California Court Rules It Illegal To Check Maps On Your Phone While Driving  —  For years, we've discussed the problematic nature of “distracted driving” laws that seek to outlaw things like talking on your phone or texting while driving.  It is not that we don't think these behaviors are dangerous.

Facebook Begins Big Ad Blitz To Tout Its New Android “Home”  —  Although Facebook Home won't be available for another week or so, the social network has begun a major ad campaign pitching customers on its new Android software.  —  On its own mobile and desktop sites, Facebook is pushing …

InTrade Announces $700,000 Cash Shortfall And Risk Of Imminent Liquidation  —  Back in early March, “prediction market” InTrade shocked the world by announcing it was halting all trading activity immediately.  —  InTrade, of course, was famous for offering betting on event outcomes …

The HTC One Review  —  It is nearly impossible to begin to review the HTC One without some context, and I'll begin our review of the HTC One (formerly the device known as codename M7) much the same way I did my impressions piece simply by stating that HTC is in an interesting position as a result of last year's product cycle.

French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article  —  Wikimedia France strongly condemns pressure on Wikipedia sysop by French homeland intelligence agency (DCRI)  —  In early March, the DCRI (Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur) …

Google publishes - then removes - a post stating that Fiber will launch in Austin, Texas next  —  A report from VentureBeat yesterday, citing multiple sources, claimed that Google and the City of Austin would be announcing the launch of the Google Fiber gigabit Internet service in the Texan city on Tuesday.

Zynga Sued Over Social-Game Maker Executives' Stock Sales  —  Zynga Inc. (ZNGA), the largest maker of online social games, was sued by a shareholder after executives were allowed to sell stock early for more than $200 million, while sales by lower level employees and outsiders were blocked.

When cancer stole Roger Ebert's voice, Twitter gave him a new one  —  Film critic Roger Ebert talked about how much Twitter meant to him as a form of conversation, and his enthusiastic use of it as a way to connect with readers is a lesson to journalists of all kinds.

HTC First can revert to stock Android in lieu of Facebook Home (update)  —  It looks like HTC's new “Facebook Phone,” the First, runs stock Android.  Phandroid reports that the unadorned OS is lurking just beneath the surface, accessible either by resetting the default launcher or by disabling …

Nokia Lumia 928 for Verizon pictured in leaked image  —  Images are surfacing of what purports to be Nokia's upcoming flagship Windows Phone device for Verizon, the Lumia 928.  Twitter user @evleaks posted renders of the front and back of the 920 variant, and outwardly it looks nearly the same as AT&T's.

Fake Twitter Followers Becomes Multimillion-Dollar Business  —  Far from slowing, the market for fake Twitter followers seems to be taking off.  —  The fake Twitter follower phenomenon made headlines last summer after Mitt Romney's Twitter following jumped by 100,000 in a matter of days.

The JOBS Act turns one, and let's be honest, it's a failure  —  On April 5, 2012, in the Rose Garden of the White House, US president Barack Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, one of those distinctly American pieces of legislation that hits you over the head with an unequivocally positive acronym—in this case, JOBS.

On The Michael Arrington Accusations  —  We normally don't cover criminal accusations against individuals without police reports or other documents filed, or significant evidence like self-acknowledgement.  But we're making an exception.  —  TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is facing …