Detecting suspicious account activity
A few weeks ago, I got an email presumably from a friend stuck in London asking for some money to help him out. It turned out that the email was sent by a scammer who had hijacked my friend's account...
Exclusive: iPad iBooks Pricing Revealed - Matches The Kindle
The launch of the iPad has caused a veritable war over eBook pricing between Apple and Amazon. To promote the Kindle and expand its market share, Amazon sells kindle editions of newly released and be...
Has Google been hacked? Corporate site sends users to China
List of executives and corporate info redirected to Google China — Google's corporate information sites appeared to have been hacked this morning. — Users searching with Google for “Google executi...
Facebook ‘linked to rise in syphilis’
Facebook has been linked to a resurgence in the sexually-transmitted disease syphilis, according to health experts. — The virus has increased fourfold in Sunderland, Durham and Teesside, the areas o...
Twitter Hacker, TechCrunch Document Leaker, Arrested in France (UPDATED)
The AFP is reporting that the person who leaked internal business documents from Twitter Inc. to the blog TechCrunch last July is also the same person who compromised the Twitter accounts of Barack Ob...
AT&T 3G MicroCell starting nationwide roll-out in mid-April
Unless you've been in one of a few key test markets, you've been pretty much out of luck boosting your AT&T signal in the comfortable confines of your home since the 3G MicroCell first launched — unti...
GoDaddy.com plans to stop registering domain names in China
GoDaddy.com Inc., the world's largest domain name registration company, plans to tell lawmakers Wednesday that it will cease registering Web sites in China in response to intrusive new government rule...
Robot Touchscreen Analysis
A touchscreen is a touchscreen, right? Hardly! As MOTO pointed out in our recent Do-It-Yourself Touchscreen Analysis post, “All touchscreens are not created equal.” — With our simple test techniqu...
An update for our customers on Google Apps and China
Yesterday, we stopped censoring our search services - Google Search, Google News, and Google Images - on our Chinese domain, www.google.cn. This makes good on our commitment to stop censoring search ...
Collaborative bookmarking with lists
Earlier this month we added stars in search so that you can easily mark and rediscover your favorite websites. Today we're debuting lists in Google Bookmarks, an experimental new feature that helps y...
Sprint CEO: Rate Plans Will Move From Minutes To Gigabytes
Sprint Nextel Chief Executive Dan Hesse said that in about two years, monthly cellphone bills will focus on the amount of data used and move away from the number of available voice minutes.
Microsoft shows off its next version of Office Communications Server
Microsoft is offering its first public glimpse of Office Communications Server 14, its all-in-one instant messaging/VOIP/conferencing product at the VoiceCon show in Orlando on March 24.
Video: Sneak peek of Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop
Bryan O'Neil Hughes shows off some rather eye-popping (if we may say so) technology for synthesizing texture inside a future version of Photoshop: — The demo starts with some small pieces, so if you...
Kobo's Cheap E-Reader Headed for Borders
In the era of the iPad, there are two paths that the still-nascent gadgets known as e-readers can take. They can try to take the iPad on head-to-head by adding fancy color touch screens and new featu...
Google's Newest Search Ad Format, Loved and Hated by Brands
‘Sitelinks’ Work Really Well — Too Well — for Marketers Choking on Costs Per Click — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The most significant change to Google's search ads in years could be the most controversia...
Prediction: 1.2 Million iPads Sold in June Quarter and a New iPhone Form Factor
This is, perhaps, stating the obvious, but 2010 is likely to be a big year for Apple. With the iPad set to arrive April 3 and the company presumably headed into an iPhone upgrade cycle, Apple is pois...
Verizon Wireless to open app store March 29
(Reuters) - Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile operator, said it would open its own mobile phone applications store on March 29. — The venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc...
ACTA Draft: No Internet for Copyright Scofflaws
The United States is nudging the international community to develop protocols to suspend the internet connections of customers caught downloading copyrighted works, according to a leaked draft of the ...
YouTube Pre-Roll Ads Get Double-Digit CPMs; Homepage Banner Gets $200K To $400K Per Day
Get The Internet Analyst in your inbox every day. To sign up, please submit your name and email address here. — Online video viewing more than doubled in 2009 as more quality content …
Microsoft says it won't abandon Windows Mobile 6.5
Microsoft has reiterated that it will continue to support, ship and sell Mobile 6.5 alongside Windows Phone 7. — However, senior product manager Michael Chang told Computer World that the latest ite...
State of the Art: Line2 Allows iPhone Users to Sidestep AT&T
For a little $1 iPhone app, Line2 sure has the potential to shake up an entire industry. — It can save you money. It can make calls where AT&T's signal is weak, like indoors. It can turn an iPod T...
