Chinese military hacked into Pentagon
By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Richard McGregor in Beijing — The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence depa...
Jotspot Coming to Google Apps as Google Wiki?
Since acquiring Jotspot last October, Google has been busy working on integrating the wiki service into its infrastructure. — In April this year, Jotspot's help and support pages moved to Google and...
Five Facts About Google Phone
Is Google (GOOG) Phone fact or fiction? Engadget says Google's entry into mobile phone business is for real, and the company is going to announce it soon. Scott Kirsner talked to a bunch of folks ov...
Can you digg it?
As the social bookmarking site Digg often proves, mob wisdom is not always right - but it is interesting — Digg.com: the wisdom of crowds? — The internet is big. Really big, as Douglas Adams once...
Link by Link: Whiting Out the Ads, but at What Cost?
MORE white space. — I sent an e-mail message to a friend telling him about Adblock Plus, an easy-to-use free addition to the Firefox Internet browser that deletes advertisements from Web sites. Tha...
iPhoneSIMfree begins fulfilling bulk orders, apparently will not unlock end users' phones
Are you ready for it? Looks like iPhoneSIMfree is. A number of tipsters have sent us emails that they've received announcing the availability of the elusive software unlock — delivery on Tuesday, 4t...
A boring rant
In the interest of keeping items brief I've cut the previous post and put the boring stuff here. Enjoy. Or don't enjoy, as the case may be. Skip over it. Whatever. — It's not just Disney and ABC...
Software via the Internet: Microsoft in 'Cloud' Computing
The empire is preparing to strike back — again. — In 1995, Microsoft added a free Web browser to its operating system in an attempt to fend off new rivals, an effort ultimately blocked by the courts...
7 Reasons Why Microsoft is DOOMED!
Not this year, not next year... but soon - almost certainly by the next decade. — #1. Their business model is a dead-end. - Back when Microsoft first started business in 1980, software as a commodi...
The hundred gadget giveaway starts midnight tonight
This one goes out to all the folks who've been waiting ever so patiently to take home some gear in an Engadget giveaway. This week we're giving away over a hundred gadgets, games, swag bags, and the ...
Coming soon: hard drives with 1GB+ DDR RAM cache
Hard drives have long utilized small bits of cache memory to boost performance, and some recent hybrid hard drives already combine up to 256MB of NAND flash memory with traditional platter-based stora...
A question for Twitter users out there
In the past week or so there has been talk about the informal use of tags in Twitter posts; also known as tweets, and using the pound key - # - as an identifier for those tags. In theory I think this...
Return Of The Schwag
The true hard core geek/fanboy crowd loved ValleySchwag when it launched in the Spring of 2006. For $15 per month you would receive a package containing tshirts, stickers, pens and other junk that ne...
Mozilla keeps Eudora alive, releases new version based on Thunderbird
The Eudora team might have called it quits on commercial aspirations and released the product as open source some time ago, but that doesn't mean you should get the trash bin out just yet.
CyberNotes: Exclusive Opera 9.5 Features & Video
CyberNet Exclusive Look — We've decided to break away from our normal CyberNotes today to take an exclusive look at the features in Opera 9.5 (codename Kestrel). Opera has done a remarkable job of ...
Chinese military hacked into Pentagon
By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Richard McGregor in Beijing — The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence depa...
Adblock Plus: the nuclear plug-in
Adblock Plus, the Firefox browser plug-in that erases advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app - or at least it would be if it became widely popular. Right now, it sits like a coyot...
Google puts in patent application for SMS text message payment system - say what?
Wait, hasn't this already been done before? Indeed it has. SMS text message-based payment system have been in use for quite some time now, and it seems that Google has been keen to the new trend for...
Don't hit Wi-Fi delete key
IT'S TIME for Wi-Fi 2.0 if San Francisco is serious about overcoming the financial and leadership problems that killed the first version. — For over two years, City Hall pored over - and mostly bick...
Mobiles to become digital wallets
The UK's big five mobile phone firms have switched on a payment system that turns handsets into digital wallets. — Called PayForIt, the scheme is designed for those buying goods and services with a ...
Fresh Features
We've just released a bunch of new stuff today to make Pownce even better. There are a number of changes behind the scenes to help the site run faster as well as some sweet new things you can definit...
Nintendo dominates in console war
Nintendo's Wii continues to dominate the Japanese console market, according to latest sales figures. — Nintendo sold nearly a quarter of a million machines during August, whilst Sony sold just over ...
Sony confirms security problem
Electronics giant Sony has confirmed a recently discovered security flaw in some of its products that could leave PCs vulnerable to attack by hackers. — The firm said that the fault, which affected ...