Iran's Web Spying Gets Western Aid
European Gear Used in Vast Effort to Monitor Communications — By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS in New York and LORETTA CHAO in Beijing — The Iranian regime has quietly developed, with the assistance of Europ...
Regarding the WSJ's Report That Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant
[This piece combines into a single narrative and expands upon three shorter pieces I posted immediately after this news broke Friday night.] — Friday night around midnight, The Wall Street Journal p...
Investors Bet on Payments via Cellphone
SAN FRANCISCO — On a PC, having to fill out a form and type in a credit card number to buy something is only mildly annoying. On a cellphone, it could make you want to skip the purchase entirely. — ...
It Really Should Have Been Called The iPhone 3G V - For Video
Disclosure: I have not bought an iPhone 3G S — I'm still unsure if I will. Apple gave me a review unit to play with for 60 days. — So, I've now had a full day with the latest iPhone, the 3G S. So f...
Chrome and Firefox 3.5 Memory Usage
Problem. You are interested in how the Google Chrome 3.0 Dev, Firefox 3.5 RC, Safari 4.0 for Windows, and Opera 10b web browsers manage memory on the Windows Vista operating system over moderate usag...
Facebook Click Fraud Enraging Advertisers
Facebook has a big revenue target this year - $550 million, according to investors who were pitched in the last round of funding. That's nearly twice 2008 revenues of $280 million. — A big part of ...
Ziff Davis to shut down ExtremeTech web site
It's time to mourn another casualty in the media world. Ziff Davis plans to shut down the ExtremeTech web site in the coming week or so. The staff will be let go and Ziff Davis will circle the wagon...
Who rules real-time search? A look at 11 contenders
Real-time search engines have proliferated over the last month, with a series of launches from start-ups like Topsy, almost.at and Scoopler. The companies are hoping to edge in on a space that Google...
Seattle's New High-Tech Hub
OF all the neighborhoods that lie along Seattle's Lake Union, the industrial district known as South Lake Union seems to have languished the longest. With nothing but boat and auto retailers, modest ...