Apple Planning Video-Call iPhone
Recent stories on Apple's iPhone patent have focused on Cupertino's threatened legal action against Palm, which is launching the iPhone-like Pre smartphone. But a closer examination of the Apple pate...
Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video
Four executives of Google begin trial Tuesday in Milan on criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation in regard to a video posted on Google's Italian site. — The case involves a three-minut...
Google Earth, Google Ocean: mysteries of the seafloor are mapped for the first time
Since Google Earth launched in 2006 millions of people have used its virtual globe to “travel” around the planet without leaving home, climbing a digital version of Mount Everest and even flying into...
Tasks: Paper vs. iPhone
Among the world's leading productivity tools is an advanced technology known as paper. Many of the world's top corporations and most active internet users have adopted paper as a method of organizing...
Passport RFIDs cloned wholesale by $250 eBay auction spree
Video demo shows you how — Using inexpensive off-the-shelf components, an information security expert has built a mobile platform that can clone large numbers of the unique electronic identifiers us...
Crackulous Allows for App Store Piracy
Crackulous, a program for pirating apps from the iPhone App Store, was just released. Great for cheapskates, terrible for independent developers trying to make a living. Updated: 4:35pm — You'll n...
Revver and Pageflakes go dark for days
Both the video-sharing site Revver and the personalized start page service Pageflakes have been down since last Thursday, January 29. As of this writing, that is more than three-and-a-half days of st...
Despite iTunes Accord, Music Labels Still Fret
Last month the music industry and Apple, long uneasy partners, seemed a picture of harmony when they agreed on new terms for pricing on iTunes, Apple's online music store. — Behind the scenes, howev...
Google's flub: Do we have a Web monoculture too?
Google had a rough weekend and a human error caused the search giant to list the entire Web as malware for an hour or so. The screw-up is likely to raise questions about the risks of having a monocul...
Samsung to present the world's first 12MP phone at MWC 2009
Samsung was the first manufacturer to release an 8MP camera phone (the Innov8, outed one month before Sony Ericsson's C905), and it looks like it will also be the first to announce and launch a 12MP h...
E3 Expo attempting return to former glory with 2009 show
The Entertainment Software Association is getting the word out: E3 2009 is going to be big. With Activision confirmed for booth space, press attendance no longer invitation-only, and nearly every lar...
Analyst now says iMacs likely in both dual- and quad-core
A Wall Street analyst who recently reported that Apple was torn between using dual-core processors and quad-core processors in its next-generation iMac line now believes the company will adopt both.
Google: “We're Not Doing a Good Job with Structured Data”
During a talk at the New England Database Day conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Google's Alon Halevy admitted that the search giant has “not been doing a good job” presenting th...
Layoffs mean more than lost wages for H-1B visa holders
For the two out-of-work engineers, it's a race against time. They've lost their Silicon Valley jobs and need to quickly find others at a time when companies everywhere are tightening their belts. — ...
Black hats poison Google video search
Game for a hack — Miscreants have poisoned Google Video search results in a bid to trick the unwary into getting infected with malware. — Instead of video clips, researchers at Trend Micro discove...
Suggest to Techmeme Button
Techmeme is an essential news discovery tool for me. It replaced my RSS reader and the totally unmanageable list of blog feeds that came with it years ago, and now I'd estimate that at least 95% of t...
Want a Wireless Plan with Your Netbook?
PC makers and telcos are pairing up to offer discounted devices with wireless data plans, but success could come at the expense of feature-laden phones — Stripped-down computers known as netbooks ha...
Porn interrupts Super Bowl broadcast in Tucson
Tucsonans watching the Super Bowl got more action than they bargained for when a short clip from an adult movie channel interrupted Comcast's feed with full male nudity during the final moments of the...
Scoring The Superbowl Ads & Search: Do Broadcast Marketers Get Online Acquisition?
Way back in 2007, an iProspect/Jupiter Research study found that two-thirds of those online are motivated to search online due to an offline channel such as a TV ad. Since 2007 was an eternity ago in...
While in Korea download a 120-minute film in just 12 seconds!
Korea is to acquire the world's fastest wired and wireless Internet service at 10 times the speed of the current service by 2012. The government and the communications industry plan to invest some W3...
Windows XP still powering 71 percent of business PCs
More than two years after the Windows Vista launch, XP is still the dominant business PC operating system in North America and Europe. — Windows Vista “finally appears ready to dethrone XP” as the o...
Searches for e-books double
Over the last year UK interest in e-books has grown significantly, with searches for ‘ebooks’ doubling between January 2008 and 2009. There are four main e-book readers currently available: the Amazo...
Big Websites Start Small
It is easy to forget that the big popular sites were once small too. — The first version of Digg cost $200 to build and launch. — After Kevin Rose came up with the idea back in 2004 he found Owen ...
ASUS Eee PC 1000HE Atom N280 netbook up for preorder
ASUS have announced their latest netbook, the Eee PC 1000HE complete with Intel's Atom N280 processor. As well as the 1.66GHz CPU and HD-capable Intel GD40 chipset, the 1000HE has a 10-inch LED-backl...
Little laptops that couldn't
All our stuff is made of dreams, and all technological accomplishments rest on an initial imaginative leap. So tomorrow, in Tirupati, land of miracles, India will unveil a ten-dollar laptop. Develop...