- The Selfie and Serendipity's Extinction
- Social Media and the Perils of Looking for 'Likes'
- Virtual Reality is going to change the world
- What You Think You Know About the Web Is Wrong
- Google Earth Finds Woman Trapped On Deserted Island For 7 Years
- After borking high-profile crowdfunding campaigns, PayPal updates policies—"Mailpile, Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm, and Dreamfall Chapters all had funds frozen."
- FCC sides with local cable commissions against Comcast—"The Federal Communications Commission has upheld a ruling ordering Comcast to stop charging its customers for cable equipment under the guise of service fees."
- New Revelations on Google Fiber Spells More Bad News for AT&T and Verizon
- One big reason we lack Internet competition: Starting an ISP is really hard—"Creating an ISP? You'll need millions of dollars, patience, and lots of lawyers."
- Netflix's Net-Neutrality Plea Gets Rejected by the FCC—"But the agency might still regulate negotiations between websites and Internet providers."
- Net neutrality law adopted by European Parliament—It was a hard-fought and won battle.
- Q&A with policy advisor for the ACLU on net neutrality
- The Netherlands paves the way for carrier-free SIM cards
- MEPs vote to scrap mobile roaming fees in Europe
- Watch 30 Years of Mobile Phones Come Together as a Digital Orchestra
- Sony Blocks Creative Commons Movie With Bogus DMCA Takedown—"It's pretty hard to enrage free software advocates, the Creative Commons movement, and anti-overreaching copyright and anti-censorship camps with a single move, so 'congratulations' to Sony for managing that today. Thanks to a bogus DMCA takedown, the Blender Institute's open movie 'Sintel' is now blocked on YouTube."/
- How Dropbox Knows When You're Sharing Copyrighted Stuff (Without Actually Looking At Your Stuff)
- New judge blasts Prenda's "attorney speak," finds lawyers in contempt—"Judge to John Steele: 'The community is worried about guys like you.'"
- Why Veronica Mars embraced UltraViolet and angered fans—Industry-touted DRM hurting customers, again.
- Google's 'Glass' trademark held back by US patent office
- US Supreme Court says human DNA cannot be patented—"Human genes may not be patented, but artificially copied DNA can be claimed as intellectual property, the US Supreme Court has ruled unanimously."
- Abstract Ideas Don't Deserve Patents—"The government has too often given patent protection to inventions that do not represent real scientific advances." NYT
- Supreme Court hears argument on a patent worthy of King Tut—"Is the patent behind a global banking lawsuit just 'a man with an abacus?'"
- Supreme Court skeptical of computer-based patents
- Apple, Pfizer, others form 'go slow' U.S. patent lobby group—"[The Partnership for American Innovation] would oppose efforts to make software or biotechnology unpatentable."
- Newegg and friends crush a patent troll
- Podcasts Vs. Patent Trolls: How You Can Help
- Why No One Trusts Facebook To Power The Future—"Facebook has a perception problem—consumers just don't trust it."
- Study: 30 percent of U.S. adults get their news from the Facebook feed
- Facebook's new face recognition knows you from the side
- Jerk.com scammed money to remove Facebook-scraped profiles, says FTC—"Take info, post it publicly, ask for money to remove it, do nothing, profit."
- Facebook Friends Help Diagnose A 3-Year-Old With Eye Disease
- Was Windows 8 a Mistake? Microsoft Seems to Think So
- Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 and 8.1 in market share again, but Windows XP still above 27%—Buncha stragglers.
- Microsoft's Windows 8 is Less Popular than Discontinued Windows XP—"Windows 8 is still proving to be unpopular, even after its 8.1 update."
- Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1
- Fixing Windows 8
- Windows XP End of Life Breeding FUD, Legit Concerns
- Mathematics of trust: How Microsoft can keep Win XP alive – and WHY
- UK government buys last-minute lifeline with £5.5m Windows XP support deal
- Dutch government pays millions to extend Microsoft XP support
- Windows XP support will be available after April 8—just not for you
- The #1 New Paid App In The Play Store Costs $4, Has Over 10,000 Downloads, A 4.7-Star Rating... And It's A Total Scam
- The Fallacy Of Android-First
- Here’s Why Developers Keep Favoring Apple Over Android
- Microsoft to start blocking annoying adware by default
- Ad blockers get ad-group exec's blood boiling (Q&A)—"The Interactive Advertising Bureau doesn't like how tens of millions of people use ad-blocking software. IAB's general counsel has a counterattack: block the blockers."
- Research Finds Value Exchange Ads Benefit Gamers, Developers And Marketers
- For Kids, Gaming Is Healthier Than Television
- Titanfall's Anticheat Is Now Being Enforced
- How The Most Expensive Game Jam In History Crashed And Burned In A Single Day
- The Guilt of the Video-Game Millionaires—"For many young, successful game makers, who created their work out of a passion for play, riches come with profound cost."
- Candy Crush Firm Slumps In Market Debut
- Tinder Exploited By Bots Promoting "Castle Clash" Game Downloads
- The "2048" game is why we can't have nice things—"The latest viral game breakout exposes the horrible economics of online gaming." Salon
