Hugh Pickens writes “The NY Times reports that the proliferation of free or low-cost games on the Web and for phones limits how high the major game publishers can set prices, so makers are sometimes unable to charge enough to cover the cost of producing titles. The cost of making a game for the previous […]
Snoskred writes with the story of a blogger who chose to remain pseudonymous, who has been outed by an Alaskan politician in his legislative newsletter. Alaska Rep. Mike Doogan had been writing bizarre emails to people who emailed him, and the Alaskan blogger “Mudflats” was one of those who called him on it. (Mudflats first […]
Ian Lamont writes “IBM has filed a patent application that covers offshoring employees. Application 20090083107, dated March 26, 2009, is a ‘method and system for strategic global resource sourcing.’ Figure 2 gives a pretty good idea of what’s involved — it shows boxes labelled ‘Engineer,’ ‘HR,’ and ‘Programmer’ with crossing arrows pointing to cylinders labelled […]
Kylar writes “For those of you who have already discovered Michael ‘Rands’ Lopp’s blog Rands In Repose, I congratulate you, as you are clearly an intelligent audience. For those of you who haven’t, or for the less discerning (or, perhaps less blog-oriented), this book provides an excellent entry into the writings of Rands. Containing edited […]
Barence writes “Mozilla has revealed how it plans to integrate plain text commands directly into future versions of Firefox. Dubbed Taskfox, the move sees Mozilla’s Ubiquity project become part of the browser itself, allowing users to type commands directly into the address bar. You can, for example, type ‘map cleveland street london’ to bring up […]
Surrounded writes “It appears TomTom bowed to the pressure and settled with Microsoft over the recent patent infringement claims from the Redmond software giant. In the agreement, TomTom will pay Microsoft for coverage under the eight car navigation and file management systems patents in the Microsoft case. Also as part of the agreement, Microsoft receives […]
Raul654 writes “In December, we discussed the German Federal Archive’s agreement, at the urging of Wikimedia Deutschland, to donate 100,000 pictures to Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. At the time that was the largest picture donation ever to Wikipedia, and thought to be largest in the history of the free culture movement. Now […]
Text messaging and email are still the ‘killer app’ for mobile phone data use and AT&T is responding with a great new lineup of phones for the Spring season. AT&T today announced a fresh new lineup of smartphones and quick messaging phones that make it easier for customers to message with friends and family and […]
Skype is set to launch a mobile application for the iPhone on Tuesday, a long-awaited entry to Apple's App Store, and one for BlackBerry devices in May, Skype officials have confirmed.
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Inside Guantanamo: Sunday at 9P e/p
Guantanamo Bay is one of the world’s controversial prisons. This may be its final chapter. With unprecedented access, National Geographic […]
An anonymous reader writes “A woman in Bushton, Wilts, has been told by the Performing Rights Society (PRS for Music) that she needs to pay an annual fee in order to play classical music from the radio to the horses in her stable, something that she has been doing for the past 20 years. The […]