More App Store hackery may be afoot
Last weekend there were reports that iTunes and the App Store had been hacked. However, it turned out that a developer had used other users' iTunes accounts to buy his apps repeatedly, quickly moving...
Google says China has renewed Web page license
(Reuters) - Google Inc said on Friday that the Chinese authorities had renewed its license to operate a website, averting a potential shutdown of its flagship search page in the world's biggest Intern...
Lawsuit Advances Claiming AT&T iPhone Monopoly
A lawsuit alleging that Apple and AT&T secretly formed monopoly with their exclusive iPhone agreement has received class-action status, meaning the plaintiffs now represent everybody who's bought an i...
Why Facebook Killed A $100 Million Baby
This evening Facebook announced that they will officially kill the company's gift shop on August 1st of this year. Currently generating tens of millions of dollars for the company a year, one has to ...
What's bigger than 1080p? 4K video comes to YouTube
Today at the VidCon 2010 conference, we announced support for videos shot in 4K (a reference resolution of 4096 x 3072), meaning that now we support original video resolution from 360p all the way up ...
We're sorry
A couple of years ago, Google started collecting WiFi network information via our Street View cars to improve location-based services like search and maps. In May, we announced that we had also mista...
On Google's license renewal and principled engagement
After a week of mixed signals and speculation (see previous blog post), the Chinese government has decided to renew Google's web license. — While a number of commentators are interpreting this as a ...
Google's Street View ‘snoops’ on Congress members
Google's popular Street View project may have collected personal information of members of Congress, including some involved in national security issues. — The claim was made by leading advocacy gro...
Judge slams, slashes “unconstitutional” $675,000 P2P award
Judge Nancy Gertner knows that Joel Tenenbaum did it. Tenenbaum, the second US target of the RIAA's five-year litigation campaign to complete a trial, eventually admitted his music-sharing liability ...
Apple-backed SproutCore takes on Flash in race to deliver multitouch web apps
SproutCore, the open source “Rich Internet Apps” framework Apple adopted and invested in to construct its online MobileMe suite of web apps and its iWork.com service, is taking on a larger life of its...
Exclusive: Want More Followers? Twitter May Help You Buy Some.
Want more people reading your tweets? Twitter may offer you a hand-for a price. — People familiar with the company's plans say it has been discussing yet another revenue generator: Think of it as a...
Netgear aims to make home storage hip
The concept of a home storage appliance is not exactly a sexy topic, but Netgear hopes its latest products will help change that. — On Thursday, the company is showing off a new line of pricey but p...
Tim Berners-Lee. Confirming The Exact Location Where the Web Was Invented
I wrote to Tim Berners-Lee after exploring CERN last week, looking for the location where the web was invented, his replies regarding the exact locations are below. [ I've put up photos of the excurs...
Apple Opens Access to iTunes Library on iOS? DJ Apps to Follow, Flare Ships First
Developers for iPhone, iPod touch, and now the iPad have long complained about lack of access to the iTunes library, the file store and metadata for uploaded files. While version 3. of the OS provide...
Fring iPhone App Supports Video Calls Over 3G to Any Fring or Skype User
I just had a videochat over 3G and it was the most amazing thing I've experienced all day. There was some lag, voice quality wasn't perfect, and video was sometimes jittery. But I loved every minute...
NextStop Deal Is All About Facebook's Unquenchable Thirst For Top Talent
Earlier today, Facebook acquired NextStop, a social travel recommendation service. There's been some speculation as to why this deal went down. Is Facebook getting into the travel space? Is this ab...
AOL's MapQuest Looks to Wikipedia Model for Mapping
MapQuest, the No. 2 Internet-mapping service after Google's, is taking the first steps toward a Wikipedia-like model — in which users would generate the maps themselves and combine the results for eve...
Zillow taking over Yahoo's real estate listings
Zillow and Yahoo Real Estate just announced a partnership where the popular real estate startup will take over Yahoo's home for-sale listings and also work with Yahoo on advertising. — This follows ...
House votes to block Net porn on government PCs
A recent vote in the U.S. House of Representatives seemed straightforward enough: government computers must block viewing or downloading porn. — After all, a series of news reports have highlighted,...