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Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the course of tracking down the sources of unlicensed distribution, they found many things, including the copying of his column to ...

You'd never guess it was there -- a tiny chip, barely a millimeter square, hidden inside the headphone module on the third-gen iPod shuffle. If you dismantle the module itself, you still won't see it: it's underneath a board containing a few simple copper traces, itself minuscule, and glued to the plastic....

THE CINCINNATI TEA PARTY IS UNDERWAY, and a reader sends this photo via Blackberry. Also, reader Russell Sayre sends this aerial view: “This was taken from the 17th floor of the U.S. Bank Tower above Fountain Square in Cincinnati as the rally began. I have no idea how many people are there, but the ...

So many people are using the "#sxsw" tag in their tweets that it has become extremely hard to filter for worthwhile panels and parties. That is creating an opportunity for other services.

The kids picked Katie Couric as their class day speaker. It wasn't the kind of pick that gives one great hope for the future of the country, but it could have been worse, and it often is. University President Shirley Tilghman, on the other hand, has made the decision to invite General Petraeus to deliver ...

The world of custom action figures is often times an intriguing place. From stripping off armor to creating mashups of the century, its dedicated and talented artisans continue to produce a plethora of one of a kind creations at an impressive pace. Sometimes we like what we see and other times we don’t, ...

The following is a speech I gave yesterday at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin. I If you happened to being hanging out in front of the old College Hill Bookstore in Providence Rhode Island in 1987, on the third week of every month you would have seen a skinny 19-year-old in baggy ...

During a live taping of Diggnation, Kevin Rose revealed details about the expected "Copy and Paste" functionality coming in iPhone 3.0. World of Apple reports on the event with a link to a video of the moment (warning: strong language). <br /...

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes 'executive assassination ring' REUTERS/Fadi Al-Assaad Seymour Hersh By Eric Black | Wednesday, March 11, 2009 At a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little ...

Crib sheets have gone digital, this time with the release of Pass Your Driving Theory Test for Nintendo DS in Europe. Long before you're able to cruise the streets behind the wheel, friends by your side, you need a Learner's Permit (it has many different names across the world) -- a piece of paper that ...

Already bored with Cupcake, are you? If your Nokia Internet Tablet needs just one more operating system to test out, we've excellent news to pass your way. Ubuntu 9.04 ( Jaunty Jackalope) is primed and ready for installation on Nokia's N8x0 family of handhelds, which obviously includes the N800 and N810. ...

South by Southwest is one of the biggest annual geek shows, so naturally there are thousands (tens of thousands?) of iPhones roaming around downtown Austin. Good luck making calls or receiving text messages, especially anywhere near the convention center. As this Twitter search feed illustrates, many ...

als nun wegen tim k. wieder alle ganz entsetzt waren ber die schlimmen zustände an den schulen und weil da so viel gemobbt wird und so viel gewalt herrscht, da hat es natrlich keinen interessiert, dass das statistisch blödsinn ist,weil die zahlen fr derlei dinge rckläufig sind. die erwachsenen haben in ...

School officials in Toronto asked Sony Canada to take Killzone 2 ads near their school down. Should violent video game ads be kept away from schools?

Looking for some equally cute alternatives to all the Hello Kitty gear out there? Then you may want to consider these new Chinese Horoscope MP3 players from EverGreen, which sacrifice only a tiny bit of usability for a whole lot of adorability. You will get some actual, if not entirely intuitive, controls ...

You are probably tired of hearing about the whole 5800 NAM launch fiasco (especially if you are not North American), but hopefully this will be the end of it. The Nokia 5800 NAM is back with updated firmware v20 and returned to the sales floor at the US flagships. Those who pre-ordered online should be ...

Yes, you read the title right. In a interview piece with Jay-Z by Best Life it was revealed that we may see Jay get involved in the gaming industry. While describing the typical day for Mr. Carter Best Life revealed that he had “ …a meeting about his potential involvement in a forthcoming video game....

For the thousands of attendees of the SXSWi conference with iPhones, the poor service has been a source of frustration.

Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Lindsay Lohan UPDATE: 3:49 PM ET Three LAPD cops were knocking at the door, trying to get Lindsay and Sam to open it but they would not. One of the cops was pacing the property. The cops have left the front door but they're still in the area. One of the cars left... Permalink

Much has been written about the potential impact of Big 3 bankruptcies on the hundreds of suppliers that sell parts and assemblies to them. Part of the logic of the auto bailout was that if any one of the Big 3 were to fail, it would bankrupt some of the tier 1 suppliers. This, in turn, could put ...

Filed under: Industry, Displays, OLED You've seen the prototypes tucked away in trade show corners, and you've seen the demise of existing generation technologies -- it doesn't take an industry expert to realize that the door is wide open for OLED to walk through. According to a new report from -- who ...

The longstanding project called the General Social Survey, which has polled Americans about their feelings on a variety of political and social issues for more than 35 years, just recently came out with their preliminary 2008 data (which, I should warn you, is a little bit cumbersome to access). One of my ...

Seriously, is there anything a laser can't do? A team of mad scientists in Washington have concocted a system that could essentially eliminate malaria-carrying mosquitoes with lasers, and the whole thing can be built from parts sourced on eBay. The so-called mosquito laser is credited to an idea from ...

In a report released this week, analysts at DisplaySearch estimate that OLED displays will be the fastest growing material application in electronics over the next eight years but that we won't get to see a large number of products with them until 2011. That year, big OLED players such as Philips, GE, ...

You've seen the prototypes tucked away in trade show corners, and you've seen the demise of existing generation technologies -- it doesn't take an industry expert to realize that the door is wide open for OLED to walk through. According to a new report from -- who else? -- industry experts, the OLED ...