iTunes U Downloads Top 300 Million
In just over three years, iTunes® U downloads have topped 300 million and it has become one of the world's most popular online educational catalogs. Over 800 universities throughout the world have ac...
Facebook Places ‘boring’ says Foursquare chief
Dennis Crowley, the co-founder of Foursquare, a location-based social network, has called Places, Facebook's new check-in tool, “boring” and “unexciting”. — Talking to The Telegraph, Crowley, said h...
Hacker's Arrest Offers Peek Into Crime in Russia
MOSCOW — On the Internet, he was known as BadB, a disembodied criminal flitting from one server to another selling stolen credit card numbers despite being pursued by the United States Secret Service....
Dive into the ocean with Google Earth for Android
Especially during the summer months, staring out into the ocean leads to daydreams of sailing the open water, freedom and exploration. Now you can take three-quarters of this vast planet - the ocean ...
Don't Count on Oracle to Keep OpenOffice.org Alive
Back in January, the Amsterdam-based consultancy Software Improvement Group warned government entities not to deploy OpenOffice.org until Oracle proved its commitment to treating the software as well—...
TiVo launches QWERTY remote
TiVo today has finally launched the full QWERTY TiVo Slide Remote control. The remote was extensively demonstrated at the TiVO Premiere launch in March. — “This is the first ever DVR remote with a ...
[EXCLUSIVE] Report: Google's Android Market License Verification Easily Circumvented, Will Not Stop Pirates
Preface — This article was not written to teach people how to pirate or ridicule Google's Android License Verification Library (LVL) that handles communication with Google's Android Market Licensing...
RIAA: U.S. copyright law 'isn't working'
RIAA President Cary Sherman, second from right, says new pro-content copyright laws may be necessary. — (Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET) — ASPEN, Colo.—The Recording Industry Association of America...
Proof SCO Knew IBM Was Involved in Linux From 1998 Onward
Look what I just found, SCO's Partners page from 2002, on Internet Archive, and lo and behold, it provides proof positive that SCO, then calling itself Caldera, knew that IBM was involved with Linux a...
AMD unveils its Bulldozer and Bobcat processors for future PCs
As Intel is busy moving into the software business with its $7.68 billion purchase of McAfee, Advanced Micro Devices is taking the wraps off its newest processor designs, Bulldozer and Bobcat, which i...
How Mobile Devices Could Lead to More City Living
People pushing sustainability don't tend to be the same types who love our digital-crazed iWorld. And that's a problem because it means they don't push one of the great advantages of dense, energy-ef...
Facebook is the first to jump into ARM servers
Tectonic change of our time — THERE HAVE LONG been rumors of a major player moving their data centers from x86 based PCs to the ARM architecture. It looks like the first big player to jump in to th...
Sony's Bet on Sticking With Web Shows
LOS ANGELES — At first Hollywood raced to make original Web programming. NBC Universal trumpeted a site called DotComedy; the Walt Disney Company created a digital studio called Stage 9; and Time War...
Jury Invalidates One of EFF's ‘Most Wanted’ Patents
Good news in the fight against bad software patents: a jury in the Eastern District of Texas recently found the Firepond/Polaris patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,411,947) invalid. This patent was on EFF's “...
Chomp Sinks Its Teeth Deeper Into Search; Wants To Be The Google Of Apps
It was last November that we first heard about Chomp, a sort-of Yelp for iPhone apps. At the time, it was still very much in stealth mode, but we kept hearing they raised a seed round of funding from...
YC-Funded The Fridge Takes The Privacy Headaches Out Of Sharing With Friends
Back in the old days, Facebook was a site where college students could share photos of their youthful indiscretions without having to worry too much about their boss or parents stumbling across them. ...
Google testing voice calling in Gmail
Google could be ready to turn Gmail into a communications hub by adding the ability to make phone calls from the Google Chat interface. — CNET has learned that Google is testing a Web-based service ...
Apple Said to Prepare New 99-Cent TV Show Rental Service
Apple Inc. is in advanced talks with News Corp. to let iTunes users rent TV shows for 99 cents and is in discussions with other media companies about similar deals, said three people familiar with the...
Google Finance Now Looks Better In Your Mobile Browser
If you go to Google Finance on your iPhone or Android via the mobile browser, it looks a lot like an app. You can enter a ticker symbol or company name in the search box at the top to generate a curr...
‘Angry Birds’ iPhone Game To Get Line Of Toys, Possibly Movie
According to Variety, Rovio, the company that makes ‘Angry Birds’ has been shopping the beloved iPhone game around Hollywood, and currently rolling out some franchising deals. … While we can't say any...
Motorola Snaps Up 280 North For $20 Million
Motorola has acquired Y Combinator startup 280 North, we've confirmed. We haven't confirmed, but have heard from multiple sources, that the price is around $20 million. This is a sizable exit for th...
Exclusive: HTC's Windows Phone 7-equipped T8788 breaks cover for AT&T
In case you needed any more evidence that AT&T is going all-in with Windows Phone 7, take a gander at this little beast, a phone known only as the HTC T8788 at this point (rest assured, you'll get a s...
The Top Three hottest new majors for a career in technology
Have you ever wondered what fields of study are hot right now in the world of technology? Or maybe you're starting to think about declaring your major and you're looking for some real world guidance?
Users are still idiots, cough up personal data despite warnings
Study after study has shown that users are the weak link when it comes to security. Some of it, however, is not their fault: best security practices often go against everything we know about human be...
Qwiboo's Vladimir Roth on why piracy is thriving on iPad
Consumers don't like duplication. For the second time in as many weeks, a developer has been able to use OpenFeint's leaderboards to determine just how many people are pirating its games.Over the wee...