Unless you’re living in a cave, or perhaps a compound just outside Islamabad, you’ve most probably heard about Facebook’sdirty little secretthat was unearthed by bothThe Daily BeastandUSA Todaylast week. While comments and responses, statements and apologies can be made, and are a plenty, let’s have a look at what could have caused such an action by Facebook. Facebook Without rehashing previous reading that you’ve undoubtedly already done, the long and short of the entire fiasco centers around Facebook’shiring of PR firm Burson-Marstellerto engage top level media outlets in a campaign highlighting some “flaws” in Google’s privacy policies....

A few weeks ago I attended a talk byMike Lee(“World’s Toughest Programmer”) about entrepreneurship. One of his stories was such an eye opener that I asked him to write it down for me. Mike told a story about the lessons you learn while doing actual work and interacting with real entrepreneurs. It is the stuff you won’t learn in business school or even read in books about entrepreneurship but more like the stuff you pick up along the way....

While drink driving fatalities and injuries have declined in recent decades, it still remains amajor problemon Australian roads. Blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limits have helped since they were put in place over 25 years ago, but new technology may now be able to stop drink driving altogether. In the US, themassive infrastructure billpassed by Congress last yearmandatedcar manufacturers equip vehicles with advanced drink-driving prevention technology. These systems can either monitor a driver’s performance to detect if they are impaired, or test a driver’s BAC to determine if it’s above the legal limit....

Microsoft’s “App Store” trademark dispute with Apple hasstepped up a levelafter it was revealed the Redmond-based company is seeking to have Apple’s brief thrown out because it is “printed in less than 11 point font”. Yes, you read that right, Microsoft is accusing Apple of changing the font size of the text to include more arguments against its move to block the trademark of the term “App Store”. Microsoft filed a motion with the U....

Along with an enormous lead in apps, one of the major software advantages of the iPad at this point isAirPlay, and with iOS 5, that advantage will be expanded to include wireless mirroring of the iPad 2 to a TV, which many peopleare going to love. Of course, there is a catch – an iPad and a TV aren’t enough – right now, you need to spend $99 on an Apple TV box for any of this to work....