All about the “onMouseOver” incident
The short story: This morning at 2:54 am PDT Twitter was notified of a security exploit that surfaced about a half hour before that, and we immediately went to work on fixing it. By 7:00 am PDT, the ...
Updated Gmail app in Android Market
We just released a new version of the Gmail app in Android Market, so Gmail updates aren't tied to Android version releases anymore. Now you can get new Gmail stuff faster without having to wait for ...
So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar...
So I did what any self respecting blogger would do …
RIM Readies Its Answer to iPad
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. could unveil its new tablet computer—as well as the operating system that will power it—as early as next week, at a developers' conference in San Francisco, sa...
Live From Facebook's Gaming Event
I'm at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, where the social network is having a special press event to talk about the current social gaming landscape. We expect there to be some important announcemen...
VideoEgg Buys Six Apart
Makes bid to become ‘modern media company’ — Rich media ad network VideoEgg is recasting itself as Say Media after its purchase of blog platform Six Apart. — The absorption of Six Apart gives the ...
With News Feed changes, Facebook issues a friend request to social game makers
Months after it hurt social game publishers by taking away some of its best viral methods for spreading apps, Facebook is hoping to make amends. — The company is planning to announce today it will m...
Pie chart: Apple's outrageous share of the mobile industry's profits
Cupertino is raking in the cash as its competitors struggle to post any profit at all. Canaccord Genuity initiated coverage of Apple (AAPL) Tuesday with a “buy” rating and a price target of $356 per ...
Droid Attack Spells Doom for iPhone
Last year, while I was on a business trip, my wife surprised me during a phone call by telling me that she was going to purchase a Motorola DROID and finally enter the smart phone age. This was surpr...
Verizon: Our Apps Aren't About Taking Over The Phone — It's About “Choice”. Puke.
It's About “Choice”. Puke. — About a week ago, we noted that Verizon was gearing up to launch its own app store for Android phones. This app store, called V CAST Apps, would be completely separate ...
Google report shows where its content is blocked
Google's Transparency Report shows which countries are asking the company to remove certain content. — In the wake of Google's censorship battles with China and other nations, the search giant has l...
AT&T says half a million iPads use its network
* AT&T CEO cites record sales of smartphones in Q3 — * Does not see international M&A opportunities — * AT&T shares up 0.6 percent on NYSE (Adds analyst quote, updates share price) — About a hal...
CE-Oh no he didn't!: Anssi Vanjoki says using Android is like peeing in your pants for warmth
You've been asking and imploring, so Anssi Vanjoki — straight shooter, that he is — now has an answer. Why doesn't Nokia switch to Android? Because Google's software represents …
Apple And Facebook Talked For More Than A Year — Then Apple Launched Ping Without Facebook's Help
Then Apple Launched Ping Without Facebook's Help — Three weeks after Apple launched Ping, its new social networking service, Apple still hasn't been able to work out a deal with Facebook to integrate...
The Legend of Mark Zuckerberg
Bill Gates got me into Harvard. I had never met the man even once in my life, and I had certainly never been the beneficiary of his unparalleled personal fortune in any direct sense. I had, of cours...
iPad Tops in Consumer Satisfaction: Report
Big news for Apple and Apple investors: The iPad is the highest-scoring product that a leading consumer satisfaction index has ever tracked. — The implication here is that the iPad's popularity may ...
The Facebook Movie Is An Act Of Cold-Blooded Revenge - New, Unpublished IMs Tell The Real Story
On October 1, Columbia Pictures will release The Social Network, a film that portrays Facebook's CEO and cofounder, Mark Zuckerberg, as an arrogant nerd-punk who betrays friends and classmates …
Taking rogue pharmacies to court
We work very hard to make sure that ads shown on Google provide useful information for our users. But sometimes we need to take action against ads that violate our policies, as when we block malware ...
My relentless pursuit of the guy who robbed me
A thief broke into my car. I used Craigslist, a dating site, MySpace and a fast food joint to track him down In the first 24 hours after someone broke into my car in my own driveway, I was mostly mad...
