This is the lawsuit we all knew was coming: Hasbro, which sells the Scrabble board game, has sued to shut down the wildly popular knockoff on Facebook called Scrabulous.
The lawsuit names as defendants Kolkata, India-based RJ Softwares, its CEO Rajat Agarwalla, and Jayant Agarwalla, who launched Scrabulous two years ago. It asks the court to [...]
Most consumers won’t enter information, of course. They’ll just consume it. What they’ll get from the service is a green rating, and data underneath it, that will tell them the comparative impact of the product they’re looking at. The database will consider the entire lifecycle of the product, from raw materials used to recyclability, [...]
A newly filed lawsuit claims the iPhone 3G’s network is slower than promised.
An Alabama woman has filed a lawsuit against Apple, claiming the
iPhone 3G’s network is slower than advertised.
But Monday’s update was labeled with the briefest of descriptions–”bug fixes”–making it difficult to know exactly what was addressed with the update.
After weeks of silence regarding the [...]
The Chronicle of Higher Education visited the offices of the Recording Industry Association of America and got a demonstration.
The RIAA employee, who declined to give his or her name for fear of receiving hate mail, said the organization has hired online copyright enforcer MediaSentry to do most of the heavy lifting. MediaSentry writes scripts [...]
What are the chances you’ll actually watch a DVD/Blu-ray more than once or twice?
Gifts are one thing, but the question is, why do we continue to buy these things, why not just rent ‘em? I’m the audio guy, so I’d like to point out the money you would save not buying discs would add [...]
Sophos said the attack could have downloaded malicious payloads, but did not.
Danchev concludes: “If you don’t take care of your Web application vulnerabilities, someone else will.”
The injected code linking to the scanner has since been removed.
With fast-flux, a registered domain name stays the same while its node changes frequently, presumably thwarting any attempts to [...]
As for the NDA,Stainless Steel Necklaces, Silverlight head Scott Guthrie had this to say about Microsoft’s enforcement powers. “There’s a little red light that we’re going to ask you to look at as you leave.” (And of course, that quote itself is courtesy of one Twitter poster.
For its part, Microsoft said it decided to [...]
“The thing I find hardest to struggle with is how the different business models will work,” said Kleiner Perkins’ William Hearst III. “I still think there’s value to people who make a career out of news gathering and don’t make a lot of mistakes.”
That’s a telling sign of the times. How much [...]
Of the two, the organizer is the biggest enhancement. Users are taken to a dark gray editing environment that lets them make changes without the entire page having to refresh. Everything is drag and drop, which is useful for ferrying photos and videos between albums, and reordering album arrangement. There’s also support for batch operations, [...]
You’ll be asked to input a password. Type webware into the password field, and you’ll be able to pick your winners. You can modify your picks until Game 1 on Thursday, March 19.
Click here to get to the Webware Bracket Challenge page, and don’t forget the password: webware.
Are you getting ready for the most exciting [...]
