TECHFLAPS – Waves of Technology

Erich Specht, who runs a small, Palatine, Ill.-based firm called Android Data Corp., is seeking an injunction on Android-branded products and up to $94 million in damages for infringing his trademark. “Basically, it’s a stolen name,” says Specht’s attorney, Martin Murphy. “It’s our trademark, and Google is using it as if it’s theirs.” The software [...]

Even though Yahoo was going through a lot of problems internally, the technicians or developers at Yahoo is trying their best to keep Yahoo at the top of everything. They are trying so hard that they donned this new layout for Yahoo Buzz Activity page, which is astonishing.

For the second time this year, a hacker has gained administrative access to a Twitter employee’s account. On Wednesday, an anonymous hacker going by the name of Hacker Croll posted 13 screenshots to a French online discussion forum, apparently captured while logged into the Twitter account of Jason Goldman, a director of product management with [...]

Walt Disney Co has reached a deal to become a partner in the popular video website Hulu founded by NBC Universal and News Corp. Disney’s much-anticipated entrance, after a long period of talks between the companies, will add full-length episodes of TV shows from its ABC broadcast network like “Lost,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Desperate Housewives” [...]

Using a new flu tracking tool, search engine giant Google said on Wednesday it saw a spike in searches for information about flu among people in Mexico last week even before news of the outbreak became widely known.

Social-networking website Facebook has held meetings with private equity firms to explore raising another round of funding, the New York Post reported on Thursday, citing sources.Facebook could not be immediately reached for comment.

Microsoft Corp. will let users run Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) for more than a year, giving them free use of the new operating system for a significantly longer time than it did Vista’s previews. – ComputerWorld

Verizon Wireless, it now seems, is in talks with Microsoft to rollout a touch-screen multimedia phone in early 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported April 28. The project, code-named “Pink,” is said to be an effort to challenge the Apple iPhone.

Despite the recent explosion in popularity backed by praises and tweets from celebrity users such as Ashton Kutcher and Oprah Winfrey, new study reveals that Twitter is failing to keep hold of its users. According to data from Nielsen Online, which measures Internet traffic, found that more than 60 percent of Twitter users stopped using [...]

Seeking to reach out to the younger audience, the US Army has launched a page on the world’s largest social online network Facebook and Twitter, a free social messaging utility that has become an internet sensation.