Employees Challenged To Crack Facebook Security, Succeed
Apparently Facebook noticed the slap down that the FTC gave Twitter in June because it “failed to prevent unauthorized administrative control of its system.” Shortly afterwards one of the senior engi...
Firefox 4 Beta 1: Tell us what you think!
Firefox 4 Beta 1 is now ready to download and test! This first version gives an early look at what's planned for Firefox 4. Stay tuned, because there is more to come and we plan to release new beta ...
Exclusive: Relativity + Netflix Stream Pact Pushes Pay TV
In a deal that may change the landscape of pay television deals, Relativity Media and Netflix are gearing up to announce an alliance in which the online streaming service will exclusively release Rela...
AppleCare: The iPhone 4 Update Won't Solve the Antenna Problem
AppleCare has confirmed what we already knew: The incoming software update won't fix the iPhone 4's transmission and reception problems. They acknowledged the antenna problem exists, offering the sam...
Apple responds on iTunes fraud, vaguely confirms said fraud
Over the weekend we saw reports of what appeared to be fraud occurring in the iTunes system — namely, a rogue developer had somehow managed to snag 42 of the top 50 sales positions in the App Store's ...
Microsoft pruning more jobs
Microsoft is preparing to make a new round of job cuts as early as tomorrow, according to people with knowledge of the situation, but the unconfirmed numbers we're hearing are relatively small in the ...
AT&T Is Capping Upload Data Speeds
Uh, this better be temporary. We gush about the iPhone 4's hot new upload speeds, and AT&T takes it away. Upload speeds in several cities, like New York, are capped at 100kbps—1/10th of what iPhone ...
Foursquare Launches Location Layers - This is Big
Looking at life through rose-colored glasses? How about walking through your town and seeing it as the Huffington Post or the Independent Film Channel sees it? IFC announced a new campaign this morn...
TweetUp Buys Android Twitter Client Twidroid And News Aggregator Popurls
Twitter search and advertising platform operator TweetUp this morning announced that it had acquired Twidroid, creator of the popular Twitter client for Android phones. The new owner will rename the ...
Best Buy Connect wireless service is official, offers contract-free plans
We'll admit that we never took Best Buy as the kind of company to sell its own wireless service, but you know what Best Buy does sell? Laptops with unlocked WWAN modems, and to that end, the retailer...
California Launches News Aggregator Website
California has launched a news hub that, in real time, compiles and updates its many agencies' Twitter, RSS and YouTube news feeds. — The news aggregator site, unveiled Friday, July 2, collects in o...
Amazon Kindle dual-screen e-reader patent granted, Barnes & Noble Nook potentially in trouble
Looks like the battle for e-reader dominance between Amazon and Barnes & Noble could soon expand beyond the recent spate of price drops and into the courtroom as well: the USPTO just granted …
Sony Is Latest to Cut E-Reader Prices
Faced with competition from Amazon and Barnes & Noble, Sony has slashed the prices of its U.S. Reader electronic e-book readers line. The move comes after Amazon and Barnes & Noble cut the price for ...
Less than 10% of fliers are logging onto Wi-Fi in the air
Wi-Fi connections in the air may not be the magical service capability that some in the travel world had hoped. — Although airlines and providers of the service says they're pleased with consumer re...
What's It Like to Work at Google?
Over at Reddit, people who work at Google are invited to tell what it's really like there. Knowing that some replies posted in such threads may be fake, here are three comments, from the negative to ...
Schmidt and Zuck Peel Away from the Pack in Sun Valley
It is night one at the Allen and Company conference in Sun Valley, and the moguls are trickling in. — They are also getting down to business. — Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt and Faceboo...
Government spends thousands on iPhone apps
BBC News has learnt that the Government has spent tens of thousands of pounds developing iPhone applications. — A Freedom of Information (FOI) request revealed that development costs ranged from £10...
Nokia Slims Down, Sells Modem Business
Nokia today announced plans to sell its wireless modem business to Renesas Electronics for approximately $200 million. Assets included in the transfer — planned for the fourth quarter of 2010 pending...
Is Flattr the new Facebook Like, but this time with real money?
Flattr is a new startup with an inovative business model, coming out of Sweden. In fact it's the brainchild of a group of people formerly associated with The [infamous] Pirate Bay, including Peter Su...
Global chip sales rise 47.6 percent from a year ago as electronics sales recover
Global chip sales continued to recover in May with sales up 4.5 percent from April and 47.6 percent from a year ago, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. — Sales in May were $24.7 bi...
IBM's Hot-Water Supercomputer Goes Live
A close-up of the IBM Aquasar server blade shows the piping and processor enclosures supporting the water-cooling system. — IBM has delivered a supercomputer cooled by hot water to the Swiss Federal...
Apple Studies User Downloads to Hone Mobile Ads, Take on Google
Apple Inc., with a storehouse of billions of music, movie and software downloads, is studying the buying habits of many of its 150 million iTunes users to show more appealing mobile ads and fuel compe...
Motorola Charm In The Wild, Material Arriving In Stores?
Well what have we here, the very first image of the Motorola Basil/Charm in the wild! Sent via pony express our source was able to get a small hands on last week with the device and came away with on...
Sony wedding content with its hardware
Cliff Edwards, Bloomberg Businessweek — Sony once set the standard for inventing products people never knew they wanted - from the Walkman to the CD player to game consoles. That knack for shaping ...