Ex-Fannie Mae worker charged with planting computer virus
A fired Fannie Mae contract employee allegedly placed a virus in the mortgage giant's software that could have shut the company down for at least a week and caused millions of dollars in damage, prose...
The Eye of the (BlackBerry) Storm
iSuppli took apart Research In Motion's BlackBerry Storm to determine the cost of its components. Guess what? The iPhone parts are cheaper — As the battle for the smartphone market heats up, compa...
iTunes Plus upgrades go à la carte
If you've been skipping the daily double-wet-cappuccino in order to save enough money to upgrade your iTunes library to the DRM-free iTunes Plus format, you can put coffee back on the menu. Apple has...
Rumour: Apple planning $19.99 games section on App Store
But only with a restricted number of publishers — Product: — Manufacturer: — Apple is planning to introduce a premium games section to its App Store where it will sell a range of iPhone games fo...
New arrivals in the world's most successful mobile phone range
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced the Nokia 6700 classic, the Nokia 6303 classic and the Nokia 2700 classic, three devices that build on the formula that made Nokia the world leader in mobile pho...
Windows 7: A Clarification on XP Upgrades
A number of commenters on my column on Windows 7 expressed dismay that Microsoft does not plan to provide an upgrade path from XP. I want to clarify just what that means, since I seem to have caused ...
AT&T Samsung Propel Pro in the concrete jungle
Hmm... so we've got an update to the Samsung Propel, have we? More or less, yes, this is as we're told, the Samsung Propel Pro and it brings pro-level features with it. Things like Windows Mobile 6....
Chrome, Firefox face clickjacking
Security researchers have discovered a flaw affecting Google's Chrome browser that exposes it to “clickjacking”—in which an attacker hijacks a browser's functions by substituting a legitimate link wit...
Flash and AIR: Record downloads, winning platform race
Adobe Flash, the company's platform for web applications and video, is already on virtually every computer everywhere, but the latest version is on an even faster track to world domination. Flash Pla...
ComScore Report: Fastest-Growing Sites And Top-Ten Advertising Magnets
Of the top 100 sites on the Web, which ones grew the fastest in 2008? In a report it is preparing to release tomorrow, The comScore 2008 Digital Year In Review (which you can sign up for here), comSc...
YouTube Close to Video Deal for Pro Talent
YouTube and the William Morris Agency, the Hollywood talent agency, are close to signing a deal that would place the company's clients in made-for-the-Web productions. — The deal would underscore th...
i-mate to unveil new revolutionary Windows Mobile phone at Mobile World Congress 2009 next month
i-mate is alive and kicking! … Note: we will be at MWC 2009 on location, and we will bring first-hand reports from the i-mate! Since by now i-mate has been releasing several Windows Mobile phones …
Nintendo cuts profit forecast by 33 per cent
Nintendo, the maker of the Wii games console and the favourite safe-haven share on the Tokyo stock exchange, has stunned the market with a 33 per cent cut to its full-year profit forecasts. — Analys...
Looking toward EveryBlock's future
It's been a year and a half now since I've started working on EveryBlock, and I'm still having the time of my life. Starting from scratch in July 2007, our team of six has built a one-of-a-kind local...
Microsoft SongSmith: Flawed music software produces comedy gold
A lounge jazz version of Radiohead's Creep. The Police's Roxanne reworked with a reggae beat. Eye of the Tiger as a lo-fi love song. These are just a few of the hilarious cover versions of famous s...
Acer plans Linux, SSD version of 10-inch netbook
Acer has confirmed it plans to release a Linux version of its 10-inch Aspire One netbook, even though its initial announcement of the upcoming machine said it would be Windows XP-only. — Acer announ...
Google Gobbled Up 90 Percent Of All U.S. Search Growth In 2008
Google ended the year with 63.5 percent market share of all search queries performed in the U.S., estimates comScore. And that market share has inched up steadily from 58.5 percent in January, 2008.
Don't ever use Google Apps for anything important
Here's why you should never use Google Apps for your domain paid or unpaid. — I started using the free version Google Apps a little over a year ago for one of our intranets. Luckily it was an intra...
Friends, Until I Delete You
“UNFRIENDER” Rachel Heavers, with her daughter, Ellen, removed a lifelong pal in “a hormonal moment.” Now she says, “I really, really regret it.” During the “Whopper Sacrifice,” 234,000 people were ...
We Live in Public (and the end of empathy)
This was an email to my private list which you can signup for at — Listen To This While Reading: Love Theme from Blade Runner — I've been thinking about empathy and the Internet non-stop for the p...
Social ad network Social Media gets funding boost, after strong year
Social Media, a new-fangled advertising network for applications on Facebook and other “social media” sites, has raised a second round of $6 million from IDG Ventures and existing investor Charles Riv...
AdMob Raises $12.5 Million in Series C Extension Round
I'm happy to announce that we've secured an additional $12.5 million in a Series C extension round of funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson's (DFJ) Growth Fund and Northgate Capital. This gives us a c...
AT&T Slows U-Verse Build Out - Will hit 30 million homes passed by 2011, a year later than previously planned
Buried in yesterday's AT&T earnings (kind of like their vanilla DSL subscriber numbers) was the fact that the telco will be slowing their deployment of U-Verse.
Obama Gets a Google Vet-But Not for CTO
Barack Obama has yet to announce who his chief technology officer will be. But he has hired a Silicon Valley exec for another role: Google product manager Katie Jacobs Stanton will be the new Preside...
Google Updates Privacy Policy
This may slightly concern privacy advocates who continue to worry about Google storing too much data about their users. — Google today updated their privacy policy document and it now says that, in ...
Kodak Reports Preliminary 4th Quarter 2008 Results; Company Taking Action to Address Impact of Global Recession
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK - News): — 4th-Quarter Sales Decline to $2.433 Billion; Company Holds or Grows Market Share in Key Businesses;