A few weeks back, Verizon finally admitted what the press had reported for years (and which Verizon Wireless had denied for years): that it had erroneously charged 15 million customers $1.99/month fees for supposedly accessing data on their phones, eve… Continue reading →

This post is sponsored by HP, as a part of its Reimagining ROI campaign, but even so, it’s still a pretty cool contest.

As mentioned recently, over the past few months, we’ve been taking part, along with a bunch of other blogs, in a program by HP cal… Continue reading →

You may recall that a few months back we were threatened with a libel lawsuit over some comments on a very old blog post. We get similar threats approximately once a month, almost always about someone upset about something someone else said about them… Continue reading →

While there’s been a lot of attention paid in the last couple of months to Russia’s use of Microsoft to charge nonprofit groups they don’t like with copyright infringement (something that Microsoft is now trying to reverse), there was also another cont… Continue reading →

Google Vice President David Lawee praises the 2005 purchase of the makers of the mobile operating system as its “best deal ever.” Do you agree? Voice your opinion in our poll. Originally posted at The Digital Home

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Slashdot points us to a story claiming that 61% of Americans “support an internet kill switch.” Of course, this is a topic that’s been hotly debated lately, with some attempt at passing laws that aren’t really a “kill switch,” but merely a coordinated… Continue reading →

Alma Whitten is Google’s new director of privacy, and she has a tough task ahead of her enforcing new privacy rules inside Google and defending it in public. Originally posted at Relevant Results

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It seems the whole retransmission fight in NY between Cablevision and Fox gets sillier by the day. After Fox accused Cablevision of pointing people to websites with unauthorized streams of various sporting events, Cablevision announced that it would r… Continue reading →

It seems the whole retransmission fight in NY between Cablevision and Fox gets sillier by the day. After Fox accused Cablevision of pointing people to websites with unauthorized streams of various sporting events, Cablevision announced that it would r… Continue reading →

Google’s latest improvements to Gmail on the iPhone and iPod Touch affect scrolling and navigation. Originally posted at iPhone Atlas

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