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1. Smartphone market: Android and iPhone continue to grow

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   The phoney wars continueFigures from market research firm IDC indicate that smartphones have weathered the economic storm. IDC said that sales of converged mobile devices – that’s smartphones to you and ...

2. Apple sued over camera patent by litigant with a past

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... 5,138,459 is a sample of the patent.The action is being brought by St Clair Intellectual Property Consultants, and it's provided a battery of previous litigation that's resulted in success in the courts.For ...

3. Saturn gets another ring - and it’s a biggie

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... of dust kicked up from its minor collisions with comets - a process similar to that around stars with dusty disks of planetary debris.  The ring would be difficult to see with visible-light telescopes. ...

4. High tech won't save the economy this time

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Opinion: In 1982-1983 the economy in the West was battered. Unemployment in the U.S. reached 9.7 percent. The United Nations pegged growth for developed nations around one percent. Stagnation and recession ...

5. Dell says it will behave from now on, honest

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... into its accounting practices. The SEC ruled that between 2003 and 2007, Dell had exaggerated sales by $359 million and its profits by $92 million. The Securities and Exchange Commission started a ...

6. Iranian Science Minister fakes article

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   After his sterling success in producing a fair and accurate election result, Iran's science minister Kamran Daneshjou has been cutting and pasting science articles under his own name. After his ...

7. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... 13 May 2009 that found Intel broke EC Treaty antitrust rules by engaging in two types of illegal practise to exclude competitors from the market. Intel is appealing the ruling. These practices 'harmed ...

8. Mayor Nagin named in Dell conspiracy case

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... trial which is expected to run for at least three weeks. UPDATE: In an amusing footnote to the story, today sees the jury selection process taking place. Dell's lawyer is quizzing prospective jurors ...

9. Hacker admits world's biggest identity theft

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... - known as 'wardriving' - involved cruising around with a laptop and searching for accessible wireless internet signals. Once Gonzalez and his colleagues found a vulnerable network, they installed sniffer ...

10. Intel comes under pressure from ARM

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... putting muscle behind ARM technology rather than Intel chips to create laptops at a premium price.According to the Taipei Times, Hon Hai (Foxconn) is developing machines using ARM processors in a bid to ...

11. Color e-book reader market set to boom

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... the majority of revenues with practically all devices in the market using E Ink's electrophoretic display technology. Some use cholesteric LCD technology but other electrophoretic display supplies like ...

12. SCO: 'Linux is a knock-off of our Unix'

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... celebrates its 40th birthday this year. SCO filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2007, after spending all its cash on unsuccessful lawsuits claiming that its code was stolen by developers for ...

13. i4i pledges to 'vigorously enforce' XML patent as Microsoft appeals injunction

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... both fair and correct and we have been vindicated through this process." Loudon also rebuffed speculation that i4i had deliberately chosen Texas as a trial venue in the hopes of receiving a more favorable ...

14. Microsoft appeals in XML patent row

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    As expected, Microsoft has filed a motion to block an injunction that threatens to stop the company from shipping its flagship word processor, Word, saying that an earlier court ruling in favor of Canadian ...

15. Police hacker informer stole 130 million credit card details

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... ever prosecuted. The targets were the computer networks of Heartland Payment Systems, a payment processor in Princeton,  7-Eleven, Hannaford Brothers, a regional supermarket chain and two other ...

16. Intel Corporation sues Harris Corporation over Centrino mark

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... attempts in good faith to resolve this dispute amicably with Harris but such efforts have been unsuccessful." Hence Intel has resorted to lawyers. Centrio is a "breakthrough multiviewer", as you can see ...

17. Hapless Twitter hijacked by insidious botnet

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... ongoing cyber offensive against Twitter illustrated the "dangerous vulnerability" of unsecured systems. "The global impact of Twitter downtime is relatively small. However, the successful distributed ...

18. Spansion continues contracting

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... of the massive restructuring of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and is still a large manufacturer of NOR flash memory. According to the Taipei Times, a Spansion marketeer told the Taiwanese press that because ...

19. Glass shortage steadies prices on LCD screens

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... aggravated by the Corning catastrophe may push panel prices up by between $2 to $3 dollars, said the Taiwanese newspaper.See also:Japanese earthquake stops supply of glass to LCD makers ...

20. i4i 'not interested' in bringing Microsoft to its knees

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ...  "i4i contended that Microsoft's use of certain Word 2003 and all of Word 2007 products for processing XML documents with custom XML elements infringed claims [within] patent 5,787,449," explained Owen. ...

21. Scientist: Skynet 'just around the corner'

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... but the nub of it is that robots do not have the necessary discriminatory ability. They're not bright enough to be called stupid - they can't discriminate between civilians and non-civilians. It's hard ...

22. US Traffic Safety Administration hid cellphone danger

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ...  The highway safety agency did a one-year study of 100 drivers in which cameras were placed inside their cars to monitor their driving habits. That study found that drivers talking with handheld devices ...

23. Graphics market has worst ever year

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Intel, Nvidia and AMD-ATI will upset the status quo. Growth will come in 2010 because of Microsoft and Apple's new operating systems. And the graphics processing unit (GPU) will become a seriously ...

24. Three critical Microsoft patches coming next week

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... control which is addressed in the patch. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. When using Internet Explorer, code execution is remote ...

25. San Andreas Fault may be due for big quake

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... this segment of the San Andreas Fault - putting it at risk of breaking just as it did in 1857 to produce the great 7.8 magnitude Fort Tejon earthquake. Because in nearly all known instances tremors ...

