SOPA, PIPA anti-online piracy bills halted by U.S. Congress after Wikipedia protest

U.S. lawmakers halted controversial anti-piracy legislation Friday, delivering a stunning victory for websites like Wikipedia that staged an unprecedented online protest this week to try and kill the bills.

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What is SOPA? / What is PIPA?

What is SOPA? The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA, H.R. 3261) is on the surface a bill that attempts to curb online piracy. Sadly, the proposed way it goes about doing this would devastate the online economy and the overall freedom of the web. It would particularly affect sites with heavy user generated content. Sites [...]

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Wikipedia, WordPress and Anonymous and Express Opposition to SOPA

Hacker group Anonymous has announced that it will stop all operations for twelve hours to oppose the passing of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as a law in the US. Hot on the heels of Reddit’s take on SOPA, the controversial hacker group now wants to jump aboard a massive blackout on January 18 [...]

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Google Ditching Nav Bar for a Drop-Down Menu

Google is getting rid of the navigation bar at the top of Google.com pages in favor of drop-down menu nested under the Google logo, the company said in an official blog post published Tuesday.

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Google serves up Android 4.0 source code

In a statement posted to an Android developer mailing list, Google software engineer Jean-Baptiste Queru announced that the Android 4.0 source code is being rolled out to the public Android Open Source Project version control repository where it will be available for the public to download.

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Is Android Safer Without Adobe Flash?

Before you pull your hair out just yet, Flash isn’t going away, it’s just not going to be developed further. While Adobe has made it official that they are stopping development of Flash for mobile browsers, they also made it clear there will be continued bug fixes and security updates for existing devices.

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Barnes & Noble: Microsoft Using Patents To Cripple Android Competition

As Microsoft continues to languish as anything but a market leader in the mobile sector, American bookseller Barnes & Noble has this week suggested the software giant is using underhand tactics to stifle the competition. That’s according to a Bloomberg report that reveals Barnes & Noble has asked U.S. regulators to launch a formal investigation [...]

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