Apple Sells Two Million Copies of Mac OS X Leopard in First Weekend
Apple® today announced that it sold (or delivered in the case of maintenance agreements) over two million copies of Mac OS® X Leopard since its release on Friday, far outpacing the first-weekend sales...
Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday
Details emerged today on Google's broad social networking ambitions, first reported here in late September, with a follow up earlier this week. The new project, called OpenSocial (URL will go live on...
Blu-ray Mounts Event Offensive
The gloves are off. Backers of the high-definition Blu-ray Disc format are staging a two-day offensive in Hollywood this week, touting their triumphs and offering previews of upcoming releases such a...
Cookie tracking: How Facebook could be worth $100 billion?
When Facebook launches its "SocialAds" advertising product on November 6th, the technology will reportedly rely on cookies — unique identifiers sent to each user's computer from Facebook, and tracked ...
Leopard with chinks in its armour
A second look at the Mac OS X Leopard firewall — Apple is using security in general and the new firewall in particular to promote Leopard, the latest version of Mac OS X. However, initial functional...
PC stripper helps spam to spread
A virtual stripper is helping to defeat anti-spam security checks. — Spammers have created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an acc...
Mini How-To: Remove the Windows BSOD icon in Leopard, make OS X a little less smug
It's pretty clear that Apple left no stone unturned in Leopard, making changes and fixes throughout the new operating system. Unfortunately, that also included an upgrade to its crucial smugness subs...
SORRY PR PEOPLE: YOU'RE BLOCKED
I've had it. I get more than 300 emails a day and my problem isn't spam (Cloudmark Desktop solves that nicely), it's PR people. Lazy flacks send press releases to the Editor in Chief of Wired becaus...
Google in talks with Verizon Wireless: sources
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc is in active talks with number-two U.S. mobile carrier Verizon Wireless about putting Google applications on phones it offers, people familiar with the matter told Reut...
Eye-Fi Adds Wi-Fi to Almost Any Digital Camera [Review]
The gadget: The Eye-Fi. It's an SD memory card that adds Wi-Fi to any camera. Plus the free Eye-Fi service supports automatic uploads to 20 different web photo sites (like Flickr) as well as a compu...
The Pirate Bay Sees a Future Without BitTorrent
Why a new protocol? Well, the current BitTorrent protocol is developed and maintained by BitTorrent Inc. This company, founded by BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen, recently decided to close the source ...
The Web 2.0 World is Skunk Drunk on Its Own Kool-Aid
This is a sad time for the web. It's as almost somber as the time just before the last bubble burst in 2000. I was working in PR with dot-com startups at the time and the way I feel now is how I did...
Privacy Groups Propose Do-Not-Track List
Demands Would Hinder Marketers' Behavioral-Targeting Practices Online — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Privacy advocates are expected to propose the creation of a do-not-track list, a sort of internet versi...
Intense Debate: A Very Sweet Comment Management Plug-in
Colorado based Intense Debate, the sophisticated blog comment system with the silly name, launched its public beta this morning. There are some definite kinks in the service still, but there's also q...
Blue in the Face
Reports abound regarding users suffering from a "blue screen" after upgrading to Leopard: they upgrade, reboot, and get stuck at a blank blue screen. — But, as far as I can tell, there is no mystery...
Skype rolls the dice with Facebook games
Facebook is quickly becoming a way for established software publishers and services to gain new market share. Today Skype (for Windows and Mac) slipped an app launcher for 18 games into Facebook's ap...
Web Bubble 2.0
Well, maybe it is a bubble. But out in Silicon Valley, they don't think of that as a bad thing at all. — T — he Silicon Valley venture capitalist Michael Moritz is kinda-sorta the West Coast vers...
Storm Worm sent 15 million pump-and-dump e-mails
The Storm Worm botnet network may be shrinking in size, but it has managed to send out 15 million of those annoying audio spam messages in October, according to anti-spam vendor MessageLabs. — It's ...
Facebook's Social Ad Network: What We (Think We) Know So Far
Just as Google is preparing to take Facebook head-on with its own social-networking platform, it appears that Facebook is preparing to take on Google with its own social ad network. The announcement ...
Yahoo Messenger for Windows Gets a Tune-Up with v9.0
Yahoo is releasing version 9.0 of its popular instant messaging software, Yahoo Messenger, for Windows tonight. All in all, the update contains nothing revolutionary but does introduce some useful fe...
A Public Google Job Application
27-years old Sebastian Lützig from Cologne, Germany, wants to work at Google, specifically in Google's security department. Instead of writing a normal job application, he decided to register tons of...
Not All Is Gloomy in Real Estate: A Blog Network Attracts Capital
The residential real estate market may be troubled, but property-focused Web sites are still attracting visitors and investors. — Curbed.com, a popular real estate blog network with sites in New Yor...
Pownce Public API
Hey developers! We're so excited to now have a Pownce API where you can create fun stuff with Pownce. Hacks, mashups, and widgets, oh my! — Right now you can get lists of public notes, user profil...
Apple, hackenomics, and the waning anonymity (and obsoletion) of cash
The noose is slowly tightening. A hundred years ago — heck, even ten years ago — for the most part, we didn't have to sacrifice our privacy just to participate in some transaction.
Plentyoffish: 1-Man Company May Be Worth $1Billion
We've written before about PlentyOfFish, a leading online dating site that is run by a single person and is raking in money. Markus Frind is the singular force behind PlentyOfFish. At the time of ou...
ODF group abandons file format in favor of W3C alternative
OpenDocument Foundation claims that its namesake format isn't so open after all — A group that was set up to promote the Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) is abandoning its support ...
U.S.-Microsoft antitrust deal to get temporary extension
Microsoft, state prosecutors, and the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday said a federal judge needs more time to weigh whether Redmond should be subjected to a lengthier period of antitrust policin...
Internet Now The Primary Local Medium
Last week, Judy's Book joined the list of companies that have tried but stumbled or wiped out in local. The market's complexity and business model challenges make it tough for most startups to succee...
Microsoft shows off future features of Project
Microsoft showed off some features of the next version of Project, to the delight of the crowd gathered at the Microsoft Office Project Conference in Seattle. — The audience applauded a new timeline...
Windows XP will double the price of Asustek's Eee PC
San Francisco (IDGNS) - Adding Windows XP to Asustek Computer's Eee PC will double the price of the low-cost laptop compared to existing versions running Linux. — The company will sell a version of ...
Zillow.com® Launches Suite of Tools for Advertisers to Target Homeowners in Ways Never Before Possible
Zillow Home Direct Ads offers advertisers the ability to reach homeowners on a home by home basis, at the right moment of purchasing intent — Leading real estate Web site Zillow …
So Long Apple. The Party's Over
Fresh Jobs for Developers — » TripAdvisor.com - a "Founders At Work" company seeks a Senior/Lead Java Engineer in Needham MA — You only have to spend a few minutes at JavaOne to know that Apple is ...
Trouble on horizon for 'white box' PC makers
news analysis Apple might be the flavor of the moment in the consumer PC world, but hundreds of thousands of customers every year continue to choose plain vanilla "white box" PCs. — Those purchases ...
Mydeo scores US deal with Best Buy
UK video technology firm Mydeo confirmed a deal with the American retailer Best Buy today to power a paid-for video sharing service, with Best Buy taking a minority stake in the company. — The video...