The real reason we're upset about Sparrow's acquisition  —  When the news hit that Sparrow has been acquired by Google, you could almost hear the collective sigh from those who use and love this wonderful iOS and Mac OS X email client.  Many people (myself included) took to Twitter to voice …

Google Says Some Apple Inventions Are So Great They Ought to Be Shared  —  Patent wars, Apple CEO Tim Cook once said, are “a pain in the ass.”  Few more so than the one the company is waging against Google's new Motorola Mobility division and the new argument the defendants are making around standards-essential patents (SEPs).

Siri-like Voice Commands on BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha (Video)  —  Yesterday, Research In Motion released an OS update to the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha.  While some were struggling with problems getting the new update installed, others were lucky enough to begin playing with the update and finding out all of the new features.

Darpa Funds Hack Machine You'd Never Notice  —  PwnieExpress' all-new Power Pwn.  All Images: PwnieExpress  —  If you saw this bad boy under your desk, would you say anything?  —  It may look like a surge protector, but it's really a remote access machine that corporations can use to test security and log into branch offices.

Instagram For The Web Coming Soon?  Online ‘View Profile’ Link Spotted In The Wild  —  Instagram became a billion dollar company with a service that existed entirely within the realm of mobile apps.  But it's looking like the social photo-sharing juggernaut may be about to unveil its own bridge to the web, too.

Audio brand Beats buys back 25% of its own shares from HTC  —  Audio equipment brand Beats is buying back 25% of its from HTC, the smartphone manufacturer announced today.  —  According to the companies, the purpose of this operation is to provide Beats “with more flexibility for global expansion …

White House Advisers Tell Obama To Share Airwaves For Broadband  —  Federal agencies should share airwaves with commercial users to ease a shortage of frequencies and help meet surging demand from wireless smartphones and other mobile devices, a White House advisory panel said.

Intelligent, Context-Aware Personal Assistant App “Friday” Makes Its Public Debut  —  How appropriate.  That crazy Android personal assistant app called Friday is debuting today, on a Friday.  Marketing genius!  Friday comes from a startup called Dexetra, the same folks who previously launched the Siri-like Android app Iris.

Microsoft fixes ‘big boobs’ coding gaffe  —  Microsoft is gearing up for the release of Windows 8 that will run on desktops, tablets and phones  —  Microsoft has swiftly fixed an embarrassing gaffe which saw a chunk of code labelled “big boobs”.  —  The hexadecimal string 0xB16B00B5 …