Drops 60s psychedelia API

Mozilla has released a fifth Firefox 4 beta, offering graphics hardware acceleration on Windows and a new API that lets site developers code pages that visually display audio data inside the browser.…

When infringement is big business

A copyright enforcement service has filed a lawsuit seeking $150,000 from Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle for posting two newspaper articles without authorization.…

BP spilled $3.6m in Gulf spin campaign

Following its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP went from spending about $57,000 a month on Google search ads to an enormous $3.6 million outlay for the month of June alone, according to a report citing internal Google documents.…

HP 'idiots' threaten Oracle relationship, says Larry

Updated Hewlett-Packard has sued disgraced former chief executive Mark Hurd in an effort to stop him from joining Oracle.…

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Privacy advocates have sued the Obama administration over its practice of seizing laptops, cell phones, and other devices at US borders and copying their contents even when the owner isn't suspected of wrongdoing.…