Opportunity Knocks
Twitter is growing at a phenomenal rate. Active users have increased 900% in a year and even though our web traffic is amazing, we see twice that traffic to the APIs. Interacting with Twitter over S...
Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal
Jailbreaking an iPhone constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation, says Apple in comments filed with the Copyright Office as part of the 2009 DMCA triennial rulemaking. This marks the fi...
Bach clarifies Microsoft's retail strategy — it's about building brand, not distribution
it's about building brand, not distribution — Robbie Bach, head of the Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division, which sells many of its products to consumers through retail partners, said the co...
Android Market update: support for priced applications
I'm pleased to announce that Android Market is now accepting priced applications from US and UK developers. Developers from these countries can go to the publisher website at http://market.android.co...
Pirate Bay trial starts Monday; pirate bus en route
The Pirate Bay goes on trial in Sweden this upcoming Monday, and the site's backers are ready to unleash a media juggernaut of bloggers, Twitterers, and press with the help of a city bus and a live au...
It's Alive!
Over the last couple of months, the group working on Mac Chrome (myself included) has shifted gears from layout tests and WebKit compatibility to getting the application user interface up and limping....
8 Megapixel Nokia Nseries Cameraphone With Carl Zeiss Lens Coming to MWC 09
It looks like Nokia will be announcing a Nokia Nseries phone with 8 megapixels and Carl Zeiss lens at the upcoming Mobile World Congress a few days from now. They've posted a sample photo taken from ...
Add, edit, sort, and filter: Improved mobile access to spreadsheets
Over a year ago, we enabled view-only access to docs from mobile devices. This has come in handy for me because I use Google Docs spreadsheets to keep track of a lot of nerdy and not-so-nerdy things ...
The Anatomy of a Tweet: Twitter Gets a Style Guide
They're no Strunk and White, but Dom Sagolla and Adam Johnson are aiming to do for Twitter what “The Elements of Style” did for good writing on paper: outline elementary rules of usage, composition an...
Microsoft splits Zune team in two
Microsoft has quietly reorganized its Zune team, splitting up the hardware and software teams, CNET News has learned. — The software and services portion of the Zune team—the bulk of its staff—will ...
Time to Say Goodbye to Yahoo! MyWeb
Back in 2005, we launched Yahoo! MyWeb with the goal to help our users save valuable information they discover on the Web. As we have continued to innovate with the 2.0 release of Delicious and the u...
Browsing on Android isn't as dangerous as some may beileve
I don't want to sound like a grizzled old Lou Grant smoking a cigar and tossing back belts of the scotch I keep in my desk for the days the news doesn't go so good (which is, incidentally, every day.)...
Bill Joy on Reinventing Silicon Valley — Again
Again — The high-tech industry should gear up for the green revolution, tech guru says. — SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Bill Joy is a fix-it kind of guy. He improved UNIX to make it more stable because, a...
Customizable 4 Finger Gestures for Snow Leopard?
When Steve Jobs introduced the new unibody MacBooks and MacBook Pros at Apple's media event last October, he announced the new glass trackpad with two four finger gestures for OS X Leopard. Well it s...
iFart Mobile takes Pull My Finger to court
My team and I came up with the idea for an iPhone fart application in summer of 2008. We knew it would be a hit. We just needed to develop it. — We took great pride in developing iFart Mobile. It...
Los Alamos National Lab missing 67 computers
One security incident involves Blackberry loss in ‘sensitive’ foreign nation — Computerworld) New Mexico-based Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the nation's leading nuclear weapons lab, once a...
Browser benchmarks 2: even Wine beats Linux Firefox
We posted yesterday about Firefox having very different JavaScript performance on Windows and Linux, despite being the same version of the software. — Some people have said that we should have used ...
Twitter, Unmasked
Who is really writing all those Tweets? Professional microbloggers. — twitpic.com (left); Mark J. Terrill / AP — Celeb Tweets: Shaquille O'Neal and Britney Spears — When Alex Rodriguez admitted...
Why Wikipedia's Policy to Blacklist Blogs is Outdated and Wrong
This week we received an email from a reader telling us that he'd tried to add a link to ReadWriteWeb onto a Wikipedia article, only to get the message: “The following link has triggered our spam prot...
Time for Unix nerds to celebrate 1234567890 Day
It's won't be the epochalypse of 2038, but 3:31 p.m. PST on Friday offers a moment notable enough for some Unix fans to raise a toast. — That's when Unix computer clocks will reach the time of 12345...
Apple, AT&T mulling tiered data plans for next iPhone - report
Apple and its US wireless partner AT&T are discussing plans to potentially offer next-gen iPhone customers more data plan choices amid fears of losing their business during a time of economic hardship...
