Iran confirms massive Stuxnet infection of industrial systems
Nation's atomic energy experts met last week to discuss ways to eradicate worm, say reports — Computerworld - Officials in Iran have confirmed that the Stuxnet worm infected at least 30,000 Windows ...
New Apple iPad Designs Surface with Landscape Docking & More
A new series of iPad designs have surfaced this past week in China that illustrate a number of very interesting possibilities that could be coming to future iPads. The first is the ability to dock in...
Internal Strife at WikiLeaks — German Spokesman Says He Will Leave Website
German Spokesman Says He Will Leave Website — A dispute has broken out within the leadership of WikiLeaks, the website known for publishing classified documents including the Afghanistan war logs. I...
Ping Now Works With Your Actual iTunes Library. This Is A Thousand Times Better
It launched with much fanfare, but I don't think it was unreasonable to call Ping a dud out of the gate. While pretty much everyone initially signed up to try it out, a few days later, the activity s...
Google Announces Full Support for Microformats in Local
The Lat-Long Blog has announced that Google is now supporting rich snippets as a mechanism for identifying the specific location that a webpage is referring to: — From a local search perspective, pa...
Google Warning Gmail users on China Spying Attempts
Google is using automated warnings to alert users of its GMAIL messaging service about wide spread attempts to access personal mail accounts from Internet addresses in China. The warnings may indicat...
Massive crowds greet iPhone 4 in China
Over 200,000 pre-orders and a queue more than 1,000 customers long — The scene Saturday morning outside one of Apple's Beijing stores. Photo: AFP — What a difference a year makes. — Last Novemb...
How to be successful on YouTube [what I learned after 2 million views]
I have always been a big fan of video as a communication tool and YouTube is an amazing platform if you use it right. —it's human —it's you, your voice, your gesture, your feelings, much more than t...
The risks of Facebook's Instant Personalization program
In April, Facebook unveiled a new technology called Instant Personalization. Initially released to just Yelp, Pandora, and Docs.com, Instant Personalization has been widely misunderstood by the media...
TechCrunch Disrupt Will Not Be About AngelGate
We've all had a pretty long week dealing with all this, for lack of a better term, AngelGate stuff. For the people involved, me included, it hasn't been much fun. — Mostly because angel investors a...
Facebook Movie Gets Overwhelmingly Positive Reviews, But Will People Go See It?
Premiering at New York Film Festival yesterday and coming to theatres October 1st, the world's first Hollywood movie about the founding of a social network can now also claim the bragging rights …
12 years in jail for man in ‘vile’ porn plot
A handyman who ruined a school caretaker's life by planting child pornography on his computer was jailed for 12 years today. — Neil Weiner launched the “wickedly evil and vile plot” hoping to get Ed...
IBM warns of challenge to U.S. supercomputing leadership
China is building a massive new supercomputing center ‘to basically eat our lunch,’ IBM VP warns — WASHINGTON — To make a point about China's interest in supercomputing, David Turek, IBM's vice pres...
Need Pre-Facebook Movie Drama? Go Read “Googled” This Week
With the Facebook movie's debut a week away, how about something to keep you entertained while you wait? A book. About that other major internet drama story, Google. The book? “Googled, The End Of...
European Union ends antitrust investigations of Apple
The European Union has ended two antitrust investigations into Apple's iPhone policies after Apple relaxed developer restrictions and introduced cross-border warranty repair service. — According to ...
Steve Jobs Confirms New Apple TV Orders On Schedule for September Delivery
A significant amount of attention has been focused on orders for the new Apple TV today after it was revealed that Apple had contacted some customers to notify them that their expedited shipping fees ...
Vast Majority Of Software Patents In Lawsuits Lose
Well, this is interesting (and quite surprising). A new study by John Allison, Mark Lemley, Joshua Walker looked at highly litigated patents to see how well they did in court, and came up with some r...
Encourage the USPTO to stop issuing software patents; deadline September 27
Following the Supreme Court's decision in Bilski v. Kappos, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plans to release new guidance as to which patent applications will be accepted, and wh...