Internet cut-offs, website censorship about to drop on UK "Wash-up" might sound homely, conjuring visions of a family scrubbing up after a cheerful dinner as the evening descends. But it's also the name of a UK legislative process in which bills can become law through a quick process that bypasses normal debate. Wash-up happens at the end of a parliamentary term, just before new elections, and it is designed to finish non-controversial outstanding business. But is it appropriate to use wash-up to ...

Appeals court rules AdWords doesn't infringe bidding patent Bid for Position has lost an appeal to a ruling that its bidding system patent was not infringed by Google's or AOL's search advertising purchasing system. The decision of the lower court was affirmed by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit this week. Bid for Position owns rights to US Patent #7,225,151, titled "Online Auction Bid Management System and Method." The company claimed that search advertising systems from AOL, Google, Microsoft, ...

CBS lets the cat out of the bag on HTML5 video iPad tests The iPad launch is a little more than a week out and unsurprisingly, Flash support is still nowhere to be seen. Content providers understand that Apple means business with this no Flash stuff, too. While no one else is openly talking about alternate plans just yet, it looks like CBS.com has begun testing HTML5 video playback, no doubt thanks to the iPad. As first noted by The Other Mac ...

Google reportedly shares mobile ad revenue with key partners Google's Android mobile operating system is gaining considerable traction in the smartphone market. According to a report from mocoNews, the secret behind Android's success is a series of revenue-sharing agreements that Google has signed with carriers and even some handset manufacturers. The specific details are somewhat hazy, but the report cites unnamed sources who say that Google is giving its partners a cut of the advertising revenue generated by its mobile users. These ...

A Microsoft engineer last week said that to properly handle multicore processors, future operating systems should discard the multitasking systems of today, in favor of dedicating cores to specific tasks. This seems more than a little surprising. The lack of native code development on Windows Phone 7 Series was always likely to discourage developers with large, preexisting codebases. Mozilla has confirmed that it is suspending development of its version of Firefox for Windows Mobile due to the inability to migrate to ...

Controlling Mars rovers: there's an app for that What if, instead of pocket-dialing, you could pocket-send-a-Mars-rover-over-a-cliff? That was the goal of two programmers at EclipseCon 2010 (via Slashdot). A competition at the conference asked developers to either create an e4-Rover client or use one to move a demo robot over a model Mars landscape. Two participants, Peter Friese and Heiko Behrens, built the robot-controlling client into an iPhone application. Entrants could win the rover challenge at EclipseCon in one of two ways. ...

Twitter has been hacked by Iranian cyber army on 18th DEc @ 12 AM CDT. page says that the website has been hacked by them with a symbol and twitter has been offline. Message says : USA think they controlling and managing internet by their access, but they don't, we control and manage internet by our power, so do not try to stimulation Iranian peoples to............... Now which country is in Embargo list? Iran?USA? We push them in Embargo list take care [caption id="attachment_24001" align="aligncenter" width="630" caption="Twitter ...

If consumers like the new Windows 7 operating system, they'll have the much-maligned Windows Vista to thank. In part, that's because Windows 7 actually builds on the under-the-hood changes that came with Vista. But, it also turns out that the vast headaches created by Vista were just what the PC industry needed to improve their cooperation. With consumers lukewarm to Vista and many businesses shunning it entirely, both Microsoft and the computer makers realized that the standard way of business ...

Apple revamped its desktop and laptop lines Tuesday, dramatically redesigning the iMac all-in-one and MacBook laptop, and also adding a few updates to its Mac Mini line of small-scale desktops. It also introduced a handful of updated peripherals, with a multitouch mouse bringing the most thorough changes. New iMacs The biggest news Tuesday will be the new iMacs, which move from aluminum and polycarbon design to aluminum and edge-to-edge glass, mirroring the look of Apple's line of MacBook Pro ...

With Windows 7, Microsoft is going back to basics. It's true of the product, which is as notable for its everyday performance as any one new feature. It's also true of how Microsoft plans to launch the new operating system on Thursday. Rather than go for flash, the company is focused on making sure that all of its partners are ready to sell lots of PCs and copies of Windows 7. "We're living in a different world today," Microsoft Vice ...