As seen on MSNBC, a settlement has been reached in the NTP vs RIM case. The settlement was reached for a cool 612.5 million dollars.
“RIM has paid NTP $612.5 million in a “full and final settlement of all claims,

Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan purchased the 1 billionth song when he bought Speed of Sound by Coldplay. As the grand prize winner he will receive a 20-inch iMac, 10 fifth generation 60GB iPods and a $10,000 gift card good for any item on the iTunes Music Store. In addition, Apple will establish a [...]

reviews first year as a pro blogger - 1,450 people donated a total of $39,900, but almost entirely in the first three weeks.
So what’s going to happen with kottke.org? I’m not quite sure at this point. In the short term, it’s going to be taking a back seat to some other things going on [...]

Shortly after reports of the first virus for Mac OS X, a new security flaw has surfaced. The culprit is the option “Open ’safe’ files after downloading” in Apple’s Safari web browser. This feature is activated by default. Its function is to automatically display images and movies after they are transmitted to the user’s computer, [...]

The maker of Macintosh computers had anticipated that hackers would try to crack its new OS X operating system built to work on Intel Corp.’s chips and run pirated versions on non-Apple computers. So, Apple developers embedded a warning deep in the software—in the form of a poem.
Indeed, a hacker encountered the poem recently, and [...]

Engadget Mobile, the in-depth and comprehensive mobile phone site was launched on February 14th (Valentines Day) 2006. Engadget Mobile includes all the news the Engadget writers would normally uncover on Engadget with regards to the mobile and cellular space, only this will include an abundance of stories that would generally never get posted due to [...]

Robert Scoble of Scobleizer.com (aka the Microsoft Blogger) is testing out the Blog search engines (Technorati, Google Blogsearch, Icerocket, etc…) responsiveness by posting a word that no search engine returned results for, brrreeeport.
The time stamped results from Feb. 13th can be found on his blog post, the brrreeeport report and the 14th results can be [...]

As a update to the last post regarding the RIM Blackberry software work-around, Business Week has an indepth article about solution.
You can check it out here: http://www.businessweek.com/

ThinkSecret is reporting on a completely new video iPod that will have a 3.5″ touchscreen instead of the current click wheel. Supposedly the click wheel will appear and disappear when the screen is touched.
Of note is the supposed release date of April 1st, which happens to be Apple’s 30th birthday.
Might this new iPod integrate PortalPlayer’s [...]

In order to continue US operation of blackberry devices and servers, RIM has developed a “workaround” software contingency plan. It is a user-installed software update for the devices and backend servers which will show no difference in the way the devices operate in the current day nor will it affect any of the programs [...]