France Télécom / Orange Exec Confirms Apple Tablet Is On The Way
Apple is doing a fine job keeping shush about the tablet computer it has been working on for several years and which is due to be announced later this month in California. — But just in case anyone ...
Fingerworks.com Content Pulled Ahead of Apple Tablet Announcement
The content of Fingerworks.com has been removed this week after remaining online for nearly 5 years after the acquisition of the company by Apple. The removal seems to correspond with the impending a...
Security Flaw Makes It Easy To Bypass Verizon Droid Screen Lock
Bad news, Droid owners. Android OS version 2.0.1, which all up-to-date Droids are running, has a bug that makes it fairly easy to bypass the phone's screen-lock security mechanism. The security feat...
We need an independent invention defense to minimize the damage of aggressive patent trolls
Almost a third of our portfolio is under attack by patent trolls. Is it possible that one third of the engineering teams in our portfolio unethically misappropriated technology from someone else …
Can the Skiff save the magazine industry?
There has been quite a bit of talk about Hearst's Skiff ereader and we got a hands-on last night before the show closed. The device is about as big as a Kindle DX (11.5-inch display and a very thin b...
Google Plans to Upgrade Old Billboards in Street View
According to a new patent that was just granted to Google, the company could soon extend the reach of its advertising program in Google Maps to Street View. This patent, which was originally filed on...
Verizon, Android and the tethering conundrum
Dear Verizon: Please get your software act together so Android phones can be tethered to laptops to be used as wireless cards. — That plea comes after weeks of wanting a Droid (probably a Nexus One ...
World Wide Mush
In his new book, “You Are Not A Gadget,” online pioneer Jaron Lanier explains how the Internet has gone off course; a chorus of voices makes everything flat—and scary — All too many of today's Inter...
How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong
A decade ago, America Online merged with Time Warner in a deal valued at a stunning $350 billion. It was then, and is now, the largest merger in American business history. — The Internet, it was be...
T-Mobile Acknowledges Nexus One 3G Problem
If there was a problem yo I'll solve it...While the internet was quick to jump on a problem existing between the Nexus One and 3G, neither Google nor T-Mobile acknowledged the problem. Granted we're ...
USB 3.0 SuperSpeed gone wild at CES 2010, trumps even your new SSD
Just in case you didn't notice the arrow, that's a USB 3.0 cable up there, plugged into a USB 3.0 port, running in a Fujitsu laptop that is the first to pack integrated support for USB 3.0. How fast ...
Social science meets computer science at Yahoo
Shortly after Carol Bartz took over as chief executive of Yahoo Inc. early last year, she met with Prabhakar Raghavan for an overview of the Sunnyvale Web giant's research division. As the head of Ya...
Study Finds That Papers Lead in Providing New Information
There are more places to go for local news but less news to find there, and the great majority of actual reporting still comes from newspapers, according to a study of the Baltimore area that is sched...
Friendfinder Networks Cuts IPO Size By Half; Hoping For About $220 Million
Adult entertainment company Friendfinder Networks is finding the going tough in a recessionary market, much like the rest of the industry and has rest its expectations: after filing for an IPO exactly...
Palm Pre has apparently sold just 220 units in Ireland
You know things aren't going too well for Palm when a heavyweight industry source gives you a call to say 'you'll never believe this'. — I always have to steady myself just in case it's something sh...