Wikileaks Says It Has Half-a-Million 9/11 Pager Messages
The document-leaking site Wikileaks says it's preparing to release 500,000 intercepted wireless pager messages from a 24-hour period encompassing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. — Site ope...
Google Turning Times Square Into A Giant Voice Search Experiment On Black Friday
There are few things more terrifying to me than the idea of going anywhere near a shopping establishment on Black Friday. But if I lived in New York City, I think I would this year because Google, Ve...
Emblaze's First Else unveiled in London, promises to be a game-changer
Folks, today might be the day when you start to notice how ancient our smartphones have become, even if they only came out in last few months. Blame Else (formerly Emblaze Mobile) for their confusing...
Check the Redesigned Google (With Always-Visible Sidebar) Yourself
When you paste the following into the address bar of your browser when on google.com and hit return, you should find yourself as new participant of Google's latest and more all-encompassing prototype ...
Get movie trailers and more with Google Search for mobile
Heads up, movie fans — today we've launched a mobile version of our new Google Search results for movies, which makes it easier to plan a trip to the movies. Just go to google.com in the web browser ...
Nearly half the money spent at US retail on desktop PCs goes to Apple
In October, Mac US retail desktop computer revenue share was 47.71, percent up from 33.44 percent a year earlier, according to NPD. It's a stunning number, given just how many Windows PC companies co...
Chrome OS like lightning from a USB key: we could get used to this
We finally got around to prepping a USB key so we could boot to Chrome OS natively, and let us tell you: it's a world of difference. Of course, running something natively instead of virtualized is al...
Microsoft: Nice try, Mac geniuses, but we're filtering your tweets
There's something suspicious about all these stories about Mac fans “hijacking” the live #holidaywindows Twitter feed that Microsoft is using to display holiday messages at Saks Fifth Avenue in New Yo...
The Iterative Web App: A new look for Gmail and Google mobile web apps
On April 7th, we announced a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. Among the improvements was a complete redesign of the web application's underlying code which allo...
Facebook Talking to Developers About New Plans for Its Virtual Currency
Facebook first broached the idea of creating its own virtual currency for third-party developers back in December of 2007. The company has slowly rolled the “Credits” product out. First it introduce...
LinkedIn hits 3 million members in the UK, eyes IPO in not so near future
[UK] Business social network LinkedIn has hit a milestone in the UK, surpassing 3 million registered users in these parts. Kevin Eyres, Managing Director Europe at LinkedIn, announced the feat at a L...
New Site Logs iPhone App Store Rejections
Last week I wrote a column for PCMag discussing the state of Apple's iPhone vetting process. In the piece, I stated, “No one but Apple knows precisely how many apps have been rejected.” The creator ...
30,000 Internet Users to Receive File-Sharing Cash Demands
For regular readers of TorrentFreak, this fresh news can hardly come as a surprise. The supposed anti-piracy scheme originally pioneered in the UK in conjunction with lawyers Davenport Lyons rolls on...
Microsoft marketing thinks that women = Sugababes
Aiming for that crucial eight-year-old girls market, Microsoft's abysmal marketing department have signed up the Sugababes as the new face of Windows 7. Follow the three unrecognisable singer-dancer-...
The iPhone comes to Tesco — will a price war follow?
will a price war follow? — [UK] Is an iPhone price war about to break out? After Vodafone and Orange bagged the iPhone - after O2's two year monopoly expired in September - we learn today that Tesco...
Ikea campaign innovation on Facebook breaks new ground
Marketing through Social Media channels still leaves many marketers scratching their heads but occasionally the industry is provided with some inspiration to help provide a guiding light. Take for ex...
Ericsson wins Nortel's North American GSM unit
Ericsson is slowly building its wireless business by scooping up parts of struggling Nortel. — Ericsson announced Wednesday that it has won a bid to buy Nortel Networks' North American GSM business ...
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde wants your credit card number
For years, the Pirate Bay was the place to go to if you wanted to share movies, music or other digital goods. Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde, who resigned from his job as the site's spokesperson e...
The Problem With the Boxee Box
Boxee generated a lot of excitement on the part of online video fans when it said it would release a dedicated hardware device that will enable users to connect its open-source media center software d...
Searches getting longer
Last week I spoke at Search Engine Room in Sydney and presented some of the trends we are seeing in how Australian's interactions with search Engines are changing. — There has been a global trend th...
Surveys: iPhone users pay for digital content, while Mac users are all individuals
iPhone users are happier to pay for digital content than the wider online population; while Mac users are more creative and individualistic, a pair of surveys released this morning claim.
eBay opens auction app for BlackBerry
RIM's BlackBerry App World is slowly but surely gaining ground as a storefront for distributing BlackBerry applications. eBay is the latest major company to forge a presence in the storefront, in the ...
EFF Launches New “Terms of (Ab)Use” Page
One cannot go online today without eventually being asked to accept a set of so-called Terms of Service (or TOS). Such TOS agreements have become ubiquitous to websites and other online services in t...
Sobees Tackles LinkedIn In Powerful New Clients, Android App To Launch Soon
The evolution of Twitter clients have been speeding along. While Twitter is the fundamental platform that formed a base for many applications, such as TweetDeck, Seesmic, PeopleBrowsr and Sobees …
Scamville Shakeout: Was Gambit The Right Fall Guy?
I'm not sure any lasting change will come from our series of Scamville posts. For now the most egregious of the social gaming offers are gone, which is a good thing. But none of the big players seem...
White House official's net neutrality comments irk AT&T
White House official links the issue to censorship in China — AT&T doesn't like the idea of new regulations mandating unfettered access to the Internet, and recent comments from the Obama administra...
Fring to bring free video calls to Android?
Last week Fring launched their free VOIP service for Android and the early reviews were positive. Fring allows users to make free VoIP calls over Skype, MSN, GoogleTalk and via hundreds of SIP provid...
Ustream Brings Its Viewer App To Android Market
Ustream has just launched a version of its Ustream Viewer for Android Market, giving users the ability to access any Ustream footage while they're on the go, free of charge. You'll be able to use the...
Mobile Web Usage Continues To Explode As Opera Mini Nears 40 Million Monthly Users
We all know the Mobile web is exploding in popularity. Opera Mini, Opera's mobile browser, grew its monthly users by 11 percent to nearly 40 million users in October from 32 million users in August.