Apple tries to silence owner of exploding iPod with gagging order
Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a gagging order after the child's iPod music player exploded and the family sought a refund from the company. — The Times has learnt that the co...
The FCC Questions Apple, AT&T and Google:
Last Tuesday (July 28th) when I was interviewed for the NY Times story, “Even Google Is Blocked With Apps for iPhone”, one of the questions I was asked was who I thought was the reason behind Apple's ...
Defcon air traffic control hacker: Excuse me while I change your aircraft's flight plan
In a scary presentation at the Defcon hacker conference, a security researcher showed how easy it is to compromise the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control system.
FreeAppAlert Notifies You When For-Pay iPhone Apps Become Free
iPhone: There are thousands and thousands of iPhone applications, but you hardly have time to keep up with their pricing changes, let alone new releases. The FreeAppAlert web service will keep you up...
Analyst claims first hand knowledge of Apple gaming, home media center tablet
Barron's is reporting that an un-named analyst has seen Apple's forthcoming tablet and expects it to be announced in September with a ship date around November. They mention that Apple is such a bell...
Game utilizes human intuition to help computers solve complex problems
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—A new computer game prototype combines work and play to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many computer hardware design tasks. — The online logic puzzle is called FunSAT …
Out of Search Business, Yahoo Shifts Its Focus
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Carol A. Bartz, chief executive of Yahoo, has been hobbled. — Three weeks ago, doctors gave her a new left knee, made of titanium and plastic. As a result, she is limping around...
The Death of Journalism (Gawker Edition)
A few weeks ago, I scored what passes these days for one of journalism's biggest coups, satisfying a holy writ for newspaper impact in the Internet age. Gawker, the snarky New York culture and media ...
Now on YouTube, Local News
With its ability to collect articles and sell advertisements against them, Google has already become a huge force in the news business — and the scourge of many newspapers. Now its subsidiary YouTube...
cPanel, Netgear and Linksys susceptible to nasty attack
Unholy trinity — Free whitepaper - Avoiding 7 common mistakes of IT security compliance — Defcon If you use cPanel to administer your website or certain Linksys or Netgear devices to route traffic...
FreeAppAlert Notifies You When For-Pay iPhone Apps Become Free
iPhone: There are thousands and thousands of iPhone applications, but you hardly have time to keep up with their pricing changes, let alone new releases. The FreeAppAlert web service will keep you up...
Net Applications: Apple just lost half its ‘market share’
The so-called market share reports issued every month by Net Applications have long been controversial — mostly because they didn't actually measure market share (which business people typically expre...
Windows Phone mobile OS demonstrated
INQTV Exclusive First video of final version — AT A RECENT Microsoft event the INQ was given an exclusive walkthrough of the final version of the new Windows Phone operating system, running on a tou...