India blocks millions of mobiles
Millions of Indian mobile phones with no valid unique identification code have been blocked for security reasons. — The International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number is a 15-digit code which...
Nokia Sues Samsung, Display Panel Manufacturers Over Price-Fixing Claims
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) — Nokia Oyj, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, sued Samsung Electronics Co., LG Display Co., AU Optronics Corp. and other manufacturers of liquid-crystal displays over cla...
Mobile photo editing & sharing now available for global iPhone users!
Photoshop.com Mobile is excited to announce the latest news: the iPhone app is now available in every country with an app store. Now our international users can upload, edit & share photos from their...
FreeBSD bug gives untrusted root access
‘Unbelievably simple’ exploit — A security bug in the latest version of the FreeBSD can be exploited to grant unprivileged users complete control over the operating system, a German researcher said ...
Yahoo's 2009 searches topped by Michael Jackson and Twilight, not Twitter
Barely more than a few hours after Microsoft revealed the year's top queries on its new search engine Bing, Yahoo followed suit with its own top 10. Unsurprisingly, Michael Jackson topped both lists ...
Plancast Is Foursquare... For The Future
If you're going to leave your job at TechCrunch, you better have a good reason. I think Mark Hendrickson actually may have had one. — Hendrickson left TechCrunch in March. After about two years of...
FCC Moves Forward on White Spaces
The agency begins the process of establishing databases that will tell white space devices where existing television signals exist. White space devices are expected to deliver broadband services in t...
Silicon Valley's dim view of Microsoft softens
A decade ago, Silicon Valley was toasting the misfortune of Microsoft. — “I'm sure there are Champagne corks being popped all over the valley,” Gary Rivlin, author of “The Plot to Get Bill Gates,” t...
Lenovo, HP, Dell Integrating SDXC Readers in New 32nm Intel “Arrandale” Laptops
Don't want to be obsolete before launch — Most laptops and netbooks today come with a SDHC flash memory card reader. One of the major benefits of standardization is the ubiquity it allows.
The Facebook Verified App Saga Ends Tomorrow
For the last six months, you may have noticed that some of your favorite apps on Facebook Platform carried a special badge deeming them to be “Facebook Verified”. These apps “passed Facebook's review...
An Open Letter from Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg
It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected. Thanks to your help, more than 350 million people around the world are using Facebook to share their lives online. — To make t...
8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight
Disclaimer: The information presented here has been gathered and analyzed in my capacity as a graduate student at Indiana University. This data was gathered and analyzed on my own time, without using...
One of Google Chrome OS's hardest tasks? Printing
Many challenges will have to be solved before Google is ready to release Chrome OS, it's browser-based operating system for Netbooks. One of the biggest ones could be something as far offline as it g...
Videos on TV With a Flip of a Channel
Remember when families used to gather around the television to watch home videos? The process sounds old fashioned now that we spend so much time watching videos on our computer screens. The company...
Steve Jobs intervenes, approves Knocking streaming video app
A persuasive e-mail from an iPhone developer to Steve Jobs helped Pointy Heads Software get its Knocking Live Video—the first official iPhone app capable of streaming live video over 3G and WiFi conne...
Don't be evil, Craigslist
Yesterday (Nov 30th 2009), at approximately 2pm PST, Craigslist effectively killed all Yahoo Pipes projects that use Craigslist as a data source. For those unfamiliar with Yahoo Pipes, it's a nifty t...
Square Worth $40 Million Before Launch
Earlier today we wrote about Square, the new payment service cofounded by Jim McKelvey and Twitter creator Jack Dorsey. We also interviewed Dorsey and used Square to buy a coffee. — We knew Square ...
AT&T Ranked Last in Consumer Reports' Best Cellphone Service Survey
The annual survey of wireless customer satisfaction from Consumer Reports hits the streets this week and it doesn't have much good to say about AT&T. In a canvass of more than 50,000 readers spanning ...
Show me the pictures: better format for image results
I love when I get images back in my Google search results. There's no better way to quickly understand the difference between an ocelot and a clouded leopard. But sometimes I want to see more images...