Michael Scott points us to a rather surprising (given the source) piece in Ad Age asking if copyright is "the buggy whip of the digital age." Of course, most regular Techdirt readers will not be surprised to find that I agree with that statement wholeheartedly. It's a tool for a very different system that isn't needed. If anything, I'd argue the situation is worse than with buggy wh...

Mobile phone carrier Sprint is expected to soon unveil officially its first mobile phone that will include WiMAX connectivity options on board, the HTC Supersonic, and now the device has been spotted in an internal warehouse system. Considering the fact that the device emerged in a warehouse equipment list, and that the latest reports on it suggested it...

For real innovation and brilliant services when it comes to mobile payments, you really have to look to Africa. There are vast rural populations in Africa that have no access to telecoms or banking services - and mobile phones are providing a desperately needed lifeline. It's no coincidence that the most successful mobile money system in the world is African. And now a brilliant new service i...

Oh, HTC Incredible, you just cant stay off the Internet, can you? Weve seen you in not one, but two series of spy shots, weve seen you leak out in alternative color schemes hell, weve even spotted you roaming around Verizons inventory system. We sure are seeing a lot of you and

Navteq, at Mobile World Congress 2010, showed off their new mapping collection system called Navteq True. The system, which is placed on top of a vehicle, combines a LIDAR system, multiple panoramic cameras, and positioning (GPS and IMU) sensors. Navteq is part of Nokia and its digital mapping products underlie numerous location products and services, including Ovi Maps. In this video we get a clo...

It's anyone's guess whether we'll see this mythical Supersonic from HTC show up at CTIA next week (wouldn't that be awesome?), but a phone identified as the HTC A9292 has recently made an appearance in yet another internal system which can't be a bad sign. As a refresher, the A9292 is popularly believed to be the Supersonic, a 4.3-inch Android-powered beast for Sprint that...

IDAPT has announced that its i4 universal charging system is scheduled for launch at the upcoming CT...

Call it incredible, but the HTC Incredible, which we've already seen in Verizon's inventory system as well as in four different shades of leakage, is now said to be ready for launch in just two short weeks. That's coming from an unnamed source talking to Daily Tech, so take that how you will. However, with Sprint expected to announce the WiMax-powered HTC Supersonic n...

A car running Android? Before you get any ideas about something you can remotely control from your Nexus One, James Bond style, the new Roewe 350 doesnt use Android for anything so dramatic as engine management. Instead, the Chinese car relegates the OS to its integrated DVD/GPS system. Thats still notable as perhaps the

Ah, the fun of the electronic age. A few years back we started hearing about tools to remotely disable a car. These were talked about as a security system to recover stolen vehicles, but also as a device to put on leased cars, in case they need to be repossessed. Of course, once you put that technology on the car, what's to stop someone from abusing it? Turns out that a disgruntled ex-employe...