An Open Letter to our Valued Customers
At AT&T, we work hard every day to provide you with a great wireless experience at competitive prices. — One of the ways we do this is to offer you the industry's leading wireless handsets below the...
Search more securely with encrypted Google web search
As people spend more time on the Internet, they want greater control over who has access to their online communications. Many Internet services use what are known as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connec...
Facebook confirms plans for ‘simple’ privacy settings
news analysis After one of the most tumultuous months in its young history, Facebook is planning to announce new features that are intended to offer its hundreds of millions of users simpler privacy c...
FTC Closes its Investigation of Google AdMob Deal
After Thorough Review, Agency Finds Transaction Not Likely to Harm Competition — The Federal Trade Commission has closed its investigation of Google's proposed acquisition of mobile advertising netw...
Y Combinator Closes New $8.25 Million Fund, Sequoia Is Lead Investor
Startup incubator Y Combinator has just closed $8.25 million new fund led by Sequoia Capital with Ron Conway, Paul Buchheit, Aydin Senkut, XG Ventures, and Geoff Ralston participating. — The new fun...
Sayonara, iPhone: Why I'm Switching to Android
I was already fed up with my lousy AT&T service, and was seriously considering switching to the HTC Incredible, an Android-powered phone that runs on the Verizon network. But then, after seeing Googl...
U.S. Court: Isohunt has to Shut Down
Judge Stephen Wilson of the US District Court of California, Southern District issued a permanent injunction against the popular torrent site Isohunt yesterday, forcing the site and its owner Garry Fu...
Security Issues Could Force Facebook to Slow Down Product Development
A rash of security bugs seem to have hit Facebook within the last several weeks, while a lot of debate continues over changes the company has made to user privacy features. So what's going on?
Google Pac-Man: The FAQ + Kill Screen Winners
Judging from the tweets I've seen, people are loving Google's version of Pac-Man that's playable on the Google home page today and tomorrow. They also have questions about it. Has anyone reached the...
Google Acquires Online Travel Guide Ruba
According to this blog post, Google has acquired online travel guide and community Ruba. Ruba is a visual travel guide and tour review site that provides travelers with visual guides written by other...
The Digital Download Is Dead
How Google's music-streaming venture will change the gadget and entertainment worlds forever. While the iPod has come to symbolize the digital music age, it's iTunes that's allowed Apple to control t...
Apple Officially Ends ‘Get a Mac’ Campaign, Revamps 'Why You'll Love a Mac' Feature
Last month, actor Justin Long revealed that Apple's long-running “Get a Mac” ad campaign, in which he appeared as the “Mac” character, appeared to have been discontinued. The last set of “Get a Mac” ...
IBM distributes virus-laden USB keys at security conference
ASHER MOSES — IBM has been left with egg on its face after it distributed virus-laden USB keys to attendees at Australia's biggest computer security conference. — Delegates of the AusCERT conferen...
iPad Sold Out at Many Apple Stores
Did Apple underestimate the iPad's early popularity? It certainly seems that way. Amid reports that the device is now outselling the Mac, comes news that iPad supplies are increasingly constrained a...
Google Analytics Releases New, Faster Tracking Code
Last December, Google Analytics announced an alternative tracking setup by using a “parallel rail” to execute JavaScript, meaning analytics wouldn't slow down your site, and your site wouldn't hold up...
Google stops deleting Street View WiFi data
Google halted the global deletion of collected private WiFi data on Friday following confusion over what it should do with the material. — The move came after several European governments asked the ...
Apple Wins Ground in Fight Over Flash
The punches that Apple Inc. is throwing in its fight against Adobe Systems Inc. are beginning to land, prompting some companies to shift away from Adobe's video and animation technology and forcing We...
Search more securely with encrypted Google web search
As people spend more time on the Internet, they want greater control over who has access to their online communications. Many Internet services use what are known as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connec...
FTC Closes its Investigation of Google AdMob Deal
After Thorough Review, Agency Finds Transaction Not Likely to Harm Competition — The Federal Trade Commission has closed its investigation of Google's proposed acquisition of mobile advertising netw...
For Facebook, the Privacy Snowball Just Keeps on Rolling
Call it the “snowball effect,” or maybe the “witch-hunt” effect. At some point, when a company is under fire for something, even the smallest piece of evidence that it might be guilty of that thing c...
Exclusive: Yahoo Poised to Unveil “Project Nike” Partnership Deal With Nokia at Monday Event
Today, Yahoo sent out an invite for a press conference in New York on Monday with a mysterioso tone: — It read, vaguely: — “Please join Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz for an exciting announcement …
Exclusive: PaidContent Founder Ali to Depart Pioneering Digital News Site
PaidContent's Rafat Ali, who turned a one-man Web site and into a must-read hub for digital media news, is leaving the company he founded eight years ago. — Sources said Ali has told co-workers he w...
Android Gets Facebook Graph API Before the iPhone
Facebook announced new mobile social networking functionality for the Android platform this week. At Google I/O, Google's developer conference, executives routinely made fun of Steve Jobs and Apple, ...
“F— those motherf—ers”: YouTube/Viacom suit gets nasty
those motherf—ers”: YouTube/Viacom suit gets nasty — The sad thing about today's new YouTube/Viacom document dump? That the e-mails cited in it were written by adults. — Neither side comes out loo...
Google's Gundotra Goes After Apple: The Video
At Thursday's Google I/O keynote, VP of engineering Vic Gundotra repeatedly ripped into Apple, and he did it right off the bat. The video above, which just came out, shows the first ten minutes of hi...
Introducing Seesmic for iPhone
Seesmic for iPhone brings an efficient perspective to social networking on a mobile platform. An application which enables Twitter, Facebook and Ping.fm - letting you update dozens of social networks...
Most 2010 HTC Android phones will get Froyo ...in 2010
Like many of you, we are already wondering if and when our favorite Android phones will get the Froyo Android 2.2 upgrade. By “favorite Android phones” we naturally mean the hotness made by HTC. So,...
HP Taiwan confirms plans for WebOS-based mobile devices
HP will adopt the WebOS platform in smartphones and tablets, according to Monty Wong, vice president of personal computing systems group at HP Taiwan, adding that since netbooks are more similar in fu...
Google, Apple, and RIM: Win, Place, and Show in the Smartphone Horse Race
A tidbit from the Google (GOOG) I/O developers' conference suggests that the balance of the mobile device world is about to flip yet again. Sales of hardware running the Android operating system have...
Thoughts on Foxconn
I'm not an economist, and in fact, I've never been very good with money or math. I'm not a manufacturer either — the only things I make with my own hands are quilts and cakes. I know, however, from ...