New Google data shows Microsoft's piracy problems

Facebook launches iPhone camera app

Facebook's rocky initial public offering hasn't stopped life at the world's biggest online social network. On Thursday, the company unveiled a camera app for the iPhone.

Web series touts funky concept snowboards

In the summer of 2010, Signal Snowboards created the Web series "Every Third Thursday" to showcase the company's experimentation with funky concept boards. Think Science Channel’s “How It’s Made” — except with a lot more sass and a funkier setting.

New York Senate bill seeks to end anonymous internet posting

Police chief sent 10 officers on an overtime hunt for his son’s stolen iPhone

'Privacy Is Awesome' Campaign Aims to Kill CISPA

Times-Picayune to cut paper to 3 days a week

Say cheese! NASA Mars rover photographs own shadow

Even robots like to have fun. NASA's rover on Mars showed off its playful side by snapping a picture of its own shadow. It's the latest self-portrait since the rover, named Opportunity, landed on the red planet in 2004.

Facebook shares stabilizing, but probes mount

Facebook's initial public offering is the subject of two congressional inquiries and mounting lawsuits as the social network enters its fifth day of public trading.

Yahoo seeks to shake up search, Web browsing

Joining the battle to redefine Internet search, Yahoo is taking aim with a new browser enhancement it calls "Axis."

Infinity Blade II update tops iPhone Games of the Week

Fox sues Dish Network over ad-skipping DVR service

Times-Picayune to cut paper to 3 days a week

26% of Executives Are Sleeping with Their Phones

If we've learned one thing from our Media Diets, it's that the first thing many people reach for in the morning is their smartphone. In fact, many of them sleep with them in their beds at night. We're inclined to write this off as another of the many examples of smartphone obsession, but there's a certain creep factor to folks sleeping with their phones as if the devices were a spouse, isn't there?

Dish takes TV networks to court over ad zapper

(Reuters) - The maker of a new digital video recorder that lets viewers skip television commercials at the touch of a button has asked a federal judge to let it sell the product, in a challenge to broadcast TV networks that oppose the technology. Dish Network Corp on Thursday asked for a court order that its "Auto Hop" feature does not infringe any copyright owned by the four major U.S. television networks: Walt Disney Co's ABC, CBS Corp's CBS, News Corp's Fox and Comcast Corp's NBC. It filed its request with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. (Reporting By Liana B. ...

PayPal strikes deals with 15 retailers

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PayPal unveiled deals with 15 retailers including Toys R Us, J C Penney and Barnes & Noble , helping the online payment giant expand into more physical stores. The deals add to a pact with Home Depot , which began accepting PayPal in about 2000 stores earlier this year. One of the most important sources of future growth for eBay Inc-owned PayPal may come from its expansion into physical stores - a much bigger market than its online roots. ...

Facebook makes mobile move after IPO flop

Facebook released a "camera" application Thursday that lets people take Instagram-style pictures that can be shared with iPhones.

Buffett says his firm likely to buy newspapers

VeriFone sees third quarter sales below estimates, shares fall

Microsoft wins German ban on Motorola phones

A German regional court on Thursday issued an injunction against newly-acquired Motorola Mobility for infringing one of Microsoft’s patents, according to FOSS Patents. The manufacturer is banned from selling its Android-powered devices that infringe Microsoft’s EP1304891 patent, which covers “communicating multi-part messages between cellular devices using a standardized interface.” The sales ban, for the time being, is subject to additional confirmation. If confirmed however, it is enforceable with a bond of $31.4 million. Patent expert Florian Mueller notes that since the patent covers “operating system-level functionality, the modifications ‘Googlorola’ would have to make to Android to work around this ruling would lead to significant complications.” Furthermore, apps that make use of Android’s messaging layer will apparently have to be completely

Fidelity, Knight problems add to Nasdaq's Facebook woes

(Reuters) - The repercussions from Facebook's botched initial public offering deepened on Thursday as Fidelity Investments found itself dealing with "thousands" of customers with order problems and at least two firms reported tens of millions of dollars in trading-related losses to Nasdaq. A technical glitch delayed Facebook's market debut by 30 minutes on Friday and many client orders were delayed, giving some investors and traders significant losses as the stock price dropped. The exchange operator is facing lawsuits from investors and threats of legal action from brokers. ...

