Stop hitting F5, iPhone OS 3.0 release still hours away?
You can refresh all you want but that won't make the 3.0 update for your iPhone appear any faster. In fact, you might want to give your trigger finger a rest for a few hours — Engadget bud, Richard L...
Enable tethering shortcut found - iPhone 3.0 is Live!
iPhone 3.0 is live! so we are going to repost our tethering tutorial with some big improvements. You now don't have to do any downgrading or torrenting. Seems you can just run a little command in te...
Look Who's Talking Now
Today, we're beginning to test new versions of Facebook Search with a small group — just a fraction of a percent of the people on Facebook. Those of you in the test group will be able to find content...
Yahoo Is Now Resorting To Selling Killer Domain Names On The Cheap
No sooner do we finish writing up Yahoo deadpooling yet another project, Gallery, do we get a tip that Yahoo apparently has another money saving/making plan: Selling off domains it owns. That's exact...
U.S. Steps Gingerly Into Tumult in Iran
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says it has tried to avoid words or deeds that could be portrayed as American meddling in Iran's presidential election and its tumultuous aftermath. — Yet on Mo...
Google Fires Back At Bing, Launches “Explore Google Search”
I wrote earlier that it was probably driving Google crazy to see people “amazed” that Bing is doing stuff that Google itself has long offered. Now Google's fighting back. The first shot? A new Expl...
Iran Military Warns Online Media
(CBS/AP) Last Updated 4:29 a.m. Eastern. — Iran's most powerful military force has warned online media of a crackdown over their coverage of the country's election crisis. — The Revolutionary Guar...
Iran's Twitter Revolution? Maybe Not Yet
Some Iranian election protesters used Twitter to get people on the streets, but most of the organizing happened the old-fashioned way — Media across the globe have been focusing on a “Twitter Revolu...
MLB.com Streams Live Baseball Games to the iPhone
On Wednesday, Apple upgrades the iPhone with the 3.0 version of its operating system. The new era could literally begin with a home run. — MLB.com, which sells the popular At Bat application for th...
Facebook hit by privacy blow
European privacy regulators could be about to throw a spanner into the works of attempts by social networking sites such as Facebook to find new ways to increase profits as they try to restrict the wa...
Phase 4 Of Facebook's Systematic Attack On Twitter: The Everyone Button
If you were to distill Facebook down to its core magic, you'd have Twitter's real time news stream with a really expensive-to-maintain photo site bolted on. — And while Twitter isn't exactly posing ...
Google Apps Sync Disables Outlook Search
The Outlook team has recently been made aware of a serious bug / flaw with the recently announced Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, and as a result we wanted to provide the Outlook user communit...
Your iPhone 3G S Is Here. But You Can't Get It Until Friday.
Following up on our earlier story, it looks like Apple is holding back delivery of the iPhone 3G S units that we pre-ordered over the web, until Friday. This, despite the fact that they're already in...
Jammie Thomas takes the stand, admits to major misstep
After the morning's excitement, Jammie Thomas-Rasset took the stand this afternoon during her retrial. She was clad in a black shirt and black pants, the sort of garb appropriate to a hanging. Her t...
Battle Against File Sharing Starts in Norway
Movie and record companies want Norwegian operator Telenor to block access to The Pirate Bay file-sharing site and have filed documents in a Norwegian district court seeking a temporary injunction. —...
Nvidia: Ion will outperform next-gen Intel Pineview Atoms
The chip maker offers up fighting words, praises its own Ion platform — Computerworld - Intel Corp. may not have officially released the specs of its upcoming Pineview family of Atom CPUs, but that ...
Toshiba mini NB205
Toshiba's entry into the U.S. netbook market soars past the competition with a stunning design, stellar keyboard, and the longest battery life of any netbook to date. — Price as Reviewed: $399.00 —...
Zune HD uses NVIDIA Tegra processor - confirmed
There is a lot of news circulating today about some rumors of the new Zune HD using the NVIDIA Tegra processor. Several websites have been following the rumor, that started at donanimhaber.com, but a...
How to Avoid Paying the iPhone 3GS Upgrade Tax
Those tears of joy shed by iPhone loyalists are turning into cries of grief with the announcement by AT&T that it will impose a $200 fee to upgrade to the next-generation iPhone, which lands in stores...
MySpace: After the Layoffs, Here's What's What and What's Next
Now what? — The party-all-night social networking site that has been MySpace so far got a massive morning-after shock yesterday. when 30 percent of its workforce-or 420 employees-was laid off.
Maybe Google Isn't Losing Big Bucks on YouTube After All
Ever since Credit Suisse came out with a report in early April estimating that Google's YouTube will lose as much as $470 million this year, many people have been predicting the video sharing site is ...
AdWhirl Scores $1 Million For Dynamic Ad Platform For The iPhone
AdWhirl, the startup that lets iPhone developers tap into multiple ad networks, has raised a cool $1 million in seed funding from Foundation Capital, with several angel investors participating.
Mapping Meaning: How MercyCorps Uses Google Maps
Developers have seen the value of mapping APIs. Look no further than our list of map mashups for proof that there's a lot of value in maps to visualize location data. But how useful are web maps to ...