Apple ‘iSlate’ Trademark and What is a ‘Magic Slate’?
After we broke the news yesterday that Apple had acquired iSlate.com, other pieces to the puzzle seemed to fall into place. Notably, TechCrunch found that iSlate had been registered as a trademark by...
Apple Purchased iSlate.com in 2007. Apple's New Tablet Called iSlate?
With rumors of the Apple tablet reaching new highs, MacRumors has found evidence that Apple acquired the domain name iSlate.com presumably in preparation for the new device. — The iSlate.com domain ...
Helping Children Find What They Need on the Internet
When Benjamin Feshbach was 11 years old, he was given a brainteaser: Which day would the vice president's birthday fall on the next year? — Benjamin, now 13, said he typed the question directly into...
Basically Every ISP Is Trying to Scare You Into Paying for Internet You Don't Need
You thought AT&T was screwing unsuspecting customers into paying obscene bandwidth bills with ridiculous claims of stuff you can't do? Time Warner says you can't have 3 people on the internet without...
Macs top Amazon's ‘Most Gifted’ list
Some computer wishes seem to have come true this holiday season — Last time we looked — on the eve of Cyber Monday — there was a conspicuous discrepancy in Amazon's (AMZN) computer department betwee...
Is Google Voice available for the iPhone?
Need a refresher on the Google Voice and Apple saga? Let's recap the story to date: — Apple pulled all Google Voice related apps from the App Store back in July, which led to an FCC inquiry, which ...
Want to connect your iPhone and Bluetooth keyboard? There's a (jailbroken) app for that (Update: video!)
The wait has been long, but now there's finally a means by which to connect your dear, yet almost buttonless, iPhone or iPod touch to a Bluetooth keyboard for some more intense finger tapping action.
Intercepting Predator Video
Sometimes mediocre encryption is better than strong encryption, and sometimes no encryption is better still. — The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Iraqi, and possibly also Afghan, milita...
Critics of H-P Software Soften Their Stance
Two people named Desi and Wanda recently set off an uproar with a YouTube video claiming that Hewlett-Packard computers are racist, based on the performance of the company's facial-recognition softwar...
Micro-blogs in China: Tweeting through the Great Firewall
Beijing, China (CNN) — A handful of homegrown micro-blogging sites emerged about the same time Twitter started to gain a small, yet steadily growing, share of Chinese Internet users, beginning about 2...
A year out, where's RIAA's promised ISP help?
A decade after the rise of Napster and a year after promising a new antipiracy strategy, the Recording Industry Association of America appears to be floundering on the piracy front. — The plan the t...