Outside the Beltway

Attorneys for celebrities caught up in the leak of nude photographs are targeting Google.

The Semper Venti Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are pushing back against Apple and Google’s efforts to provide greater privacy to users.. They’re wrong.

A recent change by Apple is good news for advocates of privacy and civil liberties in the Internet Age.

A nation known for adopting new technology is behind the rest of the world in one interesting way.

Apple announced a stunning array of upgraded and new products yesterday.

The firing actually hurts Janay Rice much more than it does Ray.

The announcement of a potential merger between Burger King and Tim Horton’s has led to much moral preening from the usual suspects.

A case pending in Federal Court in Washington, D.C. could pose new legal problems for the Affordable Care Act

Modern devices are more fragile, frustrating, and resource intensive than those of a decade ago.

Hobby Lobby wins, but it’s unclear just how far this opinion will go.

Some old fashioned political arm twisting has up-ended the apple cart in Richmond.

How the richest man in the world quickly changed the education curriculum in 45 states.

Sooner or later, the Supreme Court will have to rule on a challenge to state laws banning same-sex marriage.

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case that will likely be this era’s version of the Betamax case.

Can you still buy batteries there, though?

Apple’s “1984” Super Bowl commercial ran only once, but it remains in a class by itself.

Tonight, the American political system stops to engage in the biggest waste of time ever invented.

Apple is pledging to fix a bug in iOs 7 that I have never experienced and never heard of.

The advice “Do what you love. Love what you do” is not without pitfalls.

Seven years ago, Steve Jobs showed us that we could literally hold the world in the palm of our hand.

An example of how copyright laws have been perverted to protect corporate interests rather than encourage artistic creativity.

Some signs from Silicon Valley seem to indicate that the heady days of the 90s Tech Bubble are returning.

Why is Apple unable to meet the demand for its products?

Once dominant atop the smartphone market, Blackberry seems to be counting out the days until its demise.

Apple’s new fingerprint sensor. A cop’s best friend?

Is 2013 the year of second acts in American politics? Eliot Spitzer seems to be the latest disgraced politician to hope that it is.

The Supreme Court’s handling of standing in the two same-sex marriage cases likely seems contradictory to many outside observers.

Those annoying “Sent from my iPhone” signature block disclaimers actually work.

Getting the courts involved in the organ transplant issue could end up being a huge mistake.

Not only do we not know the whole story of the NSA data mining operation, key details of what thought we knew are wrong.

Big Brother is doing more than just checking your phone records.

New developments in a still very new area of the law.

The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The US Senate wants to know why Apple and other big technology companies are paying so little into the US Treasury.

Desktop PC sales fell by nearly 14% in the first quarter, continuing an ongoing trend. There are many reasons this is happening.

All of us being watched, all the time, and that data being stored forever.