China's Twitter Clones
The popularity of Twitter has produced a number of clones in China, just as there are Facebook clones. Some of China's Twitter clones have been closed down by the Chinese government, but some have su...
Amazon looks to boost literary presence
The battle over foreign ownership is about to take a literary turn. — Internet bookseller Amazon.com Inc. AMZN-Q is poised to open a “fulfilment centre” in Canada - believed to be a means by which t...
‘Severe’ OpenSSL vuln busts public key crypto
Private keys pilfered through power supply — Computer scientists say they've discovered a “severe vulnerability” in the world's most widely used software encryption package that allows them to retri...
Ubisoft's Uber DRM Cracked Within a Day
As an anti-piracy tool DRM simply doesn't work - and it never will, although not everyone fully realizes this. For example, Ubisoft recently decided to introduce a new solution to prevent pirates fro...
In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg Broke Into A Facebook User's Private Email Account
This is the story of how, in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the email accounts of two Harvard Crimson reporters using data obtained from TheFacebook.com's logs. The details are drawn from a broade...
iPad to be released on April 3, pre-orders on March 12
You'll have to make do with this until April — Get thee to the clickery! The iPad is hitting the streets on April 3 and you can start pre-ordering on March 12. — As far as we can tell there was n...
Steve Jobs emails Swede that the iPad won't tether to the iPhone
Not content with answering tech questions from Americans, Steve Jobs this week answered a question from all the way over in Sweden. — The question was a good one, and one we've had on our minds as w...
Different Means Better with the new Windows Phone Developer Experience
In just over a week we (finally!) get to pull the cover off of the Windows Phone application & game developer experience at MIX10. There, through keynotes and more than 12 technical sessions over 3 d...
Google Docs welcomes DocVerse
The future of productivity applications is in the cloud. We've always believed the web is the best platform for creating and sharing information, and Google Docs has already helped millions of peopl...
Apple iPad may delay transition to SSD, say hard drive makers
The appearance of Apple's iPad may create tight supply of NAND flash and delay the transition to solid-state drives (SSD) in PCs, according to sources from hard drive makers. — Apple, which has enjo...
Will the iPad Be Missing a Few iPhone Apps?
Apple on Friday announced the official release date of its iPad — April 3 — but the company also raised more questions. Specifically, Apple's press statement suggests the iPad won't ship with all the...
Google's Android Favoritism Punishes Users and Partners
First it was Google Maps Navigation (Beta), which at first brought free spoken turn-by-turn directions to only the Motorola Droid (and later devices running OS 1.6 and up). Then came Google Buzz for ...
Microsoft Courier's Devolution
These fresh images and details of Microsoft's Courier paint a slightly different device than the one uncovered a few months ago—tinier seeming, perhaps less genre-busting, and a more direct iPad fight...
Popular Science Puts Entire Scanned Archive Online, Free
Gadget nerds: Prepare to lose the rest of your day to awesomeness. PopSci, the web-wing of Popular Science magazine, has scanned its entire 137-year archive and put it online for you to read, absolut...
Cisco Wants To Rule Your Living Room - Launching New High Speed Network With Set Top Box March 9
{Editor's note: We changed the original title to shorten it down a bit based upon some other sites editors who wanted to link to it.. feedback taken. -Cheers John @Furrier}
iPhone lessons from Google's Nexus One
Android phone shows key areas where Apple needs to improve — In 2010, as in 2007, the entire technology industry gathered at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, only to have the hot te...
Clicker Redesigns Its Online Video Guide
When Viacom announced this week that it would pull “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” from Hulu, the popular video hosting site, many online video viewers were understandably upset. Even thoug...
Why Apple Deserves an Oscar Too
Avatar is in contention for an Oscar because it dominated its field, both technologically and financially. But another cinematic player was even more dominant last year: Apple. In the 44 films in 20...
China's Cyberposse
The short video made its way around China's Web in early 2006, passed on through file sharing and recommended in chat rooms. It opens with a middle-aged Asian woman dressed in a leopard-print blouse,...
Yahoo Loses Exclusive T-Mobile USA Search Deal To Google
T-Mobile USA has ended its year-old exclusive search deal with Yahoo, and has replaced the company with its chief rival—Google (NSDQ: GOOG). — The deal shifts the U.S. mobile search dominance away f...
Will StatusNet Be Another Open-Source Star in the Enterprise?
What a week for StatusNet, the open-source, microblogging service that serves as the foundation for identi.ca, one of the first services to emerge as a focal player in the movement around the real-tim...
Redpoint Invests $4.4 Million In Fast Growing Posterous
San Francisco based Posterous, a fast growing publishing platform, has taken a $4.4 million investment from Redpoint Ventures. Partner Satish Dharmaraj, who is also an individual investor in Posterou...
Global Smartphone App Download Market Could Reach $15 Billion By 2013: Report
Research reports forecasting future market sizes should always be taken with a grain of salt, but it occasionally helps to see the estimates of research organizations in order to gain some perspective...
GestureTek to let you interact with images projected from your phone
Late last year, LG launched a phone with an optional projector attachment that lets you project images from the phone to a larger surface. Now, Canadian company GestureTek says it'll go one better …
Viacom vs. Google court fight heats up
The copyright fight being waged by Viacom against Google will move into a crucial stage on Friday. — According to documents filed with federal court on Thursday, both companies are expected to file ...
Roger Ebert Makes Pay Play: The Ebert Club
Roger Ebert thrives on the web. Now he'd like to get paid for it but not by blocking access to the site or its 10,000-review archive. Instead the Chicago Sun-Times movie critic — a master blogger an...
Android largely unharmed in Google-China row
IDG News Service - A mobile phone with Google's Android operating system that was delayed in China will now ship next week, in the latest sign that Android has gone largely unscathed by a row between ...
Adobe releases Photoshop.com Mobile editor for Android developers
Adobe this morning announced that third-party developers now have access to the Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 editor, allowing them to make it a part of their applications. — The news comes f...