Data stolen from firm that handles student loans in Virginia
Personal information on 3.3 million people, many from the Washington region, has been stolen from a firm that guarantees student loans, authorities said. — The theft occurred last weekend at the St....
LinkedIn for BlackBerry: Anytime, Anywhere
I'm Chad Whitney, the Product Manager responsible for mobile products at LinkedIn. This is my first blog post for LinkedIn, so why not kick things off with a bang? I'm excited to announce the full r...
Teleku Takes On Twilio, Helps Developers Integrate Telephony Services Into Web Apps
Back in fall 2008, we covered the launch of Twilio, a service that gives web developers an API to easily build web apps with telephony features, like audio playback, voice recording, and more recently...
Asus: iPad Rivals On The Way
Netbook maker will roll out several tablet PCs in the coming months. — With just a few days remaining before Apple's first tablet computer hits stores, iPad hype is at a fever pitch. But on a recen...
Tweaking the Twitter homepage
Twitter's homepage is a work-in-progress. Today, we're testing a new design that bubbles up more of the information flowing through Twitter. This builds on a series of changes starting last year whe...
Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation
Imagine every positive and ugly opinion about you— from your mother to that awkward co-worker you rejected at the company Christmas party— centrally located on one online profile. Sound scary? It is...
Flash Player To Come Bundled With Google Chrome, New Browser Plugin API Coming
The rumors were true: Adobe and Google are tightening their partnership, seemingly both warily eying Apple in the process - and Mozilla plays a role in this story as well. — Concretely, Adobe has an...
NEW LITIGATION CAMPAIGN QUIETLY TARGETS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF MOVIE DOWNLOADERS
EXCLUSIVE: In what may be a sign of things to come, more than 20,000 individual movie torrent downloaders have been sued in the past few weeks in Washington D.C. federal court for copyright infringeme...
Novell Wins Again - Jury Rules Copyrights Didn't Go to SCO!
It's over. The jury has found that the copyrights did not go to SCO under the APA or anything else. The verdict is in. Novell has the news up on their website already, but I heard it from Chris Bro...
Joojoo Tablet: These Court Docs Show Only 90 Preorders (With 15 returned)
These Paypal documents from the JooJoo/Techcrunch lawsuit show that only 90 preorders for the $500 device, roughly $44k worth, were made. This is what happens when you launch a tablet the same month ...
Gmail Becomes an App Platform: Google Adds OAuth to IMAP
You may or may not be excited by the acronyms OAuth and IMAP/SMTP, but the combination of them all together is very exciting news. Google Code Labs announced this afternoon that it has just enabled 3...