AT&T Explains iPad Security Breach
On Sunday evening, AT&T sent an e-mail to owners of the Apple 3G iPad notifying them of a security breach that was publicized early last week. — The e-mail, which was sent from Dorothy Attwood, a se...
I Can Has Cheezburger Blog Leads to a Web Empire
SEATTLE — Three years ago Ben Huh visited a blog devoted to silly cat pictures — and saw vast potential. — Mr. Huh, a 32-year-old entrepreneur, first became aware of I Can Has Cheezburger, which pai...
Exclusive first look at location-based service, Placebook
It's not everyday that you get to reveal a new company to the world for the first time. This is one of those cases. Placebook is run by former execs from Netflix, among other places, and is about to...
iPad Media Apps: can do better
It's time for a first assessment of a few iPad media applications. To sum up: a) most are disappointing; b) no need to worry. Instead of subjectively pointing fingers at hits and misses, let's rise...
iMovie for iPhone Details Surface
During the WWDC keynote last week that introduced the new iPhone 4, Apple also revealed iMovie for iPhone, an app that can edit video and still clips into a movie. The app creates movies complete wit...
CHARTS OF THE WEEK: iPad Browser Share Already Beating Android, BlackBerry (AAPL, GOOG, RIMM)
Click here to see this week's charts as a slideshow → — Or select individually: — Facebook Growth ACCELERATES During Its Privacy Flap — Can Apple's Stock Beat The New iPhone Curse?
Reeder for iPad - First Look
Reeder for iPad hit the App Store yesterday. And, it is already following the steps of its predecessor, Reeder for iPhone. If you're not familiar with Reeder, it's an RSS reader that syncs with your...
How We Measure Success
Interesting comment discussion between me and iamronen this morning. It started with me making the assertion that most founders start companies with the goal of building a “financially successful bus...
Soldier leaked Google attack investigation details, hacker says
An Army analyst jailed for allegedly leaking a video of a controversial Iraq air strike also allegedly leaked classified information about a U.S. investigation into cyberattacks on Google that origina...
The iPhone, Net Neutrality and the FCC
Regulatory uncertainty is spoiling the rollout of Steve Jobs's latest inspirations.There's a better way to spur broadband competition. — AT&T's Picturephone, shown at the 1964 World's Fair, was a hu...
‘Shady’ porn site practices put visitors at risk
Visitors to porn sites are at serious risk of being exploited by cyber criminals, a study has suggested. — It found that many sites harboured malware or used “shady” practices to squeeze money out o...
Coming soon: an open source Dropbox alternative with collaboration
Dropbox is a great little service (and app). Developer Hylke Bons seems to like it — but he's got designs on building an alternative with a few improvements. As he writes on his blog, “Dropbox has a...
Modder installs Windows 7 onto JooJoo tablet, gets touch working (video)
Yeah, we had a few issues with the Linux build installed on Fusion Garage's JooJoo tablet, but were things really so bad that we needed to shoehorn Windows 7 onto the thing? Nah, but who wouldn't enj...
Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies?
Last week, I met up with Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's CEO. He gave a very fluent presentation to a group of journalists that ran through Red Hat's business model, and explained why - unsurprisingly - he...