Inside Snow Leopard's hidden malware protection
File Quarantine is Mac users' first line of defense against malicious software — While malicious software has long been a near-daily annoyance for Windows PCs, Mac users have become accustomed to no...
Secretary Napolitano Announces New Directives on Border Searches of Electronic Media
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced new directives to enhance and clarify oversight for searches of computers and other electronic media at U.S. ports of e...
Yelp Brings First US Augmented Reality App to iPhone Store
Social review service Yelp has snuck the first Augmented Reality (AR) iPhone app specifically for the US into the iTunes App Store. The undisclosed new feature allows iPhone 3Gs owners to shake their...
GScreen's Dual-Screen Spacebook Coming Soon(ish)
This is one of the first photos of an actual gScreen's dual 15.4-inch screen Spacebook—two full screens (not just an extra 10-inch one like Lenovo's W700. Really. There were renders before, but here...
Facebook Announces Privacy Improvements in Response to Recommendations by Canadian Privacy Commissioner
Facebook to provide users with even greater control over information shared with third-party applications, and revisions to privacy policy PALO ALTO, Calif. — August 27, 2009 …
Street View gets down to business
Finding a business with Street View just became easier. For example, if you search for “thai restaurants near mountain view” on Google Maps, and click on a search result, a bubble pops up with variou...
Apple to iPhone developers: Please make your apps less useful
Apple strikes again. Normally, when an iPhone/iPod touch app gets updated it's good news. Woo hoo — new features, new fun! iStat users who updated their app to the latest version that became availab...
Malware Statistics Update
Every now and then people ask us for an update on the malware statistics we published in the All Your iFrames Point To Us blog post. We're glad to share this sort of data because we believe that coll...
Facebook 3.0 For iPhone Now Available On The App Store
Nearly two weeks after submitting the app to Apple, Facebook's totally revamped 3.0 application is finally live on the App Store, according to the app's developer Joe Hewitt. You can download it now ...
Translate documents: sharing across languages and generations
My cousin is in first grade and sometimes she writes short stories for class. I try to share the stories with her grandparents, but because Japanese is their first language and they don't speak Engli...
Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York City
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will kick off the Windows 7 launch at an event in New York City on October 22, according to an invitation Microsoft has sent to various media members and bloggers. — To d...
Apple Says It Has Approved App From Music Service Spotify
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) says it has approved an iPhone app from Spotify, a music service that some people believe represents a growing threat to iTunes. — The decision has been closely watched in part be...
Regulators open inquiry into wireless industry
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission launched an inquiry on Thursday to examine the state of competition in the wireless industry, taking a step that could lead to probes ...
Time Warner Cable Online Video Test En Route
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Cable is on the verge of expanding its online video efforts from a small-scale HBO trial to a small-scale national test of its version of TV Everywhere with some of the same ne...
isocket Raises $2 Million Series A With Some Big Names
isocket, an open ad platform, is announcing a Series A round of financing led by Tim Draper at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Also joining the round was David Blumberg of Blumberg Capital, Jeff Clavier of ...
Microsoft Ends Bing Promotion Early After Hitting Cashback Limit
There is no denying that Bing's Double Cashback promotion served up some great deals. But apparently they were so good that Microsoft had to end the deal a full four days early — and even earlier for...
JWT, WPP Sued Over TV Advertising for Microsoft's Bing
Denizen Claims Agency Stole Patented Method of Integrating a Show's Content Into Ads — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — A Delaware firm has filed a lawsuit against JWT and parent WPP, claiming the ad agency s...
How Big Is the Apple iPhone App Economy? The Answer Might Surprise You
If I were to tell you that Apple's app economy was worth more than $2.4 billion a year, you would laugh hysterically, shake your head and walk out of the room, yes? Surf on over to some other web sit...
Updated: Real Time Search Engine OneRiot Raises $7 Million
OneRiot has raised $5.7 million in a round of funding, according to an SEC filing—the latest sign that venture capitalists have high hopes for the hot real time search market. OneRiot indexes links u...
Microsoft Delivers Open-Source Bing SDK for iPhone, Mac
Microsoft delivers a Bing iPhone and Mac software development kit and makes the SDK available for download on the Microsoft CodePlex community development site. — Microsoft has delivered a Bing iPho...
Apple gets higher profile in HTML standardization
An Apple manager has become a co-chairman of the group standardizing HTML, giving the company a higher-profile role in a crucial time for development of the language used to build Web pages. — The W...
