Designer group Hermès gets $100M default judgment against alleged counterfeiters
This report is brought to you from Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog which covers aspects of Internet law, intellectual property, and advertising and marketing law. Balasubramani is a lawyer; Goldm......
Analyst: Don’t Expect To See An Apple Television Set Before 2014
Saving up for that widely-rumored Apple television set? Well, according to one analyst, you have plenty of time. J.P. Morgan’s Mark Moskowitz issued a note to investors this week in which he states there is no indication Apple’s TV will make its debut during 2012,...Feature: 1859′s “Great Auroral Storm”—the week the Sun touched the earth
Noon approached on September 1, 1859, and British astronomer Richard Christopher Carrington was busy with his favorite pastime: tracking sunspots, those huge regions of the star darkened by shifts in its...
Android users targeted in drive-by download attacks
Almost a dozen sites are actively targeting Android users with malware that could gain access to corporate networks and other protected systems, security researchers said. They note it's the first time...
AlwaysArrange: Move Apps Around And Abandon Jiggle Mode [Jailbreak]
Jiggle mode. That’s what we call the moment you hold an iOS app icon until it starts wiggling uncontrollably on your home screen. There’s no technical name for when you tap, hold, and drag icons around, so jiggle mode it is....Twitter Tried To Buy Camera+ After Facebook Bought Instagram
Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram secured the social networking giant ownership of the largest and fastest growing mobile photography network on the planet. Instagram has 50 million users, and Facebook is already...Furious judge decries "blizzard" of copyright troll lawsuits
Courts around the country are being flooded with mass copyright lawsuits. In a typical case, the owner of a pornographic film sues dozens of anonymous defendants in a single lawsuit, obtains...
FileMaker Announces $300 Early Registration For DevCon 2012
FileMaker is offering early registration pricing for developers and database professionals attending the company’s annual developer conference. The conference, known as FileMaker DevCon will be held July 16-19, 2012 in Miami. Special pricing for conference attendees extends...Fitness App RunKeeper Announces Partnership With Highly Anticipated Pebble Watch
RunKeeper makes fitness apps for a variety of smartphones and is widely considered the premiere platform for tracking and sharing workout information. Today the company announced that it will be the first third-party service to partner with the Pebble watch, a record-breaking Kickstarter project...Windows 8 to integrate cloud services, ditch Windows Live branding
The Windows Live branding that Microsoft has used since 2005 for its range of consumer-oriented cloud services will fade away over the next few months, as the company positions the online services as an integral,...
Virtual shooting games may improve real-world accuracy, won’t make you a sniper
Admitted Norwegian shooter Anders Behring Breivik set off a firestorm of discussion a few weeks ago when he said at his trial that he prepared for his rampage by playing Call...
Mac OS X Sings Queen’s “Another One Bites The Dust” [Video]
This is just awesome. Queen’s “Another One Bites The Dust” as performed entirely by OS X system sounds. The only slight quibble we have is that it really should be using Siri to sing the lyrics… or, since Siri’s nowhere to be found on the...
