Last week, we noted that Best Buy was looking into firing the employee that made the hilarious EVO versus iPhone 4 video (and

Having lagged behind much of the rest of the world, India is now among one of the fastest growing international regions for Facebook. Developers in the country are paying more attention, too, producing the sorts of apps that will be familiar to most users. UTV Indiagames is one of those developers

ReadWriteWeb had a solid scoop last week when it uncovered Twitter was set to go live with an account called @EarlyBird . Well, it has just gone live, with a tweet pointing to this page where the company explains what it’s all about

I’d been living under Apple TV hegemony for about two years I bought an early 40GB model, upgraded it to 80GB, and then hacked it. When hacked, the Apple TV is actually useful

A patent applied for by Amazon in 2006 has been made public today as a consequence of its being granted, and its language is rather more wide-ranging (and forward-thinking) than we might have expected. Depending on the interpretation, Amazon’s patent may be broad enough to justify a lawsuit over devices like the Nook and Alex , both of which sport a design clearly claimed by Amazon. The relevant language in the patent starts off thus: 5.

Last week, the Feds shut down nine video sites for piracy and copyright violations. The enforcement was a combined effort by the Department of Justice, U.S

Oh those jokesters over at the AP — the fun never ends! Last night, we wrote a post noting that Woot was (humorously) calling out the AP for not following their own ridiculous rules when quoting from content. By Woot’s calculation, using the AP tool , the AP owes them $17.50 (but Woot was nice enough to offer them the chance to buy some headphones off of Woot instead).

Vision-based augmented reality — that is, pulling in data from a device’s camera and using it to position and rotate 3D models drawn on top of an on-screen view of the real world — isn’t really anything new . We started seeing tech demos of the concept 5+ years ago, and games like Sony’s Eye of Judgment have been doing it for nearly as long

Enterprise software giant EMC has acquired data warehousing company Greenplum Software . Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed but the acquisition is an all-cash transaction. Greenplum, which has raised $61 million in funding, develops database software for business intelligence and data warehousing applications

Here it is, the first tweet from LeBron James . No, h e’s not saying where he’s going — at least not yet.