Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 26, 2011 at 9:40 am PT
Last night the president of the United States asked Americans to contact their representatives in Congress about the stalemate in Washington over the debt ceiling. Oh boy, did they ever respond.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 3, 2011 at 12:31 pm PT
As more details emerge about the raid that ended the world’s most famous manhunt, attention is turning toward other things of value captured. For openers, what useful information might be found on Osama bin Laden’s computer? Hopefully, a great deal.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on May 2, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
A key clue leading up to the attack that brought Osama bin Laden to justice was a lack of a phone or Internet connection on his property. By forgoing modern communications technology, he may have drawn attention to himself.
Kara Swisher in News on April 25, 2011 at 8:28 am PT
SurveyMonkey, the quiet but profitable and fast-growing Web survey company, is buying online forms start-up Wufoo.
While the terms of the transaction for the Tampa, Fla.-based Infinity Box–makers of Wufoo–were not disclosed, sources said the price was $35 million in cash and stock.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 22, 2010 at 10:23 am PT
No, I can’t hear you now, say millions of Skype users as the Internet telephony service experiences a widespread outage on Wednesday.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 15, 2010 at 12:57 pm PT
The Communications Workers of America have completed their latest survey of broadband connections in the U.S., and if the point wasn’t already well-established, then they’re here to remind you: Broadband connections in America are slow, and service availability is lousy or non-existent in many areas.
Kara Swisher in News on July 7, 2010 at 9:41 am PT
Like the Hitler meme and others, the dancing soldiers of Afghanistan have set off a lot of military moves of the hip-swaying kind in online video.
Case in point, the latest one from a group of Israeli soliders in the West Bank’s Hebron while on patrol with big and decidedly scary guns, using them as props in order to boogie to Ke$ha’s hit song “TiK ToK.”
John Paczkowski in Mobile on June 14, 2010 at 12:29 pm PT
Apple and HTC’s dueling lawsuits now have dueling ITC investigations to accompany them. The U.S. International Trade Commission has announced plans to formally investigate HTC’s allegations that Apple infringed upon its mobile phone patents.
John Paczkowski in News on May 13, 2010 at 4:00 am PT
Nearly one in four U.S. households has abandoned traditional landline telephones in favor of their wireless brethren. That’s the word from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says in a new study that 25 percent of the households it polled for its Wireless Substitution survey are wireless-only, while just 15 percent are landline-only.
John Paczkowski in News on May 12, 2010 at 1:45 pm PT
Earlier this morning, HTC said it has filed suit against Apple, accusing the company of infringing on five of its patents. After the jump, a copy of the suit and a list of the intellectual property at issue in it.
