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The lawsuit Apple filed this week may target smartphone maker HTC, but Cupertino is likely shooting for much bigger prey Specifically, Google is the real focus of Apple's wrath, Chris Hazelton, research director for mobile and wireless with the 451 Group, told LinuxInsider....
As a result of recent updates to the BBC's Flash-based iPlayer, open source media players can no longer play its content The updates, which reportedly took effect Feb. 18, implement SWF Verification, a copyright protection mechanism that excludes free alternatives to Flash player, such as that offered by the XBMC community, among others. The result...
Online news sites are now the third most-popular source of news for American consumers, behind only local and national television news, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism Roughly six in 10 American adults get news online on a typical day, while 71 pe...
With all the hype surrounding Bloom Energy's newly launched Bloom Box, it may be tempting to view the new device as a cure-all for the world's energy concerns. After all, the promise of an on-site power source that can provide homes with reliable clean energy at an affordable price seems like nothing short of a panacea.
In a ruling that could have profound implications for the future of the Internet in Italy, three Google executives were convicted of privacy violations on Wednesday over a video that aired briefly in 2006 on the now-defunct Google Video site David Drummond, Google's senior vice president and chief legal officer, Peter Fleischer, the company's chief...
After nearly four years of legal battle, a case involving the unauthorized use of open source software last week came to a final conclusion that affirms the legal right of open source developers to collect damages when their code is used improperly. The case of Jacobsen v. Katzer dates back to 2006, when Robert Jacobsen, a developer at Java Model...
A freelance security consultant working on behalf of the Chinese government was likely involved in the hack attacks that prompted Google to take a stand against China last month, the Financial Times reported on Sunday The man, who is in his 30s, did not launch the attack; rather, he wrote the code that tapped a security flaw in Microsoft's Internet...
A Pennsylvania couple has filed a lawsuit against their local school district for allegedly using the webcam in a school-issued laptop to spy on their son at home. The suit -- which was filed last week in U.S. District Court by Michael Robbins and Holly Robbins on behalf of their son, Blake Robbins -- alleges that the Lower Merion School District ...
Microsoft and Yahoo have received clearance for their search agreement from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, the companies jointly announced Thursday, and they will soon begin implementing their plans The process will involve porting Yahoo's algorithmic and paid search platforms to Microsoft and making Yahoo the excl...
Good things come in small packages, as the saying goes, and nowhere is that more true than in nanotechnology Research in the field has recently led to several new strategies for employing nanotechnology in the fight against cancer, and -- so far, at least -- the results are promising....
Just a week after the launch of Google Buzz, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) on Tuesday filed a complaint with the FTC charging that the new service violates federal consumer protection law "This is a significant breach of consumers' expectations of privacy," said Marc Rotenberg, the group's executive director. "Google should not b...
Google has updated the beta version of its Chrome for Linux with a variety of fixes designed to make the browser more reliable, the company announced Thursday. Version 5.0.307.7 of Chrome for Linux addresses several bugs that were problematic in the previous version. One fix, for example, changes an out of memory (OOM) killer mechanism so that it ...
Just days after releasing its Buzz service for Gmail users, Google plunged further into the social media waters on Thursday by acquiring social search site Aardvark Though it has not yet been formally announced, officials from both companies have confirmed the acquisition is in progress. The deal is worth $50 million, TechCrunch reported on Thursda...
World leaders must embrace agricultural biotechnology if they are to cope with the severe food shortages likely to result from global warming in the coming decades, warns a group of scientists Yields from some of the most important crops for human consumption begin to decline sharply when average temperatures exceed about 30 degrees Celsius, or 86 ...
Originally planned for launch on Tuesday, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory was delayed once again on Wednesday due to high winds. ...
Google's Nexus One phone is a winner, according to Linus Torvalds, founder of the operating system it's based on "I generally hate phones," explained Torvalds, who is known as "the father of Linux," in a blog post on Saturday.
Following a day's delay due to cloudy weather, space shuttle Endeavour launched successfully early Monday morning from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida The shuttle, which launched at 4:14 a.m. EST, is carrying a new module and an attached cupola for the International Space Station (ISS)....
When the Symbian Foundation announced the opening up of its namesake smartphone platform on Thursday, it caused a major shift not just in the mobile landscape but also in the FOSS world Announced by Nokia back in 2008, the transition of the leading platform from proprietary code to open source was completed four months ahead of schedule and is the ...
President Obama on Monday proposed a dramatically new path that would end NASA's Constellation moon program and shift the agency's focus to developing new technologies for deeper space exploration instead "The truth is that we were not on a path to get back to the moon's surface" in a reasonable time frame, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden explain...
The iPhone propelled the smartphone onto the front lines of cross-platform competition, and now Apple's new iPad has the potential to do the same for the new category of tablet devices Positioned somewhere between the smartphone and the laptop, the new tablet is billed as "the best way to experience the Web, email, photos and videos."
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