LMSD response to ‘invasion of privacy’ allegation
Last year, our district became one of the first school systems in the United States to provide laptop computers to all high school students. This initiative has been well received and has provided ed...
WP.com Downtime Summary
Today WordPress.com was down for approximately 110 minutes, our worst downtime in four years. The outage affected 10.2 million blogs, including our VIPs, and appears to have deprived those blogs of a...
What Steve Jobs Said During His Wall Street Journal iPad Demo
We know that Apple's CEO is no fan of Flash, the Web animation software. But it sounds like Steve Jobs really unleashed on the Adobe system to try and convince the Wall Street Journal to ditch it for...
Did Apple Just Ban Sexual Content From The App Store?
Apple may have just made a major change to the App Store that could render many developers' applications worthless. We've just heard from Jon Atherton, the developer behind Wobble iBoobs, who says th...
Two Chinese Schools Said to Be Tied to Online Attacks
SAN FRANCISCO — A series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to ...
PayPal is Now a Way to Pay for Facebook Ads and Facebook Credits
PALO ALTO, Calif. & SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Facebook and PayPal today announced a strategic relationship to offer PayPal in key parts of Facebook's advertising and developer systems.
News about our Search Alliance with Microsoft
Today we issued a press release announcing that we've received clearance from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission for our search agreement with Microsoft. Now that we're f...
On foursquare, location & privacy...
A lot of you asking for our thoughts in light of the “People can use foursquare to rob houses!” thesis making the rounds so we figured we'd weigh in with our perspective. Two things: — #1. We take ...
Did Google Reader Just Turn on the Firehose?
Google's big push recently has been on enabling open, real-time technologies to publish, read, and interact with its new service Buzz. Reader, its RSS subscription and website reading service, is one...
Exclusive: TheStreet.com's Tech Exclusives Are a Crapshoot
TheStreet.com's Scott Moritz has an exciting exclusive: Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar has learned that Microsoft is working on a Microsoft-branded phone based on its Windows Phone 7 Series ...
CBS: We'll Cut iTunes Prices for Some Shows [UPDATE]
Steve Jobs's effort to cut prices on TV shows sold on iTunes has found at least partial backing from CBS. CEO Les Moonves says the broadcaster will mark down the price on some of its shows from $1.99...
Report: Facebook Served As Primary Distribution Channel For Botnet Army
Internet security company NetWitness has just published a report that reveals an 18-month-long widespread hacker attack on computers worldwide whose topmost method of malware delivery was Facebook.
Sony Ericsson CEO: Google asked us to build the Nexus One, we refused
Aw, why don't these CEOs say stuff like this in press conferences? Sony Ericsson's head Bert Nordberg has shared with Swedish publication Sydsvenskan the rather salacious news that his company was as...
Google Shopper now available in Android Market
I did a Google search and found nothing, but Google Shopper is now available in the Android Market. As if the name didn't tip you off, this is an application for shopping. Users can search for produ...
Google Voice Launches A Series Of Videos To Explain Its “Awesomeness,” Gibberish
Google Voice is a great service, one of the best things Google has released in a long time. Unfortunately, most casual web users have no idea what it is. Or more specifically, what it's purpose is.
Pollice Verso: Google Buys Awesome iPhone Email App; Kills It
As you might have heard earlier today, Google made another acquisition — the email search startup reMail. While its topical description may make it seem like an obvious buy, there's another layer tha...
Apple's Prices for E-Books May Be Lower Than Expected
Maybe e-book prices won't be rising so much after all. — Since Apple announced plans to sell digital books on its forthcoming iPad, it has been cast as something of a savior of the publishing indust...
Windows Phone 7 development docs leaked
Click for larger versions. — We can always count on XDA-Developers to bring us the news early. In this case it is some snippets of the developer documentation for Windows Phone 7. The above bit co...
Broad New Hacking Attack Detected
Global Offensive Snagged Corporate, Personal Data at nearly 2,500 Companies; Operation Is Still Running — Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at nearly 2,500 companies and ...
Local class action complaint filed over Google Buzz
A class action complaint filed in San Jose federal court alleges that Google Inc. broke the law when its controversial Google Buzz service shared personal data without the consent of users. — The ca...
BlackBerry users get Amazon Kindle app
Continuing its effort to expand its e-book business beyond its own hardware, Amazon on Thursday released a Kindle application for those with BlackBerry phones. — Amazon got its start as an online bo...
PC Makers Ready iPad Rivals
Computer makers are developing strategies and devices to challenge Apple Inc.'s iPad, hoping to capitalize on new interest in a category of gadgets that was moribund until recently. — In the next fe...
School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home
According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly act...
UK Newspapers Want BBC Mobile Apps Blocked For ‘Undermining’ Them, BBC Disagrees
I wondered how long it would be before print media pointed at the BBC's new smartphone apps plan as another example of expansion in to their commercial territory. The answer: just 24 hours...
Android-powered Motorola Backflip headed to AT&T on March 7 for $100 on contract
AT&T just got its first Android-powered smartphone (four more coming this year) in the HSPA 7.2-capable Motorola Backflip. The Motoblur device with reverse flip design and 3.1-inch touchscreen packs ...
OneRiot's New Realtime Search API Served Up With A Side Of Revenue
Last summer, realtime search engine OneRiot was one of the first engines to debut an API to allow developers to integrated OneRiot's search results into their applications. Less than a year later, On...
Is Google preparing to challenge iTunes in the cloud?
As the four biggest record companies wait to hear more about a proposed iTunes cloud music service, word comes now that Google has kicked the tires on a start-up specializing in cloud media. — Googl...
Clicker Raises Another $11 Million To Become The TV Guide Of Online Video
Clicker, a comprehensive search engine for TV content on the web, has closed an $11 million Series B funding round led by JAFCO Ventures, with existing investors Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Venture...
Apple Pushes The App Over 3G Download Limit To 20MB, Prepares For The iPad?
Most likely in preparation for the iPad launch, Apple has just raised the maximum size of apps that can be download over 3G to 20MB. — Until now, the iPhone required a Wi-Fi connection to download a...