Amazon Begins Accepting Pre-Orders for Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Several MacRumors readers have reported that Amazon has begun taking pre-orders for Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Amazon is currently offering Snow Leopard at Apple's announced price of ...
Halted '03 Iraq Plan Illustrates U.S. Fear of Cyberwar Risk
It would have been the most far-reaching case of computer sabotage in history. In 2003, the Pentagon and American intelligence agencies made plans for a cyberattack to freeze billions of dollars in t...
Why The FCC Wants To Smash Open The iPhone
Right about now, Apple probably wishes it had never rejected Google Voice and related apps from the iPhone. Or maybe it was AT&T who rejected the apps. Nobody really knows. But the FCC launched an ...
Leaked Sprint WiMAX roadmap names new cities for 2009 rollout
Well, what do we have here? One of our readers sent us a screenshot from Sprint's Sales Portal that included the above roadmap for its WiMAX rollout this year. A number of the yet-to-be-launched cit...
Windows 7 and Browser Choice in Europe
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel — A week ago the European Commission said it welcomed our proposal to provide Windows users a “consumer ballot screen” to select the Web browser of their ch...
Defense Deparment eyes hacker con for new recruits
IDG News Service - The U.S. Air Force has found an unlikely source of new recruits: The yearly Defcon hacking conference, which runs Thursday through Sunday in Las Vegas. — Col. Michael Convertino c...
New Study Shows How Different Generations Use Facebook
Reports from Inside Facebook earlier this year have shown the growth in Facebook use amongst users over 35 and baby boomers especially. Now, a new study from Anderson Analytics shows how different ge...
Photog thrilled to get peanuts from Time
By King Kaufman: In April, Time magazine used a stock photo of coins in a jar on its cover to illustrate a story about “the new frugality.” — Last week, the photographer who took the picture, Robert...
Yahoo Labs chief sees real-time search opportunity
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is considering developing new real-time search capabilities, even as it outsources its existing Internet search technology to Microsoft Corp. — Yahoo's Prabhakar ...
Ready to Port your iPhone App to Windows Mobile?
Hello, my name is Constanze Roman and I'm a Community PM with the Windows Mobile Community Team. If you've been curious about porting an iPhone app to the Windows Mobile platform, then I have excitin...
Twitter Slammed by Summer Doldrums
Lately it seems like everyone on Twitter is dropping the ball. Too little chatter and too much “living” of “lives.” So we ran a very scientific survey and discovered that, yes, basically everyone mi...
Twitter Surpasses Facebook as Top Link in E-mail
Social media platform Wetpaint and digital consulting firm Altimeter Group last week released a report supporting the theory that there's a direct link between a brand's social media efforts and reven...
Don't Look Now, But Flash Is (Kind Of) Working On Chrome For Mac
So, we've been tracking the progress of Google Chrome on the Mac for a while. The daily builds of Chromium seem to be getting better and better, and close to being ready for prime time. One major th...