Last week's issuance by the Federal Communications Commission of rules to protect what some still call "net neutrality" was destined to be legally challenged by someone, on some grounds - that's the nature of regulatory government. (In a pre-emptive strike, Verizon filed its challenge last January.) But in the first...
Another week, another massive change to Facebook. I've done the developer workaround to get Timeline added to my profile, and now I have to plow through several years of my life to remove hideously embarrassing incidents lend some coherence to it.And listen, I'm all in favor of them innovating and...
So this week the Google monopoly hearings began, and right off the bat we see Eric Schmidt claiming Google isn't Microsoft and this isn't the 1990s. All well and good, but that may not matter. And while I am not a lawyer, I lived through the Microsoft trials and even...
Mike Lee has been involved in what are arguably some of the software industry's best applications. Delicious Library, Tap Tap Revenge, the Obama '08 app, and Apple's mobile store. Lee has a pretty good idea what users want, and spent about an hour at the St. Louis Strange Loop 2011...
Mobile marketing company Tapjoy has been busy of late. One product the Tapjoy team has been looking forward to is the rollout of their mobile video advertising platform which has been in the works for most of the summer. Today, the announced Tapjoy Videos designed to provide mobile advertisers with...
Anyone who has seen the built-in applications in Harmattan knows there is a nice variety of widget colours that help distinguish the different application types - purple for multimedia, orange for office, etc - with various shades for each colour theme for even more differentiation. Anyone who has...
Tech CEOs are getting a lot of attention lately. With the exception of exiting Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the attention is not a good thing. From Carol Bartz's abrupt firing to Andrew Mason's IPO-icing shenanigans, many tech CEOs don't seem to be earning a janitor's salary – much less the...
"You are what you do, that's the philosophy of Mightybell," says Gina Bianchini, the former CEO of sprawling, Andreesen-backed network of social networks Ning, about her new startup Mightybell, which launches today. "We've spent the last 5 years calling success the number of friends, fans and followers we've accumlated -...
United States law enforcement officials have been utilizing data provided by global positioning satellite systems to track down individual suspects, without having to demonstrate probable cause before a judge first - that much is known. Rights groups such as the ACLU have wondered, just how much of that goes on?The...
I'm thousands of feet in the air, speeding across the United States, flying from Portland, Oregon to Austin, Texas. When I land, I'm going to send a picture of myself to my nieces back home - but it won't just be a picture of one of their favorite uncles in...
The press is one of the many casualties of Mexico's ongoing violence, in particular, the local media. Newspapers and TV stations are caught in a battle between censorship, control and threats from the drug cartels and the local governments. In some cities, people often witness shootings, grenade attacks and other...
Cellular data usage has become subject of contention among consumers, carriers and federal regulators. Consumers want more data with less restrictions at manageable prices. The carriers want the opposite. The federal government is left to balance consumers' rights with spectrum allocation, bandwidth requirements, net neutrality and mergers that may disrupt...
TechCrunch editor and founder Michael Arrington has left the popular tech blog to become a partner in a new venture capital firm called CrunchFund. As the proprietor of TechCrunch, Arrington has long been the blogger-turned-kingmaker in the startup ecosystem. With CrunchFund, he has now proclaimed himself king and is looking...
The changes in U.S. copyright law over the past three years affect the way damages are assessed. When a party is found guilty of infringement of copyright (which runs deeper than mere violation), the test now is the extent to which the infringed party is less able to license its...
Virsto has had some very cool ways to cut down on VM storage bloat for Microsoft Hyper-V hosts for more than a year. This week they announced they are moving into the VMware world and have redesigned their product for vSphere v4.1 hypervisors and looking specifically at improving the storage...
We all know that there is a lot of wasted space in most VM storage repositories due to duplicate data. (Or we should.) But what isn't as well known is the way the disk storage is configured can introduce a lot of delays in its throughput. This is because most...
The most significant difficulty facing very large SQL databases today is that they simply aren't scalable when their table sizes approach the billions of records. So while many of the world's SQL databases, using Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server, still perform appreciably well even for large businesses, the rise of...
There's no better way to learn than by making mistakes. Just ask Kevin Montrose from Stack Exchange. Montrose is going a post-mortem on the first generation Stack Exchange API, with coverage of its history and mistakes made in its design.The first post is about the history of the API and...
A Quest Too Far is roguelike game made on 7 days by Geoffrey White. SDL, character graphics, fullscreen. No mouse support, keyboard only. No support for saving nor hiscore (game doesn't have) Address: http://repo.pub.meego.com/home:/aapo...nen/harmattan/ Package: questtoofar Upstream: http://www.randomstuff.org.uk/~geoff...esttoofar.html Source MeeGo
If the proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility (MMI) by Google announced on Monday truly is about the value of MMI's patent portfolio, then mitigating circumstances over just the past few days may make the $12.5 billion bid seem a bit steep. The problem stems from an ongoing U.S. International Trade...
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