I know who your name, where you work, and live (Safari v4 & v5)
Right at the moment a Safari user visits a website, even if they've never been there before or entered any personal information, a malicious website can uncover their first name, last name, work place...
Is Flipboard Legal?
Social news app Flipboard was yesterday's hot new app, despite—or perhaps because of—technical problems that prevented some features from working. But there might be a bigger snag: Is Flipboard scrap...
Microsoft to employees: ‘everybody gets a Windows Phone 7!’
Microsoft guru extraordinaire Mary Jo Foley has retweeted a company employee boasting of a commitment to hand out Windows Phone 7 devices to each and every one of Redmond's 90,000-plus employees aroun...
Disney About To Acquire Playdom
Disney and social gaming startup Playdom are in “very” late stage acquisition discussions, we've heard from, oh, about seven independent sources, including sources close to Playdom, over the last seve...
Less Than 1 Year Until The Internet Runs Out of Addresses
The Internet will run out of Internet addresses in about 1 year's time, we were told today by John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). The same thing was a...
WebOS 2.0 Coming Later This Year, HP's Windows 7 Slate To Be An Enterprise Product
Some interesting news from Fortune's Brainstorm conference: HP VP Todd Bradley says that the company's Windows 7-running tablet, the one Steve Ballmer showed off at CES, will not be a consumer-focused...
Demand Overwhelms Flipboard, App Creators Ask for Patience
The positive press surrounding Flipboard, a new iPad app that aggregates social media, has prompted an influx of new users and a request from the app's creators to be patient should they encounter any...
Amazon Mobile Sales Topped $1 Billion In Past 12 Months
Jeff Bezos is bullish on mobile, whether it's Kindles, smartphones or what he calls the “new category” of wireless tablet computers. Why? Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) customers spent more than $1 billion via...
7 Takeaways From Lasts Night's Talk With Mark Zuckerberg
Last night Mark Zuckerberg faced a dual interview from David Kirkpatrick, author of “The Facebook Effect”, and NPR's Guy Raz, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. We attended ...
AOL Mobile Goes HTML5, Picks Android Over iPhone for New App
Longtime Internet pioneer, AOL today matured its mobile platform with a two new applications for Android handsets and an HTML5 version of the AOL Mobile website for smartphones. The new site — still ...
B&N outs Nook for Android, NY Times iPad subscriptions
Barnes and Noble pushed hard in the mobile arena on Thursday, starting with the launch of Nook for Android. Apart from a name change to drive home the importance of the Nook badge, the app provides a...
AT&T activates 3.2 million iPhones in Q2, 10x iPhone 4s as 3GS
Apple's US carrier partner, AT&T, sure has one big smile on its face — it has recorded the highest number of iPhone activations ever and is stealing swathes of cellphone market share from its competit...
Court: Violating Terms of Service Is Not a Crime, But Bypassing Technical Barriers Might Be
Good news: another federal judge has ruled that violating a website terms of service is not a crime. But there's bad news, too — the court also found that bypassing technical or code-based barriers i...
The massive hole in Facebook's latest legal challenge
Mark Zuckerberg says he owes nothing to Paul Ceglia, the man who recently emerged from the woodwork with the extraordinary claim that he owns 84% of Facebook. — Ceglia hired Zuckerberg — then an 18-...
Ready...set...discover more music on YouTube
If you want easier ways to discover music on YouTube, just start here. Our revamped music page - part of a redesign that started with our shows and movies pages - showcases the most viewed music vide...
FCC Finally Admits US Broadband Competitiveness Sucks; Broadband Co's Then Order Their Favorite Politicians To Trash FCC
Every year, the FCC is required to come out with a report on broadband competitiveness. Every year, it's a joke. Way back in 2006, the GAO looked at the 2005 report …
Skype released for iOS 4, receives calls in background
Here is a little ray of sunshine for all you iOS 4 Skype users out there. Skype has just released a new version of their iPhone application, and it supports multitasking! The build is officially lis...