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Sometimes, it's much more rewarding simply to appreciate a technical achievement rather than worry about its legal or practical implications. That philosophy couldn't be more true for the travails of businesscat2000, whose handiwork has made it possi...

Today a Texas court dismissed a petition asking for "oral depositions and requests for documents" from Facebook to determine if it defrauded investors in its IPO last month. The judge ruled that the plaintiffs needed to already have grounds for a complaint against Facebook, and could not use a petition for discovery in order to figure out the basis for a lawsuit, according to government documents attained by TechCrunch. The petition sought to grill CEO Mark Zuckerberg, CFO David Ebersman, Chief Accounting Officer David Spillane, and representatives from Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Goldman Sachs for info about whether they withheld negative financial data about Facebook from the public before its IPO. Facebook remains embroiled in several other lawsuits with similar complaints, though.

Remember Yamaha's InfoSound technology? If not, well, it's a bit of black magic that shoots data wirelessly to devices using an inaudible (to humans, anyway) 18kHz signal emitted from a speaker and received via microphone. Yamaha came up with the ide...

As enterprise companies like Salesforce and Oracle continue to sharpen their social media services for enterprises, Twitter is locking arms with one of them in a strategic alliance. Radian6, the social media monitoring service bought by Salesforce in March 2011 for $326 million, has announced that it has signed a strategic alliance with Twitter that gives Radian6 customers "complete access" to Twitter's public tweet firehose of more than 400 million tweets per day. This looks to be the first deal of this kind between Twitter and a third party Radian6 to allow access for enterprise services. (But this is not the first enterprise deal for Twitter: a partnership with DataSift covers historical and firehose Tweets; and another deal with Gnip from 2010 covers the full Firehose, in real-time.) Twitter has had firehose deals before, too, that have come and gone, such as this one with Google.

It's hard to believe that bees need so little to thrive, but that's exactly the case, or at least when they're put under a glass lid with some sweets (nectar) for fuel. As you can probably already see, they've begun the honeycomb building process...

We've seen fuel cells used in a variety of gadgets -- from cars to portable chargers -- and while medical devices aren't exactly at the top of the list, they're yet another application for these mini power sources. MIT engineers are turning to sugar ...

Skype has been raising the prospect of ads during calls for some time, and has already been running between-call ads before that, but now it's taking more definitive action. As of today, Skype for Windows users who don't have any credit their account...

While Twitter has had expanded tweets for photos and videos, it's been necessary to click through to full news articles to see any of their content, sometimes even for the headline. A newly-launched update to the desktop and mobile web versions of Tw...

Another month, another story about a fake hard drive containing nothing but junk inside. According to M.I.C. Gadget, this person bought a 160GB Samsung external hard drive for $35USD and ended up finding random nuts and bolts inside, along with t...

Apple's new MacBook Pro with Retina display definitely pushes the idea of what a modern screen should look like forward, but it also means developers will have to adapt their apps to these high resolutions to make sure their apps don't look bad. During its announcement earlier this week, Apple said that both Adobe and Autodesk were already working Retina-optimized versions of their products (though both now say that it will still be a while before their software will be ready). It looks like Google will be a bit faster. The company today announced that its first attempt at making Chrome ready for these high-resolution displays is already available in its highly experimental Canary channel. Google says it is "committed to polishing Chrome until it shines on that machine."