Monthly archive January, 2012

Here are a couple of Twitter-related troubles, none having to do with the company itself. This time, it's about the people who use the social-media service. • The Department of Homeland Security has banned a couple of British tourists Read More →

Mobile-phone news, it's calling. • The European Union has started an antitrust investigation into Samsung's use of patents, including looking into whether the company is hindering competition from Apple and others. Samsung and Apple, of course, have Read More →

A couple of developments in the ongoing battle between Silicon Valley tech giants Oracle and Hewlett-Packard, via a ruling Monday by a state judge in San Jose: First, the side of drama: Judge James Kleinberg threw out Read More →

"Forward me his resume. The word we're getting is someone in that high-tech field should be able to find something right away. I want to follow up on that." — President Obama, responding Monday to a Texas woman's question Read More →

The Fixie Bike Index, based on the notion that fixed-gear bikes = hipsters. (via Flowing Data) A profile of a Bay Area woman working to find and save wasted food. Photos of men and Read More →