Innolux to supply panels for Apple tablet
Innolux, the panel-making subsidiary of the Foxconn Group, will be the initial supplier of touch panels for Apple's tablet PC, with Wintek standing a change of becoming a second supplier at a later ti...
Leaked: Homeland Security's Post Underwear Bomb Airplane Rules
You saw our unofficial advice guide to flying after the crotchbomb. Here are the new Homeland Security Transportation Security Administration's official security rules. Read on to get all the hairy ...
AT&T, the iPhone and New York City's Newly Discovered Fraud Epidemic: What Doesn't Add Up?
Live in New York City? Want to buy an iPhone? Don't try ordering one from AT&T's Web site: The wireless carrier, at least for now, won't sell New Yorkers a new phone online, citing “increased fraudu...
Code That Protects Most Cellphone Calls Is Divulged
BERLIN — A German computer engineer said Monday that he had deciphered and published the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's digital mobile phone calls, in what he called an attempt to exp...
Nvidia delays Fermi to March 2010; AMD to launch new GPU in January-February
Nvidia is expected to delay its next-generation DirectX 11-supporting GPU (Fermi) to March, 2010, while AMD will launch more GPUs in January-February, according to sources from graphics card makers.
Flurry: App Store Sees Record Breaking Christmas, 50% Growth from November to December
As predicted here on MobileCrunch earlier this month, Apple rocked it this holiday season, and the early numbers are showing it. According to Flurry, the biggest mobile app analytics company …
Search, but You May Not Find
AS we become increasingly dependent on the Internet, we need to be increasingly concerned about how it is regulated. The Federal Communications Commission has proposed “network neutrality” rules, whi...
Google Chrome OS-based netbook tech specs are out
London - Believe it or not - the tech specs of the rumoured Google Chrome OS-based netbook are already out and by the sound of it, the netbook looks to me like a high performance machine. — Even as ...
Notion Ink's Adam gets a name, June 2010 release
Well, the first bit of news here is immediately apparent — the heretofore untitled tablet device coming out of India has now been given the name of Adam. After ruffling a few feathers a week ago with...
Mozilla pushes back Firefox 3.6, 4.0 deadlines
Mozilla won't make a 2009 deadline for releasing Firefox 3.6 and is giving itself more time to complete a major update, version 4.0. — The organization behind the open-source Web browser had predict...
Sprint says webOS 1.3.5 is hitting the Pre today
Well, lookie here: it's not up on Palm's support site yet, but Sprint is showing a release date of December 28 — that's today, by the way — for webOS 1.3.5 on the Pre. This is a pretty nifty little u...
Don't Steal This: Xbox 360 Thief Tracked by Gamertag
Steal an Xbox 360, don't forget to disable the auto sign-in feature before going online. That's the lesson high-tech crooks are probably gleaning from today's New York Post brief about a thief, 22-ye...
LG LS680 with Android pops up on Sprint's system
Shortly after the rumors surrounding the Sprint and LG event at CES just days away, we were greeted with this little screen shot in our inbox this morning. It looks like Sprint will be getting a LG A...
Google Is About To Get Caffeinated With A Faster Search Index
Google is getting serious about realtime search, adding Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace streams into results and adding a recent “updates” option which is addictive. But behind the scenes Google is al...
Amazon shares up after Kindle boosts e-book sales
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc shares rose on Monday after it posted strong growth in holiday season orders and said its customers bought more e-books than physical books for the first time ever ...
The Speculative Prehistory of the iPhone
Remember the very first iPhone-the one that sold for $249, had an iconic click wheel, a cool slide-out keypad, and a unique two-battery design-and which ran on Apple's very own nationwide wireless net...
DirecTV To Launch A 3D Channel-HD Guru Exclusive
(December 28, 2009) DirecTV intends to launch the first US 3D HDTV channel early next year. The satellite TV provider plans to make the announcement at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas...
Plan a trip in one click
Why should trip planning be any more complicated than opening your browser and entering the name of your favourite city? Six months ago we launched City Tours on Google Labs with the goal of making v...
Why we can never rest: a year in the life of Twitter
ON June 15, our technicians told me to add a note to our website, writes Biz Stone, a co-founder of Twitter. — The note warned users of a planned maintenance session that meant our service would be ...
Good Guys Bring Down the Mega-D Botnet
Chalk up one for the defenders. Here's how a trio of security researchers used a three-step attack to defeat a 250,000-pronged botnet. — Recommends — For two years as a researcher with security c...
Couple stranded 3 days after GPS leads them astray
Buzz up! — KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - A Nevada couple letting their SUV's navigation system guide them through the high desert of Eastern Oregon got stuck in snow for three days when the GPS unit sent th...
Imeem Fined $1.77M — More Than Its Sale Price
More Than Its Sale Price — A U.S. district court judge has fined Imeem, the music site, $1.77 million after it failed to appear in court to respond to a copyright infringement lawsuit. The suit, fil...