Suing anonymous online critics: worth the trouble?

If a company is merely trying to muzzle protected speech, it is far better off to save on legal firepower and confront the criticism straight on.

By Craig A. Newman and Eric S. Rosen

When an anonymous critic attacks a company's reputation online, the initial reaction is often to launch an expensive legal offensive to quiet the damaging criticism. However, before jumping headfirst into a costly and potentially risky litigation strategy, companies MORE

Mark Zuckerberg goes Android

After recent criticisms of the iPhone, it appears that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has gone Android.

This follows the recent criticism that Zuckerberg laid on the iPhone, saying that after he got an iPhone he needed to get four chargers and a landline to actually make phone calls.  Zuckerberg had been on Blackberry but switched due to pain in his fingers.

He went on to say that he'd try an iPhone 4 if MORE

Motorola takes gloves off with new 'No Jacket Required' ad

Ouch!

Today's New York Times has a gem of an ad from Motorola (MOT) touting its Droid X's antennas vs. a certain someone else's.

"At Motorola, we believe a customer shouldn't have to dress up their phone for it to work properly. That's why the DROID X comes with a dual antenna design. The kind that allows you to hold the phone any way you like to make crystal clear calls without MORE

Verizon Droids use more data than iPhones?

A new survey sugests that iPhone is no longer the data usage champ.

Verizon users can't get enough of those Data-hogging Droids (until August anyway)

AT&T (T) and Apple (AAPL) will tell you until they are blue in the face that the iPhone uses more data than any other device in the history of mobile communications.  That's why there has been all the fuss about an over-saturated network causing dropped calls..

A study released MORE

Mouse vs. Magic Trackpad

You won't take mice away from some users until you pry them from their cold dead hands

Photos: Apple Inc.

I'm old enough to remember the anger and derision with which keyboarders greeted the new-fangled pointing devices Apple (AAPL) introduced to the mass market with the Lisa and the Mac. "There is no evidence," John Dvorak famously wrote in his 1984 review of the Macintosh, "that people want to use these MORE

Dell Streak: A $299, 5-inch phone?

The Dell Streak hits the US market this week with the biggest screen yet in a smartphone.

from Dell.com

Both the Sprint EVO, made by HTC and the Verizon Droid X made by Motorola (MOT) carry gargantuan 4.3 inch displays which make them about the biggest phones on the market.  But as of this week, they won't even be the biggest Android phones you can buy. MORE

Not great news for Google

Even with the record set straight, a Yankee Group survey gives cold comfort

Source: The Yankee Group. Click to enlarge.

My colleagues at CNNMoney can be forgiven, writes the Yankee Group's Carl Howe in a "Setting the record straight" blog post Monday, for getting a statistic wrong in their brief summary of his 3,500 word report "Why iPhones matter." (Available for $1,295 here, if you have an expense account.)

Reading the offending MORE

White House defends pace of health-care IT rollout

The administration's CTO says the plan to improve health-care IT will take time -- it's not about 'industrial policy,' but about 'building infrastructure for the 21st century.'

by Laura Rich, contributor

The White House hasn't been dragging its feet on health-care IT, despite how it looks. There has been an intentional effort to lay out a strategy and take time to implement it, said Aneesh Chopra, chief technology officer at the White MORE

Summer school goes online

With education budgets under fire, school districts are turning to e-learning to help little Johnny graduate on time.

By Scott Olster, associate editor

School has truly been out for the summer this year, as thanks to budget woes, many districts across the country have been forced to cut their summer school programs down to the bare minimum, or cancel them altogether.

One educator from Floyds Knobs, Indiana told Fortune that $6.5 million MORE

Yahoo Japan chooses Google for search and ads

Yahoo Japan has chosen Google, rather than Microsoft, to provide its search engine results and advertising.

In a blow to Microsoft and its Bing search technology, Yahoo Japan Chief Executive Masahiro Inoue announced the move that would put Google in the driver's seat for Japanese web searches.

Yahoo Japan currently conducts about 57% of all Web search queries compared to Google's 38%.  The combined total will put Google (GOOG) dangerously close to MORE