The Latest

• Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Sues Apple, AOL, Google, Facebook, OthersAh yes, another patent lawsuit. And timely too, what with some of these companies having used these technologies for a decade or so.
• Album Sales Hit Record Lows. Again.Oh, and music execs are blaming piracy. Again. Wonder if the quality of music they release is ever considered as a factor? Sure would explain why single track sales rise as album sales decline.
• Facebook Lawsuit Throws the -book at Social Networking Site for TeachersSigh.
• Kindle -- xkcd CartoonYou know you can't resist...
• Music in the Download Era: L.A.'s string of indie labels succeeds with a jack-of-all-trades approachA look at indie labels and how the playing field has leveled: The people who invented the paradigm and were trusted to run it let it run afoul. We have to fix it.
• Free That Tenor SaxNewly discovered classic jazz recordings remind us that copyright law remains a hot mess o'disaster.
• BBC lawyers fight to keep Top Gear's The Stig secretYes, this is the kind of important news that we focus on.
• Music royalty talks consider cell phone mandateSomehow cell phone manufacturers, an unrelated party, are now being dragged into the issue. The big plan? To force all new cell phones to carry an FM radio chip. Huh?
• Apple, Research in Motion, and the rest of the cell phone industry don't want you to know how often your phone drops callsWell, of course they don't.
• Physicists Tame Time Travel by Forbidding You to Kill Your GrandfatherBut doesn't that take all of the fun out of it?
• Sixth purported Mel Gibson tape surfacesRemember how NASA's original plan for the Space Shuttle was to have missions so often that they ceased to become news? Well, NASA's failure is RadarOnline's success.
• Microsoft may face tough patch job with Windows shortcut bugMeanwhile, over at Microsoft, same as it ever was.
• E-book sales: Amazon.com says it's selling 80% more downloaded books than hardcoversTwo words: tipping point.
• Lindsay Lohan Being Cooperative in Jail So FarJust in case you thought that going to jail was going to be the end of the 24/7 coverage.
• Prince: The Internet's completely overAnd he's proving it by releasing his next album on CD only. That'll show them.