Mark Zuckerberg's Status Update: Paranoid as Hell
Is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hunting leakers? His internal memo about CFO Gideon Yu's departure got forwarded to bloggers. Perhaps he was hoping that would happen, and not just so his spin would ...
New in Labs: Gmail search made easier (and lazier)
On the Gmail team, we believe finding the right email among thousands of messages can be as important as finding the right web page across the billions of web pages out there. So with the aim of maki...
Village mob thwarts Google Street View car
Angry villagers formed a human chain to thwart the progress of a Google Street View car that was in the process of taking photographs of their homes. — Police were called to Broughton in Buckinghams...
I.B.M. Reportedly Will Buy Rival Sun for $7 Billion
I.B.M. appears on the verge of acquiring Sun Microsystems, a longtime rival in the computer server and software markets, for nearly $7 billion. — The two companies have been negotiating for weeks, i...
DiggBar Launches Today!
Hey everyone - — Starting today, we'll begin rolling out a new product we are calling the DiggBar. Before we dive into the details, check out this short video overview: — The DiggBar allows you t...
Microsoft issues PowerPoint zero-day warning
Microsoft has issued an advisory to warn about an under-attack zero-day vulnerability affecting its PowerPoint software. — According to the pre-patch advisory, the flaw allows remote code execution ...
Counting Confickers
Now that the ambiguity about what is going to happen on April 1 (nothing) is behind us, the next question that seems to be on everyone's mind is how many infections are really out there. We've been h...
Public market buys ChangYou's virtual goods model, stock up after IPO
In a public market vote of confidence on the business of virtual goods, Chinese game-maker ChangYou (CYOU) has gone public on NASDAQ today and its stock is currently up around 25 percent on heavy trad...
Free Stanford course on developing iPhone software
Want to know how to write programs for the iPhone and iPod touch? Beginning this week, a Stanford computer science class on that buzzworthy topic will be available online to the general public for fr...
RIM Blows The Doors Off
BlackBerry maker RIM (RIMM) beat its preannounced Christmas quarter results, and Q1 looks very strong. Most important: RIM says gross margins will improve this quarter, a key concern. Shares jumped ...
Palm Pre Apps Hands On: Hardly Lightweight, Looking Great
We're nearing the still unknown release date for the Palm Pre, and new details are slowly surfacing. Sprint demoed the Pre's WebOS apps at CTIA, including PalmOS Emulator, Google Maps and Pandora. T...
Zune wants your living room, finally to go international?
According to two job postings, Microsoft is targeting the living room with the Zune and is looking to expand the Zune Marketplace to international markets. — Microsoft recently published two job pos...
AT&T Quietly Updates its Wireless Plans
Quietly, last night, AT&T revised its wireless plans. In the latest changes to the service terms, it looks like AT&T is trying to exempt its own video services but metering services like the Slingbox...
Microsoft To Officially Become a Monopoly in Russia
Yesterday Russian anti-monopoly authorities informed us about the fact that they intend to officially include Microsoft in the register of monopolies doing business in the country. To be listed as a ...
Technorati Lays Off Another 10 Percent Of Employees
Blog search engine Technorati has laid off close to 10 percent of its staff, or 4 employees in its PR, engineering and general admin areas. The company's CEO, Richard Jalichandra confirmed the layoff...
Microsoft: Distinction between PC and phone gets even blurrier
Speaking at the CTIA Wireless convention in Las Vegas this morning, Microsoft's Robbie Bach started not by touting Windows Mobile but by talking about computers — specifically, netbooks. His comments...
Piracy Puts Film Online One Month Before Open
In a case of piracy that some analysts called unprecedented, untold thousands of people watched a version of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” online Wednesday, a full month before its scheduled theater rele...
Google lifts its skirts
Yesterday was a remarkable day for the small, slightly obsessed band of Google data-center watchers of which I am one. Around each of the company's sprawling server farms is a high metal fence patrol...
Microsoft helps keep Koobface virus off Facebook
Microsoft is working with Facebook to keep the persistent Koobface virus off the popular social networking site, the companies said on Thursday. — “In working with Facebook, we were able to add dete...
Clearwire to Launch WiMAX Innovation Network to Silicon Valley Developers
“WiMAX Innovation Network” to Accelerate 4G Mobile Broadband Development, Initially Covering More Than 20 Square Miles - — Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ:CLWR) today announced a major step toward app...
