Cookie Madness!
I just don't understand Julia Angwin's scare story about cookies and ad targeting in the Wall Street Journal. That is, I don't understand how the Journal could be so breathlessly naive, unsophisticat...
8 future Gmail features/changes revealed with a single image
An image uploaded to the Chromium OS bug tracker shows a pre-release version of Gmail sporting a number of new features and changes to the layout. In total, we've spotted 8 differences compared to th...
Researcher detained at U.S. border, questioned about Wikileaks
LAS VEGAS—A security researcher involved with the Wikileaks Web site was detained by U.S. agents at the border for three hours and questioned about the controversial whistleblower project as he entere...
High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay
Computer jockeys setting up own shops in bids to make millions. — Pity the programmers toiling away at Wall Street's secretive high-frequency trading shops—places like Goldman Sachs ( GS - news - pe...
Clive Thompson on the Death of the Phone Call
My phone bills are shrinking. Not, unfortunately, in cost. I mean they're getting shorter. I recently found an old bill from a decade ago; it was fully 15 pages long, because back then I was making...
Exclusive: Verizon 4G LTE Launching This Year; LTE Roadmap Detailed
Watch out Sprint, Verizon is prepping its 4G network to go live this year with data cards and LTE handsets confirmed for the 2010 and 2011 roadmap to compete against your 4G WiMAX network.
Dave McClure's Investment Thesis
I've been a fan of Dave McClure since I met him some time ago. He has strong opinions, he shares them liberally, spices them up with foul language, and finds himself involved with a lot of interestin...
WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious ‘Insurance’ File
In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks' recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents, the secret-spilling site has posted a mysterious encrypted file labeled “insura...
In School Systems, Slow Progress for Open-Source Textbooks
INFURIATING Scott G. McNealy has never been easier. Just bring up math textbooks. — Mr. McNealy, the fiery co-founder and former chief executive of Sun Microsystems, shuns basic math textbooks as b...
Samsung's 4-inch Windows Phone 7 handset gets named: Cetus (SGH-i917)
You'd probably assume that Samsung would have a difficult time overshadowing the Galaxy S right now, but all it really takes is a salacious Bluetooth SIG entry that leaves only the most important part...
Blind Item: Which Editor of Valleywag Needs to Resign? Right Now.
Criticising Valleywag in 2010 is something of a pointless exercise, like offering diplomatic counsel to the Ottoman Empire ten years after the Treaty of Lausanne. More pointless still, attacking the ...
Flipboard: The product is great, the hyperbole is grating
Flipboard says 130 publishers have reached out to them — and the response has been “universally positive.” I'm guessing — Conde Nast, publisher of the New Yorker, wasn't among them — as one of ...
Rival Smartphone Attenuation Videos Vanish From Apple's Website
Well this is interesting. One of the key points at Apple's recent press conference to discuss the iPhone 4′s antenna, was that the problem (called “attenuation") is not unique to the iPhone 4.
Tighter security coming in Firefox 4
LAS VEGAS—A new JavaScript engine, HTML5, tabs on top, and a new add-on framework are not the only improvements that users can expect in Firefox 4. At Black Hat on Wednesday, a trio of security repre...
Steve Jobs' Secret Porn Experience
Steve Jobs has championed “freedom from porn,” because, he suggests, pornography harms kids. But a technology broadcaster said he spent a porny weekend with Jobs—and Jobs' young family. — Podcastin...