By Yvette Wohn Opening the refrigerator to get some eggs for breakfast, I was surprised to find a strange apparatus built into one of the shelves. “What the…” “It’s a power juicer,” the refrigerator said, “I know you like fruit, so I decided to install this last night.” “Wow, that’s very considerate of you, but […]

Almost since the introduction of the iPhone, there have been complaints that it doesn’t support Flash. Those complaints have picked up steam in the last week week, as Adobe demonstrated polished versions of Flash on other mobile platforms—including Android—and all but publicly begged to be allowed onto the iPhone. Flash, an Adobe product, is software […]

By Yvette Wohn In the United States, we sometimes tend to forget about how grateful we are to the First Amendment; the freedom of speech. Not many people may stop to think that for all accusations of evildoings, the current government has never tried to ban websites with funny pictures of George Bush or stories […]

By Yvette Wohn Joel Tenenbaum was one of thousands, perhaps millions of teenagers. When he was 17, he allegedly downloaded seven songs from the Internet using a peer-to-peer file sharing program called Kazaa [Both parties appear to agree this is a downloading case, not (solely) an uploading case like many of the others]. Now, 10 […]

Apple continues to exercise its control over the iPhone platform, recently rejecting an app for using too much bandwidth. CastCatcher was a radio streaming app, which had been approved in several previous versions; the latest update was rejected for violating the TOS provision limiting bandwidth use. The developers are upset—they say the updated version didn’t […]