Well, I guess it doesn’t matter what Apple thinks, because the Amazon’s app store for Android is now open for business and its got 3,800 apps ready to go.
All the apps are available for free, or for a few cents, and or dollars. Luckily you don’t have to waste your pittance on something you don’t like – you can test drive the …
Internet Explorer 9 may have gotten all of the attention a few weeks ago, but let the browser wars begin because the final release of Firefox 4 makes its appearance today.
That’s right – it’s no longer in beta. The final build was available yesterday through Mozilla’s FTP servers, but the folks over there aren’t keen on …
Good morning. Here’s what’s been breaking in tech news while you’ve been sleeping and enjoying your breakfast.
Microsoft sues just about everybody
The lawyers will be opening another crate of champagne today, as Microsoft announces lawsuits against Barnes & Noble, Foxconn and Inventec for patent infringement. What patents, exactly?
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Just a day after leaked shots of Amazon’s app store surfaced online, Apple filed a complaint in court that their trademark “App Store” was being used. Looks like Amazon may have accidentally ruffled some feathers.
According to a Bloomberg report, the Apple lawsuit states “Amazon has begun improperly using Apple’s App Store …
Here at Techland, only one television program manages to tie into so many of our geeky obsessions all at once. Superheroes, mythical creatures, action figures and barely believeable sci-fi all flop onto each other on the glorious cavalcade that is The Venture Bros. Cartoon Network’s just started airing the series from the start and …
Here at Techland, only one television program manages to tie into so many of our geeky obsessions all at once. Superheroes, mythical creatures, action figures and barely believeable sci-fi all flop onto each other on the glorious cavalcade that is The Venture Bros. Cartoon Network’s just started airing the series from the start and …
No drugs. No weapons. And no social networks.
Convicted felons are supposed to be denied many things when they’re sent to prison, but it seems that law enforcement authorities are only just waking up to the idea that even convicts might want to post on their Facebook wall.
The Huffington Post posted an article today that spells out …
The internet may be an immediate medium, but that doesn’t necessary mean that it’s fast. Compuware Gomez has surveyed business sites across the world wide web to find the fastest in specific verticals, and some of the results might have you asking “Who?”.
Winners in Gomez’ 2010 survey were measured on response time, availability and …
This energetic young man is Tom Scott, making an entertaining presentation at Ignite London a few weeks ago, and very cleverly opening everyone’s eyes to the issues surrounding online privacy. Or the lack of it.
For those of you unable to watch the video, in it Tom pulls live data from the internet in real time, plucking personal …
YouTube has launched a video version of Google’s Person Finder to help people find loved ones who have been affected by the recent earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis in Japan.
Since the earthquake, Japanese television station TBS has been going to disaster relief shelters and recording victims’ messages for their families and …
Seeking to capture that sadly underserved market of billionaire tech-crazed environmentalists, the folks at Porsche have announced that they are taking orders for a $845,000, 500-hp plug-in hybrid.
I’ll pause a moment, while you scribble out a check.
Known as the 918 Spyder — a name that evokes both the glory and gruesomeness …
Okay, let’s make this the final word on the human meme that is Rebecca Black.
Congratulations, internet: You’ve helped make Ms. Black bigger than Ms. Gaga. As the slightly overheated typesters at TechCrunch points out that, despite the negative tone and snarking about Black’s annoying earworm “Friday,” the YouTube video has gained 26 …
