Take a look at what's on the slab at Boston Dynamics in Waltham (the robot wears tennis shoes!):

Via Benjamin Spear.

Wicked Local Cambridge reports Cambridge is working on a new employee policy that would ban workers from networks such as Facebook and YouTube while on the job.

An Israeli software company with an office in Waltham yesterday charged the way Google sends out updates for its Chrome Web browser violates its patent.

Harlan E. Anderson, one of the co-founders of Digital Equipment Corp., is blogging about his life in computing, from the 1940s through the founding of the company that made Maynard famous.

Via Pito Salas.

History of the DEC logo.
Re-creating the Digital logo in PostScript.

Ask for the stenographic record of the last public meeting of Boston City Council http://www.cityofboston.gov/contact/?id=18 The stenographic machine records more of the proceedings, transactions and Councilors debate than the all too brief Council minutes.

Comcast thinks that its customers won't notice if it increases their monthly service charge by $2, if they call it an "equipment charge" increase rather than a service charge increase. They're increasing their revenue by $358 million per year without taking on any additional costs or providing any additional services. Consumers, fight back!

Please visit http://digg.com/tech_news/Comcast_sneaks_in_rate_increase_as_equipment_charge to read more and help me publicize Comcast's most recent attempt to cheat its customers.

Xconomy reports Cisco is buying Starent Networks, a Tewksbury company that makes equipment for blasting multimedia across networks, including wireless ones. It's a big deal, Xconomy says. In fact, at $2.9 billion, it whops.

Tele-Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Phoenix Media/Communications Group, Inc., yesterday filed a federal lawsuit against Facebook, alleging the social network's personal pages violate a patent Tele-Publishing was granted in 2001.

The complaint, filed in US District Court in Boston, seeks unspecified treble damages and an end to Facebook's alleged infringement of Tele-Publishing's patent, which sets out a method by which a remote user can upload images and information to a server to build a personal Web page.

From the Tele-Publishing patient:

Tele-Publishing bills itself as "the leading provider of revenue generating Personals content to the newspaper industry."

If Tele-Publishing wins, the decision could have a profound effect on the Web, since many sites now use similar techniques for letting users set up personal pages, from large social networks to, well, Universal Hub.

Tufts Daily reports some university employees were forced to go home early over the weekend when the school shut down computers across the campus to try to wrest back control from hackers who managed to take over dozens of computers.

Interestingly, most of the computers belonged to Tufts professors and staffers, not students.

Mass. High Tech reports Jack W. Szostak won for his work in with telomerase and telomers, which help protect chromosomes.