If you buy the iPhone, the expectation is that you follow Apple’s restrictions. This class action lawsuit regarding iPhone modifications is a waste of time. If you modify a device, whether with software or with solder, you run the risk of damaging the product, and voiding the warranty.

Apple can create as many ways as required to keep the device working as intended. Users can create ways to circumnavigate such methods. However, when doing so you waive rights of authorized and intended use. Continue →

I was fapping away some time earlier when I spotted a post on ValleyWag citing Viacom for having double standards. Taking it up a notch, Nick Denton & Co. posted a video of Oprah the Almighty on the Viacom owned iFilm to show the company’s contradictive ways. Continue →

Once again, another tech group that is unknown to most people is preparing to halt the use of good technoology by way of legal action. This time the culprit is the Washington Research Foundation and the technology being put at risk is Bluetooth.

The Washington Research Foundation as these things usually go, is seeking damages from Nokia, Samsung and Panasonic for using radio frequency technology without paying royalties. The group is citing a patent awared in 1999 to Edwin Suominen as the basis for the lawsuit. Continue →