As seen on TV… 7 Products That Actually Work!

            As seen on TV…  7 Products That Actually Work!   How many of you have ordered a product off a late night infomercial that promised to make your life better in about 10 different ways and only costing about 10% of what it was actually worth? Or saw the […]

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Microsoft Activates Android Lawsuit Against Motorola

Microsoft Activates Android Lawsuit Against Motorola Microsoft joined the Android lawsuit club on Friday, accusing Motorola of patent infringements. A pair of complaints from Microsoft were delivered to the International Trade Commission and in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, claiming that Motorola’s Android-based smartphones trample on nine Microsoft patents. […]

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Internet cut-offs, website censorship about to drop on UK

Internet cut-offs, website censorship about to drop on UK “Wash-up” might sound homely, conjuring visions of a family scrubbing up after a cheerful dinner as the evening descends. But it’s also the name of a UK legislative process in which bills can become law through a quick process that bypasses normal debate. Wash-up happens at […]

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Appeals court rules AdWords doesn’t infringe bidding patent

Appeals court rules AdWords doesn’t infringe bidding patent Bid for Position has lost an appeal to a ruling that its bidding system patent was not infringed by Google’s or AOL’s search advertising purchasing system. The decision of the lower court was affirmed by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit this week. Bid […]

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CBS lets the cat out of the bag on HTML5 video iPad tests

CBS lets the cat out of the bag on HTML5 video iPad tests The iPad launch is a little more than a week out and unsurprisingly, Flash support is still nowhere to be seen. Content providers understand that Apple means business with this no Flash stuff, too. While no one else is openly talking about […]

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Google reportedly shares mobile ad revenue with key partners

Google reportedly shares mobile ad revenue with key partners Google’s Android mobile operating system is gaining considerable traction in the smartphone market. According to a report from mocoNews, the secret behind Android’s success is a series of revenue-sharing agreements that Google has signed with carriers and even some handset manufacturers. The specific details are somewhat […]

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Week in Microsoft: multicore OS rewrites, WinPhone 7 casualties, IE security

A Microsoft engineer last week said that to properly handle multicore processors, future operating systems should discard the multitasking systems of today, in favor of dedicating cores to specific tasks. This seems more than a little surprising. The lack of native code development on Windows Phone 7 Series was always likely to discourage developers with […]

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Controlling Mars rovers: there’s an app for that

Controlling Mars rovers: there’s an app for that What if, instead of pocket-dialing, you could pocket-send-a-Mars-rover-over-a-cliff? That was the goal of two programmers at EclipseCon 2010 (via Slashdot). A competition at the conference asked developers to either create an e4-Rover client or use one to move a demo robot over a model Mars landscape. Two […]

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