Russian ISP Blocking Political Opposition Websites
I am still not convinced that we need special laws mandating net neutrality, but I find the arguments from telcos that no one would ever block sites or services to be highly unbelievable. There have ...
Need a last-minute gift? Go get yourself an eBook reader
It's the week before Christmas. You were hoping to find a gift that would be so thoughtful and such an emotionally-compelling statement about your relationship that your loved one would never intelle...
Twitter client Kiwi lets you style, hide, organize tweets
PEOPLE WHO READ THIS ALSO READ: — You would be right in many ways if you said that Twitter clients figuratively cost ten cents for every twelve apps you can round up. They typically compete in term...
Google To Acquire DocVerse; Office War Heats Up
Google, which is currently on one heck of a spending spree, is closing an acquisition of San Francisco based DocVerse, a service that lets users collaborate around Microsoft Office documents, we've he...
David Pogue Weighs In On Ebook DRM: Non-DRM'd Ebook Increased His Sales
Mark Rosedale (an employee of O'Reilly) was the first of a few to send in David Pogue's recent column in which he discusses the question of ebook DRM. Remember, just recently a Sony exec claimed that...
WordPress 2.9, oh so fine
Filed under Releases. — I want to make you mine, all the time... oh wait. Hello. I'm here on behalf of the entire WordPress development team and community to announce the immediate availability of...
Growing Grumblings on Tech News Don't Address Incentives
If you are the subject of the news, people will judge your actions and how you react to being in the spotlight. If you are the distributor of the news, how you message that news, and how accurately y...
Re Accessory Transforms your iPhone into a Universal Remote Control
attaches to the base of your iPhone and using its accompanying app, the device transforms your iPhone into a fully functional universal remote control. We're talking about an advanced remote control ...
Google Experimenting With Browser Login For Chrome OS
Google has made a change to Chrome OS to move the user login from the machine to the browser. Our guess is Google is, or will eventually use, Google Friend Connect to facilitate login. — The featur...
Reality check: Rackspace's cloud goes down; A few blog sites notice
You'd think that an outage at Rackspace crippled the Internet and left us peering outside our cubicles left to actually talk to real people or something. The reality: Rackspace had another unfortunat...
With Hit Social Game Happy Farm, Chinese Developer 5 Minutes Raises $3.5 Million from DFJ
It's not just western social gaming companies that are raising money these days. 5 Minutes, the China-based developer of cross-platform sensation Happy Farm, has closed a $3.5 million first round …
MyWebWill prepares your final tweet, Facebook update upon death
One rather morbid consequence of sharing our lives online is the digital trail we leave behind when we die. — It's not an idea that comes readily to the Facebook generation, but managing the profile...
Quicktime Vets Bring Mobile Video And Photo Sharing With Thwapr (Beta Launch)
Sharing videos on the Web is easy: Upload to YouTube or Facebook, send out a link. Sharing videos on mobile phones is still a pain. The iPhone tries to make it easier by letting you upload directly ...