Morgan Stanley may refund some Facebook investors

Exclusive: Fidelity facing "thousands" hit by Facebook woes

Rapid Fire Evolution; Why Pesticides Are Killing the Bees

Discovered: Rapid fire evolution in a Connecticut pond, why pesticides are killing the bees, the best new species on the planet, and butterflies have gotten snobby. Watch years evolution happen in this pond. Due to a feedback loop created by dams in a Connecticut pond, science discovered how an entire species of fish has evolved. "People have long accepted that ecology shapes evolution, but it has been less clear how evolution can shape our ecology, and do so in a relatively short time frame," explains researcher David Post. ...

RealNetworks to refund customers in online subscription dispute

Google reveals copyrighted material claims

Google on Thursday began revealing details about requests for links to be removed from Internet search results on the grounds they lead to copyrighted material posted without permission.

Citadel lost $30 million in Facebook fiasco: source

New FBI unit tasked with making Web and mobile communications easier to spy on

The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently formed a new unit tasked with developing technologies that enable more effective means of monitoring Internet, mobile and VoIP communications, CNET reported. The secretive new unit, reportedly called the Domestic Communications Assistance Center, aims to develop new surveillance technologies that make it easier for law enforcement to spy on suspects as they communicate using modern technology. Joined by agents from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Drug Enforcement Agency, the FBI reportedly formed the DCAC because it believes technology has developed too quickly, leaving law enforcement without the tools necessary to effectively monitor these new communications channels. Read

New Google data shows Microsoft's piracy problems

Facebook launches iPhone camera app

Facebook's rocky initial public offering hasn't stopped life at the world's biggest online social network. On Thursday, the company unveiled a camera app for the iPhone.

New Google+ Android update brings Hangouts, photo features, plus new UI

RealNetworks settles Wash. suit for $2.4 million

Google Play gets in-app subscriptions for Android

Google on Thursday announced an update to its Google Play Store that allows Android users to make in-app subscriptions. The update comes more than year after the Mountain View-based company introduced in-app billing in what was then called the Android Market. “Since the launch, In-app Billing has been extremely successful in helping developers monetize their apps through try-and-buy, virtual goods, upgrades, and other popular business models,” Google said on its developer blog. “Today, 23 of the 24 top-grossing apps in Google Play use In-app Billing, and the total revenue generated from in-app purchases exceeds revenue from traditional app purchases.” In-app subscriptions will allow developers to sell monthly or annual subscriptions from within their apps. “Developers just set the price and

Why Did Facebook Just Clone Instagram?

If Facebook bought Instagram so it didn't have to compete with it, why did the social network just put out a photo-sharing app just like Instagram?

U.S. weighs aircraft for post-disaster communications

Huawei seeks EU action against InterDigital patent fees

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - World No.2 telecoms equipment maker Huawei has called for EU antitrust regulators to intervene in a dispute with InterDigital, saying the U.S.-based firm is demanding "exploitative" fees for use of its 3G mobile phone patents. Huawei filed a complaint with the European Commission on Wednesday, after failing to reach a deal with the wireless technology patent holder, making it the latest company to take a patent grievance to the EU watchdog. "Huawei ... ...

The BGR Show premieres May 31st!

Microsoft wins ruling against Motorola over texting

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A German regional court ruled in a hearing on Thursday that Motorola Mobility infringed Microsoft patents by offering the option on its mobile phones to send a longer text in a batch of several messages. "We're pleased the court agreed today that Motorola has infringed Microsoft's intellectual property, and we hope Motorola will be willing to join other Android device makers by taking a license to our patents," Microsoft said in a statement, referring to Google's Android operating system for mobile phones. ...

Meet The Facebook Conscientious Objectors

Now that Facebook's a big nasty corporation, it's not only attracted a lot of bad press, it's inspired more direct action. In the run-up to the IPO and its messy aftermath we've read a few declarations of expatriatism, including one today from The New Yorker's Steve Coll. In no way does this indicate a coming mass exodus. These people aren't starting movements, rallying the people of the Internet like Quit Facebook Day tried (and failed) to do back in 2010. ...

California Senate Approves Regulations for Self-Driving Automobiles