Google: IIS twice as likely to serve malware as Apache
A new study by Google's Anti-Malware Team seems to confirm what many people have believed for years: Web sites running Microsoft's IIS are twice as likely to host malware than those running Apache. —...
Time for Microsoft to Change Its Patch Policy?
A very interesting post on the Google Online Security Blog analyzes which web servers are responsible for the world's malware. — Microsoft IIS 6 tied with Apache at 49% for compromised servers, even...
New Mercury Free MacBook Pro Unboxed!
I got my hands on the new MacBook Pro first thing this morning and saying everyone around me is gushing and jealous is an understatement. Unlike last year's model, the new MacBook Pro has a mercury-f...
CompUSA Store That Sold Texas Man an Empty Box Finally Agrees He Didn't Get Money's Worth
A Texas man who thought he got a bargain when he bought a camera from retailer CompUSA only to find out that he'd purchased an empty box, finally got his money's worth thanks to a Web campaign …
Netflix Shares Higher On Rumors Of Amazon.com Bid
Netflix (NFLX) shares are higher today on rumors that Amazon.com (AMZN) might make offer to buy the company. In a research note, Bank of America analyst Brian Pitz writes that there is speculation of...
EBay to Broker Radio Ad Time, Stoking Rivalry With Google
Online auctioneer eBay Inc. plans to begin brokering radio advertisements today, in the latest effort by a Web company to sell offline ads via the Internet. The move ratchets up eBay's competition wi...
Lay-Offs Hit SCEA HQ Today
441 Views — Roughly 80 to 100 employees of Sony Computer Entertainment of America's Foster City headquarters were laid off today, Kotaku has learned from a source who was among those asked to hand i...
ZFS To Become Default File System In Leopard
Perhaps overcome with excitement (and forgetting that Apple doesn't like such pre-emptive disclosures), Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced today at Sun event in Washington D.C. that Apple would be maki...
HTC Touch Innovates the Windows Mobile Platform - First Take
HTC announced a new smartphone today called the HTC Touch and it shows how these folks are leading the innovation on the Windows Mobile Platform. I've spent some time with the unit and both the devic...
Clearspring Lands Major Deal With NBC
Clearspring is going to annouce tomorrow that it was chosen by NBC to be its exclusive widget platform for the next year. This is a major deal for Clearspring, and for NBC as well. The specific term...
Doll Web Sites Drive Girls to Stay Home and Play
Presleigh Montemayor often gets home after a long day and spends some time with her family. Then she logs onto the Internet, leaving the real world and joining a virtual one. But the digital utopia ...
MarsEdit 1.2: Growl, Picasa and Vox!
MarsEdit 1.2 is now available for download (or just "Check for Updates" from the app). This is a free update for all registered MarsEdit users. — Three relatively big changes in this release: — G...
Ask.com Commercial: Now on YouTube
Ok, we got a copy of the actual Ask.com TV ad we mentioned earlier today and uploaded it to YouTube. This will supposedly be broadcast on TV tonight for the first time. The basic idea of the ad is a...
Amp'd Mobile Runs Out of Juice
The "virtual" cell-phone company seeks bankruptcy protection after nearly half of its customers fail to pay their bills — The gold rush of specialized cell-phone companies targeting niche audiences ...
Vodafone Live 'improvements' kill mCommerce
Find your perfect job - click here for thousands of tech vacancies — Vodafone UK has launched a mobile optimising technology which reformats web pages to fit onto a mobile phone screen. — Unfortun...
Sony mulls cutting PlayStation 3 price
SONY may cut the price of the PlayStation 3 which is facing fierce competition from Nintendo's Wii, the president of the electronics giant has indicated. — Sony "does not rule out the possibility of...
Google: Foreign workers are key to our success
WASHINGTON—A Google executive on Wednesday credited the company's phenomenal success to the United States' openness to immigrants and called on Congress to let in more foreign workers. — Laszlo Bock...
What Apple TV Costs to Make
Analyzing and pricing out the components of Apple's new set-top video box reveal uncharacteristically slim profits — When Apple CEO Steve Jobs called Apple TV a "hobby," he wasn't kidding. — By ty...
How Craig Newmark Built Craigslist With "No Vision Whatsoever"
Craig Newmark started craigslist in early 1995 as a way of staying on top of San Francisco's busy arts and technology scene. Despite (or perhaps because of) the site's determined non-commercialism, c...
What U.S. immigration policies mean to Google
Our experience with American immigration policy dates back to one of our founders: when he was six, Sergey Brin's parents fled the Soviet Union in 1979 and settled in the United States. Today, there ...
Who Watches Mobile Video?
What kind of Americans are starting to watch video shows on cell phone screens? According to data from Nielsen, middle-aged men with high incomes. That proves the price point is just too high right ...
Microsoft preps Windows-based kitchen client
Microsoft is beginning work on the first of what it plans to make a family of customized Windows platforms designed for specific rooms around the home. — The "Kitchen Client" software will extend th...
Substitute Teacher Granted New Trial in Porn Case
A former Connecticut middle-school teacher was granted a new trial today at her sentencing hearing, where she had faced up to 40 years in prison for exposing her students to pornographic material on a...
Google Gears: Replacing One Problem with Another
I've been thinking a little bit about Google Gears recently and after reading the documentation things I've realized that making a Web-based application that works well offline poses an interesting se...
