Verizon Wireless HTC Touch Diamond gets pictured
We got our hands on some pictures of a test model of the Verizon Wireless Touch Diamond rocking its sleek, black and shiny casing. Unlike Verizon's Touch Pro, the Diamond has retained the characteris...
Google Privacy Blunder Shares Your Docs Without Permission
In a privacy error that underscores some of the biggest problems surrounding cloud-based services, Google has sent a notice to a number of users of its Document and Spreadsheets products stating that ...
Twitter's not a Google killer. It's not a Facebook killer, either.
For you and me, Twitter is a fun way to procrastinate. But for Silicon Valley's chattering classes, the microblogging company has emerged as something much more—the next Google, the next Facebook, or...
Another AOL Layoff This Week?
An ex-AOLer says there are rumors in Dulles that AOL is planning another layoff this week. The d-date is rumored to be Tuesday. AOL apparently likes to whack people on Tuesdays. — The ex-AOLer for...
Cybersecurity official quits, blasts NSA power grab
A top federal cybersecurity official resigned this week in a letter sharply critical of what he described as a power grab by the National Security Agency. — Rod Beckström, director of Homeland Secur...
Acer mulling its own app store
Acer could launch an app store to complement its forthcoming new smartphone range. — At a London press event yesterday, Acer's senior corporate VP and smart handheld president Aymar de Lencquesaing ...
Why global is the new ‘local’
The real reason newspapers and radio stations are hurting — and how they can thrive — Computerworld) If you have an iPhone, tap the App Store button, and search for “radio.” Choose “iHeart radio” a...
Eric Schmidt Tells Charlie Rose Google Is “Unlikely” To Buy Twitter And Wants To Turn Phones Into TVs
It must be Google Week on Charlie Rose. Thursday, Rose interviewed product chief Marissa Mayer, and last night he had an hour-long conversation with CEO Eric Schmidt (embedded here, with a full trans...
HTML Validation: Does It Matter?
The web is, to put it charitably, a rather forgiving place. You can feed web browsers almost any sort of HTML markup or JavaScript code and they'll gamely try to make sense of what you've provided, a...
Twitter To Start Serving Local News To Users?
Germany's Der Spiegel published an interview with Twitter CEO Evan Williams yesterday on its website, and Williams had a couple of interesting things to say. You can find a poorly Google-translated v...
Why New H-1B Restrictions Will LOWER (Some) American Tech Wages
New restrictions going into place on the H-1B immigrant worker program have been so extreme some right-groups in India are threatening to boycott of US goods, and American commentators are crying prot...
Hacking Education (continued)
Last fall I wrote a post on this blog titled Hacking Education. In it, I outlined my thoughts on why the education system (broadly speaking) is failing our society and why hacking it seems like both ...
Try before you buy? Zuckerberg has a public Twitter account?
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been using the microblogging service he's been trying to buy - Twitter — since last May. But he's kept his account on the site (@zuck) private and basical...
Salacious content driving the adoption of ebooks?
5 I like it! — This week's ebook news continues with the announcement that Barnes & Noble has purchased ebook seller Fictionwise for $15.7 million in cash, plus undisclosed earn-out payments if the ...
Verizon Customers - Just Say No!
It is easier to seek forgiveness than it is to get permission according to Verizon, which has once again shown us what large corporations should not be doing when it comes to customer service. — Dav...
We are all Scoble now
Last night A-list twhirler-in-chief Loic Le Meur, twittering from a Burger King dinner with some of Silicon Valley's most illustrious networkers, sent out an intriguing couple of tweets: — “There are...
AT&T predicted the future. Can Microsoft?
The past century was filled with optimistic predictions of how quickly technology would progress. Flying cars? Moon colonies? Robotic servants to free humanity of day-to-day drudgery? None of that...
Google CEO hints Google/Linux netbooks may be coming
People have been speculating about Google getting into the desktop business ever since Good OS, an Ubuntu-based Linux built around online Google applications showed up in 2007. Then, the rumor-mill r...
A peek at Apple's new QuickTime X interface
A widely reported interface overhaul making its debut in early betas of QuickTime X Player distributed with pre-releases of Apple's Snow Leopard operating system this week is reportedly not much to wr...
For Twitter C.E.O., Well-Orchestrated Accidents
I GREW up on a farm in Nebraska, where we grew mostly corn and soybeans. During the summers I was responsible for making sure the crops were irrigated. — After high school, I enrolled at the Univer...