Leopard 10.5.1 is now available
Leopard bugs got you down? Apple just pushed out its first update for the new OS, 10.5.1. It looks like it cures a whole laundry list of niggles with Leopard, including that nasty "potential data lo...
Apple admits to 'misleading' Leopard firewall settings
Apple has fessed up to at least three serious design weaknesses in the new application-based firewall that ships with Mac OS X Leopard. — The acknowledgment from Cupertino comes less than a month af...
The Death of E-Mail
TEENAGERS ARE ABANDONING THEIR YAHOO! AND HOTMAIL ACCOUNTS. DO THE REST OF US HAVE TO? — By 2002, everyone in my family had become an Internet convert. For the technophobic older generation, signi...
High-quality YouTube videos coming soon
YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, speaking at the NewTeeVee Live conference today, confirmed that high-quality YouTube video streams are coming soon. Although YouTube's goal, he said, is to make the sit...
WWII computer working again
Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — Bletchley's code-breaking effort shortened the war by many months — For the first time in more than 60 years a Colossus computer will be cracking codes...
Amazon to debut Kindle e-book reader Monday
Amazon is betting that e-books aren't a total e-bust. — On Monday, the online retail giant will unveil its Kindle e-book reader at a high-profile event in New York, an industry source told CNET News...
The Man Behind the TheFunded.com's VC Slagfest Reveals Himself to Wired
The door swings open before I have a chance to knock, and I get my first glimpse of the man known to thousands only as Ted. At 6'5" in socks, he is squeezed into the door frame of his midtown Manhatt...
Hidden crime of 'wi-fi tapping': only 11 arrests but most of us are guilty
More than half of computer users have illegally logged on to someone else's wi-fi connection yet only 11 people have been arrested for the crime, an investigation by The Times has found.
Amazon 'Customers Vote' deals are outstanding
How'd you like a Wii for $79? Unbelievable. See this is why you can't get a Wii anywhere. Amazon's been hoarding them all for this very event. Up for grabs is your choice of 1000 Wii consoles at $...
U2 previews unreleased track on Facebook, snubs MySpace?
Bono has given the creators of Facebook app iLike a sneak preview of U2's upcoming re-release of the Joshua Tree, which will feature previously unreleased tracks. — Wearing his trademark sunglasses ...
Facebook: Who Else Wants to Invest at $15B? No One?
It's been three weeks since Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg took a desperate Microsoft to the cleaners with a $15 billion valuation. It's been 2.9 weeks since Forbes reported that Facebook had raised an a...
Leopard on Eee: A match made in heaven?
Inevitable? Yes. Super great? Absolutely. Do we potentially derive too much pleasure from answering our own questions? Quite possibly. Asus has really built itself a PC ripe for the tinkering — ...
WebKit 3's ten new tricks
As Apple's core rendering engine for Safari (and many third-party apps), WebKit has come quite a ways since its early days at Apple. Open sourced in 2005, its development has remained sure and steady...
Candidates at Google: Barack Obama
Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs — Barack Obama added another "first" to his already notable list yesterday: he became the first U.S. presidential candid...
Id takes its gaming Mobile
The creators of Doom and Quake are officially taking their games mobile. — Id Software today announces its new division, id Mobile, and plans to develop mobile versions of its classic games Quake an...
Five Favorite Facebook Widgets for Business Users
From a link to your LinkedIn account to virtual sticky notes to intergrated wikis, we present five of the most business friendly Facebook widgets you'll find. — Most Facebook developers will tell yo...
CBS Offers Midtown Manhattan Free Wireless Internet Access
Some awesome news out of Manhattan today. CBS Corporation has announced today that it will "light up" midtown Manhattan with the creation of the "CBS Mobile Zone," a wireless high-speed network enabl...
I.B.M. to Push 'Cloud Computing,' Using Data From Afar
I.B.M. plans to build a sizable business by bringing Google-style computing to mainstream corporate customers. — The I.B.M. strategy, to be announced today, seeks to exploit the technical work and c...
Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?
Random numbers are critical for cryptography: for encryption keys, random authentication challenges, initialization vectors, nonces, key-agreement schemes, generating prime numbers and so on. Break t...
Amazon PR: Neither Open Nor Social
Is Amazon supporting Open Social? If they are, that would be big news. If they have decided not to, that would be big news too. We reported last night that Amazon was announcing support for the Goo...
Radiohead's Low Price Might Mean Higher Profit
Radiohead's name-your-own-price sale of its new In Rainbows album has generated lots of commentary, especially since comscore released data claiming that 62% of customers set their price at zero, with...
Revenue: one search Google won't answer
Karim Temsamani ... expecting a surge in online advertising to be sustained for two years. — GOOGLE's new Australasian boss has predicted a surging online advertising market for the next two years, ...
Microsoft's Office Accounting 2008 speaks Spanish
San Francisco - The latest version of Microsoft's entry-level accounting program for small businesses released on Thursday can handle accounts in Spanish and English, and integrates with more online b...
IBM's Blue Cloud is Web Computing By Another Name
IBM wants some of that Web 2.0 mojo. That is what is behind its announcement today of Blue Cloud, a set of "cloud computing" offerings that will be available to its corporate customers in the first q...
Zune 80 scarcer than a Wii, Microsoft blames popularity
The new Zunes are out—mostly. While availability of the 4GB and 8GB flash models is excellent, the black 80GB hard drive model has been hard to find. Microsoft assures us that "high demand" is to bl...
Entrepreneur 2.0
This guest post is written by Glen Kelman, the president and CEO of real estate startup Redfin. Previously, he was a co-founder of Plumtree Software, a Sequoia-backed, publicly traded company that cr...
Sony's PS3 With Blu-ray Gets Back As A Player
Sony appears to be coming up with a winning formula. Amazing what a steep price cut will do, but you can't argue with success. Howard Stringer, Sony's CEO, is on the wires saying Sony — [SNE Load...
Yahoo! Ratchets! Open! Source! Grid! Platform!
Hoping to further the Google-battling ways of an open source cluster computing platform named for a stuffed elephant, Yahoo! has decided to share a 4,000-CPU, 1.5 petabyte grid with some boffins at Ca...
Stealth-mode app turns InBox 2.0 into Life 2.0
Yesterday Mike Arrington noted the stories that both Yahoo and Google are planning to build social networks around their email services. This is based on the premise that you already 'socially networ...
Police swoop on 'hacker of the year'
Swedish internet security consultant Dan Egerstad. Inset: The article from Tuesday's Next. — Asher Moses — The Swedish hacker who perpetrated the so-called hack of the year has been arrested in a...
Confirmed: Sprint Will Ship BlackBerry Pearl 8130 on Black Friday; Moto Q and i335 Coming Too [Cellphones]
Confirmed: Sprint Will Ship BlackBerry Pearl 8130 on Black Friday; Moto Q and i335 Coming Too — Rumor confirmed. On Friday, November 23, better known to you Dealzmodo nuts as Black Friday …
Apple Releases Final Cut Express 4
New Final Cut Express Features AVCHD Support and iMovie '08 Integration — Apple® today released Final Cut® Express 4, a significant upgrade to its powerful video editing software based on Apple's aw...