Earlier this week, reader Jorvay sent over the news of how food giant Nestle had massively overreacted to an (admittedly disgusting) anti-Nestle video put together by Greenpeace and posted to YouTube. The thing was, this video was getting no attention. It had less than 1,000 views... but someone who should have known better at Nestle filed a bogus copyright claim to take down the video. There is n...

In the last few years, there's been a push by some companies to bring back the immensely troubling "hot news doctrine," that appears to violate everything we know about the First Amendment and copyright law. Basically, the "hot news doctrine" says that if someone reports on a story, others are not allowed to report on their reporting for some period of time -- on the theory that it somehow un...

Here's some great news for Samsung Moment and HTC Hero users. Sprint Communications Manager, Caroline Semerdjian confirmed with the folks at Phonescoop that the carrier's current crop of Android smartphones will be updated directly from the 1.5 version to the coveted 2.1 OS in early 2nd quarter of 2010. read more

Steve Jobs made an appearance at the unveiling of a new California Bill SB 1395 that would require driver's license registrants to tick off whether or not they'd like to be a donor or not, rather than the current system which makes them fill out a separate form.    According to the Mercury News, Jobs convinced lawmakers to put forward the legislation in order to make ...

In an attempt to make you aware of some stories you may have missed during the week, Androinica.com will post a weekly wrap-up of interesting Android news and items that didn’t make it onto our site as full posts. Here’s the first edition of what’s going on in the Android World. Click on the source

David Herron alerts us to the news that it's finally occurred to the brain trust at Universal Music that, perhaps, CD prices were too high. They've introduced a "new pricing structure," which effectively means they've lowered the suggested retail prices on many CDs to between $6 and $10. Amusingly, the article quotes an anonymous person at a competitor who doesn't like this at ...

Orange has signed three new MVNOs, according to cellular-news.com, - Unicom, Catalyst, and Axis Telecom. All of these have been enabled by an MNVO aggregator a company going by the name of Transatel. Interestingly, the company already had give MVNO agreements in place. We dont have too much more detail, on each MNVO, save for the following:Unicom ...

eXpansys, a top UK e-tailer, has managed to get the Nexus One in stock. Thats the good news. The perhaps not-so-good news is that it will cost you £599.99! Ive been toying with getting a Nexus One for some time now certainly youd like to think it would give you one of, if the ...

Rating: Buried away in Hanashi mobile chat Browsing through a promotional email sent by from Sony Ericsson (SE) UK to encourage registered users to download more apps, GoMo News discovered Hanashi. It's described as 'Mobile Chat' but buried away in its facilities is an option to share your location with your mates. And it definitely works.

Via PhoneNews.com, we learn about an update Boost Mobile has issued for the Sanyo Incognito, one of its new CDMA phones. The firmware update allows users to play full screen video, including streaming from sites like YouTube. Thats the good news. The bad news is that it makes the device a bit more restrictive when saving and uploading files. You can make the upgrade by going to Settings Tools Up...