Twitter's own account caused blackout, says DNS provider
Twitter's authorized account made changes to DNS records, shunting users to hacker site, says Dyn Inc. — Computerworld - Hackers redirected Twitter.com's traffic to a rogue Web site for more than an...
Mac Clone Computer Maker Psystar To Shutter
SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Psystar Corp. is in the process of closing down its operations, a move that follows a court decision earlier in the week barring it from selling products already found to h...
Verizon Prepares for the iPhone
Verizon Wireless is buttressing its network in the event Apple drops AT&T as the exclusive carrier of its popular smartphone — There's no telling yet whether or when AT&T (T) might lose its position...
AT&T survives Operation Chokehold
Ma Bell's wireless network is still standing after Friday's grassroots iPhone attack — The appointed hour — Friday, from 12 noon to 1 p.m. PST — came and went and AT&T's (T) wireless had not been br...
The Twitter API is Finished. Now What?
Twitter's API has spawned over 50,000 applications that connect to it, taking the promise of fertile APIs we first saw with Flickr half a decade ago and bringing it to new heights. Now, the first mea...
Exclusive: Google Nexus One hands on
I just played with the Google Nexus One for a few minutes, Here's my report: — It's extremely thin — It's much nicer looking in person than in pictures — There's a 4 GB micro-SD card installed — T...
Sex, porn, Jacko top kids' searches in 2009
Sex, porn, and Michael Jackson were among the most popular items kids searched for online in 2009, as tracked by Symantec's OnlineFamily.Norton. — Symantec on Thursday revealed the top 100 favorite ...
Open House? Google Has Also Been Eying Trulia in Real Estate Search Play.
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — According to sources close to the situation, along with its pending bid for Yelp, Google has been in on-again, off-again acquisition talks with...
Facebook Feeds Begin Showing Up on YouTube's Homepage
You might have noticed that YouTube's been getting a lot more social lately. We've launched several features in the last few months that let you better connect with the platforms that matter most to ...
Notion Ink Tegra Android smartpad uses Pixel Qi display
CES 2010 is likely to see a fair few internet tablets being announced, but SlashGear has heard about one particular model that has more than a little promise. Notion Ink's as-yet unnamed Android “sma...
Verizon Responds To FCC Inquiry On ETFs, Erroneous $1.99 Fee
And the excuses are just as lame as you thought they'd be... · fcc · business · wireless — As we've been covering, the FCC recently sent a latter to Verizon asking them to explain why they just d...
Wordpress 2.9 is out.
It's out. The world's most popular blogging engine has released it's latest update and there's a little something for everyone. — Along with a mass of bug and security fixes, Wordpress highlights t...
Rackspace Goes Down. Again. Takes The Internet With It. Again.
Another day, another Rackspace outage. The hosting company had a complete and total failure today that took down a number of big sites on the Internet, including ours. This has been happening all to...
Verizon to get Palm Pre Plus, LG VS750, and Motorola Devour smartphones
Published on: Today by PhoneArena Team — Thanks to a few of our tipsters, we've learned what new smartphones are lurking to be released by Verizon Wireless over the next couple of months.
Amazon Kindle DX out of stock
Amazon.com yesterday trumpeted that December is already its best sales month ever for its Kindle electronic readers, and tried to further juice sales with a free shipping offer on its $259 basic Kindl...
Amazon Won't Be The Only One Selling Kindle Books Next Year (AMZN)
Scribd, the YouTube for print, is working on a new way to get e-books onto your Kindle without buying them from Amazon. — Right now, to get one of the tens of millions of Scribd documents has — book...
Mozilla Rolls out Latest Firefox Beta
The Mozilla development community has rolled out the latest beta of its Firefox 3.6 browser. — In addition to the usual round of bug fixes, Firefox 3.6 beta version 5, comes with a number of new fea...
Trident Gum Turns Fan Tweets into Full-Page USA Today Ad
To prove that real people really do like their new gum, Trident's decided to try something unconventional with their latest ad in USA Today. The full-page color spread, headlined “The People have Twe...
Anti-COFEE tool DECAF revealed as spoof
Two developers said they created a tool, called DECAF, that compromises Microsoft's COFEE computer-forensics tool by killing its processes, disabling a computer's connection ports and even conjuring u...
The Best and the Worst Tech of the Decade
With only a few weeks left until we close out the 'naughts and move into the teens, it's almost obligatory to take a look back at the best and not-so-best of the last decade. With that in mind, I pol...
