Apple Changes Leopard's Spots
For a company known for breakthrough products with cool features, Apple this week is doing something unusual: It is introducing a key product with very few new features that are visible to its users. ...
Augmented Traffic Views for Android could be the coolest AR app we've seen yet
Augmented Reality is quickly becoming a hot ticket item in the mobile world and we've seen various nifty applications of the technology previewed recently. The key of course, is finding useful and va...
Nessie on Google Earth
THIS amazing image on Google Earth could be the elusive proof that the Loch Ness Monster exists. Sun reader Jason Cooke spotted “Nessie” while browsing the website's satellite photos. Security guard...
Download Over a Million Public Domain Books from Google Books in the Open EPUB Format
Over the years, we've heard a lot from people who've unearthed hidden treasures in Google Books: a crafter who uncovered a forgotten knitting technique, a family historian who discovered her ancestor ...
Snow Leopard warning: Your apps may crash
Two days before the scheduled launch of Mac OS X Snow Leopard — the latest update of Apple's (AAPL) flagship operating system — developers are still scrambling to make sure their applications will wor...
Sources: Apple to unveil new iPod lineup on September 9
Apple currently plans to host a media event on Wednesday, Sept. 9 to introduce its 2009 iPod offerings and make a host of other music-related announcements, AppleInsider can independently confirm. — ...
Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service enables financial management and payments from a mobile phone
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today introduced Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service offering consumers with mobile device access to basic financial services.
Isohunt judge says MPAA has yet to prove direct infringment
File-sharing sites haven't had a great year, especially in court, but on Thursday they received a smidgen of good news. — The Motion Picture Association of America asked a federal court to rule that...
Is Google Entering the Mortgage Quote Business?
Google plans to begin offering loan quotes online as early as this month, a lawsuit filed in federal court this week claims. The suit was filed by LendingTree, which offers consumers mortgage quotes ...
Stern Fans Rejoice: Sirius XM SkyDock for iPhone
The rumors were true. At an invitation-only media event in New York City this morning, Sirius XM (SIRI) debuted the first-ever radio dock for the iPhone and iPod touch. — Dubbed SkyDock, the $119.9...
ACLU chapter flags Facebook app privacy
The Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has put out a campaign designed to raise awareness of the privacy implications of Facebook's developer platform. It's focusing sp...
Porn collection put people off upgrading to Firefox 3
Mozilla's Security team has disclosed a very interesting piece of research which suggests people refused to upgrade to the latest version of Firefox because they were afraid the browser would expose t...
Formalizing the retweet may change people's behavior.
The microblogging and social networking site Twitter took off last year and had more than 44.5 million users worldwide as of June. In the 140-character limited ecosystem of Twitter, users have evolve...
ACLU Seeks Records About Laptop Searches At The Border
Customs And Border Protection Policy Allows Searches Of Laptops Without Suspicion of Wrongdoing — CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org — NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union filed a la...
Apple Says Vonage App Delayed By Technical Issues; Vonage Says Fix Made, App Resubmitted (Updated)
Approval of a request by Vonage (VG) to distribute a mobile VOIP application through the Apple (AAPL) App Store has been delayed by technical issues with the Vonage software …
The Top 5 Reasons RSS Readers Went Wrong
Sam Diaz over at ZDNet wrote the following in a blog entry titled RSS: A good idea at the time but there are better ways now in response to an announcement of a new feature in Google Reader … I take i...
Qualcomm readying handheld FLO TV Personal Television device
You know I like to keep my ear close to the ground when it comes to new gadgets, and I just got the scoop via a very reliable source about a new portable digital TV that Qualcomm is going to be introd...
Judge orders cybersquatter to pay Verizon $33m
Massive default damages ruled acceptable — A federal court in California has upheld a massive $33.15m penalty against a cybersquatting domain aggregator that registered hundreds of websites mimickin...
The Craigslist Credo: Craigslist vs. eBay
In 2005 Fortune magazine published a piece by Adam Lashinsky called Burning Sensation, which described the threat craigslist posed to newspapers. But it didn't ignore the threat that other tech compa...
Google To Open The AdSense Gates To Other Ad Networks — That They Approve Of
That They Approve Of — In what looks to be an effort to be the one overall ad network that rules them all, Google sent out an email to AdSense publishers today letting them know that they would soo...
Palm Wants To Embrace Google Voice, But It's Not Clear Google Wants To Embrace Palm
Suddenly Apple's competitors see a weakness in the iPhone, and it's Google Voice. We've heard from a source close to Palm that the company plans to roll out deep integration with Google Voice on the ...
Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets you create your own logically isolated set of Amazon EC2 instances and connect it to your existing network using an IPsec VPN connection. This new offer...
Who's Driving Twitter's Popularity? Not Teenagers
Kristen Nagy, an 18-year-old from Sparta, N.J., sends and receives 500 text messages a day. But she never uses Twitter, even though it publishes similar snippets of conversations and observations. —...
Intel Next-Gen Mobile Platforms Make Windows 7 Launch an Awesome Time to Buy a Laptop
Windows 7's launch is going to be a hell of a busy time for laptops. Expect a slew of higher-end Intel Core i7 mobile rigs and thin notebooks powered by new dual-core ULV processors when the OS ships...
Twitter Exploit Still Works
Yesterday I posted an article about a serious vulnerability I found in Twitter. As it was a bit on the geeky side, it may well have gone over a few people's heads, so I thought I'd try to explain it ...
Nokia to offer ARM-based smartbook in addition to Booklet 3G, say Taiwan makers
Nokia, in addition to its recently unveiled netbook, the Nokia Booklet 3G, will offer an ARM-based smartbook and soon settle ODM orders, according to Taiwan-based handset makers.
Download Over a Million Public Domain Books from Google Books in the Open EPUB Format
Over the years, we've heard a lot from people who've unearthed hidden treasures in Google Books: a crafter who uncovered a forgotten knitting technique, a family historian who discovered her ancestor ...
RSS: A good idea at the time but there are better ways now
The Google Reader team posted a blog entry today with some results of a survey it conducted. The team wanted to know what an elite group of “Power Readers” were reading online - presumably using thei...
Twitter's Golden Ratio (That No One Likes To Talk About)
If you're new to Twitter, life is easy. A notification comes in that someone is following you, and you probably follow them back. After all, you're going to want some tweets in your stream. After a...
Free Software Foundation trashes Windows 7
The Free Software Foundation is using the launch of Windows 7 to try to convince businesses to dump Windows in favor of an open-source operating system. — (Credit: Free Software Foundation) — Home ...
‘The Analyzer’ Pleads Guilty in $10 Million Bank-Hacking Case
Ehud Tenenbaum, aka “The Analyzer,” quietly pleaded guilty in New York last week to a single count of bank-card fraud for his role in a sophisticated computer-hacking scheme that federal officials say...
Facebook Makes a Few Design Tweaks
This evening, Facebook made a couple design tweaks designed to make the site more consistent. While none of the changes affect any core Facebook features, many users will likely notice the subtle upd...
Terrible Online Game with Terrible Ads Is Also Slimy, Litigous
Remember Evony, the online game whose banners epitomize the worst in online advertising? It turns out the company doesn't like people talking about its deceptive practices. — The company's banner a...
Mininova Ordered to Remove All ‘Infringing’ Torrents
Mininova were sued this spring by BREIN, an outfit which protects the rights of several large entertainment industry corporations. — Today, the judge ruled that the world's largest BitTorrent indexe...
Nokia bets on Linux in iPhone battle: sources
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia Oyj will try again to tackle Apple Inc's iPhone in the top-end of the handset market with a bet on Linux software, several industry sources told Reuters. — Top handset mak...
Film Fresh to offer Hollywood movies in DivX
Online movie retailer Film Fresh announced today the availability of movies from four Hollywood studios in the DivX format, marking the latest step forward for the downloadable movie business. DivX h...
Survey: Users of social networks take risks despite concerns
A study commissioned by Web security company AVG Technologies and the Chief Marketing Officers Council (CMO) points out an interesting contradiction between people's concerns and actions regarding sec...
Archos' Android-based A5S and A5H Internet Tablets outed by FCC?
You know those confidentiality agreements companies sign with the FCC to keep our prying eyes away? Well, Archos didn't sign one. The result is a treasure trove of information about its new A5S (mod...
New myTouch Android Commercial Stars Whoopi Goldberg, Phil Jackson & Jessie James
T-Mobile will unveil “the largest product launch advertising campaign in T-Mobile history” for the Android myTouch tomorrow with a television, online, cinema, print and search advertising campaign. T...
Was Twitter Document Theft and Publication by TechCrunch Legal?
In June of this year, the personal email account of a Twitter employee was accessed, apparently as a result of an insecure password. By Twitter's own account, the unauthorized access to that account ...