Who Walked, Google or Yelp?
One thing is certain about the Google-Yelp courtship: After turning hot as recently as Friday, a bitter chill has spread over the relationship, and for now, the mating dance is definitely off. — But...
Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month
Five years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! in January, we're hearing from sources close to the project. MyBlogLog is a s...
Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem
On the last day, they gathered for a group photo. They were videogame programmers, artists, level builders, artificial-intelligence experts. Their team was — finally — giving up, declaring defeat, a...
The $75 Tablet Computer
Designer Yves Behar shares images and details from One Laptop Per Child's flashy PC plans. — Take a look at the designs for what could someday be the world's cheapest PC, and you may start to wish y...
Introducing the New Cybersecurity Coordinator
Today the White House announced the President's new White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, Howard Schmidt. — President Barack Obama greets his new White House Cyber Security Chief Howard A. Schmidt ...
Top Mobile Phones, Sites and Brands for 2009
The iPhone and various Blackberry handhelds dominated the mobile device market, while Google, Yahoo! and YouTube led the way as far as most accessed sites and brands on the mobile web. — Top 10 Mobi...
Firefox for mobile ready to debut
The mobile browser has been in development for the last year and a half — The first mobile phone version of the popular web browser Firefox is “days away” from launch, the head of the project has to...
Backupify drops paywall; backs up your data from Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail
One of the best parts of keeping your data in the cloud is that you don't have to worry quite as much about doing your own backups. If your computer crashes or your hard drive dies, you won't lose al...
Israeli programmer hacks Kindle, breaks DRM protection
Nothing makes you feel like you truly own your media and content like being able to do almost whatever you want with it. We're already used to DRM for our MP3s and the limitations it puts on device s...
An E-Book Buyer's Guide to Privacy
As we count down to end of 2009, the emerging star of this year's holiday shopping season is shaping up to be the electronic book reader (or e-reader). From Amazon's Kindle to Barnes and Noble's fort...
Voice May Join Google's Enterprise Lineup
GrandCentral, which Google acquired in 2007, relaunched as Google Voice way back in March. It's still technically in private beta, but invitations aren't all that hard to find. — From what we've he...
The U.S. Can Look To Europe To See What The iPhone's Future Will Be Here
Fed up with only having AT&T (NYSE: T) to choose from if you want the iPhone in the U.S., many consumers can't wait until Verizon or another carrier gets a hold of the device. But if you look at the ...
Russia Is Torn Over Push for Use of Cyrillic Web Domains
MOSCOW — The Kremlin has long been irritated by the way the United States dominates the Internet, all the way down to the ban on using Cyrillic for Web addresses — even kremlin.ru has to be demeaningl...
Attackers Buying Own Data Centers for Botnets, Spam
The malware writers and criminals who run botnets for years have been using shared hosting platforms and so-called bulletproof hosting providers as bases of operations for their online crimes. But, a...
Apple Not Liable For Plagued iMac Screens, Updates Firmware Anyway
Apple just dodged a bullet. — A New York federal judge dismissed a potential class action lawsuit which alleged that Apple propagated their popular iMac screens without disclosing certain manufactur...
IBM Preps for Cloud Computing War vs. Google, Microsoft in 2010
IBM will ramp up its cloud computing efforts in the messaging and collaboration market in 2010, focusing on extending the security of on-premises solutions to its LotusLive SAAS offerings. From Janua...
iPhone price wars begin - massive discounts hit France...
Flurry and Pinch Media to create mobile analytics powerhouse
Two analytics startups, Flurry and Pinch Media, are announcing a merger today as they try to create a mobile data analytics leader. While Flurry has been focused on e-commerce, Pinch Media was focuse...