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UAE tightens Internet law, cracks down on bloggers

Government crackdowns on Internet dissidents and bloggers in the United Arab Emirates have finally come to a head. The government made sweeping changes yesterday to the laws that govern what the country's citizens can and can't do on the Web, according to the UAE state news agency WAM.

The most drastic of the changes is jail time for anyone who imitates or pokes fun at the country's leaders. According to WAM, the new laws "stipulate penalties of imprisonment on any person who creates or runs an electronic website or uses any information technology medium to deride … Read more

iPhone 5: 15 most-wanted features

Editors' note: This post was originally published June 9, 2010, and has been updated frequently. The most recent update takes into account the new features in iOS 6.

First, an apology to those who've read this article before in its various iterations, you probably have a bad case of deja vu.

Truth be told, I originally published this column shortly after the iPhone 4 came out back in June 2010, which is why you see a lot of dated comments -- but they are fun to read.

Hopefully, this will be the last update, but you never know, considering how long this whole waiting-for-iPhone-5 saga has gone on. … Read more

New wardrobe for Android Firefox surfaces

It wasn't an easy call for Mozilla to scrap the Android interface it had been using for its mobile version of Firefox, but today the company released the first images of what Firefox for Android could wind up looking like in the near future.

At first glance, it may appear that not much will be changed. In the standard browser window, tab management will be moved from the left side of the location bar to the right, and the location bar itself will get rounded corners. Many Firefox-specific pages, such as the add-on manager and the default Start page, … Read more

Conan mocks Apple over 'lost iPhone 5'

Back on August 31, CNET broke the story that an unreleased iPhone went missing in a bar and that Apple was doing its darnedest to track it down, with a little help from the San Francisco police. While the prototype has yet to turn up, Conan O'Brien, who's poked a little fun at Apple in the past, has a put together a mock Apple ad called "Apple wants its lost iPhone 5" in which Apple's heavy-handed, take-no-prisoners style is satirized with lines like, "We will find this person and redefine the world of genital torture."