A First Taste Of What The Google Tablet's Interface Will Look Like (Pics)
Last week, the world saw Apple's long anticipated tablet device, the iPad, for the first time. In the aftermath since that announcement, a few things have become clear: it will be great for some peop...
Reason #4132 for Changing Your Password
As part of our ongoing efforts to monitor our user base for odd activity, we noticed a sudden surge in followers for a couple accounts in the last five days. Given the circumstances surrounding this,...
A Little Chip Designed by Apple Itself
SAN FRANCISCO — Sure, the screen is nice. But the iPad's most important component, at least for Apple's future, may be the A4, the fingernail-size chip at the tablet's heart. — With the A4, Apple h...
New Software Update for Nexus One phones
Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might hav...
Google isn't Evil. Flash isn't Dead; Thank god the Open Web doesn't have a single vendor
Steve Jobs didn't hold back when talking about Google and Adobe. That is great. Life is so much more fun when people speak their mind. I remember hearing a story when Sir Steve was asked why mac ke...
What's new in Windows Mobile 6.5.3
A few blogs noted on February 2 that Sony Ericsson has a new Windows Mobile phone out that's running the Windows Mobile 6.5.3 operating system. — What's new in 6.5.3? This looks like the long-rumor...
Sony Ericsson Aspen: first with Windows Mobile 6.5.3
It's finally here: Windows Mobile 6.5.3, the iterative finger-friendly Windows Mobile release that should have been wrapped into 6.5.0. The latest mobile wares from Microsoft come wrapped inside the ...
Apple Demands Removal Of USB Sharing Feature In Stanza iPhone App
Like many people, I have the Stanza app installed on my iPhone. Made by Lexycle (acquired by Amazon last year), Stanza is a free app for iPhone and iPod Touch that serves as a gateway to a library of...
Send SMS to multiple recipients
Until now, sending a text message to multiple recipients required copying and pasting the message for each recipient. — To make this a bit easier, we just launched the ability to send a single SMS m...
Grandma endures wrongful ISP piracy suspension
All Cathi “Cat” Paradiso knew for sure, as she learned that her Web access was being shut off, was that she was losing her struggle to stay calm. — To Paradiso, the customer-service representative f...
Hexacore Xeon-based Mac Pro Soon !?
It has been quite some time that we know specifications and availability date of the new Intel hexacore Xeon. We already have indicated that it should find its way in a future revision of Mac Pro to ...
New Facebook craze can violate terms of service
If you're one of Facebook's 350-million-plus members, you've probably noticed a handful of people on your friends list changing their profile photos to pictures of celebrities, cartoon characters, Mup...
Aardvark Publishes A Research Paper Offering Unprecedented Insights Into Social Search
In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin published a paper[PDF] titled Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Search Engine, in which they outlined the core technology behind Google and the theory behind Pa...
Announcing Google's Focused Research Awards
(Cross-posted with the Google Research Blog) — It is said that Google is like a university — and not just because everyone eats their lunch off trays in the cafeteria. Like a university, we devote ...
Nokia to skip Symbian v2 to v3 in 3Q10, says Nokia Taiwan executive
Nokia plans to speed up the development of the Symbian platform by jumping over version 2 to offer version 3 featuring multi-touch functions in the third quarter of 2010 and then version 4 in late 201...
Report Ranks Facebook As Greatest Corporate Security Risk
According to a new report published by Sophos today, Facebook now poses the greatest security risk to companies among the leading social networks. Of the 500 firms which were polled, 60 percent “felt...
Hacking for Fun and Profit in China's Underworld
CHANGSHA, China — With a few quick keystrokes, a computer hacker who goes by the code name Majia calls up a screen displaying his latest victims. — “Here's a list of the people who've been infected ...
CONFIRMED: Facebook Gets Faster, Debuts Homegrown PHP Compiler
The rumors have been flying over what's going on over at Facebook headquarters. The word has been that a PHP team was brought in and made to sign non-disclosure agreements before discussing a PHP pro...
The ‘nirvana phone’ turns your phone into a portable computer
As far as I'm concerned, no one has completely solved the problem of delivering all the on-the-go computing capabilities I need in a truly portable device. You may have experienced this yourself, if ...
TheFunded Ranks The Most Loved VCs Of 2009
Some VCs are getting an early Valentine's Day gift fromTheFunded, the site where CEOs rate venture capitalists and their firms. Below you will find the top-ranked individual VCs, as determined by the...
Motorola announces major mobile barcode investment through Scanbuy
Motorola Ventures is the investment branch of the mobile manufacturer - and today it has announced that it is leading an investment round into mobile barcodes. The receiving company is Scanbuy, which...
Twitter forcing some users to change password. Reported threat of phishing attacks.
We're seeing tweets that various people are being forced to change their passwords on Twitter in response to possible phishing threats. — The message from twitter itself says:
Improved Google Search in Labs
Hello again. I've been taking advantage of my 20% time to make some improvements in the Google Search lab I told you about last April. For starters, I've hooked up a bunch of Google's most popular s...