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• Controversial Amazon 1-Click patent survives review

  <!--body--> Amazon's patent on one-click shopping has survived the scrutiny of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In an official notice published this month, the USPTO declared its intent to issue a reexamination certificate affirming the validity of Amazon's amended version of the patent. The patent, which was filed...

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  March 10, 2010, 8:23 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• etc: Google has introduced Google Reader Play, a product intended to "make Google Reader more accessible for everyone."

  <!--body--> Google has introduced Google Reader Play, a product intended to "make Google Reader more accessible for everyone." Read More: Google Read the comments on this post

  March 10, 2010, 2:20 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• etc: Facebook and Google are being sued by Winksite in a case of alleged mobile social networking patent infringement.

  <!--body--> Facebook and Google are being sued by Winksite in a case of alleged mobile social networking patent infringement. Read More: Winksite, Mashable, USPTO Read the comments on this post

  March 10, 2010, 1:45 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• Donkey-politician vid keeps two Azerbaijani bloggers in jail

  <!--body--> Two Azerbaijani bloggers will remain in jail after using a donkey to represent their government in a satirical YouTube video. Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli lost an appeal Wednesday asking for them to be released from their respective 2 and and 2.5 year sentences. Their lawyer vowed to continue...

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  March 10, 2010, 12:41 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• LifeLock fined $12 million over lack of life-locking ability

  

  <!--body--> Identity theft prevention service LifeLock is not as pristine as its reputation claims after all. The company agreed to pay out $12 million to settle charges with the Federal Trade Commission and 35 states, which had said that LifeLock's identity-theft-prevention claims were false and that the company actually made...

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  March 10, 2010, 11:37 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• Free wireless broadband plan is déjà vu all over again

  

  <!--body--> As part of the grand hoopla-fest building up to the release of the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan this month, the agency hosted a Digital Inclusion Summit at Washington, DC's Newseum on Tuesday. Co-sponsored with the Knight Foundation, during the course of the event the FCC disclosed more...

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  March 10, 2010, 10:13 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• HTC lawsuit came after warning by Apple to handset makers

  

  <!--body--> Apple COO Tim Cook's warning from early 2009 wasn't the only one that handset makers received before Apple sicced the lawyers on HTC last week. According to a research note from Oppenheimer analyst Yal Reiner, Apple began warning top executives at companies such as HTC and Motorola in January...

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  March 9, 2010, 7:25 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• MRI's successes put the brain on trial

  

  <!--body--> A typical neuroscience paper (or a typical report on one) is a laundry list of structure:function relationships between brain regions and the mental tasks they perform. The amygdala deals with registering rewards, the hippocampus handles memory, and so on. These relationships have been the result of over a century...

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  March 9, 2010, 5:24 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• The Internet of tomorrow: 100Gbps to your house by 2030

  

  <!--body--> Google's recent announcement of a 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home testbed has communities across the US salivating—but imagine what the Internet might be like if that connection to your home were even faster. Say... 100Gbps. In less than 20 years, such speeds will be possible, but only for companies who installed the...

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  March 9, 2010, 1:33 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

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