Jun
02
2011

Lodsys Sues 7 iPhone Devs Over Patent Infringement Claims

Dachannien writes "Patently-O and Ars Technica report that Lodsys has filed suit [here's the complaint] in the Eastern District of Texas against seven iPhone developers, asserting that the defendants are infringing two patents. Apple had previously indicated their belief that ...
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Jun
02
2011

Ask Ars: Do solid-state drives cause problems with sleep mode?

In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it's all about your questions and our ...
May
31
2011

Patch For The Witcher 2 Removes DRM Shortly After Release

cozzbp writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "A little over a week after its release, The Witcher 2 is getting its first patch, and with it all versions of the game will now be DRM free. 'Our approach to countering ...
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May
25
2011

Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm

theodp writes "When he walked into the dentist's office, Ars Technica's Timothy B. Lee was looking for cleaner teeth, but was shown the door after expressing outrage at being asked to first sign a 'mutual privacy agreement' calling for him ...
May
25
2011

Mozilla Rejects WebP Image Format, Google Adds It

icebraining writes with a link to Ars Technica's look at the recent rejection of WebP by Mozilla Developer Joe Drew."Building mainstream support for a new media format is challenging, especially when the advantages are ambiguous. WebM was attractive to some ...
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May
24
2011

Georgia Tech’s ShaperProbe Detects ISP Traffic Manipulation

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "Two researchers at Georgia Tech can tell you exactly how American ISPs shape Internet traffic, and which ones do so. Bottom line: of the five largest Internet providers in the ...
May
19
2011

Setting the record straight on the North Carolina level playing field bill

Op-ed. The North Carolina Cable and Telecommunications Association responds to a Free Press "hatchet job" and argues that cities rolling out their own broadband, ...
May
15
2011

WSJ: data caps keep Netflix from "swamping the network"

The Wall Street Journal's op-ed page this week quoted "the respected geek site Ars Technica" while waxing eloquent about Internet data caps—and, rather surprisingly, ...
May
13
2011

Poll Technica: do you give a $#!@ about bad words on Ars?

As the Ars Technica team convenes in Chicago for two days of meetings, we're running some polls and surveys to learn more about what ...
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May
12
2011

Poll Technica: tell us what you think about reviews

Reviews have been an integral part of Ars Technica from the beginning of the site 1.29 × 10-1 centuries ago. Getting our hands on ...
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May
11
2011

Brink for PC: runs great, plays well online, is a ton of fun

Yesterday I explained why Ars Technica would not be publishing a review of the Brink code we were given, and I still believe that ...
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May
10
2011

Video Ask Ars: Why should I get a battery backup, and how do I pick one?

In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it's all about your questions and ...
May
09
2011

Condé Nast to roll out iPad subscriptions, starting with The New Yorker

iPad users will soon be able to subscribe to a number of Condé Nast magazines via Apple's in-app subscription system, starting with The New ...
May
06
2011

CNET Sued Over LimeWire Client Downloads

suraj.sun writes with this quote from Ars Technica: "Alki David, the wealthy film producer and entrepreneur behind sites like FilmOn, has sued CNET and its owner, CBS, for providing hundreds of millions of downloads of LimeWire P2P software over the last ...
May
04
2011

The Worst Case Scenario

Image: Ars Technica SOE hasn’t had a good month already, and yesterday it got a whole lot worse. The crisis at Sony deepened on Tuesday as it admitted that an extra 25 million customers who played games on its Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) ...
May
02
2011

Feature: How to build your own computer: Ask Ars DIY Series, Part III—cases

In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it's all about your questions and our ...
Apr
30
2011

Week in tech: Facebook fiasco edition

Facebook shoots first, ignores questions later; account lock-out attack works (Update X): Facebook has removed the Ars Technica Facebook page for alleged infringement, but ...
Apr
28
2011

Supreme Court: AT&T Can Force Arbitration

suraj.sun writes with this unhappy news, as reported by Ars Technica: "The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that AT&T — and indeed, any company — could block class-action suits arising from disputes with customers and instead force those customers into ...
Apr
22
2011

Microsoft contributor Peter Bright appearing on BBC

Ars Technica Microsoft contributor Peter Bright will be appearing on BBC over the weekend. Peter will be discussing Windows on ARM and how Microsoft's ...
Apr
19
2011

Spotting social networks before they disintegrate

Although the term "social network" has been applied to services like Facebook, real social networks, as defined by common interests or shared experiences, exist ...
Apr
19
2011

Ask Ars: Finally upgrading to Windows 7—should I go 32- or 64-bit?

Ask Ars was one of the first features of the newly born Ars Technica back in 1998. And now, as then, it's all about ...
Apr
15
2011

Apple Faces Class-Action Suit For In-App Purchases

suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "Garen Meguerian and a team of lawyers are taking Apple to task for 'inducing' children to spend hundreds of dollars of their parents' money on in-app game purchases. Meguerian filed a class-action lawsuit ...
Apr
14
2011

DRM Broke Dragon Age: Origins For Days

Martey writes "Ars Technica reports that a server problem with the DRM authentication servers has caused Dragon Age: Origins players to be locked out of any saved games that include downloadable content. Quoting: 'Thanks to a combination of DRM idiocy ...
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Apr
12
2011

Hotz lawyer: PS3 hacking case over, DMCA and IP abuse live on

The legal action between Sony and George Hotz has come to a close, with both sides seemingly happy with the results. Sony has Hotz ...
Apr
12
2011

Ask Ars: what is a CPU thread?

In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly-launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it's all about your questions and our ...
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Apr
11
2011

Judge to copyright troll: your "business model" isn’t my problem

Ars Technica freelancer Eriq Gardner was recently sued over a photo that appeared in a piece he wrote for us last year. The flimsy ...
Apr
08
2011

How early reviews hurt sales of indie games

When a game reviewer is given a copy of a game for consideration, we're almost always told when we're allowed to publish the review. ...
Apr
02
2011

Week in review: Google gigabit going to Kansas

Ars System Guide: March 2011 Edition: The latest installment of the Ars Technica System Guide brings Intel's new Sandy Bridge processor to our recommendations ...
Mar
29
2011

Copyright troll Righthaven’s epic blunder: a lawsuit targeting Ars

Not content with just suing sources, small out-of-state nonprofits, bloggers who get 20 hits per day, and other massive copyright pirates, newspaper litigation firm ...
Mar
29
2011

RIP James Caple-Nisby, aka "AlphaMeridian": friend, moderator, Arsian

A devoted member of the Ars Technica family and long-time leader in our gaming and hardware communities has died suddenly. ...
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Mar
28
2011

Geohot Battles Back Against Sony

csaw.csaw writes "According to Ars Technica, 'Hotz is slamming Sony's arguments at every turn. Sony claims there is a PSN account that Hotz created? Well, the serial number is wrong and anyone could have made that account. The manuals contained ...
Mar
28
2011

Feature: From the first email through the WELL and USENET: a pre-history of social networking

Johnny Ryan's A History of the Internet and the Digital Future has just been released and is already drawing rave reviews. Ars Technica is ...
Mar
23
2011

Ask Ars: What’s the best way to back up my computers on-site?

In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it's all about your questions and ...
Mar
23
2011

Feature: State of the PC 2011: an Ars Technica Quarterly Report

Introduction The PC industry is tightly coupled ...
Mar
18
2011

ICANN Approves .XXX

lothos writes "Pornography will have its own top-level domain, dot-XXX, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers decided today." Ars Technica has a short but thoroughly-linked article tracing some of the long history (in Internet time) ...
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