Facebook Founder Says “Beacon” Needs Work
Also Tells 60 Minutes It's Unlikely Company Will Go Public in 2008 — (CBS) The controversial advertising device many accused of invading the privacy of Facebook users will eventually be a good tool,...
Can Apple save WiMax?
Our sources tell us that Apple may include WiMax, the high-speed, long-range wireless broadband technology, in an ultraportable 13" notebook computer, and possibly across the entire MacBook Pro line. ...
Steve Jobs' Video Dreams
His magic has not extended to visual entertainment. Hollywood and cable companies aim to keep it that way — At last year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, most of the 140,000 attendees were...
Controversial ‘iPod tax’ struck down on appeal
A proposed levy on digital music players that became known this summer as the “iPod tax” has been struck down after opponents argued it was unfair to Canadians. — The Federal Court of Appeal has rul...
CEA'S TAKE ON CES GIZMODO PRANK: BANNED!
In reaction to “Gizmodogate,” the gadget blog's prank of shutting down flat-screen displays on the show floor and during demos at CES (see Bloggers behaving badly), the conference's organizer, the Con...
Screw Winning The Lottery - Just Make a Facebook App and Get Your Millions Now!
How many times have we heard, “all it takes is a dollar and a dream"? This phrase seems to always follow a commercial for the lottery. Of course the odds are that there's no chance in hell of you wi...
Benchmark Bets on Ruby on Rails With $3.5 Million Investment in Engine Yard
Is Ruby on Rails the next Java? Benchmark Capital thinks so. It just invested $3.5 million in Engine Yard, taking its entire series A round. Ruby on Rails is an increasingly popular Web application...
The Problem With Mashable's Podcasters
Mark Hopkins at Mashable has penned an new variation on the podcasting doom and gloom story, in response to the recent news that Wizzard Media served up 1 billion podcasts in 2007. — Hopkins acknowl...
Raikes and Other Exits
Well, I should be sweating to the 80's soundtrack at the ProClub with about half of Microsoft that's trying to squeeze in there for January to burn off Christmas cookies, but here everyday that passes...
Warning on stealthy Windows virus
Security experts are warning about a stealthy Windows virus that steals login details for online bank accounts. — In the last month, the malicious program has racked up about 5,000 victims - most of...
MicroHoo? YaBay? No Deal!
Look, I love a good takeover rumor as much as the next gossipy reporter. — But all the incessant rumblings of Microsoft sniffing around to buy Yahoo or Yahoo merging with eBay are getting a tad ridi...
Windows Vista, Office 2007 Expelled From British Schools
A British educational report suggests the upgrade would increase costs and create software compatibility problems while providing little benefit. — The agency that governs educational technology in ...
UK gov't report: Don't upgrade to Vista
San Francisco - British schools should not upgrade to Microsoft's Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity suite, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) said i...
Unlike Trent Reznor, Saul Williams isn't disheartened
Saul Williams chuckles when asked about the word “disheartening." — That's the word Trent Reznor chose to describe the sales generated by William's new album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of N...
Print Yellow Pages Likely To Bleed More Dollars Online
THIS YEAR WILL BE PIVOTAL for the global Yellow Pages industry, according to a new report by The Kelsey Group. — Much like newspapers, print Yellow Pages will continue to bleed dollars to their vari...
Macworld Expo 2008 Keynote Live Coverage: Web, SMS, iPhone
With Macworld San Francisco Expo less than a week away, MacRumors is gearing up to travel to San Francisco to cover the event with our traditional MacRumorsLive keynote coverage as well as expanded fl...
Under pressure from EMI, RIAA could disappear
Is the RIAA as we know it about to disappear? As rumors continue to swirl that EMI will pull its funding from music trade groups like the RIAA and IFPI, an IFPI spokesman tells Ars that the group is ...
AIM® 6.8 Beta
Our first AIM 6.8 Beta build is now available for download! — Welcome AIM Beta testers. The next version of AIM is ready for your feedback, AIM 6.8. This version includes our new Real-Time IM feat...
Will someone please start a Facebook group to save Scrabulous?
I can't tell if Hasbro (HAS), the maker of Scrabble, is the smartest company in the world or the dumbest. Over 100 million sets of the game have been sold in 121 countries, in 29 different languages,...
Search, No Longer the Main Feature of Google Desktop
If you install the latest version of Google Desktop for Windows, you'll notice a new dialog that presents a list of features and lets you select the ones you want. Google Desktop enables by default t...
Macworld.Ars: First banner up at Moscone Center
Appleologists, train your furrowed brows on the first banners up at Macworld 2008. As the work crews set up this morning, Moscone South has the first hint of what is to come. — What could be in the...
iGoogle for iPhone
Google created a version of iGoogle optimized for iPhone, that displays all the gadgets and feeds from tab in a single column. To switch to another tab, choose a name from the drop-down displayed at ...
Sun Plans To Close Its Data Centers
For a company that sells and manages servers, Sun Microsystems is in the midst of an unexpected move: getting rid of its own server farms. — In a blog post Thursday, Sun's (nasdaq: JAVA - news - peo...
Macworld Rumor: Mac Tablet Not Coming This Year, First Macworld Spyshots Appear
Apple Insider has sources who say the Newton-esque tablets Apple are working on will not be announced at Macworld 2008. The unnamed tipsters say there are challenges in the development stages similar...
Gizmodogate: Get a sense of humor folks
Gizmodo turns off a bunch of TVs at CES to liven the joint up and you'd think that their scribes lit Bill Gates on fire for the page views. — The angst over Gizmodo's hilarious prank is borderline r...
SlingPlayer for iPhone and iPod Touch?
ElectricPig.tv claims (via 9to5) they have an “extremely senior source” at Sling Media who says that an iPhone/iPod Touch version of their SlingPlayer client software is coming. — Sling Media sells ...
Showdown Looms Over Pirated-Media Directory
Swedish Prosecutors Target Organizers of Pirate Bay, A Huge File-Sharing Guide — One of Hollywood's biggest foes is about to be called on the carpet. After years of steering Web surfers to free ent...
Zero-Day Exploit For Apple's QuickTime Posted
The vulnerability affects both Windows and Mac OS X versions of Apple's QuickTime software. — An Italian security researcher has posted a proof-of-concept exploit for a zero-day vulnerability in the...
Why Google, Yahoo and Microsoft should worry about Countrywide's takeover
Update: Countrywide Financial is being acquired by Bank of America and when the deal closes the second largest Web advertiser will disappear. It's highly unlikely that Bank of America will spend so l...
Facebook for journalists
I was asked to compile a guide for reporters to using Facebook and the social web in general. My response is below. Does anybody have any tips they would like to share? — Not everyone in Facebook ...
Yell Shares Rise on Renewed Speculation About Bid by Google
Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) — Yell Group Plc, the publisher of the U.K.'s Yellow Pages phone books, had its biggest gain in London trading in a month on speculation about a bid from Google Inc. — Yell rose ...