Woz Ponders Apple II's Impact and DIY
Steve Wozniak is sometimes thought of as "the other Steve," the one who isn't currently head of Apple Inc. and a media maven. — Wozniak—or Woz—stays mostly out of the public eye, working with his lo...
TechCrunch Party at August Capital on July 27
Update: Ok, tickets are selling faster than we thought. We've sold 300 in about 45 minutes. We are going to shut down the list for now and re-open it in a few days. — After a long hiatus of old-fa...
EA Appoints Kathy Vrabeck to Lead EA Casual Entertainment
New Group to Focus on Lighter Games for Family and New Consumers — REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS - News) today announced the formation of EA Casual Entertain...
Sun's Coulda Woulda Shoulda
Sun Microsystems (SUNW) trades at $5 ... Google (GOOG) a hundred times more at $518. — Stock prices mean nothing on their own, of course. Google's market cap at $159 billion is not a hundred times ...
Florida Attorney General Looking into Wii Version of Manhunt 2
Is Manhunt 2 worse on the Wii? — GamePolitics has confirmed via multiple sources that Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum (R) has expressed concern over the impending release of Rockstar's contro...
Politicos threaten schools over campus piracy
WASHINGTON—Politicians on Tuesday threatened to enact new laws if universities don't do more to prevent their students from unlawfully swapping music, movies and other copyrighted files on campus netw...
New AT&T Same As The Old AT&T
AT&T chief Ed Whitacre is out, retired, ready to sit back and enjoy his golden (and I mean golden) years. As of yesterday, he's replaced by SBC front-man Randall Stephenson, a 25-year company man, an...
Dorktastic Style: Shade Blade, Your On-Head Solar Power Station
The Shade Blade is a design concept touted as "the ultimate pair of sunglasses." The visor on top is a solar array, charging up batteries that can power a variety of plug-and-play modules.
If it's not tennis elbow, it may be 'Wiiitis'
When Dr. Julio Bonis awoke one Sunday morning with a sore shoulder, he could not figure out what he had done. It felt like a sports injury, but he had been a bit of a couch potato lately. — Then he...
Product loyalty: consumers mistake familiarity with superiority
Anyone who has followed consumer electronics and online services knows that once a product reaches dominance, it becomes very hard for it to be dethroned (hello, iPod, Google, and Windows). Economist...
Finding a Date — on the Spot
on the Spot — Internet Matchmakers Migrate — To Cellphones, Promising — More-Immediate Results — Earlier this week, Jeff Blum was out buying a sandwich when his mind wandered toward his social ...
Lawyer for woman sued by RIAA asks for sanctions, gets sanctioned himself
Last year, an attorney representing a woman sued by the Recording Industry Association of America claimed his client is innocent and asked a federal judge to levy sanctions against the association's l...
Copyright Silliness on Campus
What do Columbia, Vanderbilt, Duke, Howard and UCLA have in common? Apparently, leaders in Congress think that they aren't expelling enough students for illegally swapping music and movies. — The H...
Major League Gaming acquires GotFrag
It could be said that GotFrag, a news and social networking site for fans of competitive video gaming, just got pwned—but in a good way. New York-based professional gaming league Major League Gaming ...
Skype: 'Locked' phones unfair
NEW YORK — Are cellphone companies using their sway over handset makers to unfairly limit consumers' choices? Skype, a pioneer in PC-to-PC calling, thinks so, and it wants the Federal Communications ...
HTC Touch At A Glance
Just got back from an HTC Touch event at the Bryant Park Hotel here in NYC. Had a chance to go into the phone a bit, learn about what it can do, and went home with one. The video above should give y...
Kids' first exposure to gaming, cell phones becoming earlier
Kids are being exposed to consumer electronics at ever-younger ages, according to a new report, and the frequency of use is going up for some devices. The numbers come as part of the NPD Group's thir...
Building conceptual bridges to a new media world
When Ryan Sholin's manifesto on the future of newspapers appeared the other day, the blogosphere cheered loudly. "Great summary," said one commenter, "Too bad they're not listening." — "They" are t...
Nintendo Wii outsells Sony PS3 5-fold in Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. took another blow with Nintendo Co.'s Wii game console outselling its PlayStation 3 by more than five to one in Japan last month, raising doubts over Sony's nascent earnin...
Industry: Lay-Offs Hit SCEA HQ Today
Roughly 80 to 100 employees of Sony Computer Entertainment of America's Foster City headquarters were laid off today, Kotaku has learned from a source who was among those asked to hand in their badge ...
Anatomy of the new customer complaint meme
Skype: 'Locked' phones unfair
NEW YORK - Are cellphone companies using their sway over handset makers to unfairly limit consumers' choices? Skype, a pioneer in PC-to-PC calling, thinks so, and it wants the Federal Communications ...
Five Things MovableType Learned from Bilbo Baggins
Movable Type announced today that Movable Type 4 would be open source. This is obviously a retreat on their move to a closed model back in Movable Type 3. If you recall, MT 3 came under a tremendous...
SpaceTime: 3D Browser Eye Candy
New York based SpaceTime has released SpaceTime 3D, a web browser that literally takes tagged browsing 3D. — SpaceTime allows users to map out their browsing progress in a visual timeline, treating ...
FTC Moves To Block Merger, Seeing Companies In A Narrow Market
The FTC says that it will file a lawsuit to block two companies from merging, after choosing to define the market they operate in very narrowly and ignoring the wider competition they face from plenty...