LxLabs boss found hanged after vuln wipes websites
Shocking development in VAserv megahack affair — Free whitepaper - Calculating total power requirements for data centers — The boss of Indian software firm LxLabs was found dead in a suspected sui...
Facebook usernames and the battle over your digital identity
Techmeme is buzzing with the news that Facebook is finally going to provide custom usernames — and hence web addresses — for its 200 million users. The land grab begins in just over three days at fac...
Twitter hype punctured by study
Micro-blogging service Twitter remains the preserve of a few, despite the hype surrounding it, according to research. — Just 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content, a Harvard stu...
Revenue at Craigslist Is Said to Top $100 Million
SAN FRANCISCO — As the newspaper industry and its classified advertising business wither, one company appears to be doing extraordinarily well: Craigslist. — The Internet classified ads company, whi...
Palm Pre on Verizon in January
Sprint better market the heck out of the Palm Pre over the next seven months. That's because rival Verizon Wireless will be carrying the touch-screen device in its stores in January, according to a p...
Schmidt: Bing Can't Buy Search Love With Ads; Gotta Earn It
CEO Eric Schmidt has weighed in on the Bing launch — and he's not sounding panicked, not that I would expect him to be. But he certainly puts out a conflicted message that Bing isn't a serious compet...
Compete: Facebook.com US Reach Grew by 8% in May; Twitter Growth Flattens
May stats are out from Compete, and the web analytics company says US traffic to Facebook's main consumer website increased by 8% during the month to 82.9 million uniques. For those keeping track at ...
Introducing Google Quick Search Box
When most people think of Google, search comes to mind - and rightly so! Hundreds of millions of people have come to know and love Google.com as their starting point for searching the Internet. Abou...
Apple backtracks on Safari 4.0 tabs on top, ZFS
Amid all of the new features highlighted Monday in Snow Leopard, iPhone 3.0 and Safari 4.0 were a few unpublicized retractions: Safari 4.0 has lost its “tabs on top” and returned to the old convention...
U.S. Presses Antitrust Inquiry Into Google Book Settlement
SAN FRANCISCO — In a sign that the government has stepped up its antitrust investigation of a class-action settlement between Google and groups representing authors and publishers, the Justice Departm...
comScore Study: Bing Is Off To A Very Good Start
Internet audience measurement company comScore has released a preliminary study of the performance of Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, during the first week of its public launch. — The study con...
Unannounced iPhone 3G S feature: Oleophobic Multi-Touch™ screen (skin oil repellent)
Eagle-eyed MacDailyNews reader “GizmoDan” found the following on Apple's “iPhone How To: Cleaning iPhone” page: — To clean iPhone, unplug all cables and turn off iPhone (press and hold the Sleep/ Wa...
Apple security is ‘struggling,’ researcher says
Laments lack of ‘formal security program’ — Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer - 30-day free trial — A well-known security consultant says Apple is struggling to effectively protect its users against ...
Could Twittering about your vacation put your home at risk?
Like a lot of people who use social media, Israel Hyman and his wife Noell went on Twitter to share real-time details of a recent trip. Their posts said they were “preparing to head out of town,” tha...
Introducing Android Scripting Environment
The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts ha...
Why Apple wins. every. time.
Today there was no reality distortion field. Just a reality field. You want video. Here it is. You want devs to have video. Here it is. You want to edit video in place without loading Quicktime ...
Wolfram|Alpha Update Today
There's new data flowing into Wolfram|Alpha every second. And we're always working very hard to develop the core code and data for the system. In fact, internally, we have a complete new version of ...
Firefox 3.5 beta 99 is out
Mozilla has just pushed out a new version of Firefox 3.5 beta, which it's dubbing beta 99. Now, the last public beta was Firefox 3.5 beta 4, so either Mozilla went through 94 builds that they didn't ...
Novell ponders “open-source apps store”
Novell plans to bring the wealth of open-source software to everyday users through an “open-source apps store”. — The vast amount of free software available to open-source users has long been one of...
Google Translator Toolkit is a new service
Qik Now Comes Standard on Nokia Phones
If you're interested in streaming video on-the-go, you have a ton of options to choose from. Services like Qik, Kyte, and Flixwagon make it possible to share everything from a birthday to a conferenc...