NVIDIA's Franken-Mini is half HP, half Tegra, no Intel
And now, a little visit to the “Why not?” department: NVIDIA is showing off an HP Mini 1000 at CTIA that it has totally gutted, replacing the laptop's stock Atom-based circuitry with its own Tegra war...
Microsoft and the Corporate Identity Crisis
Do the people who run computers for big companies have an identity crisis? That was the impression I got after spending an hour Wednesday with Bob Muglia, the president of Microsoft's server and tool...
Samsung's Android Phone Plans
The handset maker plans to launch three “Google” phones this year. — Despite a fanatical amount of interest from the tech media and early adopters, Samsung has mostly kept quiet about its plans to d...
The Discovery Engine Is Coming
A few weeks ago we started testing Twitter Search in the web interface for a subset of folks. We had the search box way up near the top of the page and the results on a separate page. It turns out t...
Amazon launches Hadoop data crunching service
Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a free software framework, to crunch tons of data. — The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is designed for busine...
Really? I can't touch the Palm Pre? Really!?!
OK, I know I just got done gushing about the third-party apps on the Palm Pre, and I didn't want to take anything away from that but there's something I need to get off my chest. — Sprint, Palm, wha...
QuickPWN 3.0 BETA Jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 2
Any iPhone Devs want to jailbreak iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 2? QuickPWN 3.0 Beta 2 is out! This is an unofficial release and it's not created by the iPhone Dev Team. I know there are iPhone developers out...
Hulu encrypts its HTML to fend off Boxee...again.
The parry and thrust routine between Hulu and Boxee is still on. Engadget is reporting that Hulu has started encrypting its HTML content to keep non-browser applications (like the ones through Boxee'...
Light and Cheap, Netbooks Are Poised to Reshape PC Industry
SAN FRANCISCO — Get ready for the next stage in the personal computer revolution: ultrathin and dirt cheap. — AT&T announced on Tuesday that customers in Atlanta could get a type of compact PC calle...
SlideShare's April Fool's Prank: Cruel, Or Just Unusual?
April Fool's Day pranks are in full effect around the Web, and so far, most of them have been pretty easy to defuse. But SlideShare - the service that lets you share presentations online - is catchin...
SONY TAKES FLIGHT WITH HD CAMCORDER DESIGNED FOR SAVVY TRAVELERS
New Model Offers Embedded GPS, Durable Titanium Body, and Sleek Design — Designed for travelers who pack lightly, Sony today unveiled a new high-definition camcorder that combines powerful performan...
You've Got Voice Mail, but Do You Care?
WHEN Steve Hamrick left his last job as manager at a software corporation, he had at least 25 unheard messages in his office voice mailbox. And that's not counting the unreturned calls on his cellpho...
Is Twitter Killing RSS?
For media, there are two primary use cases for RSS, promotion of new content and content syndication. The latter is true plumbing that offers low cost, reliability and convenience while the former is...
Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala
A new love on the back-end — Free whitepaper - Data center projects: standardized process — Famously, when Twitter's Web2.0rhea app was suddenly embraced by digerati+dog in late in 2007, its origi...
Hulu to replace video ads with questions?
Would you rather answer a question instead of watching a commercial? Executives at the online video hub Hulu think so. Chief executive Jason Kilar told iMedia that the company is working with advert...
Apple cracks down on rogue app stores
iPhone T&Cs switcheroo to smother competition — Free whitepaper - Deploying high-density zones in a low-density data center — Apple has launched a pre-emptive strike on stores selling unauthorised...
MindTouch rides the bus in collaboration platform
MindTouch is releasing on Thursday MindTouch 2009, extending the development platform's collaboration capabilities through a bidirectional message bus, the company said. — With the bus, push-based e...
MySpace Stealth Webmail Product Definitely Happening (Internal Memo)
In January we wrote about rumors of MySpace launching a webmail product that would compete head on with Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. At launch it could be as large as some of the biggest players in the sp...
Video: NVIDIA's ION-based netbooks and nettops are go for launch
Things are finally hotting up in NVIDIA's ION camp. An official press release now tells that the first batch of “incredibly small and affordable PCs” (like the Acer Hornet rumored for an April 8th la...