A number of nifty applications have popped up in response to the 2008 elections, like Google’s tool to search political speeches and the Obama iPhone application. One more social-networking application is attempting to gain from the current political fever with a very speculative electoral map. For an application with only 321 active monthly users on [...]

Indexing by channels is something that other video-content providers, like Joost, have already been doing for months. Hulu didn’t need it at first–launching with a handful of movies, Web series, and NBC and Fox shows. At that point, giving the option to sort by genre would only have made the selection look limited. Now that [...]

Overall click fraud dropped to 16.3 percent of clicks in the quarter compared with 16.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007, said Click Forensics, a company that monitors the phenomenon and is in the business of helping clients prevent it. It was only the second time the rate dropped since Click Forensics started studying [...]

Consumer systems from Hewlett-Packard and Gateway that use the Phenom X3 8400 are on the market today. These desktops are available at Best Buy for as little as $550.
Currently, AMD offers
the X3 8400, 8600, and 8700. These are so-called “B2″ versions of the processor that contain an extremely rare “TLB” bug. AMD will update [...]

RPX will sell memberships to companies for a fixed annual fee that could range from $35,000 to $4.9 million, depending on the member company’s operating income. For the price of the annual membership, companies will receive the patent licenses purchased by RPX. The Wall Street Journal reported that Cisco Systems and IBM have already signed [...]

Lawyers for The Christian Institute alleged that Google’s policy violated the United Kingdom’s Equality Act of 2006, which prohibits religious discrimination in providing services.

The Christian Institute filed a legal action against Google in April, after the search giant rejected an anti-abortion ad from the group, citing its policy of not accepting ads [...]

Withholding votes in a board member election is a symbolic but still potentially potent form of communication. The vote update isn’t expected to change the overall outcome of the election, which saw all board members re-elected.

In Yahoo’s official voting tally, released Friday, 14.6 percent of votes for Chief Executive Jerry Yang and 20.5 percent for [...]

In theory, at least, this could threaten Amazon’s business model, which provides wireless connectivity through Sprint’s EV-DO cellular data network and covers the cost through items purchased from the Amazon Kindle Store. Kindle customers can also e-mail themselves documents to be converted at 10 cents per conversion.

MobileRead.com posted a letter this week that Amazon.com apparently [...]