Studios and publishers are fighting back hard against the used game market, with the upcoming title Kingdoms of Amular, the latest to declare it’ll use a content lock. In this case, KoA ups the ante by locking out part of the game that’s normally available in single-player mode. Game reviewers found the following inside their [...]

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has released a ruling that invalidates the third of three patents Rambus used to intimidate Nvidia into settling with it early last year. The decision is a further blow to Rambus’ ambitions; the company has sued a wide range of companies, including HP, Broadcom, MediaTek, and STMicroelectronics…

Back in 2009, President Obama appointed the country’s first federal Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, in an effort by the administration to push the government past old technology and into the 21st century. Chopra is now stepping down from his post, and the move was announced (appropriately) in a blog post on the official White…

If you’re looking for a well equipped laptop sporting AMD’s new generation graphics technology, Lenovo may have exactly what you’ve been pining for. Lenovo quietly slipped out its IdeaPad Y470p, a 14-inch notebook with an Intel Core i7 2670QM processor (2.2GHz, 6MB cache), 8GB of DDR3-1333 memory, and AMD Radeon HD 7690 graphics with 1GB [...]

Samsung’s rolling in the dough after posting a profit of 5.3 trillion won in 2011, or $4.73 in U.S. currency, representative of a staggering 79 percent year-on-year growth rate. Smartphone sales have been for key for Samsung, and despite ongoing litigation with Apple over patent infringement claims, Samsung’s shipped more mobile phones in…

At issue is whether some of the titans of tech conspired not to hire each other’s employees. Attorney Joe Saveri argues the alleged conspiracy kept workers salaries artificially low by stifling competition.

Hackers did not take down Facebook today, as they had earlier claimed they would. Meanwhile, the pace of tweets appears to have slowed amid an ongoing Twitter boycott. And Twitter’s lawyer responds.

Already have an iPhone? Pick up the tiny Pomera DM100 for text input and drop that expensive, bulky MacBook.

We examine the end of the in-car CD player, our supposed hatred of Chevys, how to upgrade the head unit in your Prius and the need (or not) for Android in your dash.

BMW says touch me, Ford takes mirrors high tech for quiet, the Chevy Volt is off the hook with the Feds, and how much would you pay for Obama’s Chrysler 300? And we drive the Chrysler 300 SRT8.