Mobile phone kits to diagnose STDs
• Plan aims to cut UK's rate of infection among young — • Many with symptoms ‘too embarrassed to go to GP’ — Mobile phones and computers will soon be able to diagnose sexually transmitted diseases...
ZTE Peel hitting Sprint November 14th; $30/month, no contract?
We've just heard from a Sprint source that the ZTE Peel — the iPod touch case designed to bring cellular data to your otherwise non-cellular device — will go on sale November 14th. We don't have any ...
Googler Accuses Twitter Engineer Of Sexual Assault, Trial By Twitter Commences
Google technical writer Noirin Shirley wrote a post on her personal blog earlier this evening entitled “A hell of a time,” describing her experiences last night at ApacheCon in Atlanta.
Google Maps: Uncle Sam's To Blame For That Costa Rica-Nicaragua Border Error
Earlier, we covered how a Nicaraguan military commander, using Google Maps, moved into Costa Rican territory and sparked a dispute between the two countries. Now Google has explained where the bounda...
Apple's example Mac app prices land around $15-20
Reader Shane did a little zoom and enhance on Apple's promo image for the Mac App Store, and divined some potential prices for Apple's official apps. These same apps are the ones that set the pricing...
Amazon to buy Diapers.com for $540 million
A Zappos like purchase for the e-commerce giant. — “What Amazon fears most: Diapers” declared the cover of BusinessWeek earlier this fall. Now it's clear that Amazon didn't fear diapers, it just wa...
Chasing Pirates: Inside Microsoft's War Room
AS the sun rose over the mountains circling Los Reyes, a town in the Mexican state of Michoacán, one morning in March 2009, a caravan of more than 300 heavily armed law enforcement agents set out on a...
The Cloud Fiasco of 2010: Drop.io
Drop.io gets bought and dropped by Facebook, and we're left with dead links. — This is nothing new to me. A company shows up with a good idea. It encourages people to use its services. The servic...
Glitch will make iPhone alarms late Monday
(CNN) — Not forgetting Sunday morning's time change is hard enough. — But Apple iPhone users in the United States must also remember to delete and then reset their phone's alarm clock — otherwise th...
How to Use Blekko to Rock at Your Job
The author of the web's first worm-virus, teamed with a man who dresses as a medieval warrior and goes to battle on the weekends and a woman who follows World of Warcraft, acupuncture and ballet, have...
Reports show HP was right to dump Hurd
commentary Mark Hurd is now a Silicon Valley symbol for self-destructive behavior. — On Friday, The Wall Street Journal and Fortune magazine published detailed reports on what prompted the HP board ...