McAfee Jumps On The URL Shortening Bandwagon With McAf.ee
Antivirus and security software company McAfee, for reasons unknown, has apparently decided the world needs yet another URL shortening service. — The company this morning launched the beta version o...
Google Deciphers The Balance Of Power Across The U.S.
Google has consistently offered consumers useful ways to interact with election and politics online including “In Quotes,” maps of where to vote, and town hall meetings on YouTube. Today, the search ...
Verizon Storms the App Castle: Launches Wave of Location, Push Notification & Messaging APIs
It wasn't hyped like an Apple developers' conference, that's for sure - but Verizon's Developer Conference held today in Las Vegas included some very big announcements from the largest mobile carrier ...
Twitter Patches Security Hole, Introduces Two Cool New Features To #NewTwitter
Twitter was taken by storm earlier today due to a cross-site scripting vulnerability, exploits of which spread like wildfire on the micro-sharing network. The company issued a statement a short while...
Full specs of the Windows phone 7 HTC Mozart leaked
A kind tipster has sent us this video of the HTC Mozart in action (which we have seen before) and also the full specs of the device, which we have not. — He confirms the device runs a 1GHzQualcomm Q...
Facebook Has Quietly Implemented A De-Facto Follow Feature
A few days ago, Facebook made what seemed to be a small tweak to its Friend Requests area. As first noted by Inside Facebook, the social network changed the way friend rejections work. Previously, y...
Google Reports on Government Requests and Censorship
Google has lately found itself on the receiving end of criticism from privacy and transparency advocates. But with two new tools, Google is trying to convince them that the company is on their side. ...
Nokia N8 shipping update
ESPOO, Finland - There have been a few stories this morning about the N8 availability which we feel need clarification. As we have previously said, we still expect to start the shipments by the end o...
How Google Saved $100 Million By Launching Google Instant
It seems fitting that from the moment it was announced, Google Instant became an instant headline news story. — For the past few week, industry pundits have been talking, tweeting and writing about ...
Making Games on Facebook Better
First, hello from the new Games team! Over the last few months, we've assembled a team of dedicated engineers and product managers who are focused exclusively on designing the platform you need to ma...
Microsoft: over 2 million IE9 beta downloads
Last week Microsoft unveiled their Internet Explorer 9 beta to the world, showing off the tremendous power behind the totally revamped web browser. Loaded with features and improvements, Internet Exp...
The truth about iPad: It's only good for two things
Because of the iPad, 2010 will likely be remembered as a landmark year in computing. It will rank right up there with 1984 when the graphical user interface debuted to the masses in the first Macinto...
TerreStar Genus hybrid satellite phone hits AT&T at long last for $799
It's been just shy of a year since TerreStar's Windows Mobile-based Genus was announced for AT&T, offering a unique combination of GSM / HSPA backed up with satellite capability for those times when y...
Iran: Jailed blogger, Hossein Derakhshan ("Hoder") may face death penalty
A reliable source has told Global Voices that Tehran's prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for jailed Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan (also known as “Hoder"). The presiding judge, named Salava...
Credit Suisse: Verizon iPhone will get 1.4M users from AT&T in 2011
An estimated 1.4 million AT&T subscribers will shift to Verizon with the advent of a Verizon iPhone in early 2011, according to a report released today by Credit Suisse. Credit Suisse's report relies...
Updated Gmail app in Android Market
We just released a new version of the Gmail app in Android Market, so Gmail updates aren't tied to Android version releases anymore. Now you can get new Gmail stuff faster without having to wait for ...
AT&T chief not worried about losing iPhone
Most of iPhone's users already were customers, Stephenson says — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The chief executive for AT&T Inc. tried to cool investors' fears Tuesday about the potential loss of it...
evercookie: the one cookie that you... just... can't... DELETE!
Limping and dripping from the maws of incorrigible security bod Samy Kamkar comes evercookie. As the name suggests, deleting an evercookie isn't easy — in fact, once you've taken a nibble, that's it:...