Twitter, Even More Open Than We Wanted
About a month ago, an administrative employee here at Twitter was targeted and her personal email account was hacked. From the personal account, we believe the hacker was able to gain information whi...
Apple Blocks Palm Pre iTunes Syncing
It has begun. With the release of iTunes 8.2.1 (via TiPb), gut46 tells us, Palm Pre syncing with iTunes is indeed kaput. At least on this Pre user's Mac, iTunes sync isn't working after the 8.2.1 up...
12% of e-mail users have actually tried to buy stuff from spam
Be honest: have you ever responded to a spam e-mail? Do you know anyone who has? If you're like most of us at Ars, you can't fathom why anyone would respond to most of the messages we get, but a new...
Google's Chiller-less Data Center
The equipment yard at the Google data center in Belgium features no chillers. (Photo from Google) — Google (GOOG) has begun operating a data center in Belgium that has no chillers to support its co...
Microsoft to open retail stores near Apple's this fall
Microsoft is planning to open the first of its planned retail stores next to existing Apple stores this fall. — Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, told partners the news during his W...
Search with My Location for iPhone 3.0. And All that Jazz
I recently visited NYC where I met up with my friend Joanne, a jazz singer with a wonderful 1920's throwback style. I wanted to find a jazz club close to my hotel on the west side for us to meet.
Twitter's Financial Forecast Shows First Revenue In Q3, 1 billion users in 2013
Our negotiations with Twitter (or rather Twitter's lawyers) over our intention to publish a small subset of the 310 hacked confidential documents continue. We published the first document …
Now Connecting 250 Million People
As of today, 250 million people are using Facebook to stay updated on what's happening around them and share with the people in their lives. The rapid pace of our growth is humbling and exciting for ...
New iPhone no threat to the Flip camcorder
Apple's iPhone 3GS has video capabilities, but Cisco's Flip still dominates point-and-shoot camcorders. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — With the launch of the Flip video camera in May 2007, the camcorder mar...
Orange and T-Mobile to break O2 exclusivity on iPhone
Apple opens up older iphones to two new networks in six weeks — Apple is poised to open the iPhone 3G to Orange and T-Mobile in a bid to boost sales. — The move is set for as early as September an...
Smaller is Faster (and Safer Too)
We have just started using a new compression algorithm called Courgette to make Google Chrome updates small. — We have built Google Chrome to address multiple factors that affect browser security. ...
Facebook Working on New Twitter Integration?
While it's too early to tell exactly what this means, Facebook engineer Blake Ross today posted a “test” tweet from a Twitter application called “Penguin FB” that resides on Facebook development serve...
Google Voice mobile app for Blackberry and Android
It's been an exciting few months since we announced Google Voice. The feedback from early users has been terrific, and the requests for invites have been flowing in. We started sending invites a few...
Google Maps Markers Are Making Real World Appearances
You know the Google Maps upside-down teardrop shaped markers? It looks like they're starting to appear in the real world, at various locations around the globe. You can see the locations that have t...
New Ad Targeting to Grow Your Business on Platform
As Facebook Platform grows, so have the businesses of many of the developers finding success on Facebook Platform. From hiring teams to growing userbases and raising funding, developers around the wo...
Meet Google, Your Phone Company
Can Google be your phone company? The answer is yes. I came to that conclusion after I met with Vincent Paquet, co-founder of GrandCentral (a company acquired by Google) and now a member of the Goog...
In Our Inbox: Hundreds Of Confidential Twitter Documents
Here's a dilemma: The guy ("Hacker Croll") who claims to have accessed hundreds of confidential corporate and personal documents of Twitter and Twitter employees, is releasing those documents publicly...
Bill Gates on Google's Chrome OS
To Bill Gates, Google's Chrome OS looks a lot like a familiar foe: Linux. — “There's many, many forms of Linux operating systems out there and packaged in different ways and booted in different ways...
Critical JavaScript vulnerability in Firefox 3.5
Issue — A bug discovered last week in Firefox 3.5's Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler was disclosed publicly yesterday. It is a critical vulnerability that can be used to execute malicious cod...
Search with My Location for iPhone 3.0. And All that Jazz
I recently visited NYC where I met up with my friend Joanne, a jazz singer with a wonderful 1920's throwback style. I wanted to find a jazz club close to my hotel on the west side for us to meet.
Apple Locks Palm Out of iTunes
Reports are coming in that Apple's latest update to its iTunes software has locked out Palm's Pre. Precentral had the first reports on the matter that I saw, and now Apple is confirming the matter it...
Not an Upgrade — an Upheaval
an Upheaval — In his lead essay, Clay Shirky argues that the old models of journalism are broken primarily because in today's online environment, self-created publics can parse the news however they ...
Amazon sued for cracking Kindles, $5-plus million sought in class action
You've heard about cracking open a book, but how about cracking open a Kindle? — Apparently this is happening to some owners of Amazon.com's electronic book who also bought the optional, $30 protect...
YouTube pulls audio from greatest music video ever
This is really quite sad. — Citing copyright concerns, YouTube has deleted the audio from a hosted video that depicts the Internet meme “Keyboard Cat” showing up in a vintage TV after-school special...
BingTweets Debuts
As part of our ongoing efforts to explore options in real-time search, we've partnered with Federated Media and Twitter to create BingTweets which fuses Bing search results and real time content from ...
Windows 7 flies off virtual shelf
The latest version of Microsoft's flagship operating system, Windows 7, is available for pre-order in the UK. — Amazon said that sales of Windows 7 in the first eight hours it was available outstrip...
Getting Noticed on the iPhone App Store
In a megastore as big as Apple's iPhone App Store, the secret to success is getting noticed. With more than 65,000 apps in 20 categories, app developers have come up with different strategies to acco...
iTunes goes retro with digital 45s
As a throwback to the old days of the two-song 45 rpm vinyl record, the iTunes Store launched a new “D45” section Tuesday, featuring discounted prices on packs of two digital song downloads. — Just ...
Apple may extend antiglare display option to more Macs
Apple made a bold move roughly two years ago to begin transitioning its entire Mac product line away from matte displays and towards glass-enclosed glossy ones, but the company may be nearing a conces...
Apple cops to OS 3.0 Wi-Fi, Bluetooth problems
A rash of Wi-Fi connectivity and signal strength complaints have cropped up after Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 software update. Some users complain that their iPhones and iPod Touches drop from Wi-Fi unexpe...
PayPal shuts us down
I had a subscription system running under WP-MEMBER for about a year before that software flaked out on me. Multiple domains caused problems that were irreconcilable. I had donations for our work in...
Chrome OS: Windows killer?
Or will it just leave smudgy fingermarks? — Google's announcement last week concerning its plans to bring out a fully fledged operating system was inevitably going to put the cat amongst the twitter...
Why The Story That Bloggers Are A Few Hours Behind Mainstream Press Is Wrong
I have to admit that the most amusing part about this following story is how the players all act out their exact roles in proving the point. It starts with a NY Times article over the weekend …
ASUS Eee PC T91 review
We've had our eye on ASUS' first full touchscreen tablet netbook, the Eee PC T91, since way back in January, when the hardware was on display while the software had yet to appear. Since then, we've s...
The Onion Said To Be Negotiating Sale
The Onion this month told staff that resisting advertiser pressure is a “losing game.” But it seems the humor publication isn't just keen to sell its soul to sponsors; we hear The Onion is talking ab...
Would You Pay for Advanced Email Search? Xobni Thinks You Will
Xobni, the makers of an Outlook add-in for a “smarter inbox,” have just released a slew of new premium features in a package called “Xobni Plus.” For the most part, these new features aim to bring mo...