Verizon employees fired after peeping Obama cell records

Several Verizon Wireless employees have been suspended after the company learned that some had accessed Barack Obama's cell phone records without authorization. Whether they'll face criminal charges is not clear.

November 21, 2008 - 04:50PM CT - by Julian Sanchez

Google may offer Chrome detailing on new PCs

Google has big plans for Chrome, and they don't involve keeping the browser in a perpetual beta twilight. The search giant intends to seize a significant chunk of the browser market in 2009, and could offer competition the likes of which Internet Explorer has never faced.

November 21, 2008 - 02:14PM CT - by Joel Hruska

Inaction on disconnect pleas at root of Aussie ISP lawsuit

Major movie studios aren't happy that Australian ISP iiNet won't disconnect users after receiving evidence that they have been sharing movies over BitTorrent. iiNet doesn't want to play traffic cop, but Australian law does demand it have (and act on) a disconnection policy for copyright infringers.

November 21, 2008 - 12:21PM CT - by Nate Anderson

Coupons, Inc. drops DMCA lawsuit against coupon hacker

A copyright lawsuit against a man who posted instructions on how to print unlimited coupons online has finally been dropped after he argued that he didn't circumvent anyone's copyright protection in order to produce his "hack."

November 21, 2008 - 11:45AM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Lots to like about new iPhone 2.2 software update

Apple released iPhone OS 2.2 last night, the latest update for the iPhone and iPod touch. A number of new features and fixes have arrived across the board, making this a must-have update.

November 21, 2008 - 11:09AM CT - by David Chartier

Beer, nachos, and broken street dates: 7-Eleven game sales

7-Eleven is getting into the gaming business by offering a small selection of big-name console and PC games. With broken street dates and easily fenced goods being kept in stores, the business may be more trouble than it's worth. Ars talks about the challenge of selling games in a convenience store.

November 21, 2008 - 10:32AM CT - by Ben Kuchera

Virtual appliances made easy with rBuilder

Software appliance tools maker rPath has added CentOS and Ubuntu support to rBuilder, its web-based software appliance constructor.

November 21, 2008 - 09:53AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Microsoft to aid in war on terror, builds software for DHS

Microsoft has joined forces with GIS vendor ESRI to build a suite of collaboration tools for intelligence gathering and processing. This software will be used by the Department of Homeland Security's fusion centers.

November 21, 2008 - 09:19AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Sony gets $18.5M wrist slap for PSP patent infringement

Sony has been found guilty of willfully infringing Agere System's patents; several of the company's devices, including the PSP, use Agere's IP. Call it a victory on principle—Sony won't be losing any sleep over an $18.5 million fine.

November 21, 2008 - 06:15AM CT - by Joel Hruska

An outlet at every parking meter? Bay Area welcomes plug-ins

Gov. Schwarzenegger and several Bay Area mayors have joined forces with start up Better Place to transform California into an electric vehicle wonderland.

November 21, 2008 - 05:10AM CT - by Jonathan M. Gitlin

Google CEO touts green energy shock doctrine

Google's CEO calls for a green bailout—and a more participatory, networked government.

November 20, 2008 - 10:00PM CT - by Julian Sanchez

Study: time kids spend online not wasted after all

A large survey of studies that explore the use of the Internet by children in the second decade of their lives find that, in general, it's acting as just another social tool, while providing them new outlets for learning and creativity.

November 20, 2008 - 08:55PM CT - by John Timmer

HP launches Touchsmart tx2, hopes to flip tablet PC market

HP's newest tablet launched yesterday, with a combination of features and capabilities that might breathe new life into a product segment that's languished in niche status for nearly a decade. With multitouch rapidly ascending the list of desired features on both laptops and cell phones, Tablet PCs might finally have their day in the sun.

November 20, 2008 - 07:50PM CT - by Joel Hruska

Roll your own search results with Google's new SearchWiki

Google's SearchWiki—the feature that allows people to annotate, add, delete, and move around search results—will soon be available to all users logged in with a Google account. The company's not sure yet what it plans to actually do with the data, though.

November 20, 2008 - 06:45PM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Brightkite aggregates location content for businesses, fun

Location may be the next holy grail for social networking, and plenty of startups are already chasing it. Brightkite, a location-based social network focused on meeting friends and making new ones, has just introduced a new way to show off what everyone is doing in a particular location. Businesses, meet location-based social networks.

November 20, 2008 - 05:40PM CT - by David Chartier

High-definition videos sneaking onto YouTube

YouTube is experimenting with high-definition videos on its site, and you can access the capability using a handy URL trick. If YouTube manages to score enough movie and TV content from its owners, then it might eventually give Hulu some competition.

November 20, 2008 - 02:32PM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Yahoo introduces "Glue" visual search

Yahoo Glue combines search results into a single visual page. Ars takes a quick peek at this new service.

November 20, 2008 - 02:01PM CT - by Erica Sadun

EU opens digital library to public with over 2 million works

The EU has finally launched Europeana, a digital online library that hosts more than 2 million books, maps, recordings, photographs, paintings, and documents from cultural institutions in its 27 member states. The EU hopes to have 8 million more works added by 2010.

November 20, 2008 - 01:33PM CT - by Jacqui Cheng