26. Atom MID sells for $57, reader ahead

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... an Atom-based MID for a mere $57. The Taipei Times said that the machine, which uses an Atom processor, is made by BenQ and comes with a three year service contract, which explains the give away price. ...

27. Arctic thick ice disappearing at dramatic pace, NASA says

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

      NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) provides new clues about the presence of ice in the Arctic and you already know the picture isn’t pretty. Critical thick ice coverage has ...

28. Dell screws up pricing again

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... before. Consumers should not have to take responsibility for the mistakes of companies." Dell Taiwan president Terence Liao said that the prices had been a mistake and that the company had suspended ...

29. Social Security numbers can be cracked by fraudsters

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... from multiple sources to infer data that is more personal and sensitive than any single piece of original information alone," said Alessandro Acquisti, associate professor of information technology and ...

30. Dell tries to avoid paying up in LCD snafu

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the prices, 26,000 Taiwanese placed orders online for 140,000 LCD monitors. But Dell now says it will compensate customers only to the tune of NT$1,000 to NT$3,000 (US$30-$90). The move may not satisfy ...

31. The little green men are innocent

    (Space/Space Features)

      In a blow to conspiracy theorists everywhere, new evidence has shown that the 1908 Tunguska explosion was caused not by an alien spaceship but by a comet. Ithaca, NY - In a blow to conspiracy ...

32. Mind that monitor: computer related injuries on the rise

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... household-safety practices in this area… Given the large increase in acute computer-related injuries over the study period, greater efforts are needed to prevent such injuries, especially among young children." ...

33. Time Warner to spin off AOL

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... great success.  After the 2001 takeover Time Warner was forced to write down the value of AOL by nearly $100 billion a year, and it has struggled to get advertising. Talk of selling AOL to Microsoft ...

34. LCD panels to incorporate solar cells

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... panels that have extra film or glass with photo sensors on top of the regular LCD panel, Integrated Digital embeds solar cells in the TFT array layer during the panel-making process, thereby reducing the ...

35. Intel delays next Itanium again

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... during “final system-level testing”. One can only imagine what that means, but it sounds to us that Intel has caught a critical issue with the processor just in time before release.   Intel said ...

36. Napster slashes rates, offers unlimited streaming

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Napster has attempted to resurrect itself with a reduced monthly fee of $5. The company is currently offering users five "unrestricted" MP3 downloads (per month) along with unlimited access to Napster's ...

37. EU hits Intel with $1.5 billion fine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Antitrust Commission fines Intel $1.5 billion for abuse of dominant position, orders end to illegal practices. Brussels, Belgium - European Commission fines Intel $1.5 billion for abuse of dominant ...

38. Microsoft issues critical PowerPoint patch

    (Security/Security Features)

    Microsoft has issued a critical PowerPoint patch. The latest security update fixes several vulnerabilities that could allow malicious remote code execution. "An attacker who successfully exploited ...

39. Is the iPhone's success hurting AT&T?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... and instead use data, analysts predict that the success of devices like the iPhone, which allows users to communicate via the Internet and a Wi-Fi connection easily and effectively, will cost wireless ...

40. Rescue shuttle ready for lift off

    (Space/Space Features)

    Updated: Space Shuttle Atlantis has successfully reached parking orbit after launching from the Kennedy Space Center. Updated: Cape Canaveral (FL) - Space Shuttle Atlantis has successfully reached parking ...

41. Google says it's the online publisher's friend

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... generous, sharing $5 billion with publishers through its contextual ad program AdSense last year. Google has often been accused by publishers of exploiting online news services since the launch of AdSense ...

42. LCD prices will start to soar

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... over the next few weeks. The Taipei Times, for example, quotes a number of sources in Taiwan that said that the period of "oversupply" had ended, and prices will go up by between two to three percent ...

43. Intel’s Numonyx closes in on potential flash successor PCM

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Numonyx, a joint venture created by Intel and ST Microelectronics in 2008, said it has entered a license agreement with Ovonyx. The license enables Numonyx to access Ovonyx patents that affect Phase ...

44. HP dv2: Better than a netbook?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    ... 1 and 2 Two years ago, I purchased what I felt back then was the best 12.1” notebook - the HP Pavilion tx1000 “Entertainment” notebook with 2 GB memory, a 160 GB hard drive, an AMD Turion X2 processors ...

45. Obama: 2009 will continue to be a difficult year

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... total venture capital fund raising is at its worst level since the fourth quarter of 2003, when the tech bubble burst. Unfortunately, most successful tech entrepreneurs tend to be pasty white college ...

46. Microsoft loses patent case, ordered to pay $388 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... interest in giving his testimony. The appeal was granted and Uniloc won this second trial in court by a jury verdict. Microsoft's share prices (MSFT) were down slightly in after hours trading on the ...

47. Nvidia intros hardware debugger for GeForce GPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... application for Radeon 4000-series GPUs. The Linux version of the driver introduces support for RHEL 5.3 and an early look at Ubuntu 9.04.  ...

48. Researchers beginning to scientifically wield an AI Robot named Adam

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... in this case, a non-human analysis of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae baker's yeast genome. Cambridge (England) - Researchers at the Aberystwyth University and the University of Cambridge have published information ...

49. Atlantis arrives at launch pad

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... to roll out to Kennedy's other launch pad, 39B on April 17. Endeavour will be prepared for liftoff in the unlikely event that a rescue mission is necessary following Atlantis' launch. After Atlantis is ...