Grooveshark in the dock: the music streaming service versus the record labels
Groveshark has faced a series of court cases over alleged copyright infringement, with record labels accusing the service of being uncooperative, sometimes even of uploading tracks, and seeking to shut it down. With EMI, Sony, Uni...
Motorola Defy+ review
When Motorola released the first-generation Defy in September 2010, it was an unusual proposition: an Android 2.2 handset that didn't totally skimp on specs but offered water, dust, and scratch resistance. You might remember that ...
Single-atom transistor hailed as a landmark in the development of quantum computing
A team based at the University of New South Wales has created a "perfect" single atom transistor, leading the way for smaller and more powerful electronics. The active component in the device is a single phosphorus atom, which is ...
EFF says that thousands of SSL certificates ‘offer effectively no security’
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's SSL Observatory has found that thousands of SSL certificates used to authenticate HTTPS sites are effectively useless, owing to weak algorithms used to generate the random numbers that are need...
AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition and HD 7750 review roundup
Reviews are flowing in for AMD's latest midrange 28nm GPUs, the Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition and HD 7750, both based on the company's Southern Islands Cape Verde architecture. The new cards are focused on lower power performance, wi...
Good Deal: Adobe Lightroom 3 for $79.95 today only
Adorama has a great deal on Adobe Lightroom 3 for both Mac and Windows today, charging only $79.95 for the full version of the software, a substantial discount on the MSRP of $299. Lightroom's incredibly popular — even amon...
Proview calls for iPad export ban without a hint of irony
Proview Shenzen has said that it plans to continue its aggressive stance against Apple following the news yesterday that officials had begun seizing iPads in Hebei, requesting not only more confiscations but also a ban on both imp...
Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg on the future of gaming, and how brands are the way forward
Fresh from his speech at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas, Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg sat down with Venturebeat to look back at his first year with the company. The year has brought the company the biggest game launch of all time...
Spray-on antenna could solve your signal problems instantly
Researchers at military technology firm Chamtech seem to have developed an innovative way to solve cellphone and other radio signal black spots, with an aerosol spray can that paints an antenna onto any surface and boosts the netw...
Good Deal: T-Mobile offering all 4G smartphones and Springboard for free
T-Mobile's cooked up its annual Valentine's special, offering all of its 4G range of handsets as well as the T-Mobile Springboard tablet for free with one of its two-year Classic contracts. That's a pretty broad selection, which i...
Vonage Mobile app for Android and iOS promises to undercut Skype’s rates by 30 percent
Vonage is gunning for the mobile VoIP market in a big way with its new Vonage Mobile app for iOS and Android, which it says offers calls that are typically 30 percent cheaper than Skype's rates, based on per-minute rates to the to......
Canonical ends support for KDE, Kubuntu lead developer moved to other projects
Ubuntu parent Canonical is ending paid support for Kubuntu, the variant of the Linux OS running the KDE desktop environment. An announcement by lead Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell explains that the move is a purely commercial ...
