Publisher purges thousands of unlicensed fonts

Faber & Faber, the London publishing house, found 11,000 unlicensed typefaces on their machines being worth 80,000 pounds ($156,000).

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Poll: Which is better, Aperture or Lightroom?

The good news is that there's some competition again for software to edit and catalog raw images, the detailed and flexible file formats from higher-end cameras. The bad news is that anybody buying the software has a harder choice to make.

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R.I.P. HD DVD: Toshiba reportedly ends the war

Toshiba appears to be pulling the plug on HD DVD

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Panel: iPhone poses problems as model for success

The iPhone may be a great success, but emulating it could prove a challenge, a panel at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has concluded. Addressing other technology and behavioral experts, technology marketer Anup Murarka of Adobe noted that 77 percent of iPhone buyers have labeled themselves as "very satisfied" wit

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Macworld | Inside Net Neutrality: Protect your privacy when

You might think that when you sign up with a high-bandwidth service plan with an ISP, you’ll be able to transfer data at the advertised speeds. Yet that’s not always the case:

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Macworld | Starbucks-AT&T deal could benefit iPhone users

Starbucks’ decision to tap AT&T to provide wireless hotspots at its retail outlets could pave the way for an expanded, potentially free network for users of the iPhone and possibly the iPod touch.

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The Coffee Cup PC Concept.... Hot!

The coming flexible-screen industry is all fun and games until someone actually builds something like this (don't worry: It's still a concept only). The Yuno PC mug is a PC BUILT INTO A COFFEE CUP. It lets you get weather, time, traffic reports and stocks on a touch-screen display, right on the cup.

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Apple to cut iPhone, touch prices

8GB models may be scrapped, move could come in weeks

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Safari 3.1: 'This thing is fast'

Newest WebKit to offer features, lots of speed

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Macworld | Report: Yahoo to reject Microsoft's buyout bid

Yahoo’s board of directors plans to reject Microsoft’s unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover bid, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing as its source “a person familiar with the situation

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Macworld | Editors' Notes | Macs at the Grammys: And the win

Macs are a critical element in producing the live ceremony

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Comcast changes terms to allow traffic throttling

Comcast has changed the wording of its terms of service to allow controversial behavior on its part, reports say. The company was accused late last year of sabotaging BitTorrent traffic, in some cases making it unusable regardless of the intended purpose. In keeping with some of the company's excuses for traffic shaping

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BitMicro announces 1.6TB solid-state drive - CNET News.com

Now THIS is cool! DDNew drive crams enormous storage capacity into standard 3.5-inch format, but it's not ready for delivery just yet.

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Obama loses Silicon Valley to Clinton: Is anyone surprised?

It must have come as a surprise to the boisterous Barack Obama supporters who were flagging down commuters at light rail stations south of San Francisco after work on Tuesday, but Hillary Clinton won far more votes in Silicon Valley than did her rival from Illinois.In Santa Clara County,

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Danish Police Befuddled by 1G iMac

The police wanted to confiscate the author's computer. When the author's roommate agreed to also let the police look at her first generation iMac, they were frustrated because they thought the iMac was just the screen. They wanted to know where the actual computer was and got rather heated about finding it.

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