New Motion Control Patent Could Shake Up Smartphone Industry
Here's a potentially noteworthy development in the patent litigation-riddled mobile device market. Last week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a very broad patent on motion-based ...
Blockbuster Dips a Toe In the Mobile Stream
Blockbuster, the video-rental chain plagued by debt and unprofitable stores, is placing a bet on a mobile future. — On Wednesday, the company released an application that allows users to watch movie...
iPhone, Safari, IE 8, Firefox hacked in CanSecWest contest
Updated 5:17 p.m. PDT with successful Firefox hack. — VANCOUVER, B.C.—Researchers on Wednesday demonstrated that they could hack a non-jailbroken iPhone, Safari running on Snow Leopard and Internet ...
New TiVo Mixes TV and Internet, but Falls Short
TiVo is the most famous third-party set-top box for your TV. The company popularized the idea of digital video recording and, in recent years, also has added to its devices the ability to deliver som...
4G in America: Lies, Lies, and More Damn Lies
Listen up America, by the end of this year, and most definitely during 2011, you're going to be bombarded with advertisements that stretch across all forms of media, tempting you to hop on board a 4G ...
Random House fears iPad price war
The world's largest book publisher by sales could keep its books from Apple's iPad when it goes on sale, as the Bertelsmann unit fears the effects of the tablet device on pricing
Fox Mobile Offers Hulu-like Subscription Service for Smartphones
Fox Mobile is hoping it can convince consumers to shell out to watch TV on their smartphones. The News Corp. subsidiary this morning unveiled Bitbop, a subscription service for smartphone owners that...
US Army meets with Apple, discusses tech for soldiers
Earlier this month, Major General Nick Justice and several members of his staff traveled to Apple's Cupertino campus to discuss soldiers using Apple's products and technology in the field. In additio...
Google AdWords Search Funnels Launched: See All The Keywords That Led To Conversions
Google launched a new AdWords reporting feature named AdWords Search Funnels. AdWords Search Funnel shows you all the keywords that assisted in conversion made through Google AdWords …
Tumblr Rolls Out Make Money Plan Part 2: Beautiful Themes
Earlier this month, Tumblr rolled out its first attempt at making money: a small ($9) fee to make your blog featured in a directory of blogs. Tomorrow, the service is officially rolling out its secon...
StyleTap finally brings Palm OS to your iPhone
Well it's been a long time coming, but now you can finally run your favorite Palm OS apps on your (jailbroken) iPhone. The good folks at StyleTap have taken that exciting demo we saw way back in May ...
iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, MySpace and More Unite to Combat Illegal Music Sharing Sites
Aiming to “remind listeners of the significance and value of music”, major players from across the music and technology industry have united to launch a site called Why Music Matters.
Continuing our Study of Happiness
On October 5, 2009, Data Scientists at Facebook began studying the happiness of English speakers in the United States through the Gross National Happiness Index (GNH). We used anonymous counts of pos...
European privacy battle looms for Facebook, Google
GENEVA — You have been tagged in 12 photos. Even if you're not signed up to the Web site. — European regulators are investigating whether the practice of posting photos, videos and other informatio...
App guesses words to expand, shrink touch-screen keys for smarter typing
I accidentally stumbled upon a company called Thickbuttons at MobileFocus, one of those after-hours evening mini-conferences, as I was passing by its booth on my way to another. Out of the corner of ...
Back on the beat: Owen Thomas joins VentureBeat
Editor's note: VentureBeat is all about startups. And since we're a startup ourselves, when we hit a milestone, it's only right that we report on it. Today, we're announcing a significant hire. Owe...
Digg's iPhone App is Now Available
As we've announced yesterday, Digg's official iPhone app is now available for free in Apple's App Store. — The app lists Top, Recent and Upcoming stories in various categories, giving Diggers the ab...
USA Today Among Sites Set to Run iPad Ads
As Apple preps for the launch of the iPad, advertisers are gearing up to run campaigns on the new device. Mobile ad platform AdMarvel has teamed with Gannett-owned rich media ad firm PointRoll to ena...
IBM Teams With eMeter for Smart Power Metering
IBM has teamed with eMeter to provide ready-made systems for public utilities to implement an IBM-managed smart grid to help improve their power usage and efficiency. The program is specifically targ...
Retailer Leaks Details on AMD's Upcoming 12-core Chips
An online retail store is taking orders for Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming 12-core Opteron processors, code-named Magny-Cours, ahead of the official launch. — Provantage is taking orders for Opter...
Vibes Media Acquires Mobile Advertising Startup Zeep Mobile
Vibes Media, a company that creates text message marketing campaigns, has acquired self-service mobile advertising startup Zeep Mobile. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. — Zeep Mobile provides ...