Ugh! Dictatorships! Always spoiling our fun! That cutesy URL shortening service you might use (bit.ly, perhaps) is riding on Libya's .ly domain suffix. And Libya ain't pleased—one shortener, vb.ly, was recently shut down for violating Libya's oppressive laws. More »
Poor Adam Guerbuez. The self-styled online marketer posted over four million spam messages on Facebook in spring of 2008 and was slapped with a $100 fine for each message. With the exchange rate, he owes $1,068,928,721.46. More »
When WolframAlpha first showed up on the iPhone last October, it spent a good six months costing $50. That was not sane! With the launch today of the app's Android version, they're locked in at a perfectly rational $2. For a compendium of factoids, weather patterns, computational models, and yuks? I'll take it. [Thanks, commenter twilsonx!] More »
If you were hoping to make any modifications to your T-Mobile G2, my apologies. Because the phone apparently ships with a rootkit that will override any changes you make to Android and reinstall the original firmware. That ain't right. More »
