Wikipedia will go offline on Wednesday in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill that would allow the U.S. government to cut off funding sources to foreign websites accused of piracy by rights holders.
Wikipedia’s …
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Why Google’s Biggest Problem with ‘Search Plus Your World’ Isn’t Antitrust
Last week Google lit up the blogosphere with controversy when it introduced tighter integration between its Google+ social network and its organic search results. The main charge is that the new service – called Google Search …
Irony Alert: Congressman Who Wrote SOPA Violated Copyright Law
Lamar Smith (R-TX), the chief sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), cares very much about holding copyright violators accountable for their actions — except, apparently, when it comes to himself.
Jamie Lee Curtis …
Hail to the King: Xbox 360 2011’s Top Games Console by a Mile
Microsoft’s taking its annual video game victory lap, this time celebrating Xbox 360 sales for 2011, during which the 360 outsold both the PlayStation 3 and Wii (tied for second place) by over 2.7 million units.
And the …
New App Helps You Crash Weddings
Wedding crashing! It’s not just for Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson anymore. Now anyone with a smartphone and some dusty old formalwear can crash a nearby wedding with Crash Corsage, an app that cruises couples’ wedding websites to …
Is Google’s Social Search Anti-Competitive? FTC Complaint Looms
Google’s ‘Search plus Your World’ is less than a week old, and already a privacy watchdog group has the company in its crosshairs over potential antitrust and privacy issues.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) …
Chinese Mario Kart Knockoff ‘Mole Kart’ Released for iPhone
Oh how we’ve longed here at Techland for Nintendo to release games specifically for iOS. I guess we’ll have to settle for this: Mole Kart, the cartoonish racing game that bears no resemblance to Nintendo’s Mario Kart whatsoever.
See, this game from Chinese developer Taomee is totally different from Mario Kart. It has, um, moles …
Aha’s Webified Radio Service: Coming Soon to a Lot More Cars
What’s the best way to bring stuff from the web into the car? A bevy of companies are working on answers to that question. Aha, a startup that is now part of stereo giant Harman, has one of the most intriguing answers: Treat it …
Shazam Launches New Music Player App with Extras
Having successfully solved the problem of constantly wondering “What is that song?” by offering an app that identifies excerpts of music, Shazam has clearly decided that telling you what you’re listening to isn’t enough — now …
Google to Twitter: You Quit Us, We Didn’t Quit You
Prepare for a war of words (and tech blogs) as Google picks up Twitter’s implied “is what Google’s doing anti-competitive?” gauntlet and tosses it back with a nonplussed one-liner suggesting the whole kerfuffle’s actually …
Cord-Cutting 101: ‘PlayLater’ Records Online TV Shows to Your Computer
PlayLater is not new – it was announced back in September. But me getting a video demo of it in action while at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show is new, so it seems we’re at an impasse.
The concept of PlayLater is simple …
Unlock Your iPhone with Your Face
We can’t recommend locking your phone enough. If a thief gets hold of it, who knows what personal information he’ll dig up going through your email or mobile browser history.
Sometimes, though, you just don’t want to take the …