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If you can’t pitch the press, pay them. That’s the proposition some review sites have for publicity-starved iPhone developers.

You can learn all sorts of interesting tidbits from legal documents. For instance, in one of the legal briefs unsealed today in the YouTube-Viacom dispute, such as the amount of money YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley made from the $1.65 billion sale of the company to Google in 2006.

Starting Friday evening, a campaign largely spread via Twitter, Facebook, and all things new media wants you to do something counter-intuitive. It wants you to log off from Twitter, Facebook, and all things new media.

Shane Harris lays out the U.S. government's real-life efforts to see and hear more in the face of growing terrorist threats. He pays particular attention to Total Information Awareness, a post-9/11 research project spearheaded by John Poindexter, once President Reagan's national security advisor.

As part of a briefing on IE9 at Microsoft's Redmond campus, visitors toured the company's Internet Explorer testing lab. Here's what they saw.

Mobile phones industry is developing with gigantic paces: now we are surrounded by such a variety of models that it is easy to get lost in them

It can't be good news for YouTube's $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit when plaintiff Viacom unearthed one YouTube founder telling another: "'jawed, please stop putting stolen videos on the site." But YouTube says that Viacom itself paid 18 different marketers to upload material to YouTube... and from Kinko's, no less.

After taking several different subscription services for a test-drive, however, I found that they provide a good — but still very flawed — experience. Here are five reasons why:

Apple Board member, and president and CEO of Harwinton Capital, Jerome B. York has passed away at the age of 71.

Google's upcoming set top box has great pedigree: It's Android-based OS, Sony and Intel are building the guts and design and Logitech doing what Logitech does best (input devices). So please, please, please don't screw this up.

Before Apple released the iPhone 3GS, a lot of people were hoping it would have ...

In this retrospective feature, we attempt to make sense of all the iPods and place them in a concise timeline. From the original iPod in 2001 to the d...

Russian police have raided a datacenter hosting iFolder.ru, a huge Rapidshare-like site. Their paperwork allowed them to search and gather evidence against a user who uploaded illegal material to the site. Although staff offered 100% co-operation, the police cut the power and sealed the servers in the datacenter, putting iFolder completely out of o

A Pennsylvania appellate court upheld a preliminary injunction on Wednesday barring local prosecutors from filing felony child porn charges against a teenage girl who took a partially nude photo of herself with her cell phone.

The term "pirates," meant to convey evil and mayhem, instead conjures up visions of a swashbuckling Johnny Depp, says an actors' group. Rupert Murdoch's son has an idea for a less-sexy word: thieves. Hasn't he seen "Ocean's 11"?

In recent years the US has begun to lag in education for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and a number of efforts are underway to address this issue. We know that giving kids hands-on experience is one of the best ways to spark and keep their interest in STEM-related fields

Google announces the release a Google Buzz widget for Android phones that lets you post text and photos with a single tap.

"Toutes les personnes qui entrent au garage se dirigent d'abord vers ce modèle, il attire plus que les autres, le seul problème c'est que...

A l'institution Notre-Dame des Anges, il n'y a pas que des petits Dragons ambitieux (l'Indépendant du 3 février dernier). Au couvent, comme...

Courtoisie oblige, France Jamet a commencé par remercier les électeurs qui ont mis un bulletin dans l'urne en sa faveur dimanche dernier (12,64 %...