Apple proposes location-based iPhone home screens
The iPhone could offer an automated home screen providing local weather, time, maps and contacts based on the device's location, according to a new patent application from Apple. — Revealed by the U...
Snow Leopard review
Snow Leopard. Even the name seems to underpromise — it's the first “big cat” OS X codename to reference the previous version of the OS, and the list of big-ticket new features is seemingly pretty sho...
Maemo 5 injects speed and power into mobile computing
The new Nokia N900: Computer-grade performance in a handset — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today marked the next phase in the evolution of Maemo software with the new Nokia N900. Taking its cues from the...
New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute
Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. — The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic s...
GScreen's Dual-Screen Spacebook Coming Soon(ish)
This is one of the first photos of an actual gScreen's dual 15.4-inch screen Spacebook—two full screens (not just an extra 10-inch one like Lenovo's W700. Really. There were renders before, but here...
Facebook Announces Privacy Improvements in Response to Recommendations by Canadian Privacy Commissioner
Facebook to provide users with even greater control over information shared with third-party applications, and revisions to privacy policy PALO ALTO, Calif. — August 27, 2009 …
Unchain the Office Computers!
Why corporate IT should let us browse any way we want. — During a town hall meeting for State Department workers last month, an employee named Jim Finkle asked Hillary Clinton a very important quest...
Asustek to launch e-book reader under Eee family
Asustek Computer plans to launch an e-book reader under its Eee brand by the end of 2009 at the earliest, according to company president Jerry Shen. — Meanwhile, Micro-Star International (MSI) is al...
Street View gets down to business
Finding a business with Street View just became easier. For example, if you search for “thai restaurants near mountain view” on Google Maps, and click on a search result, a bubble pops up with variou...
Defying Experts, Rogue Computer Code Still Lurks
It is still out there. — Like a ghost ship, a rogue software program that glided onto the Internet last November has confounded the efforts of top security experts to eradicate the program and trace...
Pictures: Fire On Google's Roof, UK HQ Evacuated, Barbecue Blamed
Google's a hot company to work for - literally. A fire atop its UK HQ on Victoria's Buckingham Palace Road in London forced its evacuation shortly after Thursday lunchtime. “Yes, there has been a fi...
Console Price Wars: Microsoft Drops Xbox Elite Down To $299
Hoping to boost console sales this holiday season, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has dropped the price of its Elite Xbox 360 to $299. The $100 price cut comes just about a week after Sony (finally) slashed ...
Boxcar 2.0 Is A Must-Have For the iPhone. It's The Best Push Notification App Yet.
A few days ago, I wrote about the frustration over the delay in approving the new Facebook app for the iPhone. That should launch any day now, and it's a good thing because as soon as it does …
Apple finally enters the world's biggest mobile market: China to get the iPhone in October
Major Chinese news portal 163.com is reporting [Google machine translation] that Apple has finally signed a deal with China Unicom to bring the iPhone 3G to mainland China in October.
Researchers who hack the Mac OS
It was summer 2005. Dino Dai Zovi walked into a Manhattan Starbucks, ordered a coffee, sat down, and opened up his laptop. — Before his coffee was cold he had found a local privilege escalation vul...
AOL, Still Shaking Up Staff, Hires New CFO Artie Minson
Newish AOL CEO Tim Armstrong hasn't gone on a massive firing binge. But he's still shaking up the ranks at the Time Warner (TWX) unit. Today, for instance, he is installing a new chief financial of...
AT&T Opted Out of Motorola's Android Plan
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (TheStreet) — Motorola's (MOT Quote) one last chance has one fewer partner to help make it happen. — AT&T (T Quote) cancelled plans to carry Google (GOOG Quote) Android-powered phon...
Canada Privacy Commissioner on Facebook's ‘Retrofit’
Canada's privacy commissioner is holding a press conference today to discuss its talks with Facebook over privacy issues such as the ability to permanently delete accounts and data disclosure to third...
Progressive signals? From the Tories? On copyright?
Access Copyright, a group that collects copyright fees for things like textbooks, put out a curious statement earlier this month in the midst of the latest debate over copyright reform. — “It's a si...
Microsoft Downplays Yahoo Upgrades to E-Mail, Search, Messenger Apps
Microsoft responds to Yahoo's Aug. 24 announcement of upgrades for users by insisting that it had already integrated many of Yahoo's new features, including search results from social networking sites...