The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down for Good
In the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. It soon became one of the largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet, coordinating ...
Verizon to AT&T: “Our ads are true and the truth hurts”
Verizon Wireless responded today to a lawsuit filed by AT&T earlier this month that accused Verizon's “There's a map for that” marketing campaign of misleading consumers about AT&T's 3G coverage in th...
Online Petition Demands Apple Approve iPhone Apps
Three iPhone application developers are cited in an online petition which asks Apple to approve their apps, all of which have been sitting in limbo for months on end. The developers are awaiting word...
Apple's Black Friday deals leaked?
One of our connects just hit us up with some intriguing Apple information. According to them, what you see detailed above is a shot of Apple's yearly Black Friday deals. It's reported to be somethin...
Google Holding Chrome OS Event Thursday. Complete Overview And Launch Plans To Be Revealed.
Google is planning to hold a special Chrome OS event at its headquarters in Mountain View, CA this Thursday morning, we've just been notified. The plan is to give some technical background informatio...
MySpace Close To Acquiring iMeem
MySpace is in late stage negotiations to acquire music streaming service iMeem, we've confirmed from multiple sources. MySpace is on a bit of an acquisition spree - they acquired iLike, another music...
Feds: Top e-tailers profitting from billion-dollar Web scam
Note 1:09 p.m. PT: This post is being updated as the Senate hearing takes place Tuesday afternoon. — Three companies have generated more than $1.4 billion by “misleading” Web shoppers into signing u...
Adobe Releases Flash Player 10.1 And AIR 2.0 - Both Include Multi-touch Support
A mere week after Adobe Systems reported that it would be shedding nearly 700 employees or 9% of its total worldwide workforce, the company is releasing two highly anticipated new products that have b...
360 Facebook and Twitter Today, PS3 Integration Incoming
Fire up your Xbox 360 later today and you'll discover your social network just broadened by a factor of two. Microsoft teased Xbox 360 Facebook and Twitter integration at E3 this summer and rolled it...
T-Mobile staff sold personal data
Staff at mobile phone company T-Mobile passed on millions of records from thousands of customers to third party brokers, the firm has confirmed. — Details emerged after the firm alerted the informat...
The great Belgian iPhone robbery
Burglars in Antwerp make off with $3 million worth of smartphones — Over the weekend, someone used a fire ladder to climb to the roof of a huge warehouse in Willebroek, a Dutch-speaking municipality...
Times editor outlines plans for online charging
Micro-payments dismissed in favour of charging for 24-hour access to day's edition of the paper — James Harding, the editor of the Times, today gave the clearest indication yet of how News Internati...
Motorola Droid camera autofocus fixed in secrecy?
While we were busy looking into external speaker problems on the Droid, it would seem Moto was itself hard at work remedying a separate issue with the device. A number of users on support forums have...
Finding the laws that govern us
As many of us recall from our civics lessons in school, the United States is a common law country. That means when judges issue opinions in legal cases, they often establish precedents that will guid...
Explore images with Google Image Swirl, now in Labs
Back in 2001, to give people a new, quicker way to find images, we launched Image Search. When you do a search for [eiffel tower] you'll find an array of images of the tower in the daytime, in black ...
Stephen Fry talks Twitter - “human shaped, not business shaped”
Twitter is a massively popular social networking and micro-blogging site that has gained an inordinate amount of headlines and copy over the past year or so. But what is the nature of Twitter?
Google Backs Out Of NewsHour Debate With Open Book Alliance, And I Don't Blame Them
There was lots of news late last week about a proposed modification to the Google Books settlement agreement. Today there was going to be more news - a televised debate about Google Books on Jim Lehr...
Google's Sample Chrome Extensions Are Already Working
As we noted last night, Google looks to be on the verge of unleashing Chrome extension support in a major way. Not only does the home tab page on the new builds of Chromium (and the dev builds of Chr...
Apple IPhone Will Outsell Rivals in China, Unicom's Chang Says
Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) — China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. Chairman Chang Xiaobing said he expects Apple Inc.'s iPhone to become China's best-selling smart phone, countering skepticism by analysts who say th...
Windows Azure opens for business on Jan. 1, 2010
This morning, Microsoft kicked off its 2009 Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles. Typically, Microsoft times PDC around new operating systems that are testing and launching in the near fu...
AdMob brings interactive video ads to iPhone
While it's waiting to be gobbled up by Google, AdMob isn't sitting still. — The mobile ad company announced Tuesday that it will deliver interactive video ads to the iPhone and iPod Touch devices. ...
Zynga raises more venture capital for social gaming expansion
Zynga has become the hottest social gaming company with more than 196 million users on Facebook alone. Today, the San Francisco company has raised $15.18 million in an extension to its second round o...
Seesmic Launches Native Twitter Client For Windows
Today brings good news for PC users everywhere. Seesmic is launching a native desktop client for Windows. Seesmic's founder and CEO Loic Le Meur made the announcement today at Microsoft's Profession...
Lost My Phone, Give Me Your Number!! Groups On Facebook Are A Spammer's Paradise
“LOST MY PHONE!!! GIVE ME YOUR DIGITS!” — Sound familiar? For years, many people who have recently lost their phones have turned to Facebook to reunite with their friends.
AT&T intros two new TV apps
AT&T has launched two new TV applications for customers of its IPTV service ‘U-verse TV’: ‘Offers On Demand’ and ‘Caller ID on TV’. — The new ‘Offers On Demand’ application allows users to redeem a ...