Friday, November 6, 2009
Developers Stealing From Developers: An App Store Tale
If you are Paul Haddad of TapBots, LLC, it isn’t unusual to get requests for contract work.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Little, Big, and Green: A Biography of the Solid-State Disk
Faster and dramatically more power-efficient than rotating magnetic media, solid-state disks (SSDs) are one of the longest-awaited and most eagerly anticipated technologies in the past two decades of computing.
Friday, October 30, 2009
After Net Neutrality, Will We Need “Google Neutrality”?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mounted a recent push to turn network neutrality “principles” into official regulations–and in doing so has stirred up the net neutrality hornet’s nest once again.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Want 50Mbps Internet in Your Town? Threaten to Roll Out Your Own.
Regional telco TDS Telecommunications last week issued a press release announcing a major milestone for the company: 50Mbps service over fiber optic cable to residents of Monticello, Minnesota.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Weighing the Pros and Cons of Stratospheric Geoengineering
The ideas may sound like science fiction, but some researchers are seriously considering what it would take to shoot sun-reflecting aerosols into the atmosphere to counter climate change.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
100 Years of Big Content Fearing Technology–In Its Own Words
It’s almost a truism in the tech world that copyright owners reflexively oppose new inventions that do (or might) disrupt existing business models.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Ignoring RIAA Lawsuits Cheaper Than Going to Trial
The same federal judge who oversaw the Joel Tenenbaum file-sharing trial earlier this year passed out default judgments this week against other file-swappers who never bothered to show up–and they now owe far less than Tenenbaum.
Friday, September 25, 2009
PR or Science Journalism? It’s Getting Harder to Tell.
Faced with a shrinking audience of journalists for their press releases, a consortium of universities has launched Futurity, a site that will aggregate edited versions of the best materials produced by university press offices.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Back to School With RIAA-Funded Copyright Curriculum
With a new school year in full swing, Ars takes a look at the RIAA’s newly updated copyright curriculum. Your kids could be learning from it–so what does it say?
Friday, September 18, 2009
Not-So-Anonymous Speech: How to Get Yourself Unmasked Online
There have been a few cases recently that have involved previously-anonymous commenters getting outed by the courts. Where’s the line between free speech and getting unmasked?
Thursday, September 17, 2009
OEMs Pay Microsoft About $50 for Each Copy of Windows
Microsoft has revealed that, for a $1000 PC, it has always charged the OEM about $50, or five percent, for Windows.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Can a Mere Domain Name Be Defamation? Glenn Beck Says Yes.
Hugely popular conservative talker Glenn Beck has sicced his lawyers on a satirical website that’s been up for a week. The site, called glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com, toes the line on defamation–and may have stepped across it.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
The Internet Has Not Transformed Civic Engagement…Yet
If there is any subject that optimists and pessimists love to bang heads over, it’s the Internet.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Lost or Stolen Kindle? Amazon Says You’re Out of Luck.
We have covered what you can do if your laptop has been stolen, but with the proliferation of other portable gadgets–cameras, cell phones, e-book readers–theft recovery applies to more than just your computer.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
“Domain Tasters” Bitter as New Fees Put an End to Their Games
Never ones to let a good deed go unpunished, scammers quickly learned to take advantage of a user-friendly policy that allowed a misregistered domain name–perhaps due to a typo–to be withdrawn at no cost.
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