World Cup Becomes Most Popular Web Event Ever
The 2010 FIFA World Cup is now the most popular event in Web history. Record usage began last Friday before the wins and losses. Not since Obama's election day victory has the Web swayed under a gre...
The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks
On June 6, Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter of Wired reported that a 22-year-old U.S. Army Private in Iraq, Bradley Manning, had been detained after he “boasted” in an Internet chat — with convicted compu...
The New MobileMe Mail. Now Available to All Members
The all-new MobileMe Mail at me.com is now out of beta and available to all members. We'd like to thank the many people who used the beta and provided us with feedback. — Here's a summary of what's...
Droid 2: First Impressions
Gizmodo reader Zack recently had a chance to play with Verizon's next offering, the Motorola Droid 2. He sent us his impressions, some details about the specs, and a few extra pictures. — Zack wrot...
OnLive gaming service now available for Mac
“OnLive can run on most PCs—but on all Macs,” boasted Steve Perlman, founder and CEO of OnLive. On Thursday, the cloud-based gaming service launched for the Mac and Windows, thereby enabling thousand...
On Google Chrome's Lack of Native Support for Feeds
Google Chrome is the only popular browser that doesn't have native support for feeds: it doesn't detect or preview feeds and it doesn't let you subscribe to feeds using your favorite feed reader. Mos...
Encrypt the Web with the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Extension
Today EFF and the Tor Project are launching a public beta of a new Firefox extension called HTTPS Everywhere. — This Firefox extension was inspired by the launch of Google's encrypted search option.
Two location companies that are more important than Foursquare, MyTown, Loopt, Gowalla, or Whrrl
I still love Foursquare. I check in nearly everywhere I go. I still also check in with Gowalla (my checkins) and Yelp (my Yelps) and a variety of other services. Why?
Photo, video quality of Apple's iPhone 4 demonstrated in Prague
An iPhone 4 obtained early by a user in the Czech Republic has allowed a look at the photo and video recording quality of Apple's latest handset, prior to its public release. — A reader of Jablickar...
Photo: first iPhone 4 camper shows up at Dallas Apple store on Knox St. [UPDATED]
A reader sends this photo: — You've got a long, hot week ahead of you, friend. — UPDATE: Drew, the reader who sent me the photo, notes that our intrepid camper has chimed in on the macrumors forum...
Facebook '09 revenue neared $800 million
(Reuters) - Facebook's financial performance is stronger than previously believed, as the Internet social network's explosive growth in users and advertisers boosted 2009 revenue to as much as $800 mi...
Law enforcement has apparently become an arm of AT&T and Apple
I feel like we are living in what I thought was the fictional world of the movie RoboCop. In that movie law enforcement is turned over to private company OCP with the cyborg RoboCop leading the way.
DigiTimes: Apple shipping 1.2 million iPads per month
In a post this morning, DigiTimes analyst Kuo Ming-Chi stated that Apple, Inc. is currently shipping close to 1.2 million iPads per month. Ming-Chi also went onto note that, “the monthly shipments ma...
Microsoft floating cash to iPhone devs for Windows Phone app portages
Microsoft is splashing out cash to tempt iPhone app developers into porting their software to Windows Phone 7. — A report on PocketGamer.biz claims the company is flashing its chequebook as it moves...
When Is a Twitter Trend Not a Trend? When It's Promoted
Twitter has just launched the next phase of its advertising strategy: In addition to “promoted tweets,” in which a brand can pay to have its tweet show up higher in the Twitter stream, the company now...
Verizon May Follow AT&T's IPhone to Tiered Pricing
Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, may follow AT&T Inc. in introducing tiered pricing and eliminating unlimited data plans this year as it moves to its faster fourth-generation n...
White HTC EVO 4G coming exclusively to Best Buy on July 11th, pre-orders start today
Jumpin' Jehosaphat! Just when you thought America's first 4G phone couldn't get any hotter, along comes this: a striking white version of the HTC EVO 4G (so much for that unavailable white iPhone 4, ...
NFC will be in all Nokia smartphones from 2011
Who says NFC is dead? Well... we did — Nokia has announced that from next year every Nokia smartphone will have NFC, regardless of fact that the technology lacks a business model or any market dema...
Apple's A4 dissected, discussed...and tantalizing
The Apple A4 discussion kicked off in earnest when Steve Jobs introduced the iPad on January 27. In an infamous series of slides tracing the roots of Apple back to the two Steves in his garage, Jobs ...