In a rare unanimous decision the Supreme Court ruled that a patent held by Myriad Genetics for the testing of faulty BRCA1 and BRCA2 could not be upheld. Justice Clarence Thomas’ opinion stated that “groundbreaking, innovative or even brilliant discovery does not by itself satisfy the criteria” required to obtain a patent. By dissolving Myriad’s patent [...]
US regulators announced today that they will open an investigation into the proposed purchase of ITA software by Google, the search engine giant. The company announced the purchase last year but thus far it has been blocked by several lawsuits filed by online travel sites who say that the purchase will give the search engine [...]
The past year has not been kind to Yahoo. While the company has struggled many recall the glory days of the famed search engine site. Yahoo was to the Dot Com era what Google is to today’s web. They were the one stop place for just about anything, including auctions, searches and email. Today they [...]
The MPAA and other such organizations have been busy in the past month, taking down illegal torrent sites one right after another. According to the latest stats, the groups have managed to take down 51 torrent sites this month, bringing the year’s total up to 665. However, several other groups have said that the number [...]
Last year the rumor started that Facebook, the powerhouse social network, was planning to release their own brand of mobile smart phones to the world. Now many times over the course of two months was Mark Zuckerberg queried on such a rumor and each time he denied that the company was working on creating a [...]
Twitter has become a very popular destination in the social networking world. Since it was first launched, it has become the place where just about everyone says what is on their minds. However, many believed that the company would never make any money and that has been proven wrong time and time again. Now the [...]
Google has been a company capable of just about anything in this world of the internet. They have managed to go from a simple search engine, devised by some college buddies, to a company of worldwide importance and more money than some small countries can lay claim too. However, with this comes the fact that [...]
Things will get a bit more steamy in the Apple app store soon when the new catalog of Playboy publications is launched for the iPad. According to a statement released this morning with Apple and Hugh Hefner, the entire catalog of magazines that the company holds will be available on the iPad through the famed [...]
Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs announced this morning that he will take yet another open-ended medical leave from the company. The internal memo released this morning stipulated that Jobs will maintain his current position as CEO but the COO Tim Cook will take over all day to day operations of the company while Jobs [...]
The internet has been full of new rumors lately and they all relate to Facebook. It all started with a story that ran in the Weekly World News, a standard supermarket tabloid that normally covers celebrity gossip and alien sightings. However, this time around they went after one of the most powerful internet sites in [...]
