Rambus just unveiled their breakthrough Binary Pixel Technology, destined to dramatically improve the quality and dynamic range of photos taken from cameras and mobile devices.

Today, Google Reader moved one step closer to its grave as Google is now quietly removing links to it from the black menu that graces the top of virtually every core Google product. Google announced that Google Reader would fold on July 1, 2013, and cited lack of use as the primary reason. But as I [...]

Manufactured sapphire could become cheap enough to replace the glass display covers on mobile phones. Sapphire is harder than any other natural material except diamond; by some measures, it’s three times stronger than Gorilla Glass, and it is also about three times more scratch resistant. That could mean smartphone screens that don’t crack when you [...]

According to reports, Apple has worked behind the scenes to improve Maps on iOS. Better data, better imagery, more flyovers. Of course, Apple has had to do this, since it’s competing in a dead head with Google Maps. A problem made especially acute by the inclusion of Google Maps in the App Store.

But Apple is also competing in a head heat with Android, and have we seen any major improvements to the OS? Any major new features? Or even any significant changes whatsoever? No.

People have just started noticing that Google’s own RSS Subscription Chrome browser extension has disappeared from the Google Chrome Web Store.

The message is clear: Google is getting out of the RSS business.

I’m willing to bet that very few people were using Google Reader’s web interface. I mean, given a choice, would you do it?

But there was a method to their madness.

In another display of Google’s commitment to a free and open internet, Google on Wednesday announced that it will terminate its Google Reader service as of July 1, 2013.

With Adobe placing more focus on its Creative Cloud subscription service and with more laptops losing their optical drives, the company plans to end sales of boxed sets of Adobe Creative Suite and Acrobat software.

Almost three years after Google released its WebM video encoding technology as a “free” and open alternative to the existing H.264 backed by Apple and others, it has admitted its position was wrong and that it would pay to license the patents WebM infringes.

Interesting article by Charlie Demerjian at SemiAccurate. The problem is that if you are locked in with a choice of 100% Microsoft or 0% Microsoft, once someone goes, it isn’t a baby step, they are gone. Once you start using Google Docs and the related suites, you have no need for Office. That means you, or [...]

The Obama administration delivered a formal veto threat against a controversial data-sharing bill called CISPA that would allow intelligence agencies to collect personal information about Americans from private companies.

In an 18-2 closed vote, the House Intelligence Committee passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act CISPA cybersecurity bill.

A petition at “We the People” requests that Congress members switch over to NASCAR-style representation, and wear their corporate affiliations on their sleeves.

Friday, the US Senate voted in favor of a proposal that could give states power to collect taxes on Internet purchases made from out-of-state retailers.

Internet tax supporters are hoping that a vote in the U.S. Senate today will finally give them enough political leverage to require Americans to pay sales taxes when shopping online.

Rambus just unveiled their breakthrough Binary Pixel Technology, destined to dramatically improve the quality and dynamic range of photos taken from cameras and mobile devices.

Manufactured sapphire could become cheap enough to replace the glass display covers on mobile phones. Sapphire is harder than any other natural material except diamond; by some measures, it’s three times stronger than Gorilla Glass, and it is also about three times more scratch resistant. That could mean smartphone screens that don’t crack when you [...]

Tablets are reinventing how students access and interact with educational material, and how teachers assess and monitor students’ performance at a time when many schools are understaffed and many classrooms overcrowded.

It’s obvious that the bean-counters are back in charge at Apple. Back in the day, John Scully, John Louis Gassee, and others continually maintained that consumers would gladly pay a premium to own Apple computers. This despite the fact that Microsoft Windows-based PCs had, in many cases, already surpassed the capabilities of Apple’s aging Macintosh [...]

iPad 1, iOS 6, And Apple’s Failure To Plan For The Future.

Internet tax supporters are hoping that a vote in the U.S. Senate today will finally give them enough political leverage to require Americans to pay sales taxes when shopping online.

The ad featuring that amazing BMW sitting in the late afternoon sun? Or that spotless, impeccable, drool-worthy camera? It could be real. Or it may not exist at all.

In a closely-watched case, Kirtsaeng vs. Wiley, the U.S. Supreme Court today vindicated the first-sale doctrine, declaring that it “applies to copies of a copyrighted work lawfully made abroad.”

The case involved a Thai graduate student in the U.S. who sold cheap foreign versions of textbooks on eBay without the publisher’s permission.

CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, is a pervasive and fundamental attack on our privacy, on our free speech, and on our personal freedom. The bill failed to pass when originally introduced in 2011.

But, like the phoenix, it has risen again from the ashes.

It’s obvious that the bean-counters are back in charge at Apple. Back in the day, John Scully, John Louis Gassee, and others continually maintained that consumers would gladly pay a premium to own Apple computers. This despite the fact that Microsoft Windows-based PCs had, in many cases, already surpassed the capabilities of Apple’s aging Macintosh [...]