iPhone 3G Unlocked with SIM Card Adapter
Just four days after its launch, the iPhone 3G has been unlocked for the first time exactly like the original iPhone: using a special card that piggybacks to your SIM card, fooling the phone into thin...
The New Apple Walled Garden
Geeks and enthusiasts wearing Wordpress t-shirts, using laptops covered in Data Portability, Microformats and RSS stickers lined up enthusiastically on Friday to purchase a device that is completely p...
The Law and Your Privacy: An Update
As we let you know on July 4, YouTube received a court order to produce viewing history data. We are pleased to report that Viacom, MTV and other litigants have backed off their original demand for a...
Kindle 2.0 Coming Around October 2008
An insider let slip that two new Amazon Kindle models will hit stores this holiday season, with the first coming as early as October. — The first is an updated version with the same sized screen, a ...
The backstory on Senate's Google-Yahoo hearing
The U.S. Senate is holding a hearing Tuesday on the antitrust implications of the Google-Yahoo ad deal, and the two companies, along with Microsoft, are testifying. You should expect sober, selfless ...
How Many Silicon Valley Startup Executives Are Hopped Up On Provigil?
Is someone you work with taking Provigil to give them an extra competitive edge? I've spoken with one executive who says he uses it regularly to work twenty hour days, and the buzz lately is that it'...
WordPress 2.6
I'm happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features tha...
Google Bucket Testing New Digg-Like Search Interface
Google has experimented with search features that let users vote on search results, and/or recommend other results than those given, since late 2007. They generally bucket test these features (meanin...
MicroHoo: Can We All Get Along? Um, No.
Another day, another round of internecine battling among the main players of the Internet's longest-running soap opera. — That would be Yahoo, Microsoft and Carl Icahn. — The trio are fighting ove...
“In their own words”: political videos meet Google speech-to-text technology
In this U.S. election year, what information could be more important than the candidates' own words to describe their views, actions and platforms? — Our teams have been working to develop tools to ...
Unpatched Windows PCs own3d in less than four minutes
An unpatched PC is likely to last just four minutes on the internet before been attacked and compromised. — The time it takes for a PC to get itself owned varies by operating system and what activit...
Dell said to be planning launch of low-cost notebook in August
Dell is planning to introduce a low-cost notebook in August to join the low-cost notebook market, according to the market sources. The notebook will be manufactured by Compal Electronics, according t...
S.F. officials locked out of computer network
(07-14) 19:23 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to deny access to top administra...
Intel's Quad-core Mobile Chip Coming Next Month
Intel will release it's first quad-core processor for laptops next month, rounding out a broad update to its mobile computing platform. — “We're bringing quad-core to mobile in August,” said Sujan K...
1200 Baud Archeology: Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape
The audio file that was posted two weeks ago is indeed a very important artifact of computer history: It is a recording of the “Apple I BASIC” cassette tape that came with the Apple I. It is the first...