HP CEO Allowed 'Sting' of Reporter
Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive Mark V. Hurd approved an elaborate "sting" operation on a reporter in February in an attempt to plug leaks to the media, according to an e-mail message sent by HP C...
YOUTUBE'S GOT A FAT IDEA OF ITSELF
INTERNET upstart YouTube, the bane-du-jour of copyright holders everywhere, won't sell itself for anything less than $1.5 billion, The Post has learned. — But that number far exceeds the price top m...
Market gossip goes high-tech
Market gossip is to take on a more high-tech form thanks to a new automated system that will trawl through more than 40m internet sources - from blogs to regulatory filings - on behalf of hedge funds....
Alarm.com Signs VOIP Deal; Looks Next To ISPs
Alarm.com has signed its second VOIP partnership deal, with SunRocket. Executives said they're looking ahead to partnerships with ISPs, providing yet another tier of service to existing "triple play"...
ATM Hack Uncovered
A security expert in New York has learned how to get free money from some ATMs by entering a special code sequence on the PIN pad. — Last week, news reports circulated about a cyber thief who stroll...
Side Effects of Anonymous Attack Blogging
So it turns out the guy who anonymously writes dead2.0, an occasionally insightful attack blog, has been identified. He's a VP at a startup that we'd cover at TechCrunch and CrunchGear, and that I le...
Lessons From the Facebook Riots
Earlier this month, the popular social networking site Facebook learned a hard lesson in privacy. It introduced a new feature called "News Feeds" that shows an aggregation of everything members do on...
Tiscali and AOL units targeted in broadband shake-up
THE winners and losers in the shake-up of the broadband market were becoming clear last night as bidders began circling Tiscali's UK division and BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse went head-to-head in the ...
Cingular's One-Way Contract
Beckie is a reader who started out with a cell phone from a small company that got bought by AT&T. As you well know, AT&T was bought by Cingular. A few months later, Beckie received a letter from Cin...
A SetTop Box of Murdoch's Dreams
What if you could build a set top box, that could take high definition video input from satellite, and at the same time be able to take standard definition Internet video over Broadband and display bo...
iTV: What you need to know
We answer questions about Apple's upcoming movie-playing set-top box — It's not every day that Apple gives use a preview of a piece of hardware that's not going to arrive for at least three months, ...
Breaking News: Facebook in talks with Yahoo for rumored $1B deal
The WSJ is reporting that US Social Networking site Facebook is in serious talks to sell itself to Yahoo, for an amount that may be as high as $1 billion. According to the WSJ, this is a return to th...