US calls for China Google probe
The US has called on Beijing to investigate the recent cyber attacks on Google, which have prompted the search giant to threaten to leave China. — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that compan...
Verizon, AT&T May Carry Apple Tablet
Which wireless carrier will offer Apple's soon-to-be-released mystery device? Will it be Verizon? AT&T? The answer, according to sources at the two companies, is both.
Amazon Cracks Open the Kindle
As Motoko Rich and I report in Wednesday's Times, Amazon.com is finally opening up the Kindle to developers. This has the potential to turn a popular single-purpose device into a more interesting and...
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES FOURTH QUARTER AND FISCAL YEAR 2009 RESULTS
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter and the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009. — “Google had a strong fourth quarter, with 17% year over year revenue growt...
With New Ovi Maps, Nokia Seeks Location Heaven
In an attempt to ward of competition from the likes of Google, Nokia, the largest maker of mobile phones, has released the latest version of its Ovi Maps software and made the app available for free. ...
The Power of Suggestions
Hi, I'm Josh and I work in the product team at Twitter. One of the areas I'm working on is helping new users get started so they know how to find and discover what interests them. Today we're making...
Seesmic Look Is A Tablet-Friendly Twitter Client For The Oprah Crowd
A couple days ago we caught wind of a new Seesmic product called Seesmic Look. Today it is launching and we finally get a look at it. As suspected, it is a streamlined Twitter client aimed at the Op...
Sun CEO: Go Oracle! [Internal Memo]
Oracle (ORCL) said this morning that it has received unconditional regulatory approval from the European Commission for its acquisition of Sun (JAVA). Below, the all-hands memo Sun CEO Jon Schwartz s...
EU Clears Oracle to Buy Sun Microsystems
BRUSSELS — After a drawn out investigation, the European Commission on Thursday unconditionally cleared U.S. software giant Oracle Corp. to take over smaller rival Sun Microsystems Inc. in a $7.4 bill...
Committing Location Based Service Suicide
Yesterday I checked in for my last time. I'm done. No more BrightKite, FourSquare or Gowalla. I was an early user on all three of the services, and am quitting cold turkey. — But why? (and why wo...
Spotify now makes record labels money
Spotify now offers the music industry a sustainable revenue model according to a UK record label executive. — Revealing for the first time today how the commercial relationship works between the str...
Windows Mobile devs to Microsoft: where's our money?
Over at the Windows Mobile Developer Center, a few Windows Mobile developers are up in arms for not getting paid. Some claim they are owed thousands of dollars after selling their apps through Window...
Google shoots itself in the foot in mobile
I wish I knew the inside story on Google's recent confrontation with the Chinese government. At first Google's announcement looked like a principled, well thought-out stand in a long behind-the-scene...
Breaking Ground on Our First Custom Data Center
We have come a long way from our roots in a Harvard dorm room, when Facebook was only available at some colleges and run on a single server. Now with more than 350 million people worldwide and our se...
Tim Berners-Lee unveils government data project
Web founder Tim Berners-Lee has unveiled his latest venture for the UK government, which offers the public better access to official data. — A new website, data.gov.uk, will offer reams of public se...
Man Buried in Haiti Rubble Uses iPhone to Treat Wounds, Survive
U.S. filmmaker Dan Woolley was shooting a documentary about the impact of poverty in Haiti when the earthquake struck. He could have died, but he ultimately survived with the help of an iPhone first-...
Amazon Promotion Tempts Book Lovers With Free Kindles
Hesitant about ordering an Amazon Kindle? The online retailer is apparently making a very tempting proposition to some of its customers: go ahead and order a Kindle, and if you don't like it, you'll ...
If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe
Back at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was “12345.” — Today, it's one digit longer but hardly safer: “123456.” — Despite all the reports of Internet security breaches over ...
Palm Pre Plus (and Pixi Plus) review
It's been about a year since Palm pulled itself back from the brink of imminent destruction with the announcement of webOS and the Palm Pre, and even less time since the products announced actually hi...
Netflix Just Gave iTunes A Big Fat Kiss
A new movie came out on DVD this week called The Invention Of Lying. It's co-written, co-directed, and co-starring Golden Globe host Ricky Gervais and looks mildly entertaining enough that I want to ...
Apple again delays 27-inch iMac shipment by 3 weeks
Just when it looked like Apple was putting its 27-inch iMac troubles behind it with a balance in supply and demand, the company has abruptly pushed new direct orders of its big screen desktop machines...
The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures
Hello, old friends. I am back from dark months of data mining, here now to present my ores. To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things: ...
New Software Aims to Keep Facebook Safer
As social-media sites like Facebook and Twitter have expanded to include more of the online population, spammers and hackers have come along for the ride. Even the FCC chairman has seen his Facebook ...
Microsoft confirms 17-year-old Windows bug
Google engineer reveals ancient flaw in all 32-bit versions of Windows — Computerworld - Microsoft late yesterday issued its second advisory of the last week, warning users that a 17-year-old bug in...
At Hulu, ‘free’ may soon turn into ‘fee’
The video website, launched by studios to distribute TV shows over the Internet without charge, now is considering ways to draw revenue, including charging for some episodes of popular shows. — Hulu...
The War Between Apple and Google Has Just Begun
Friends or ‘frenemies’? Apple C.E.O. Steve Jobs, left, and Google C.E.O. Eric Schmidt, right, at Macworld in 2007. — Consumers are witnessing the beginning of a new war between computer companies. ...
Pirate Bay's Ipredator VPN Opens To The Public
In the last year, pressure from the entertainment industries on ISPs and governments to crack down on copyright infringers has steadily increased, resulting in ISPs sending out mass copyright warnings...
How Video Changes Everything
Whether it's a clip of “Tajik Jimmy” putting Bollywood soundtracks to shame, catching a friend's wedding eight time zones away or working “side by side” with coworkers in another country, it's all vid...
Mozilla Delivers Firefox 3.6 to Millions of Users
Mozilla, a public-benefit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Web, today released Firefox® 3.6, an update to its popular, free and open source Web browser. The latest ver...
80% of government Web sites miss DNS security deadline
Most U.S. federal agencies — including the Department of Homeland Security — have failed to comply with a Dec. 31, 2009, deadline to deploy new authentication mechanisms on their Web sites that would...