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

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

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

EPOXI spacecraft tests modified TCP/IP in outer space

What's cooler than the Internet and cooler than outer space? Why, the Internet in outer space, of course. This month, NASA is building on ten years of work by testing an Internet-esque communications protocol designed for data transmission in deep space.

November 19, 2008 - 05:36PM CT - by Ari Allyn-Feuer

Report: Online shoppers cutting back this holiday season

Thanks to inflation, low confidence in the economy, and unemployment, almost 71 percent of online shoppers plan to cut back their spending this holiday season. Things are not looking so rosy in Whoville, it seems.

November 19, 2008 - 02:40PM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Antipiracy group pushes 10 years jail time for UK infringers

The Federation Against Software Theft is miffed at the UK Intellectual Property Office for not considering "recommended" changes to the copyright law that would punish online copyright infringers with 10 years of imprisonment in order to "bring parity with commercial dealing in pirated works."

November 19, 2008 - 11:00AM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Study: many young people want to do their banking over IM

Young people tend to drive technology trends, even in otherwise "boring" industries like the financial sector. Microsoft has found that, thanks to the preferences of the "Millennial" generation, banks are changing how the public can conduct business with them.

November 18, 2008 - 11:30AM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Study reminds us why we're always fixing our parents' PCs

The American public has a lot of technology‚ and a lot of tech headaches. People have the most frequent problems with their Internet connections, cell phones, and home PCs, according to data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

November 17, 2008 - 11:53AM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Most users don't office in the cloud: 1% use Google Docs

Only one percent of a group of surfers surveyed report using Google Docs in the past six months. That compares with five percent for OpenOffice.org and over 50 percent for Microsoft Office.

November 17, 2008 - 09:17AM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

No second chance for marriage after Second Life "adultery"

What would you do if you caught your spouse having sex with a prostitute? What if that prostitute was virtual, and your spouse was doing it in a virtual world? Welcome to another episode of "Too Much Drama."

November 14, 2008 - 11:20AM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Equifax's new age-verification tool cumbersome, limited

Equifax has launched a new service that lets you securely prove that you're over 18 online. It's a good idea in theory, but there are major problems in how Equifax is going about it.

November 13, 2008 - 08:55PM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Cell phone boarding passes coming to an airline near you

American Airlines announced today that it had begun testing mobile boarding passes for domestic travelers out of Chicago's O'Hare, and will soon be rolling it out for Los Angeles and Orange County as well. Just whip out your phone, let the TSA have a scan, and go on your way. Well, sort of.

November 13, 2008 - 04:05PM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Google: more Macs mean higher IPv6 usage in US

Google has been checking to see who's using IPv6. According to the company's tracking, half of all IPv6-capable systems seen by Google are Macs, helping the US land in fifth place in percentage of IPv6 users world wide, ahead of China and Japan.

November 13, 2008 - 05:15AM CT - by Iljitsch van Beijnum

Your school chum's not asking about you: Classmates.com sued

No, your old high school buddies really weren't trying to contact you. Classmates.com has become the subject of a class-action lawsuit, thanks to e-mails sent to members claiming that their old classmates had been trying to contact them. The e-mails turned out to be a trick to get people to subscribe, and some are getting fed up.

November 12, 2008 - 01:55PM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Military shoots down YouTube, sends TroopTube into the skies

The US Military has launched TroopTube, a site that is meant to let military families stay connected. Because YouTube and other video sites are banned from military links overseas, TroopTube is one of the only ways troops can share videos.

November 12, 2008 - 11:30AM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

NebuAd, ISPs sued over DPI snooping, ad-targeting program

NebuAd and a number of ISPs find themselves on the wrong end of a class-action lawsuit accusing them of numerous privacy violations, fraud, and unjust enrichment as a result of NebuAd's controversial targeted advertising system.

November 11, 2008 - 09:50PM CT - by Jacqui Cheng