Apple's Official Response To DMCA Jailbreak Exemption: It Voids Your Warranty
I just got a call from Apple's PR department to discuss today's historical DMCA exception ruling that makes iPhone jailbreaking legal. — Unfortunately, because of the legal issues involved …
Oracle's Ellison: Pay King
Leads WSJ List of Top-Paid CEOs of the Decade; Diller, Irani, Jobs Rank High — Larry Ellison, founder and chief executive of software maker Oracle Corp., topped the list of best-paid executives of p...
iPhone 4 Arrives in 17 More Countries This Friday
Apple's iPhone® 4 will be available in 17 more countries this Friday, July 30. iPhone 4 features FaceTime®, which makes video calling as easy as one tap, Apple's new Retina display, the highest resolu...
Limited iMac retail inventory precedes anticipated update
Some Apple retail stores have run out of stock of both 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac models, ahead of an expected refresh to the desktop Mac hardware. — An AppleInsider reader sent word Sunday that the...
Inside Facebook's Open Source Infrastructure
Facebook connects its 500 million users using an array of open source software to enable social networking as well as data intelligence. Facebook's open source Web serving infrastructure has a lot mo...
Yelp's Stoppelman Talks About Geo-Location, International Expansion (And Not Google)
Earlier this week, BoomTown headed to downtown San Francisco to the hip HQ of Yelp to talk to its CEO, Jeremy Stoppelman, about a range of issues related to the local business review site.
Ruling on DMCA could allow breaking DRM for fair use
A new court ruling on Friday could set a legal precedent that allows bypassing digital rights management (DRM) for fair use purposes. New Orleans circuit Judge Emilio Garza found that GE hadn't viola...
NSFW: Sorry AirBnB Hipsters, I'll Take Health and Safety Over the Cult of Disruption
Get out of the way, old man! You're being Disrupted! Screw you, newspapers: blogs are stealing your readers and Craigslist is pillaging your revenue! Take that publishers: Andrew Wiley doesn't need...
RIP: Why the iPad ‘killers’ are already dead
iPad is huge, big, massive hit, an echo of the iPod effect on the MP3 player market and the iPhone effect on the mobile world. Apple has stolen the tablet/netbook industry to the extent competitors f...
Twitter to Show Photos and Videos in the Stream [UPDATED]
A new Twitter setting called “Tweet Media” has rolled out to some of Twitter's users, strongly suggesting that the company will soon embed videos and photos in the stream. — Tweet Media, which the M...
iPhone Becomes Focus Of Media Measurement Consortium
Major media companies are zeroing in on the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone as the key to understanding consumers' habits with regard to TV, online and mobile. The Coalition for Innovative Media Measuremen...
An Even Better Way to Find Places Nearby
With six updates in six months, Google Maps for Android has been getting plenty of new features, both big and small. A continued focus with each update has been on giving you better ways to find plac...
The Sad State of Open Source in Android tablets
This year a slew of companies have launched competing Android tablet devices. A lot of rhetoric has been spun about how Android's open source ecosystem gives manufacturers and consumers an advantage.
Google Punch
A video posted by Google shows the name of a new Google Docs feature: Google Punch. A “punch” is a Google Docs filetype, just like a document, a spreadsheet or a presentation. — Here's the video: ...
HTC Vision headed to T-Mobile in new spy shot, dubbed G1 Blaze?
While high-end QWERTY sliders loaded with Android aren't nearly as uncommon now as when HTC's Vision first leaked onto the scene, it appears this particular handset may be destined for T-Mobile with i...
Hackers With Enigmatic Motives Vex Companies
The world of hackers can be roughly divided into three groups. “Black hats” break into corporate computer systems for fun and profit, taking credit card numbers and e-mail addresses to sell and trade...
Google, Content Farms & Why This May Be Blekko's Moment
At the beginning of Google's “Searchology” event in early 2007 original Google employee Craig Silverstein opined, “If Google had started a year or two earlier, it wouldn't have worked.” That's becaus...