Jobs Had Liver Transplant
Apple Chief on Track to Return to Work at End of June; No. 2 May Expand Role — Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, rece...
Full Commodore 64 Emulator Rejected from App Store
iPhone developer Manomio has been secretly working on a major App Store project for the past year that has just been completed, but may never see the light of day in its current form. Readers may rem...
Twitter on the Barricades: Six Lessons Learned
Political revolutions are often closely linked to communication tools. The American Revolution wasn't caused by the proliferation of pamphlets, written to whip colonists into a frenzy against the Bri...
China recruits volunteer net porn police
Censors Google (again) — The Chinese government plans to recruit tens of thousands of volunteers by the end of the year to report “lewd” content and “uncivilized” behavior on the internet. — Gover...
Taking Microsoft to Task Over IE8 ‘Myths’
Microsoft recently launched a campaign promoting its Internet Explorer 8 browser, making some bold claims about IE8's capabilities. — The campaign, called “Windows Internet Explorer 8: Get the Facts...
Adding value in the new news ecosystem
How can and should news organizations and others add value to the new news ecosystem that is being used in the Iran story? — Or to put the question another way: The New York Times keeps talking abou...
Could Opera Unite Be a Botmaster's Best Friend?
Opera has added a lot of cool new features to its upcoming Opera 10 browser, and one of them is almost sure to catch the eye of cyber criminals. — It's called Opera Unite, and while Opera promotes i...
Alleged muggers tracked down in Netherlands with aid of Google
Police in the Netherlands have arrested two men after a boy they are alleged to have mugged saw a picture of them on Google's internet map service. — The police believe it is the first time the Goog...