The App Store's Exclusionary Policies
Fraser Speirs, developer of Exposure, the excellent Flickr client for the iPhone, has written an insightful piece regarding today's news that Apple rejected the iPhone podcast client Podcaster on the ...
Stuck in Google's Doghouse
A few days ago, Dan Savage had his lawyer send a nine-page, 4,000-word letter to the antitrust division of the Justice Department. Mr. Savage, 59, runs Sourcetool.com, a business-to-business Web site...
Spore: Most Pirated Game Ever Thanks to DRM
Spore was without doubt the most anticipated game of the year. The game itself has blown away the people who have played it, but the DRM encouraged thousands to get their copy illegally. Already Spo...
Alleged Carleton hacker faces criminal charges
A Carleton University student is facing criminal charges, accused of stealing user names, passwords, financial information and other data from 32 other students to expose security flaws in the univers...
Internet in the Sky: Surf but Don't Call
“THE nice thing about a long-haul flight is you've got time to do a lot of different things,” said Jack Blumenstein, the chief executive of Aircell. — True. You can read. You can watch the movie o...
Search engine Cuil is valued at absurdly high level of $200M, despite flop
Investors valued the new search engine company Cuil at a stratospheric level of $200 million post-money in December, during the company's second round of funding before the search engine launched.
HOW MUCH MONEY DOES IT TAKE TO BE A TECHCRUNCH50 FINALIST?
The answer is the zero, of course! Any company with a compelling enough idea can be chosen to present. However, financing plays factor into how well a company performs. Over the previous decade, th...
HTML 5 Won't Be Ready Until 2022. Yes, 2022.
If you're a web developer looking forward to the new tools in HTML 5, the next generation of the language that powers the web, we have some bad news for you — you're going to waiting a while. — Ian ...
Verisign Selling Moreover, Weblogs Assets
Verisign is exploring the sale of its Moreover and Weblogs assets, we've confirmed from a source with knowledge of the sale process. Both businesses were acquired in October 2005 - Moreover for an es...
Leica trots out D-LUX 4, C-LUX 3 and M8.2 digital cameras
We'll be straight with you — we're still struggling to wade through Google's machine translation of a few Polish releases, but the long of short of it is that Leica has finally announced the long-expe...
SpeedDate Hijacks Facebook Users With A Bait And Switch
SpeedDate, the online dating site that throws singles in a series of rapid dating sessions, has hijacked over 500,000 users from at least three Facebook applications. Users are logging on to Facebook...