FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects
Screen snapshot: This now-defunct site is reportedly where an FBI undercover agent posted hyperlinks purporting to be illegal videos. Clicking the links brought a raid from the Feds. — The FBI has ...
A Push to Limit the Tracking of Web Surfers' Clicks
AFTER reading about how Internet companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo collect information about people online and use it for targeted advertising, one New York assemblyman said there ought to be...
Gartner Changes Its Enterprise iPhone Recommendations
The iPhone will soon be tailored for enterprises. Gartner recommends “appliance-level” support status once firmware 2.0 and improvements are released. iPhone will become a popular tool alongside Blac...
HTC Calls Android Phone Dream, Feels Like One Already
More details of HTC's Google phone are emerging, it seems. The handset is to be called “Dream”, will be touchscreen and have a large QWERTY keypad. So, what else do we know? And, more importantly, ...
How Leander Kahney Got Everything Wrong by Being a F**king Jackass
A decade ago, Wired was my favorite magazine. Today, they print mind-numbing tripe like Leander Kahney's 3,500-word cover story, “How Apple Got Everything Right by Doing Everything Wrong”.
BoomTown Decodes TechCrunch's Dream Team Memo (So You Don't Have To)
So what prompted TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington to pen a pugnacious piece on how blogs should not be raising so much venture capital and instead roll themselves into a “Dream Team,” with the unus...
E-voting vendor blocks security audit with legal threats
New Jersey election officials have scrapped plans for an independent audit of Union County voting machines because the vendor, Sequoia Voting Systems, says that unauthorized third-party security revie...
The Experts vs. the Amateurs: A Tug of War over the Future of Media
A tug of war over the future of media may be brewing between so-called user-generated content — including amateurs who produce blogs, video and audio for public consumption — and professional journali...
Of All The Reasons To Say No To Internet Voting, Wouldn't Porn And Beer Be Near The End Of The List?
There are many, many reasons to be against the idea of allowing political voting via the internet, starting with questions about the security, accuracy and reliability of the technology.
Vista SP1 collateral damage not as bad as I had expected
On Tuesday Microsoft opened the door on Windows Vista SP1. This is a landmark occasion because it marks a transition from where only a select few have had access to the software to where “everyone” c...
Diigo 3.0: The all-powerful personal and social bookmarking service
I was impressed by the preview I got in September of the bookmarking and Web annotation tool Diigo 3.0. It's taken the company until this morning to release this version to the public. In the interi...
AMD makes massive layoffs
Five per cent cull — AMD IS QUIETLY cutting five per cent of its workforce. Pink slips have been handed out now. The cuts are going to be across the board, not targeted at any specific group. — ...
PS3 firmware 2.20 bringing BD-Live interactive Blu-ray this month
The Blu-ray 2.0 spec (or BD-Live) is just days from launch. Sony just announced that the next PlayStation3 firmware updated — v2.20 — will add the new interactive features to your PS3.