Facebook Disabled The Massively Popular Boycott BP Page "In Error" | This morning, there was some ruckus on the Web when Facebook seemingly flat out deleted the Boycott BP page, which has amassed some 734,000 ‘fans’ on the social network so far.
The message spread quickly, with posts going up on CNN’s citize... |
| 22.06.2010 | Tons Of Companies Sued Over Broad Patent On Controlling Workstations In A Computer Network | As we keep waiting for a Supreme Court ruling in the Bilski case (any day now…), Glyn Moody points us to the news of a lawsuit that has been filed against 26 different software companies for violating an incredibly broad patent (5,832,511) ... |
| 20.05.2010 | Google data collection eyed by Congress, class action lawsuit | reader comments 72 with 31 posters participating
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The heat is being turned up on Google over its recent WiFi data collection incident. Two members of Congress have now sent ... |
| 21.04.2010 | All the pitches, speakers and video from GeeknRolla 2010 | Well GeeknRolla rocked London for another year and the feedback we’ve had has been incredible. The Twitter stream has been fantastic. There are plenty of pictures, and a few blog posts appearing already as we write. And another.
Congratulat... |
| 12.04.2010 | The speed of Pink: Tegra 2 powering new Windows phones? | reader comments 31 with 25 posters participating
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This morning at 10am PT, Microsoft will launch its Project Pink phones on Verizon, and there's a rumor out that these phone... |
| 08.04.2010 | Bunch Of Companies Sued Over Encryption Patents | Another day, another story of a company no one’s heard of who seems to produce nothing but patents, filing a lawsuit against a ton of companies in East Texas (of course). This one, sent in by the Bored SysAdmin, involves a company called Th... |
| 28.01.2010 | Insult To Injury: Mandelson Wants Those Wrongly Kicked Off The Internet To Pay To Appeal | As if Peter Mandelson’s Digital Economy Bill proposal wasn’t bad enough, Dave sends in yet another problem with it. While it does include a process for appealing if you are cut off for accusations (not convictions) of unauthorized file dist... |
| 26.01.2010 | No Access for the Axis: SourceForge Bows to Government Demands | SourceForge, one of the the primary distribution hubs of the open source software movement, has shut its doors to visitors from a number of countries, saying that it is working to become compliant with US laws. In a post yesterday, the site... |
