Man Claiming He Invented the Internet Sues

wiedzmin writes "A low-profile Chicago biologist, Michael Doyle, and his company Eola Technologies, who has once won a $521m patent lawsuit against Microsoft, claim that it was actually he and two co-inventors who invented, and patented, the "interactive web" before anyone else, back in 1993. Doyle argues that a program he created to allow doctors to view embryos over the early Internet, was the ...

Lana del Rey, Internet Meme

The ecstasy and the agony of the Internet celebrity Lana del Rey  has  postponed her planned album tour , bringing to an end, for the moment, an experiment that had brought Internet culture into the mainstream ...

Joseph Cramer, M.D.: Government of the people, by the people, for the people

For all the greatness of Abraham Lincoln, one accomplishment that goes unrecognized is that he invented the Internet. Well,...

Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web, testified Tuesday in a Texas courtroom, fighting to keep the web's most basic interactivity from being subject to licensing fees from a patent troll. If the fight fails, any website with interactive features may have to pay up to a little known firm called Eolas and the University of California.

'Patent troll' sues world's biggest internet firms for $600m claiming ownership of 'interactive web'

Lawyers for Michael Doyle argue he is owed royalties for a host of web services, including online video like YouTube (pictured), and rotating images on retail websites.

Splat! Geek-in-chief Obama tests marshmallow gun

US President Barack Obama tested a new prototype Tuesday for his commander-in-chief's arsenal -- a high-powered marshmallow gun that sent a tasty missile screaming through the White House.