Who are North Korea's 13 Twitter friends?
In the past few months North Korea has embraced social media, first creating a YouTube channel, and in August a Twitter account with the name @uriminzok, which roughly means ‘our people’ in Korean. —...
Oracle v Google: the open source perspective
Ever since the start of the Oracle v Google lawsuit, I've been wondering what the open source community thinks of this. Google, as one of the de facto leaders from the vendor side of the commercial O...
UAE says BlackBerry dispute resolved before deadline
(Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates will not suspend BlackBerry services on October 11 after resolving a dispute with its Canadian maker Research in Motion over access to email and other data, state ...
Print From Your Android Phone With MotoPrint
SAN FRANCISCO - At the CTIA wireless trade show this week, Motorola demonstrated a new application that will allow the company's Android phones to print documents to a wide range of printers. — Moto...
News Outlets Circle Samsung's Galaxy Tab
Several major news organizations are lining up behind a new tablet device from Samsung Electronics Co. built on Google Inc. software, in order to broaden mobile readership beyond owners of Apple Inc. ...
With Twitter blocked, Chinese micro-blogging thrives
BEIJING — When a huge mudslide swamped a Chinese town in August, killing at least 1,500 people, word first reached the world thanks to a digital camera-wielding, 19-year-old micro-blogger who idolises...
China Telecom may be in talks to offer iPhone-report
China Telecom (0728.HK), the smallest of China's three wireless carriers, may become the second Chinese operator to offer Apple's (AAPL.O) popular iPhone after an exclusive agreement with one of its r...
With Verizon on the Horizon, iPhone Users Weigh Leaving AT&T—but There's a Catch
but There's a Catch — Network quality won't be the only issue for iPhone buyers trying to decide between AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless when the smartphone becomes available to a second U.S. carrier....
Gartner's 2010 Hype Cycle Special Report Evaluates Maturity of 1,800 Technologies
Hype Cycle Research Provides a Cross-Industry Perspective on Potentially Transformative Technologies — Media tablets, private cloud computing, and 3D flat-panel TVs and displays are some of the tech...
MySpace Unveils New, Artsy Logo
If you've been following the news lately, you've probably realized that logo redesigns are a kind of a big deal. Today at the Warm Gun Design conference in San Francisco, butt of too many design/user...
Mercury News interview: Craig Silverstein, Google's first employee
Everyone knows “the Google guys” — Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the multibillionaire founders of the world's most popular search engine. But another Google guy was there from the company's creation 12...
About this 7-inch Apple iPad
Analyst are predicting that Apple will begin work on its 7-inch iPad very soon. They are wrong. — The fact is, Apple already has a 7-inch iPad. They have had one of the smaller devices since they ...