Twitter App Store Oneforty Gets Funded
Back in June, Twitter app store oneforty became the first TechStars Boston company to get seed funding (just two weeks after presenting). Now it has become the first one to get institutional VC fundi...
Google Grabs Plaxo's CTO To “Turbocharge” The Opening Of The Social Web
Back in June, Google lost Kevin Marks, one of the social web's main proponents within the company. Today, they've gained a new one: Joseph Smarr. — Smarr is joining Google to “help drive a new comp...
Twitter Hacked, Defaced By “Iranian Cyber Army”
We've received multiple tips right around 10 pm that Twitter was hacked and defaced with the message below. The site is currently offline. We're looking into this and waiting on a response from Twit...
Where in the world are Apple's 78 million handsets?
Mostly in the U.S., but Japan, France, Australia and China are coming on fast, says AdMob — Click to enlarge. Source: AdMob — By the end of December, according to Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, Ap...
Apple iPhone is big, big, big in Japan
Apple is big - really big - in Japan, where the iPhone now accounts for 46.1 percent of the smartphone market, according to the latest data from Impress. — The company achieved sales accounting for ...
Contrary to report, Psystar not shutting down, lawyer says
Mac clone maker's lawyer says another attorney misquoted; Psystar not out of business, but site is down — Computerworld - Although Mac clone maker Psystar has turned off the lights at its Web site, ...
DRM Fiasco Ruins James Cameron's Avatar 3D Preview
‘Avatar’ from Titanic director James Cameron is certainly the most anticipated film of the year. — Set on a moon under siege by humans determined to exploit its resources, this science fiction epic ...
French court rules against Google over book copying
A Paris court on Friday found U.S. Internet giant Google (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) guilty of violating copyright by digitising books and putting extracts online, following a legal challenge b...
Facebook Feeds Begin Showing Up on YouTube's Homepage
You might have noticed that YouTube's been getting a lot more social lately. We've launched several features in the last few months that let you better connect with the platforms that matter most to ...
Rdio makes its debut... as an iPhone app
Rdio is set to be one of the more intriguing music startups of 2010 - it's a streaming subscription service set up by Skype/Kazaa founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom. It's still in stealth mode...
Verizon to get Palm Pre Plus, LG VS750, and Motorola Devour smartphones
Published on: Today by PhoneArena Team — Thanks to a few of our tipsters, we've learned what new smartphones are lurking to be released by Verizon Wireless over the next couple of months.
Google Guru?
Chris writes in to say he's spotted a new service on his Google account services page: “Google Guru”, which points towards guru.google.com/guru/ ... which is non-existent at the moment. The account p...
EtherPad Open Source Release
As promised, we hereby release all the source code to EtherPad. — http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/ — Our goal with this release is to let the world run their own etherpad servers so that the fun...
Former Microsoft evangelist Don Dodge on Google vs. Microsoft (Q&A)
At Microsoft, Don Dodge was known as the software giant's ambassador to an at-times skeptical startup community. When he was laid off in November, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington declared, “This is a ...
Bing iPhone app - upcoming fixes
The response so far to the Bing app for iPhone has been incredible; we are excited by the strong customer response and download traffic! However, we've also heard about a couple of issues that we'd l...
Mac fan blogs miss the point about Android, iPhone and Windows Mobile
It amazes me how Mac and tech blogs can take data touting Google Android phone gains and turn it into an iPhone beats Windows Mobile phone foo fest. Give it up. The data reveals much more interestin...
Palm Confirms 1.3.5: Speed, Battery, App Limit all to be improved, Plus Investor Call Notes
Allowing for installation of more apps — Increased speed and responsiveness on the Palm Pixi — We're still listening in and hearing good things about what's coming.
Facebook readies its Game Dashboard to organize your social gaming life
Facebook is in the midst of redesigning how users find, interact with, and keep track of games on the social network. Called the “Game Dashboard,” the new feature is Facebook's attempt to play nice w...
New Rule for Cabbies: No Devices in the Ear
The latest contraband for New York City cabbies is a diminutive beeping earpiece — a high-tech accoutrement that for many has been the cellphone of choice. — The latest dictate from the city's Taxi ...
Performance problems delay Visual Studio 2010 release
Microsoft has pushed back the original March 2010 release date and is extending the beta period — Beset by performance issues, Microsoft has decided to extend the beta testing period for its upcomin...