Google thought Michael Jackson traffic was attack
Google has confirmed that the surge of Michael Jackson-related searches on Google News Thursday was first interpreted as an attack on its service. — Google News was inaccessible for some people Thur...
Thumbing Windows 7 onto Netbooks
Microsoft has shown Windows 7 running on Netbooks ever since it introduced the operating system last fall. However, helping consumers get it on their notebooks has proven more tricky. — Microsoft i...
Firefox 3.5 gears up for a possible Tuesday public release
A Mozilla spokesperson confirmed to Betanews early this evening that, if all pans out as planned, the organization will officially release the Firefox 3.5 Web browser to the general public as soon as ...
Apple Increases Stake In UK Radio Chip Firm Imagination
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is tripling its stake in UK microchip firm Imagination Technologies, taking its share to 9.5 percent. Its buying 2.2 million new shares at £1.4275 each (total £3.14 million).
BlackBerry Tour hitting Verizon Wireless on July 12th, selling for $199?
Well, you heard that right peoples. It looks like Verizon Wireless is gearing up to launch the much-awaited BlackBerry Tour on July 12th. The best part? It appears it's going to go for $199 with a ...
The True Story of True Ventures
San Francisco-based True Ventures emerged on the venture scene in 2005 and its way of doing business — focusing on seed-stage startups that it can afford to back for the long haul — quickly resonated ...
Stop Password Masking
HP releases iPhone versions of classic calculators
Hewlett-Packard (HP) today announced iPhone-app versions of three classic HP calculators: the HP 12c, HP 12c Platinum, and HP 15C. — When run in landscape mode, each app uses the original ROM code a...
New chips don't deliver, Facebook says
I like it! — The latest generations of server processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices don't deliver the promised gains in performance, according to the head of technical operations at Faceb...
Businesses use Twitter to communicate with customers
When a Stanley Cup broadcast suddenly went black in late April, many Comcast subscribers simply scooted to Twitter to find out why. — It was there — not on a phone system with multiple options — the...
Winning Teams Join to Qualify for $1 Million Netflix Prize
The Netflix Prize, a computing challenge that's been compared to scaling Mount Everest and flummoxed programmers for more than three years, has been summited. — Two front runners in the contest, Tea...
Twitter's long-term traffic still growing
Twitter users, most of whom signed up for the site and then apparently stopped visiting, are actually coming back, new data from comScore suggests. There's been a lot of evidence that Twitter's growt...
YouTube Doubles Upload Size Limit
YouTube has doubled the size of standard uploads for regular-Joe account holders to 2 GB from 1 GB. The company told us this afternoon the move was in order to accommodate users' HD uploads. But des...
Foursquare Push Notifications, For The Ultimate In Friend Stalking
Foursquare, the location-based social networking service, is about to activate Push Notifications in the new version of its iPhone app, due shortly. I've been beta testing it out for the past week, a...
Mythbusters' Adam Savage Discovers Insane Roaming Fees: $11,000 iPhone Bill For A Few Hours Surfing
Every few months or so there's an article somewhere about an insane phone bill that someone gets because they took their phone out of the country without recognizing the insanity that is international...
Briefly: more affordable iMacs from Apple expected by fall
Apple, which recently shaved down the cost of its popular Mac notebook lines, remains on track to pass on similar treatment to its all-in-one desktop line by this fall. — Back in April, AppleInsider...
Big Software Plans for Amazon's Kindle?
Amazon.com's buying and hiring signal that many more Kindle apps may be on the way—plus software to put Amazon books on other mobile devices — Giant online retailer Amazon.com may be plotting a broa...
Facebook Click Fraud 101
Our posts earlier this week about the alarming amount of click fraud at Facebook left more than a few unanswered questions. The problem is real and was confirmed by Facebook. But what wasn't clear i...
Blue chip FTP logins found on cybercrime server
Monster breach exposes Amazon and BBC to compromise — Security researchers have found a treasure chest of FTP passwords, some from high profile sites, on an open cybercrime server. — Jacques Erasm...
HTC: Hero UI upgrade for existing phones possible, but not on T-mobile USA versions
News by Michael Oryl on Thursday June 25, 2009. — Hoping to get that shiny new Sense user interface from the HTC Hero as a future upgrade for your T-Mobile G1 or Vodafone Magic?
Google chief: Iran can't control the net
Eric Schmidt hopes YouTube clips of Iranian election protests have helped lessen retribution meted out by the authorities — The Google chief executive, Eric Schmidt, said today that he hopes that cl...
So Much for Video Conversations: Seesmic Puts Its Video Service on Hold
When you hear the name Seesmic today, chances are that you are thinking about a Twitter client, but once upon a time, Seesmic was a much-hyped online “video conversation” service. Now, however, after...
How the Internet helps Iran silence activists.
What happened in Baharestan Square on Wednesday? According to a woman who called in to CNN, Iranian security forces unleashed unimaginable brutality upon a few hundred protesters gathered in central ...
imeem Wants to Simplify Its Service - Deletes All User-Generated Photos and Videos
imeem, which describes itself as the “world's largest social music service,” just told its community members that it plans to delete all photos and videos that users have uploaded to their profiles …
Mole exclusive: PS3, 360 price drops coming this fall
Our favorite inside source has given us a heads-up on what to expect from both Sony and Microsoft this year in hardware packages and pricing. The path to the holidays is a rosy one, with more hard dr...
Amazon Pulls the Plug on NC Associates while Google and Apple Enjoy Sweet State Tax Deals
This morning, Amazon Associates in North Carolina are awakening to some bitter news. As of today, their accounts are officially closed. This is anticipation - yes, anticipation, not the actual passa...
EMC Dangles the Bait for Data Domain a Bit Longer
With the bid set to expire on Monday, the storage giant extends bid for Data Domain another three weeks. — With the deadline for its offer looming, EMC decided to extend its $30 per share deal to Da...
PC Sales Expected to Rebound, Prices Won't
Personal computer (PC) unit sales are now expected to turnaround in Q4 from a decline to positive growth, paving the way to a healthy market recovery in 2010. ASPs remain under pressure, but pent up ...
Link from Yahoo breaks traffic records at New York Times
Behold the power of Yahoo: A link at the top of the site's front page helped send more than 9 million page views to The New York Times in the span of two hours last week, breaking records for web traf...
Pre helps Palm beat expectations, shares rise
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Palm Inc (PALM.O) posted a narrower-than-expected fiscal fourth quarter loss on Thursday, and highlighted strong demand for its just-unveiled Pre smartphone. — Palm's share...