HTC has finally sent out a press release responding to Apple's patent lawsuit. "HTC disagrees with Apple’s actions and will fully defend itself. HTC strongly advocates intellectual property protection and will continue to respect other innovators and their technologies...

The Taiwanese handset maker -- a major player in Android-based smartphones -- prepares to fire back at Apple.

Google has released version 4.1 of Google Maps for Android, adding a constantly updated map wallpaper, tweaking the way search results are displayed and adding a new Latitude widget for tracking your friends.

Lawrence Latif THE INQUIRER Aims to enrich your knowledge

Asavin Wattanajantra THE INQUIRER The voice of the people

The No. 3 U.S. carrier lands the Google-branded Android phone. But where's a long-awaited model for Verizon Wireless?

Edward Berridge THE INQUIRER Comment: Bad behaviour is not an illness

Asavin Wattanajantra THE INQUIRER More openness from governments needed, says Sir Tim Berners-Lee

China Mobile hopes to offer both Apple's iPad and a version of the iPhone that supports China's homegrown 3G mobile standard, comments by China Mobile's top executive showed on Thursday.

Asavin Wattanajantra THE INQUIRER So what's the point of it now?

Edward Berridge THE INQUIRER Will fight it in court

Penguin books was kind enough to send me a copy of Michael "Liar's Poker" Lewis's The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine yesterday, and I've just finished it, having stuffed it up my eyeballs as fast as I could. Lewis is a gifted chronicler and debunker and demystif...

Nick Farrell THE INQUIRER But will remain as expensive as ever

IBM and insurance provider Assurant Solutions have come up with a project that, in the manner of dating services like eHarmony, uses analytics to match up call center callers with the most appropriate representative.

Microsoft 's new browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will not run on Windows XP, now or when the software eventually ships, the company confirmed Tuesday.

Acquia hopes to make a hosted version of its Drupal open-source content management system widely available in about three months, the company's CTO said Wednesday.

Just as Google's Nexus One phone may be about to gain momentum, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) denied the search giant's application for the Nexus One trademark. The denial is not final and Google now has the opportunity to submit evidence and ar...

Nick Farrell THE INQUIRER PS3 prevents reading and writing

Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer 9, will not run on Windows XP, now or when the software eventually ships, the company confirmed.

Nick Farrell THE INQUIRER Analyst says Saint Steve is bringing growth

Intel's Core i7 mobile processors were created to speed up multimedia notebooks. We test three of the latest systems to see if they measure up.

Enterprises of all shapes and sizes are catching on to the value in moving email and other productivity apps to the cloud where they can be delivered and managed by vendors like Microsoft, Google, or Cisco. The major appeal of cloud is that it saves money, says Ron Mark...

Nick Farrell THE INQUIRER Chip to link ATI and Nvidia gets a thumbs up

"Google is working to bring Web software to televisions through a partnership with Intel, Sony and Logitech, according to two people involved in the discussions with the companies. The project, called Google TV, uses Intel chips, with Switzerland's Logitech developing a...

High Tech Computer (HTC) on Thursday said it plans to "fully defend itself" against the patent infringement lawsuit filed by Apple early this month, adding it has always respected the intellectual property of others and will continue to do so.

Joann Bruso, author of Baby Bites - Transforming A Picky Eater Into A Healthy Eater Book, a book on getting kids to overcome picky eating habits, has been blogging the half-life of a McDonald's Happy Meal that she bought a year ago. In the intervening year, the box of d...

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Google has rolled out a significant update to the Google Maps application for Android 1.6+ devices, which includes a new search results page, support for multiple accounts, a new Latitude homescreen widget, and a new Maps live wallpaper for...

Ben Greenman remembers singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, who died tonight at age 59. Alex Chilton, who died, wrote songs. He recorded songs. He made songs. He unmade them. In the end, the life was largely in song, and the songs all had life, and that's all there is to ...

Valve recently threw Mac gamers a lifeline, but Jim Lynch wonders: What about Linux?

A government official in North Korea blamed for the nation's currency devaluation has been executed by the state. "Pak Nam-gi, who was reportedly sacked in January as chief of the planning and finance department of the ruling Workers' Party, was executed at a shooting r...

Yelp is Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg's new short film that provides a glimpse at their work-in-progress, a feature documentary called Connected about "what it means to be human in the 21st century."...

Users of popular micro-blogging service Twitter have been unable to access the site since just after 11 p.m. ET Wednesday.

Jim Whitehurst, chief executive of the leading open source vendor Red Hat, argues at the Open Source Business Conference that innovation thrives on community participation.

Users of popular micro-blogging service Twitter have been unable to access the site since just after 3am GMT Wednesday (11pm EDT/8pm PDT Tuesday).

Complaints to a Japanese Internet watchdog regarding illegal content almost doubled in 2009, led by a surge in reports related to child pornography and illegal drugs.

Google is working with Intel, Sony and other partners to develop Google TV, a service aimed at putting the Internet search giant's Web offerings in people's living rooms, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 18, 2010 is available.

Motorola's Droid smartphone looks to be in store for a long-anticipated upgrade this week, with rumors swirling that the device will step up to version 2.1 of the Android operating system.

As it presses ahead with its new cloud offerings, IBM has tapped open source vendor Red Hat to supply the underlying virtualization technology, marking Red Hat's third big win this year.

Networking giant rolls out new routers and switches as it pushes ahead with an initiative it's calling borderless networking, offering secure communications from one organization to another.

SGI, the vendor that grew out of Rackable Systems' acquisition of Silicon Graphics, has hopped on the Xeon bandwagon with a new line of x86 servers based on Intel's new Westmere technology.

Three years after a widespread cyberattack temporarily shut down the Estonian economy, Estonia's defense minister said such incidents will only continue to grow.

This one was accidentally deleted from the submission queue when it was first submitted some time ago, so I decided to keep it around for a slow news day (such as this one - dear lord, it's quiet). FFmpeg developer Mans penned down a number of crucial problems with the ...

Microsoft says it will ask the judge to reconsider his ruling and the jury's hundred million dollar damages award, but in the meantime, maybe Microsoft should consider opening a legal office in East Texas.

Software giant makes ambitious pitch to developer community with platform preview of Internet Explorer 9, a browser it promises will enable a 'whole new class of applications.'

"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have released research detailing how molecules in chips can self-assemble, potentially reducing manufacturing costs. The researchers have developed a technique in which polymers automatically fall into place to c...

Just as Google's Nexus One phone may be about to gain momentum, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) denied the search giant's application for the Nexus One trademark.

"In this article, the authors investigate the impact of DRM restrictions on the demand for music downloads. [A new model] estimates the impact of DRM on consumers' willingness to pay for songs (both favorites and nonfavorites) and on the producer revenues and profits. B...

"In this article, the authors investigate the impact of DRM restrictions on the demand for music downloads. [A new model] estimates the impact of DRM on consumers' willingness to pay for songs (both favorites and nonfavorites) and on the producer revenues and profits. B...

"By encouraging more people to post videos in Wikipedia articles, we can bring theora video played in html5 to a very large audience. Currently, there are very few wikipedia articles that have videos. We hope that this campaign will bring thousands more to the site and ...