iPhone Malware Demo Freaking Me Out, Man [Apple]
Maybe it's the eyes. Don't be too alarmed, but this video shows the iPhone being accessed by terminal using a program installed by a webpage. Since the program, like all unofficial apps, runs as roo...
J Allard: Microsoft's Plan to Be King of All Media
In November 1994, I had breakfast with Nathan Myhrvold, then the chief technology officer of Microsoft. He talked about how the soon-to-be-introduced MSN online service would best America Online. Ce...
FBN: "Apple Buying AMD!" Wait, Scratch That. "Abu Dubai!"
At 9:27 this morning, Fox Business Morning for Breakfast co-anchor Alexis Glick eagerly reported Apple (AAPL) had taken an 8% stake in AMD. Fox's guest contributor, Charles Payne, immediately analyze...
Microsoft: Hallucinating...Or About to Buy Yahoo?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that Microsoft division president Kevin Johnson is not a moron. I'm also going to assume that, when Johnson said yesterday that Microsoft plans to grow i...
Google Has Even Bigger Plans for Mobile Phones
Google Inc. made a big splash last week with its new software for cellphones. But that's far from the limit of the Internet giant's wireless ambitions — which could include running its own mobile net...
Apple's Social Media Hell - Why it Needs to Repent
At the recent BlogWorld Expo, I discussed two companies that "get" social media and one that doesn't. The two that get it were Nike and Dell. Nike's excellent community efforts-especially Nike+-and ...
Social Networking with the Elite
Tired of the Web masses? Now you can find your own gated communities on the Net—if they'll let you in — Are you on the digital A-list? It's no longer enough to get invited to exclusive conferences...
Seiko High-Res Super-Thin EBook Reader [E-Ink]
Seiko High-Res Super-Thin EBook Reader — More E-Book News, this one a prototype from Seiko Epson, makers of the cool E-ink watch. The device's form factor is at least as thin as Sony's Reader, but ...
LinkedIn and The Future of Business Networking
In the heyday of the Facebook hype (it seems so long ago now!), Facebook was going to eat LinkedIn's lunch. Based on recent experience, I don't think so. — I recently had reason to use LinkedIn ser...
My Chumby is here
I've activated my black leather Chumby named Robusto, and as I write this, it's downloading a software update through wifi. — First impression: This is a breakthough device, kind of like the Cobalt ...
NBC brings Web series "Quarterlife" to TV network
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NBC on Friday said it will begin airing the highly touted Web series "Quarterlife" on its television network early next year, making the program the first to originate online a...
Wikipedia boss Jimmy Wales to create Facebook competitor?
At a gathering of about 100 of some of South Africa's top geeks on Tuesday night, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales revealed what he said were some of the "first screenshots" of his new project on search.
Dell's XPS ONE now on sale
Shortly after being leaked, revealed, unclothed and paraded around in public, Dell's 20-inch XPS ONE is finally available to the masses. Up now on company's webstore are four pre-configured systems, ...
Look, ma, no servers
Robert Scoble notes the rise of "the serverless Internet company" that can launch and run a webwide business through the window of a browser. He writes of a recent conversation he had with Max Haot, ...
Comcast Slapped With Net Neutrality Suit
The suit follows complaints to the FCC that the broadband provider is violating network neutrality principles. — Comcast's alleged network traffic discrimination continues to create legal woes for t...
Google's Huge, Risky Wireless Plan Could Crush Cash Flow
In awe about how much Google has spent on capital expenditures in recent years? ($3.9 billion in the last eight quarters). You ain't seen nothing yet. — According to the WSJ, Google is indeed prep...
Web Videos Stealing TV Viewers, and Marketers
WHY are fewer viewers watching the new fall television series? Perhaps because they are too busy watching video online. — As broadband service becomes more available at home, the growing prevalence...
Colossus loses code-cracking race
Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — Bletchley's code-breaking effort shortened the war by many months — An amateur cryptographer has beaten Colossus in a code-cracking challenge set up to...
Study shows Google favored over other search engines by webmasters
University Park, Pa. - Web site policy makers who use robots.txt files as gatekeepers to specify what is open and what is off limits to Web crawlers have a bias that favors Google over other search en...
Moola Opens "Massively Multiplayer Rewards Game" to Public
Toronto, Canada-based Moola has been operating an invite-only beta for a little over 18 months and will on Friday open their site to the public (they'll be officially launching at the TechCrunch Meetu...
Surprise! Dell releases XPS One today
Dell sent us a Dell XPS One for review last week and asked us to hold off publishing the review until it releases its first all-in-one PC next Monday. Then—surprise! —Dell gets a little trigger happ...
Will the Credit Crunch Inflate the Internet Bubble?
Professional social network PartnerUp has surveyed 862 real estate, mortgage, and financial workers about their intent to start their own businesses following this summer's subprime mortgage financial...
There is No Free Lunch
My mobile phone rang this week as I sat in the car rental bus at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. The Caller ID information read only "202." I get a lot of calls that say "unknown" or "re...
Blowtorch Raises $50 Million to Launch a New Hollywood Studio
Kelly Rodriques and Paul Schiff are creating a new Hollywood studio from scratch called Blowtorch Entertainment. The company is just launching with a $50 million investment from Ignition Partners, Ho...
Striking Writers Point Out Viacom Hypocrisy; Claiming Online Video Is Worthless While Suing YouTube For $1 Billion
from the wave-or-a-particle? dept — While I tend to agree with Tim Lee's comments about why the Writers Guild strike is misguided (and the guild itself is increasingly obsolete) …
Apple considering raise for Jobs?
After years of drawing just a dollar in salary, Apple CEO Steve Jobs could be in store for a raise. — Apple filed its annual report for its 2007 fiscal year Thursday afternoon, and hinted in a secti...
EarthLink Says No More Money for Existing Muni Networks
EarthLink drops another bombshell: They hired Rolla Huff to sort out their future business, and his message from the start was steely eye, bottom line, get things on track for the future in an industr...
Web Sites Tear Down That Wall
Rupert Murdoch's announcement this week that he expects to stop charging for access to the Wall Street Journal's Web site is the latest example of a publisher giving up on the subscription-based busin...
Google Trends Reveals People's Predictability
Google Trends shows an interesting search popularity graph for the queries "turkey" (as in turkey the food, too) and "diet": — On North-American Thanksgiving day, the searches for a traditional dish...
Switch gear
John Bardeen (left), William Shockley (seated) and Walter Brattain (right) — Sixty years ago two scientists would start a month of experiments that would come to shape the modern world. — The peri...
In The Labs: 100 Gbps Over Copper
Copper, some telecom insiders joke, is like a cockroach - it never dies and keeps coming back. Someone always comes up with a way to use the copper in a new sort of a way. When we are all dreaming o...