Coder's Half-Million-Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still On
Apple's iPhone application store is as crowded as a Beyonce concert, with more than 20,000 apps available. But one independent developer still managed to rake in $600,000 in a single month with a sin...
Many looking for love online
One of the “success stories” of eHarmony, an online match making service, is the Florida couple who named their baby girl, yes, Harmony. — But would a couple really name their baby Zoosk? Some Zoos...
Fed indictments tell how H-1B visas were used to undercut wages
U.S. announces arrests in several states alleging visa fraud — Computerworld) Federal agents on Thursday said they arrested 11 people in six states in a crackdown on H-1B visa fraud and unsealed doc...
Facebook and Google turn to booze to raise money during economic downturn
Social networking sites such as Facebook and search engine giant Google are turning to booze in a bid to raise funds during the economic downturn. — In order to create a new advertising revenue sour...
Duplicated Confusion: The Canonical Edict From The Big Three
So virtually everyone has weighed in on the new instructions from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Apparently there should be joy in the cesspool today - the search gods have shown us the way to clean up...
Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal
Jailbreaking an iPhone constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation, says Apple in comments filed with the Copyright Office as part of the 2009 DMCA triennial rulemaking. This marks the fi...
Nokia, others target mobile software sales
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Technology firms like Nokia and Microsoft are rushing to open their mobile software stores, hoping to follow the runaway success of Apple's online App Store. — The focus of the ...
NYT Article Skimmer: Recreate the Sunday Morning Paper in Your Browser
New York TimesThe New York Times just released an interesting new online product that tries to recreate the experience of spreading out the newspaper on Sunday morning. The new ‘article skimmer’ gets...
Sharing Large Files with iDisk
We're pleased to announce that you can now use your MobileMe iDisk to share files with others simply and easily. Instead of attaching a large document to an email and hoping it's not too big to be re...
Terabit Ethernet becomes a photonic possibility
Researchers may have found a way to break the terabit-per-second barrier by using a photonic chip made with an unusual material to pull vast amounts of data from a single fiber strand. — Researchers...
IBM, Amazon foreshadow a bevy of connecting clouds; Is Microsoft surrounded?
If there were any lingering doubts about whether Amazon Web Services were enterprise ready they dissolved this week once IBM became a partner. And now that Amazon and IBM have teamed up a picture of ...
Sony VAIO P - HSDPA mod
So, after more tinkering with the Sony VAIO P, I have successfully managed to mod the WWAN radio from EDVO-only to HSDPA! — I have documented the process with a how-to and some pictures... Enjoy :)
Kenya, Turkey, Japan lead mobile money trend
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The mobile banking business is growing in countries like Kenya, Turkey and Japan, while the combining of wallets with cell phones has been held back elsewhere by disagreements ove...
Twitter Could ‘Go for Years’ Without Earning a Dime, Investor Says
Apparently, Twitter doesn't need a business plan. At least not for years to come. — “We've got a ton of cash. We have far more cash then we need, so I'm not in any hurry,” said Todd Chaffee, Gener...
First Google Chrome on Mac screenshot appears
Mac users who have been waiting patiently for the arrival of Google Chrome, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. A member of the development team has posted a screenshot of the browser in the Ch...
Is the Relational Database Doomed?
Recently, a lot of new non-relational databases have cropped up both inside and outside the cloud. One key message this sends is, “if you want vast, on-demand scalability, you need a non-relational d...
Record Labels Turn ISPs Into ‘Copyright Cops’ to Deter Global Music Piracy
Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) — The world's biggest record companies sued college students, a 12-year-old girl and a dead woman and still failed to stamp out music piracy. Now they're turning to Internet servi...
Edit Google Docs Spreadsheets on your iPhone
Running a mobile handset with a Webkit-based browser? If so, Google has added some functionality to the Google Docs mobile view just for you. — Up until now, the interface has really only be a hand...
Windows Live Messenger update notice
The latest version of Windows Live Messenger (14.0.8064.0206) is now available for free download here. — Over the next month, if you're still running versions 8.1 or 8.5, you'll get a prompt encoura...
“Google Devalues Everything It Touches” - Wall Street Journal Chief
Charlie Rose today started a series on the future of journalism. … It was a fascinating discussion about micropayments, subscription models, and how newspapers can adapt to the challenge of low online...
SOA mistakes are being repeated in the clouds
Perhaps the same guys who screwed up your SOA are not the guys to tap for cloud computing — Yesterday IBM tossed more weight behind cloud computing, and other mega-players are doing the same thing. ...