Vint Cert, long-time internet founder and now at Google testified last week in front of the Telecommunications subcommittee of the Commerce committee of the US Senate. No telling how well the comments were accepted by the Senators, but I liked what he had to say. I'll leave off the details …

Admittedly, you're not going to be seeing this thing in use for the next SuperBowl, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are hoping that it will enable them to get pictures of the Higgs Boson particle (a key element in the Standard Model of particle physics). According to an article …

The British Red Cross and Canadian Red Cross have both indicated that they would like the "improper and illegal" use of the Red Cross emblem in video games to stop. According to an article from GamesIndustry.biz and a letter published on GameLaw.org, requests have gone out from both …

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted an article requesting that users take care when activating the "Search Across Computers" option in Google Desktop (available only for the PC right now). Although the article certainly raises an interesting question, there are some specifics that might mitigate at least some of this …

In an interesting move, Apple has decided to give the top 12 contributors to the Webkit open source project brand spanking new MacBook Pro computers and has invited five of them to come to Apple's WWDC as Apple's guest. This according to a posting on Surfin' Safari.

Patch 1.9.3 is available for World of Warcraft and it supports the Intel Macintoshes! It might not be earth shattering news for most, but the performance on this is astounding.

I'm sure you're all getting sick and tired of my publishing everything I can about the new Intel iMac and are expecting me to finally get some real news or at least movie reviews in here, but I just can't pass up this article from MacSpeedZone that specifically addresses the …

Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux says that he won't switch the Linux kernel to GPL 3 because of the anti-DRM provisions in the license. An article from CNet covers a posting to the Linux kernel mailing list that details his concerns.

In an important ruling, a Nevada court found that Google's cache of the data of web sites does not violate copyright law and is covered by the "safe harbor" provisions of the DMCA and other laws. Comments from the EFF are available in an online article, as is the ruling …

Not surprisingly, since David Pogue (columnist for the NY Times) is a well-known Macintosh zealot, he's got the new Intel iMac and he says it's really fast. Like him or not, he seems to have done a legitimate end-user comparison and warns about which applications you can take with you …

Apple's Aperture product page now states that upgrades to the Universal Binary version of the product (released in November) will be available for free from software update instead of for $49 with a DVD distribution, as originally announced at MacWorld earlier this month. Thanks to MacFixIt for the pointer. Final …

There's a lot of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) going around, and not a small number of benchmarks. Frankly, the two benchmarks I've cited in previous posts are a good example of the two ends of the spectrum, with MacWorld's being pretty shallow and Ars Technica's being well thought out …

Ah, yes, the market. If Apple and Microsoft don't give you what you want, put a bounty on it and see if the Internet will provide. This is exactly what Colin NederKoorn has decided to do, and he's getting help. As of 10pm last night, people had pledged (and paid …

An article from C|Net News.com indicates that Apple's recently-updated iWork "suite" of Pages and Keynote has grabbed 17.4% of the Macintosh office applications market and almost 2.7% of the unit share of office suite sales worldwide, edging out Corel's WordPerfect Office.

According to an article from the Lexington Herald-Leader that discusses work by Cliff Arnall of the University of Cardiff in Wales in which he determined that January 23rd was the worst day of the year. Especially poignant for those in Canada, where elections are held today. BBC News ran an …

BrandChannel has published their latest brand study. The 2006 brand stats place Google slightly ahead of Apple (the two have been trading places for the top spot since 2000). It might not be particularly meaningful, but it's an interesting thing to look at anyway.

In a well-written article from Ars Technica, Hannibal chases down an item that appears in the EFF's Deeplinks section. The EFF article describes an attempt by the RIAA and MPAA to restrict future electronics to supporting only "customary historic use" of content, and they describe how they want it implemented …

Last Holiday, an apparent loose remake of a 1950 film of the same name starring the late Alec Guinness, is a cute, if simple, comedic look at a life cut short and the reevaluation that comes with that. In this case, Queen Latifa's personality is enough to pull together a …

BBC News is reporting that the British Medical Journal has published a retrospective study to determine if cellular phones (mobiles in Britain) increase the risk of brain tumors. The study involved interviewing 966 people diagnosed with brain tumors and 1,716 people without spread over 5 regions of Great Britain …

An interesting article from Apple Matters takes a comment by Steve Jobs about Microsoft being able to win in the iPod wars if it would release music playing hardware and thinks it through. The result is well thought out and interesting, and probably the first good description of why Apple …