Larger Threat Is Seen in Google Case
ROME — Three Google executives were convicted of violating Italian privacy laws on Wednesday, the first case to hold the company's executives criminally responsible for the content posted on its syste...
Gmail Labs graduation and retirement
We launched Gmail Labs over a year and a half ago as a playground where engineers can come up with new features and let your input help decide which are good ideas and which don't quite work out. Any...
Sprint to launch 4G network in at least 8 major markets this year
If you're reading this, chances are pretty good that you're not on a 4G connection. Why? Because outside of a handful of cities, 4G connections just don't exist yet. — Take Sprint's WiMax network,...
Senators Kerry & Lugar Introduce the Startup Visa Act in Washington, DC
We are thrilled to announce Senators John Kerry (D-MA) & Richard Lugar (R-IN) today introduced The Startup Visa Act in Washington. — The full text of the proposed legislation is here.
Is Apple Preparing To Add An ‘Explicit’ Section To The App Store?
Over the past few days, Cult of Mac has closely followed Apple's divisive decision to remove “overtly sexual” apps from the App Store. Some apps caught in the purge (such as videogame Daisy Mae and s...
Lady Gaga generates 25 percent of Vevo's traffic
It's hard to measure just how big a cultural force singer Lady Gaga has become but Vevo, the start-up music-video site took a stab at it on Wednesday. — Ted Mico, executive vice president of digital...
Yelp Hit With Class Action Lawsuit For Running An “Extortion Scheme”
Two law firms, Beck & Lee from Miami and The Weston Firm in San Diego, have filed a class action lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court alleging unfair business practices by local business review and ra...
Google real-time search adds status updates from Facebook Pages
Facebook status updates from Pages will start showing up in Google's real-time search results today. — It's the first time the search giant has indexed content from the world's largest social networ...
Hot And Bothered: Walmart Shutting Down Vudu's Adult Section
When it was announced that retailer Walmart would buy streaming movie startup Vudu a couple days ago, a number of sites wondered what it would mean for Vudu's adult content. Here's what it means: bye...
This you???? : Phishing attack hits Twitter users
There is another widespread phishing attack hitting users of Twitter today. — Messages asking “This you????” followed by a link are being sent via the system to unsuspecting users. If you click on ...
Battery Performance with Flash Player 10.1 on Nexus One
It appears that there has been some confusion from the community at large surrounding battery performance. This was caused by my colleague Michael Chaize publishing an amazing video of Flash Player 1...
Foursquare's First Television Commercial Airs Tonight On Bravo [Video]
First Google, now Foursquare. Hot on the heels of Google's first Search television ad (run during the Super Bowl, no less), the location-based social network Foursquare is gearing up to do the same t...
Mac Quicken Gets Deductions for Iffy Upgrade
Despite all of the success Apple (AAPL) has had with its Macintosh computers, the Mac has lagged behind Windows in personal-finance software. — The most popular program in the category, Intuit's Qui...
Apple iTunes: 10 billion songs later
Seven years after Apple began selling music a la carte, what have listeners bought? — Image: Apple Inc. — The odometer that has been counting song downloads on Apple's (AAPL) iTunes Store for the ...
Attack Unmasks User Behind The Browser
Researchers develop proof-of-concept that exploits social networking patterns to ‘deanonymize’ online users — A group of researchers have discovered a simple way to reveal the identity of a user bas...
Skype Yanks Windows Mobile App From Site
For some unknown reason, Skype is no longer making Skype and Skype Lite available to the Windows Mobile platform. Skype's support page says, “We felt that Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Mobile were...
Android's “Blapkmarket” pirated app repository goes down hard
Now, before we enter the breach, I think it bears repeating that MobileCrunch and indeed the rest of the TechCrunch network in no way condone software/application piracy. Developers work too hard for...
Windows 7 Activation Technologies Update now live, ready to be dodged
Remember that polarizing Windows 7 Activation Technologies Update we told you about? You know, the one that helps you to “verify that the copy of Windows 7 that is running on your computer is activat...
Internet Addiction Might Actually Get Recognized By The Official Book Of Mental Disorders?
Over the last decade or so, there's been something of an... well... addiction to calling any sort of overuse of a product an addiction. So we've seen email addiction, web addiction, online porn addic...
Are TV ads obsolete in the online world?
The topic that provoked the most heated argument at the Beet.TV's online video roundtable in San Francisco today was the format of online advertising. Initially, everyone focused on the nitty grity o...
Serious threat to the web in Italy
In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate. The video was totally reprehensible and we took i...
YouTube removes original “Rickroll” video due to terms of use violation
The Interwebs came together in a collective gasp on Wednesday as it was discovered that YouTube removed the original “Rickroll” video that has clocked up 30 million views to date. — For those not fa...
iPad SDK Support for Front Facing Camera, Camera Flash, Zoom and Video Conferencing
Unfortunately, we already know how this story ends. Apple introduced the iPad in late January and made no mention of a camera - either on the front or back of the device.
Google scraps China leg of Nexus One event: source
BEIJING (Reuters) - Google Inc has scrapped the China leg of a regional event to show software developers its first smartphone, the Nexus One, in Beijing, its second such move following its threatened...
Cablevision Promises to Introduce Your PC to Your TV
What if you could move the contents of your PC directly onto your TV? If you're a tech-savvy reader, you may already be doing this. And if you're not, you may wonder why you'd want to. — But Cable...
When It Doesn't Pay to Be Google's Guinea Pig
Besides a killer algorithm and brand-name recognition, Google's greatest strength is its speed at releasing new products. We get to play with new, cool, and ever-improving tools for free. Recently, ...
Arnold Kim Celebrates 10 Years as Apple Rumor King
Arnold Kim quit his job treating kidneys to dissect the secrets of his favorite electronics company, the famously confidential Apple. — Kim launched his independent blog MacRumors.com on Feb. 24, 20...
Augmented Identity App Helps You Identify and Friend Perfect Strangers, Face to Face
By this point, we're all familiar with augmented reality, but Swedish mobile software firm The Astonishing Tribe is taking information overload to the next logical step: augmented identity.
Mobile Cloud Computing: $9.5 Billion by 2014
According to the latest study from Juniper Research, the market for cloud-based mobile applications will grow 88% from 2009 to 2014. The market was just over $400 million this past year, says Juniper...
H.P., Tech Powerhouse, Stumbles in Smartphones
Hewlett-Packard is one of the world's most successful makers of desktop computers, laptops, servers and printers. It owns a powerful consumer brand, and it is a growing provider of services for busin...
Only 50% Of Twitter Messages Are In English, Study Says
Paris-based Semiocast, which helps brands understand and interact with real-time Web services, has performed a semantic and quantitative study of Twitter based on an analysis of 2.8 million tweets. —...
When using open source makes you an enemy of the state
The US copyright lobby has long argued against open source software - now Indonesia's in the firing line for encouraging the idea in government departments — It's only Tuesday and already it's been ...
NHTSA Has No Software Engineers or EEs To Analyze Toyotas
Sometimes you see something you just can't believe. And yet, there it is in cold type (or warm electrons). — Today's candidate is a single sentence by Washington Post writers Peter Whoriskey and Fr...
Experts warn of catastrophe from cyberattacks
Computer-based network attacks are slowly bleeding U.S. businesses of revenue and market advantage, while the government faces the prospect of losing in an all-out cyberwar, experts told Senators in a...