Oracle/Google trial: Android prototype, proposed $9.99 data plan revealed
Google’s original plans for Android included a subsidized, $9.99 unlimited monthly data plan to be offered by T-Mobile. The deal proposed in November 2006 obviously didn’t come to pass, but it was part of exhibits......
Chinese court, government still trying to settle iPad trademark dispute
A Chinese court is trying to mediate a settlement between Apple and a company named Proview over control of the iPad trademark in China. A Chinese official claims that the trademark...
Sun wanted up to $50 million from Google for Java license, Schmidt says
Sun Microsystems wanted $30 million to $50 million from Google for a Java license, but Google decided to build its own implementation for Android after negotiations broke down, Google Executive Chairman...
Feature: "The hidden side of your soul": How the FBI uses the Web as a child porn honeypot
The e-mail arrived in James Charles Cafferty's inbox on July 14, 2011. Unlike most unsolicited e-mail on the Internet, the message did not pitch mortgages, get rich quick scams, or...
Feature: "The hidden side of your soul": How the FBI uses the Web as a child porn honeypot
The e-mail arrived in James Charles Cafferty's inbox on July 14, 2011. Unlike most unsolicited e-mail on the Internet, the message did not pitch mortgages, get rich quick scams, or...
Android founder Andy Rubin grilled by Oracle lawyer on Java e-mails
Android Inc. founder Andy Rubin took the witness stand Monday in the patent and copyright infringement lawsuit Oracle filed against Google. Rubin answered questions related to e-mails he wrote in 2005 and 2006 on...
French presidential candidate against three-strikes law, kinda sorta
On Sunday, French voters will go to the polls to decide whether President Nicolas Sarkozy should return for a second five-year term, or whether his main rival, François Hollande, the head of the Socialist Party,...
Plans afoot to tap Iceland’s geothermal energy with 745-mile cable
A proposed high voltage electrical cable running across the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean to tap Iceland's surplus volcanic geothermal energy would become the world's longest underwater electrical cable, if...
Week in tech: copyrighted magic, System Guide, ChromeOS, and Oracle v. Google
Hands-on: getting work done with Google's new Aura interface for Chrome OS: Google attempted to introduce a new approach to computing when it first launched Chrome OS in 2010. Now the company is about to...
Privacy experts warn that new car black box bill doesn’t go far enough
There's currently a bill pending in Congress, known to those inside the Beltway as MAP-21, which would "reauthorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs." But the part of the bill...
Canadians suing Apple, publishers over e-book prices too
Apple's e-book price-fixing battle has made its way to the Great White North. At least three lawsuits have been filed in Canada against Apple and a number of publishers for allegedly conspiring on e-book prices,...
