Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw
Google's shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks. — Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researche...
Google on Chrome EULA controversy: our bad, we'll change it
Google's new web browser Chrome is fast, shiny, and requires users to sign their very lives over to Google before they can use it. Today's Internet outrage du jour has been Chrome's EULA, which appea...
Facebook Ads Target You Where It Hurts
Maybe it's my age, my sex or the fact that it knew I was engaged, but the site decided I was a gal who needed to drop a few pounds. And it wasn't shy about its tactics. — This was not a close frien...
Firefox counters Google's browser speed test
Mozilla fought back on Wednesday with some performance results to show a forthcoming version of Firefox outpacing Google's new Web browser, Chrome. — During a launch event Tuesday, Google was eager ...
Dell to Offer ‘Netbook’
Dell Inc. will soon introduce a mininotebook computer, people familiar with the matter said, entering into a fast-growing market for inexpensive, no-frills portables that offer Internet capabilities a...
News: iPod nano 4G, touch 2G dimensions revealed?
iPod nano 4G, touch 2G dimensions revealed? — Confirming details first reported by iLounge in July, apparent dimensional drawings for both the fourth-generation iPod nano and second-generation iPod ...
Highly anticipated Nokia N96 begins shipping
The Nokia N96 offers the most personalized mobile internet experience to date — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced the availability of the much anticipated Nokia N96, its flagship multimedia com...
Service call gone awry leads to playwright's arrest
It's a story as old as the Internet. — You fire up your Web browser and all you get is some cryptic error message. — Try as you might, jiggling wires, pulling plugs and tossing keyboards, the Inte...
Apple, AT&T sued for over-saturating 3G network with iPhones
A San Diego-based lawsuit filed late last week alleges that Apple and its carrier partner AT&T have knowingly oversold iPhone 3G, promising fast speeds only to see a glut of customers bog down the net...
Sony Unveils Blu-Ray Fall Lineup
TOKYO — Sony Corp. showed its fall lineup of Blu-ray disc players and recorders, as it prepares for its first holiday season after winning the next-generation format battle against HD DVD. — The Jap...
Michael Dell: Telcos may subsidize netbooks to sell 3G
Dell CEO Michael Dell said he expects netbooks to eventually be subsidized by wireless telecom carriers that would sell the devices along with 3G service. — The comments, made at the Citigroup Techn...
iPhone Users Greeted With Morning Outage - AT&T users reporting morning data connectivity problems...
Want On The Digg Home Page? That'll Be $1,200.
InvespBlog has published what it claims is an interview with a top Digg user - someone who has a 34% success ratio in getting submitted stories to the home page of Digg. The Digg user isn't named - h...
Sony Ericsson Xperia™ X1 panel interface puts the user at the heart of the mobile experience
03 September 2008 New Sony Ericsson Software Developers Kit (SDK) brings the Xperia™ X1 eco-system to life by offering mobile users choice and customisation
iTunes 8 with “Genius” recommendations, a new visualizer and HD TV shows?
The next version of iTunes, version 8, is set to launch on Tuesday with a few new features, a tipster tells Digg founder Kevin Rose. Normally, I'd be skeptical of such a rumor, but Rose did nail the ...
Enhancing Your IFrame-based Applications
Based on developer requests for greater flexibility and for better performance, we've added a number of new features for iframe canvas pages that provide them with much of the functionality previously...
Microsoft's Google Docs competitor to go final by year-end
Microsoft is preparing to move Office Live Workspace, the online storage/collaboration service adjunct to Office, from beta to final before the end of this year. — Microsoft officials said on Septem...
Gannett acquires a majority stake in CareerBuilder from Tribune Company
McLEAN, VA and CHICAGO, IL - Gannett and Tribune Company announced today that Gannett has acquired an additional 10 percent stake in CareerBuilder from Tribune for $135 million. The acquisition gives...
Hell freezes over, new DirecTV HD TiVo on the way
We had to pinch ourselves and check to see if it was April 1st, because after three years of hearing TiVo fans complain that DirecTV killed off the HD DirecTV TiVo on its move to MPEG4, the satellite ...
There.com to add Mac support and Facebook plug-in
The virtual world, There.com, appears ready to reach for some new and broad audiences, announcing Tuesday night that it would finally be offering support for Mac OS X, as well as a new Facebook plug-i...
Five enterprise apps for the iPhone
Since the launch of Apple's App Store, a steady stream of business-oriented applications has flooded in for iPhone users. Most of the developers are independent third-party start-ups, but big-name so...
The “New” Facebook: Learning From Old Mistakes
A few weeks ago, I logged on to Facebook to see if any of my friends had dared to challenge me in another game of word twist. As was expected, due to my unprecedented dominance in the game, no one ha...
Yahoo extends portal pact with Verizon; Stock still in purgatory
Verizon and Yahoo said Wednesday that they have re-upped a portal deal that began in 2005. — Under a new multiyear agreement (statement), a custom Verizon-Yahoo portal will be offered to all new sub...
Comcast Introduces Video *Download* Beta
Comcast's Fancast property has recently expanded from solely streaming (Hulu) web video, to offering Internet video downloads. Joining the likes of Amazon Unbox, CinemaNow, and Blockbuster the Fancas...
Apple Could ‘Rock’ Cheaper iPods
Steve Jobs isn't even bothering to hide it this time. Apple has invited the press to a “special event” on Sept. 9. And while the tech giant isn't saying, exactly, what it will announce, any journali...
Adobe set to take the wraps off Creative Suite 4.0
Adobe plans to offer its customers the first overview of Creative Suite 4.0 later this month and could be ready to deliver the software to market as early as this fall, according to those close to the...
Gannett Pays Tribune $135 Million To Acquire Majority Stake In CareerBuilder
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) has acquired an additional 10 percent stake in CareerBuilder from the troubled Tribune for $135 million. That gives Gannett a 50.8 percent controlling interest in the online jobs ...
What exaflood? 'Net backbone shows no signs of osteoporosis
Given recent media coverage, it's easy to believe that P2P and streaming video traffic is a rising hurricane battering upon ISP levees, that ISPs are frantically sandbagging their systems against disa...