Nice try but no dice: a federal judge has declined AT&T’s plea for a temporary restraining order against Verizon’s “There’s a Map for That” ads, a lawsuit they slapped the rival carrier with earlier this month.
AT&T’s argument was that the Verizon ads mislead consumers into thinking the carrier has little to no wireless internet coverage in huge swaths of the country, by putting two 3G coverage maps side by side and obfuscating the fact that AT&T nevertheless does have 2G data coverage in many of those areas. They wanted an injunction that would pull those ads off the air, but the Atlanta judge disagreed. Full story...
Dutch web monitoring company WatchMouse has done a thorough analysis of uptime and performance of 14 major URL shortening services, with quite disheartening results.
Wikipedia is one of the most amazing knowledge resources on the Internet, featuring millions of articles and images, but it sorely lacks a certain (very important) type of content – video.
Amazon has just added a major new platform to its Kindle arsenal: Mac. The free application lets you read ebooks on your computer, including those you’ve purchased previously from Amazon.
Facebook appears to be adding another level of analytics for Fan Page admins: weekly email reports.
Universal Music Group has debuted a new Guitar Hero-like music simulation game for the iPhone.
Update: It’s back!
Twitter has gone down for the count, and nobody knows why yet.
Are your parents on Facebook? Do you wish they weren’t? Well, it looks like you’re not alone.
Not too long ago we got word that Google is working on a TV search project with Dish Network, and now there’s every indication the search giant wants even more direct involvement with the television ecosystem.
Until recently, blogging clients for the BlackBerry have been pretty limited. But WordPress for BlackBerry was released last month, and today Tumblr released its official BlackBerry app, which lets you post photos, videos, audio, links and text directly from the BlackBerry to your microblog.
We’ve witnessed publishers drooling over the Apple iPad’s form factor before the darn thing was even announced, with Time Inc.