This News Made Me Smile A Mile Wide
Like I do every morning, I logged into Techmeme to find this news: — That's an image, sorry about that, here's the link to the WSJ story, but I wanted you all to see how I heard the news. — This i...
Carol Bartz Joins Yahoo! as Chief Executive Officer
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), a leading global brand and one of the world's most trafficked Internet destinations, announced today that Carol Bartz, a veteran technology executive who was most recently E...
TSMC and UMC likely to receive orders for iPhone nano, says paper
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) will likely land chip orders for Apple's low-cost entry-level iPhone nano, the Chinese-language Economic...
iTunes Plus: Everything you need to know
Apple's iTunes Store is almost completely DRM-free, and will be entirely DRM-free from spring. This means files downloaded from iTunes work on heaps of devices that aren't from Apple. What better wa...
Sony may suffer first loss in 14 years
Slumping sales, strong yen expected to weigh on electronics giant's annual results. Stock sinks 9%. — TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan's Sony Corp will likely suffer an annual operating loss of about $1.1 b...
Confirmed: Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Joins Google
We've confirmed that Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious and a Yahoo exec until June 2008, joins a number of ex-Yahoo'ers at cross-town rival Google. In a phone call Schachter says he hasn't b...
Disclosure of information vulnerability in Safari
I have discovered that Apple's Safari browser is vulnerable to an attack that allows a malicious web site to read files on a user's hard drive without user intervention. This can be used to gain acce...
Obama's new BlackBerry: The NSA's secure PDA?
President-elect Barack Obama checks his BlackBerry while riding on his campaign bus in Pennsylvania last March. — (Credit: Pete Souza/ Rapport Press ) — Bill Clinton sent only two e-mail messages ...
Social Networking: Will Facebook Overtake MySpace In The U.S. In 2009?
Year end Comscore numbers for the U.S. audience are out. The first thing we checked? How the major social networks are doing. — Facebook, which became the largest worldwide social network in mid 2...
Privacy Groups Target Android, Mobile Marketers
In a complaint to federal regulators, activists take on the nascent phone-based ad industry. — Amid the buzz surrounding the launch of Google's Android mobile platform last September, the search gia...
New York Court Dismisses Amazon's Objections To Paying State Taxes
Remember the Amazon Tax? Back in April, the New York State legislature passed a bill requiring Amazon to collect taxes from New York State residents even though it doesn't have a physical presence in...
How Would You Like Your Own, Personal iPhone App?
From InfoMedia, the makers of iFart (an odd reference point, I know, but they obviously know something about creating a popular iPhone app) comes an interesting concept. — CEO of InfoMedia Joel Comm...
Virus writer signs off in cordial Trojan message to MS
So long, and thanks for all the phish — An unidentified Russian virus writer has reached out to Microsoft with a message buried within a recent variant of the Zlob Trojan. The greeting in the malic...
Mashups changing the face of copyright laws
User-generated mashups are changing the face of copyright laws, which have to evolve to catch up with the Internet generation, said Mary Wong, an expert on intellectual property (IP). — The professo...
Search Without Effort: The Quick Search Box
One of our goals at Google is to make your search experience as fluid as possible. While much of our work is focused on Google.com, we're trying to make it just as easy to search outside your browser...
Mobile Payments Getting Traction On Social Networks, But Fees Are Sky High
Users are increasingly choosing dead simple SMS mobile payments for micro-transactions on social network applications and gaming sites (it fills the void while they wait for more direct options), but ...
Digital rights war looms ahead
The future of digital entertainment rights could turn into a battleground for control in the coming months. — In one corner is Apple, the largest music retailer in the United States. — And in the ...
HTC Iolite leaks again; This time we have a bigger picture
Ladies and gents, we have a better picture of the upcoming HTC Iolite. As you can see from the image above, the device looks pretty neat with that large touchscreen and only few buttons. What we don...
Did CNN Live Snub Twitter in Favor of Facebook?
CNN and Facebook are partnering to bring you live Inauguration coverage intermixed with Facebook status updates from your friends. It's a neat idea that we happen to love, but with Twitter becoming t...
Hardware Hacker Charged With Selling Cable Modems That Get Free Broadband — Update
Update — In the first case of its kind, a Pennsylvania man faces federal criminal charges for allegedly selling hacked cable modems capable of stealing free, anonymous internet service from broadband...
Danish SWAT team surrounds PlayStation shoot-'em-up
Apartment block ‘gunfire’ incident — A couple of Danish gamers indulging in some light PlayStation shoot-'em-up action were on Saturday night treated to a visit by uniformed blokes carrying real gun...
Could World of Warcraft be a College Class?
If World of Warcraft were a college course, would you enroll? David Friedman, an academic economist “who teaches at a law school and has never taken a course for credit in either field” hopes so. He...