Facebook disabled my account
If you are trying to contact me on Facebook, please don't. My account has been “disabled” for breaking Facebook's Terms of Use. I was running a script that got them to keep me from accessing my acco...
Should Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook?
Apparently Facebook will ban you (or at least Robert Scoble) if you attempt to extract your friend's email addresses from the service. — Automated access is a difficult issue for any web service, so...
Apple Docking Patent Works Perfectly with Ultra-Slim MacBook
This Apple docking station patent shows a screen base in which you can slide in a MacBook through its side. While this would be difficult to do with current MacBook models, it fits perfectly with the...
Microsoft charges customers for free services
Thousands of customers are paying almost $120 USD per year to Microsoft for an Internet subscription service that includes e-mail, security, and other features. — But Microsoft gives away almost ide...
LG Electronics and Netflix Announce Plan to Stream Movies From the Internet to the TV
Netflix Inc., the world's largest online movie rental service, and LG Electronics, a global consumer electronics leader, today announced they are joining forces to develop a set-top box for consumers ...
Macworld 2008 Prediction: Apple's MacBook Plus Tablet Laptop
In his biweekly trends column, PM's senior tech editor forecasts what he thinks Steve Jobs will show the computer world at this year's Apple developers conference: a touchscreen “MacBook Plus” to ente...
A Heart-to-Heart with GigaOM Readers
Happy New Year. As you may have noticed, my byline hasn't been up on the site for a few days. That's because the holidays weren't exactly my most jolly. — I had a heart attack on Dec. 28. I was a...
Chinese googlers searching for money
“Sex” was the keyword most frequently used by Internet users on Google in Egypt, India and Turkey, the search engine giant said a couple of months ago. — But on the Chinese mainland, it was money an...
Next iPhone software update to allow copy-paste
Apple will release an iPhone software update during MacWorld Expo 2008, well informed sources confirmed MacScoop. But it appears that the unpolished iPhone sofware version recently leaked on the Inte...
Apple developing dynamic OLED-based keyboard
Apple Inc. in a new patent filing proposes to solve the ages-old problem of having to manufacture distinct keyboards to support the various alphabets and key arrangements of foreign countries by devel...
Dell Crystal LCD Monitor
This is Dell's new fancy monitor, the “Dell Crystal LCD." I applaud Dell's willingness to put this one to market. Its design certainly makes a statement. — Here's why you shouldn't buy it: It's on...
The Mozilla / Firefox IPO
How much is the entity that manages the Microsoft IE-killing browser Firefox worth, and when will it go public? Answers: 1) A lot, and 2) Probably this year or next. — Background: — In the past f...
LG Electronics and Netflix Announce Plan to Stream Movies From the Internet to the TV
LOS GATOS, Calif. and ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), the world's largest online movie rental service, and LG Electronics, a global consumer electronics le...
Ask.com for Directions, Do the Cha-Cha When Mobile
Ask.com offers free voice-activated location services while Cha-Cha lets you text questions to get human-aided answers. — Ask.com and ChaCha Search on Jan. 3 introduced free search services to make ...
Corsair announces 32GB Flash Voyager / Flash Survivor drives
Not that 32GB flash drives are revolutionary or anything, but they're pretty far from being old hat. Thankfully, Corsair is readying a new pair to be unveiled at CES, both of which will boast USB 2. ...
Surprise! Barack Obama, Ron Paul win MySpace ‘primaries’
Iowa what? — Amid the frenzied press coverage over Thursday's too-close-to-call caucuses in the Hawkeye State, 153,226 MySpace.com users have already cast their (unofficial) votes. — In a set of “...
Yet another Dialog Spoofing - Firefox Basic Authentication
Summary — Mozilla Firefox allows spoofing the information presented in the basic authentication dialog box. This can allow an attacker to conduct phishing attacks, by tricking the user to believe t...
Office 2003 update blocks older file formats
The latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2003 has made a range of older files inaccessible, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, it emerged this week. — Off...
Antitrust Lawsuit Charges Apple With Monopolizing Online Music
The complaint takes issue with Apple's refusal to support the Windows Media Audio format. — An antitrust lawsuit filed against Apple on Dec. 31 charges the company with maintaining an illegal monopo...
iSteamy Converts iPhone in Handheld Porn Powerhouse (Extremely NSFW)
Here's our Extremely Not Safe For Work video review of iSteamy, a software program designed to easily browse porn on your iPhone, complete with category-based picture, video and audio navigation and a...
Facebook Widget Installing Spyware
Fortinet Global Security Research Team discovered a malicious Facebook Widget (officially, a “Platform Application") actively spreading on the social networking site which ultimately prompts users to ...
Coming soon: A notebook with a terabyte
It's the notebook for neurotics. — Asus, the Taiwanese computer maker, will come out with a notebook that sports two 500GB hard drives from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Combined, this will ...
The big switch may turn off jobs
Computing is now a resource like electricity - but where the arrival of grid power expanded the middle classes, the internet is making fewer people richer, says Nick Carr — A hundred years ago, a ne...
Apple set to ship Macs with Blu-ray support - report
Apple Inc. at this month's Macworld Expo will will outline a high-definition video strategy that will see its weight thrown further behind Sony Corp's Blu-ray DVD format as opposed to Toshiba's HD-DVD...
Cyber thieves target social sites
Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — Social sites are already being targeted by hi-tech thieves — It is not just the average net user who is a fan of social network sites, so are hi-tech c...
Exclusive: Microsoft to Push Silverlight via Redesigned Homepage
Several months ago, Microsoft inserted themselves into the RIA framework business - years too late and against pretty scary odds - with the initial release of the Silverlight framework. Microsoft Sil...
Lenovo lets loose three IdeaPads
Ever since my conversion into the Apple race, I tend to shake my head at other notebook manufacturers and think their hardware isn't as nice or pretty or whatever. I obviously come to my senses short...
Motorola's Mobile TV DH01 to Deliver Personalized TV and Multimedia Entertainment on the Go
Enabling service for consumers to watch their favorite live, on-demand and recorded programs, wherever and whenever they want — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT - News) announced a significant advancement ...
Speak Up and Give Your Thumbs A REST: Ask.com Mobile Launches Speech-Activated Mobile Driving and Walking Directions
New Voice-Enabled ‘Click to Speak’ Directions is a Search Engine First — Ask.com today introduced free(1) voice-activated capabilities to its Ask.com Mobile Directions service …
Outages caused by raccoons, thieves and random gunfire
A couple of months ago, one of Rackspace's data centers ran into trouble when a truck crashed into a power transformer and caused a major power outage. In general, power outages are a frequent cause ...
Why Search?
I've gone and founded a search startup... you can read it about it in this write-up in TechCrunch. But I get asked - why do search? — Simple - the idea that the current state-of-the-art in search i...
Net users are becoming their own reputation managers
Posted by Tim Leberecht Post a comment — With everyone becoming a producer in the YouTube age, self-branding ("The Brand Called You") has evolved from a fancy to a necessity. — Andy Warhol's 15 mi...