Apple's misleading Safari numbers still dwarfed by Firefox downloads
Apple has been desperately trying to turn Safari into a mainstream browser player. Unfortunately, its numbers simply don't compare to Firefox. — Safari 4.0 notched 11 million downloads in just thre...
Rumor: Xbox Natal is Actually Microsoft's Next Console
So you know how Microsoft is saying Natal will be as big as a console launch? Well...yeah. — Earlier this week gaming blog Kotaku quoted Microsoft's Shane Kim as saying that the launch of Natal, Mi...
MMS and tethering functional on some AT&T iPhone 3Gs running 3.0?
AT&T's been feeding us a story that it'll offer MMS on the iPhone only “once [it completes] some system upgrades that will ensure our customers have the best experience,” but here's the thing: it seem...
Mozilla casts doubt on Microsoft's browser gambit
You'd think that Microsoft's rivals would welcome the company's announcement that it will ship Windows 7 in Europe without an internet browser. — After 15 years (that's how long ago it was that the ...
Hey, Just a Minute (or Why Google Isn't Twitter)
TECHNOLOGY blogs have wondered whether Google is a lumbering giant in this Twitter moment, unable to handle streams of tweets that were broadcast just seconds earlier. — Google moves faster than som...
Lightning Review: What Happened to Gizmodo's iPhone 3G S Hands-On?
File this one under “weird:” shortly after Monday's WWDC keynote ended—concluding of course with the announcement of the iPhone 3G S—we spotted a group of broadcast journalists huddled around the new ...
The App Store Needs A Genius Feature, ASAP
You may not realize it yet, but the App Store is broken. — I spent this week at Apple's WWDC conference in San Francisco talking to quite a few iPhone app developers. One thing that struck me was j...
The inside story of the Conficker worm
A HOTEL bar in Arlington, Virginia, 23 October 2008. A group of computer security experts has spent the day holed up with law enforcement agencies. It is an annual event that attracts the best in th...
Facebook URL Madness: I Got Mine, But So Did Haywood Jablome
Imagine the odds: No sooner did Facebook swing open the doors to its fire sale of vanity URLs than a geeky frat party ensued, as members reserved prankish, clever and lewd names instead of maybe the d...
iPhone OS 3.0 Re-Download Message A “Bug” Says Apple
The iPhone OS 3.0 re-download message saga may finally have come to a surprisingly positive conclusion. — We first reported seeing this new re-download message a little over a week ago when attempti...
Pentagon Cyber Unit Prompts Questions
New Command's Offensive Role Complicates Administration's Global Outreach — The Pentagon's development of a “cyber-command” is prompting questions about its role in the larger national strategy to p...
Find Creative Commons Images in Google Image Search
Google Image Search added the option to restrict the results to images that are licensed using Creative Commons, a list of flexible licenses that allow content creators to share their works with the w...
Windows 7 Upgrade Programs Will Start Soon, Vary by Vendor
Some PC vendors and sellers will begin a coupon program on June 26 to entitle people who buy premium versions of Microsoft Windows Vista to upgrade to the new Windows 7 operating system when it arrive...