Apple is asking a California court to issue a preliminary injunction to block sales of Samsung Electronics's new Galaxy Nexus smartphone, alleging the device infringes four Apple patents. - 14 hours ago, 11 Feb 12, 11:36pm -
British authorities investigating potential cases of journalists paying bribes for information arrested another round of high-ranking employees of News Corp.'s tabloid The Sun, and said they are now probing suspected payments not just to police but t… - 22 hours ago, 11 Feb 12, 3:47pm -
Apple filed a lawsuit against Motorola Mobility on Friday, saying Apple's iPhone 4S is protected under a license agreement from Qualcomm. - 1 day ago, 11 Feb 12, 3:23am -
Activision, as the maker of first-person shooter Call of Duty, took a risk bringing a children's game to market. But Skylanders: Spryo's Adventure has been totally worth it. - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 8:11pm -
Tech companies plotting to use standards essential patents to bolster their market power best think twice before doing so. - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 7:40pm -
Over 3 years later, "deleted" Facebook photos are still online: Photos that you think you're deleting from Facebook are still remaining on their servers years later. Ars has been following this story for nearly three year… - 17 hours ago, 11 Feb 12, 9:00pm -
Kingdoms of Amalur: A great action game in an empty, forgettable world: Kingdoms of Amalur is the rare Action RPG that doesn't skimp on either the action or the RPG. The game provides satisfying fantasy combat, but is unf… - 19 hours ago, 11 Feb 12, 7:00pm -
What would it have been like if Steve Jobs ended up working for President H.W. Bush instead of going back to Apple in 1997? The FBI released its background check documents on Jobs this week, but that's not all that made our top… - 21 hours ago, 11 Feb 12, 5:00pm -
Unusual sources of energy were on top of this past week's science news, from a new method that might get us closer to break-even fusion to an approach that lets us treat a cockroach like a living battery. That later research… - 23 hours ago, 11 Feb 12, 3:00pm -
Canonical has announced the availability of the Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix, a new variant of the popular Linux distribution that has been customized for use in enterprise environments. It is based on Ubuntu 11.10, the curren… - 1 day ago, 11 Feb 12, 2:30am -
Apple officially removed the last vestiges of its white, polycarbonate MacBook earlier this week, which had been a budget offering only available to education institutions since last July. Serving as somewhat of a replacement,… - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 9:10pm -
Google is testing its own "next generation personal communication device," according to a document submitted to the FCC. Google is seeking the FCC's permission to test the device outside its labs on Bluetooth and WiFi networks… - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 8:06pm -
Yesterday, Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Live Division, described the restrictions that Windows on ARM ("WOA") would impose on its desktop. The built-in Windows apps—including Explorer and Internet Explore… - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 7:30pm -
Commercial airlines have already looked to the tablet to lighten the load of old school flight bags that weigh nearly 40 pounds each, and now the US Air Force is interested in bringing tablets into the cockpit as well. Air Mobility Command… - 52 mins ago, 12 Feb 12, 12:48pm -
Sony’s soon-to-be President and CEO, Kazuo Hirai, has hinted that the company is investigating porting the Vita OS to other mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Japanese site AV Watch reported on Friday that Hirai told reporters… - 3 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 11:00am -
The iPhone photo-sharing app Instagram has never been shy about incorporating new capabilities, and it just received a 2.1 update that adds a UI makeover, a new filter, and an HDR-inspired feature called "Lux." We spent some time with the… - 4 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 9:53am -
Leave it to the writers of NBC's Saturday Night Live to sum up the confusion for average customers over 4G and 3G speeds with this hilarious send-up of Verizon advertising. It's not clear what the pitch is here, but it sounds pretty good t… - 5 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 8:20am -
It looks like Spotify's mobile offerings are catching up to its desktop brethren — the iOS version of the streaming music app now has an "extreme" quality option that'll bring 320kbps music to your device, just like the PC and OS X appli… - 7 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 6:48am -
Two security holes have been found in the NFC-based mobile payment app Google Wallet. Both rooted and stock devices are vulnerable to the flaws, though Google assures users that so long as you keep a secure screen lock on your device you w… - 8 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 5:36am -
Researchers at military technology firm Chamtech seem to have developed an innovative way to solve cellphone and other radio signal black spots, with an aerosol spray can that paints an antenna onto any surface and boosts the network cover… - 10 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 3:57am -
Last month Facebook tested a new type of advert called featured stories, which allowed companies to publish your likes in the form of ads on your news feed. Now TechCrunch reports that Facebook is running a pilot program to bring the same… - 12 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 1:41am -
The next time you have to get an MRI or CT scan you might not know it but if the equipment is made by GE it is phoning home. No, the actual scan data is still between you and your doctor, but the broad stats of when and where the scan was taken is re… - 12 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 2:03am -
Alicia Eler explores the "Not On Facebook" movement. Jon Mitchell explains why Google Drive won't be a Dropbox clone. Path uploads your entire address book to their servers without permission. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-u… - 18 hours ago, 11 Feb 12, 7:42pm -
Today's cartoon may well be an exercise in envy. I'm using an iPhone 3GS, and it'll be another 14 months (or 424 days - not that I'm counting) before I'll be eligible for a free upgrade to a phone that lets me use that Siri-esque magic.And voice-co… - 20 hours ago, 11 Feb 12, 6:00pm -
"A cute baby dolphin for your weekend-viewing pleasure" a Facebook friend of mine writes. Under the text, I see a link to an imgur-hosted image of that amazingly adorable marine mammal. Suddenly, my day is feeling a lot better. Did I just catch a moo… - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 11:30pm -
In the two weeks I have been using Wisdom, an iPad and iPhone app that gives you detailed demographic data about your Facebook friends, the number of users has gone from just over 4 million to just under 6 million. Part of that rapid growth is most l… - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 10:00pm -
Alexia Tsotsis, who writes for TechCrunch, had this advice on Twitter earlier today: "Good tech blogger rule of thumb: Avoid using 'API' in headlines when/if you can." Usually, I'm all thumbs myself, but I can't find this particular rule on them an… - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 9:30pm -
Sometimes the "Like" button is not as clear cut as it seems. Even Zuck would agree.ZDNet reports that a Facebook design flaw has accidentally convinced some readers that Zuckerberg is endorsing Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney. T… - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 8:30pm -
The tablet revolution. The post-PC era. The smartphone explosion. Whatever label you want to apply to it, personal computing is changing. People are spending more time with smaller devices like tablets and smartphones and less time on desktops and la… - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 8:15pm -
