Why Facebook Connect Matters & Why It Will Win
Facebook kicked off their second annual developer conference in San Francisco this afternoon with a keynote by founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The overproduced keynote, with too many words repeatedly ...
Full Text Of AOL Email: XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile And Bluestring To Shut Down
Below is the full text of the email AOL EVP Kevin Conroy sent out to staff on July 14, outlining the reorganization of his product groups and announcing the “sunsetting” of XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMob...
XM and SIRIUS Confirm Discussions to Settle FCC Enforcement Matters
WASHINGTON and NEW YORK, July 24, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: XMSR) and SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) today confirmed that t...
Apple beta testing iPhone 2.1 firmware, adding more GPS features
We just got word that Apple has released a beta version of iPhone OS 2.1 to developers. Along with the 2.1 firmware, a new version of the iPhone SDK has been seeded as well, but the new SDK can't be ...
Music industry to tax downloaders
£30 ‘licence fee’ set to revolutionise illegal file-sharing — Internet users could face an annual charge of up to £30 to download music, under plans to be unveiled today that aim to tackle illegal f...
Zimbra Releases Version 3 Of Open Source Email Client, And It's Awesome
Yahoo's Zimbra launches version 3 of its open source desktop email client this morning that is designed to compete with Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mac Mail, etc. This is a new iteration of their b...
AdMob Makes Mobile Ads Suck Less. Will Give Away One Million Dollars Worth of Ads To iPhone App Developers.
On the iPhone, even the ads are cool. Mobile advertising network AdMob is launching a whole new set of customized ads for iPhone apps. As CEO Omar Hamoui explains in the video above …
DNS exploit code is in the wild
As of Wednesday, an exploit code allowing someone to attack the domain name system (DNS) was available in various places on the Internet. — On July 8, IOActive researcher Dan Kaminsky disclosed a fl...
Microsoft looks to ‘Mojave’ to revive Vista's image
REDMOND, Wash.—After months of searching for ways to defend its oft-maligned Windows operating system, Microsoft may just have found its best weapon: Vista's skeptics. — Spurred by an e-mail from so...
Ballmer: Time to ante up online
Updated 10 a.m., with more details on spending plans — REDMOND, Wash.—In trying to explain Microsoft's continued decision to spend in its money-losing online services business, CEO Steve Ballmer lik...
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Hackers attack businesses, blogs and Web 2.0 sites, reveals Sophos Security Threat Report
Cybercrime gangs enlist the help of Blogspot, Facebook and Angelina Jolie in first half of 2008 — IT security and control firm Sophos has published new research into the first six months of cybercri...
3G iPhone Availability
DISCLAIMER: This page uses data from Apple's site that is retrieved every 15 minutes. — However, it does appear that Apple only updates the data every night at midnight PDT. — I strongly advise ca...
New Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Causes Chaos
Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Punishes Community Managers and Causes Follower Counts to Drop — Did you notice a big drop in your Twitter follower numbers yesterday? It seems that the Twitter team recently ...
Sprint to Sell Cellphone Towers, Use Money to Pay Down Debt
Sprint Nextel Corp. agreed to sell nearly all its cellphone towers to a private-equity-backed firm called TowerCo in a deal that will generate about $670 million in cash for the struggling wireless ca...
‘Spam King’ escapes from federal prison
Edward “Eddie” Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. — Davidson (left), also known as the “Spam ...
Sony opens e-book reader to outside publishers
Sony announced on Thursday that its Reader Digital Book will be able to read electronic books published using the .epub format that many of the largest book publishers are using. — Until now, Sony's...