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Bits Scan: Flash Drives, Jon Stewart and Warfare at Activision

Wednesday morning’s news roundup includes the BBC’s cutbacks online, a suspect who ate his flash drive to destroy evidence and a mysterious internal battle at Activision.

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March 3rd, 2010 | Posted in "Call of Duty, Activision, Advertising and E-Commerce, BBC, British Broadcasting Corp, Censorship, China, Company News, Computer and Video Games, Computers and the Internet, Consumer Electronics, Courts, Data Storage, England, Games, Google, Google Inc, Google Inc|GOOG|NASDAQ, Hulu, Hulu.com, Infinty Ward, Internet, New York City, Newspapers, People, Personal Computing, Phones and Mobile Devices, Policy and Law, Queens (NYC), Secret Service, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Silicon Valley, Smoking Gun, Start-ups, Technology and Society, The Colbert Report, United States, United States Politics and Government, Video games, West, Jason, Wong, Nicole, comedy central, flash drive, memory, network TV, the daily show, viacom | No Comments

What Apple vs. HTC Could Mean

The lawsuit could lead to changes in the workings of Android smartphones, although it could be settled quickly.

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March 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Apple, Apple Inc, Apple Inc|AAPL|NASDAQ, Company News, Consumer Electronics, Courts, Echostar, Google, Google Inc, Google Inc|GOOG|NASDAQ, HTC, HTC Corp, Internet, Nexus One, Patent, People, Personal Computing, Phones and Mobile Devices, Policy & Law, Policy and Law, Silicon Valley, Technology and Society, iPhone, jonathan zittrain, tivo | No Comments

Apple Sues Phone Maker HTC Over Patents

Apple filed a lawsuit against HTC, maker of the Google-designed Nexus One, asserting that it infringed on patents related to the iPhone.

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March 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Apple, Apple Inc, Apple Inc|AAPL|NASDAQ, Company News, Google Inc, Google Inc|GOOG|NASDAQ, HTC, HTC Corp, Inventions and Patents, Jobs, Steven P, Patent, Patent and Trademark Office, People, Personal Computing, Phones and Mobile Devices, Policy and Law, Silicon Valley, Start-ups, Steven P. Jobs, Technology and Society, iPhone | No Comments

Bits Scan: Pirate Bay, the Internet River and a Google Patent

In Tuesday’s tech news roundup: The Pirate Bay is still thriving despite legal efforts to shut it down, data is flowing through new channels on the Internet and Google patents location-based advertising.

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March 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Advertising and E-Commerce, Advertising and Marketing, BitTorrent, Bits Scan, Company News, Computers and the Internet, Consumer Electronics, Decisions and Verdicts, Driven to Distraction, Facebook.com, Google, Google Inc, Google Inc|GOOG|NASDAQ, Internet, Inventions and Patents, Location-Based Services, Location-based Applications, Microsoft, Microsoft Corp, Microsoft Corp|MSFT|NASDAQ, Music and Video, Online Advertising, Outdoor Advertising, Patents, Personal Computing, Phones and Mobile Devices, Pirate Bay, Silicon Valley, Start-ups, Technology and Society, The Pirate Bay, Windows Phone 7, advertising, peering | No Comments

Google Buys Picnik, a Photo Editing Service

Google is buying the online photo editing service Picnik, which competes with Adobe and other companies.

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March 1st, 2010 | Posted in Adobe, Adobe Systems Inc, Adobe Systems Inc|ADBE|NASDAQ, Advertising and E-Commerce, Apple, Apple Inc, Apple Inc|AAPL|NASDAQ, Company News, Computers and the Internet, Facebook.com, Flickr, Google, Google Inc, Google Inc|GOOG|NASDAQ, Internet, Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures, People, Photography, Picnik, Seattle (Wash), Silicon Valley, Software, Start-ups, Technology and Society, iphoto, photoshop, storage | No Comments

Bits Scan: Verizon Fees, E-Book Profits and Chilean Telescopes

This morning’s news roundup includes a look at a suit against Verizon Wireless over phantom fees, Microsoft’s antitrust campaign against Google and Chile’s earthquake-proof telescopes.

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March 1st, 2010 | Posted in Advertising and E-Commerce, Antitrust, Antitrust Actions and Laws, Apple, Bits Scan, Books and Literature, Chile, Company News, Computers and the Internet, Conde Nast Publications Inc, Consumer Electronics, Earthquakes, Google, Google Inc, Google Inc|GOOG|NASDAQ, Internet, Microsoft, Microsoft Corp, Microsoft Corp|MSFT|NASDAQ, New Yorker, Ohio, Personal Computing, Phones and Mobile Devices, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), Silicon Valley, Suits and Litigation, Technology and Society, Telescopes and Observatories, Telescopes and Observatories (Des);, Vanity Fair, Verizon Communications, Verizon Communications|VZ|NYSE, conde nast, e books, e-readers, fees, iPad, law suit, publishing, verizon | No Comments

Connecting Your Car, Socks and Body to the Internet

A new report from McKinsey discusses the growing move to connect “things” to the Internet, including cars, pills, farming and billboards.

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March 1st, 2010 | Posted in Advertising and E-Commerce, Automobiles, Biotechnology, Computer Chips, Computers and the Internet, Consumer Electronics, DARPA, Defense Department, Dyson, Esther, Google, Google Inc, Google Inc|GOOG|NASDAQ, Internet, Internet of things, Japan, McKinsey & Co, Medicine and Health, Personal Computing, Phones and Mobile Devices, Policy and Law, Privacy, Roads and Traffic, Robots, Technology and Society, Vint Cerf, advertising, automation, cars, data, data visualization, esther dyson, farming, health 2.0, healthcare, medicine, sensors, telemedicine | No Comments

Larger Threat Is Seen in Google Case

In Italy, three Google executives were held criminally responsible for content posted on the company’s system, suggesting that Google is a content provider that could be regulated.

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