Apple, Acer and...Arrington?
Michael Arrington, founder of the influential tech blog TechCrunch, has been talking for a year about building a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing. Now, it appears that the CrunchPad is about to be...
I make it ra1n
Yes, this is what you've all been waiting for. A jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS. And it's awesome. To get started right now, go to purplera1n.com. Download it. Make sure you have windows(but not 7)...
EyeWonder malware incident affects popular web sites
During the last couple of hours, visitors of popular and high trafficked web sites such as CNN, BBC, Washington Post, Gamespot, WorldOfWarcraft, Mashable, Chow.com, ITpro.co.uk, AndroidCommunity; Enga...
Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter
Has Twitter spam gotten a little out of hand? According to today's top story on Techmeme, it has. Apparently, marketers are calling for Twitter to filter out spam and other adult content from the mi...
Woman Shot in Apple Store at Clarendon's Market Common
An employee of an Apple store in Arlington was shot and wounded this morning during an attempted armed robbery in a back storeroom as more than three-dozen shoppers and other employees milled about th...
Free Criticism, Science After Data, and Airport Books
When I saw Malcolm Gladwell doggedly dissecting Chris Anderson's upcoming “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” (see Chris' response here) my first reaction was: Brilliant! Chris Anderson is editor-i...
Seattle data center fire knocks out Bing Travel, other Web sites
A fire last night at Seattle's Fisher Plaza data center has knocked out service to some top Web sites, including Bing Travel and Authorize.net. — We first got word of the fire early this morning fro...
Apple May Be Exempt From China's Web Filter Mandate
Apple appears to be exempt from China's mandate that a controversial Internet filtering program be shipped with all computers sold in the country. — Computers that do not meet the software's technic...
SF Business Times: CrunchPad Inc. Formed With 14 Employees In Singapore
The San Francisco Business Times has chronicled the rise of Michael Arrington from a corporate lawyer to an internet tycoon, and now a hardware entrepreneur. In addition, a few more simple details ha...
Authorize.net Goes Down, E-Commerce Vendors Left Hanging
Talk about a serious outage. Payment gateway service provider Authorize.net has been down and out for several hours, a number of tipsters inform us. That has big implications: since the service is u...
States Plot New Path to Tax E-Retailers
Amazon.com Inc. and other e-commerce companies are winning some skirmishes against cash-strapped states that want to force them to collect sales taxes, but their victories may be short-lived. — Seve...
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How to Keep Your iPhone 3GS from Overheating
Al Sacco , CIO.com — In light of a spate of recent iPhone 3GS overheating reports, Apple published a set of guidelines to help iPhone users ensure that their devices remain at proper operating tempe...
Singing A New Tune: The Imeem Music Store.
Does embattled music streaming site imeem think it can take on iTunes? For the most part, nearly every streaming song on the site has a download button which links to both iTunes and the Amazon MP3 s...
DEMO announces $1M media prize
Here's the latest reason why entrepreneurs should consider launching their products at the fall DEMO conference in San Diego: — Two winners, as selected by a panel of individual judges, will be awar...
Review: Borders eBook - finally a rival to the Sony Reader
The Borders “eBook” device could be the first real competition to the Sony Reader, which was introduced in Britain last year. — The new gadget, made by Elonex for Borders UK, is not particularly fla...
DOCOMO to Launch Mobile Remittance Service
NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today a new service that will enable an individual subscriber to use their DOCOMO mobile phone to easily and quickly remit money to another DOCOMO user, beginning on July 21...
Did Techcrunch really kill Blognation? Time - and the courts - will tell
Episode 34: In which I rub my hands with glee - and my head with confusion - over the prospect of Sam Sethi's lawsuit against Techcrunch — Good news, London! Later this week, the “traveling geeks” ...
New ways to search within a book
At Google we want to make it easy for you to find the information you need. As such, we've made searching for passages within a book part of the core experience of Google Books. — Earlier this mont...
How many new iPhones did AT&T sell?
AT&T's (T) widely leaked “best-ever sales day” memo ticking off the records set on June 19, 2009 — the day it began selling the iPhone 3GS — is packed with superlatives but notably lacking in numbers....
Interview: Pirate Bay Bidders Hope To Make $40 Million A Month From Ads
So how exactly does unlikely Pirate Bay bidder Global Gaming Factory X intend to profit from the scourge of the entertainment industry, and pay content owners? CEO Hans Pandeya, who offered SEK 60 mi...
Gamer steals from virtual world to pay real debts
TORONTO, July 2 (Reuters Life!) - Facing real world debts, a trusted figure in a popular online game stole money from the virtual bank he ran and exchanged it for cash through the black market. — I...