In the Grip of the New Monopolists
Do away with Google? Break up Facebook? We can't imagine life without them—and that's the problem — How hard would it be to go a week without Google? Or, to up the ante, without Facebook, Amazon,...
What's That Torrent Thing Google Keeps Suggesting?
Thanks to Google people have all the world's knowledge at their fingertips. Simply type in a few words and the search engine usually returns hundreds of thousands of related websites - some backgroun...
Google senior execs getting 30 percent raises
Google gave all of its employees raises earlier this week, but it saved the best raises for its senior management team. — Four of Google's seven named executive officers—Patrick Pichette, Nikesh Aro...
GoDaddy Replaces .Com with .Co, Now Default Choice
A big lift for .co this weekend as world's largest registrar promotes .co to top of search box. — You might be in for a bit of a surprise if you visit GoDaddy today. This is what the search box loo...
Mystery Over! Apple TV Is Amazon's No. 12 Best-Selling Gadget
Amazon has quietly updated its best selling electronics list to include several gadgets that were not showing up before, including Apple TV and the Boxee Box. — Apple TV is currently the no. 12 best...
4chan Users Try to DDoS Tumblr, Tumblrs Raid 4chan in Revenge
The final phase of Operation Overlord, 4chan's loosely-orchestrated effort to bring down Tumblr, is on. And this time they're bringing their LOIC's. LOIC stands for Lower Orbit Ion Cannon, the nickn...
UK phone operators turn down Palm Pre 2
Major carriers won't be stocking new webOS 2.0 phone — The? Palm Pre 2 is to go on sale in the UK, SIM-free and costing ? 399. But, if you are holding out to see if any of the major UK operators w...
Singel-Minded: How Facebook Could Beat Google to Win the Net
ANALYSIS — In 1993, The New Yorker ran a famous cartoon with two dogs near a computer, with one mutt telling the other “On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog.” — Oh, how times have changed.
Windows Phone 7 Marketplace lets you peek at any app's source code
It has just been discovered that it's possible to download any Windows Phone 7 XAP full application package directly from Microsoft's Marketplace server — no need to use a Windows Phone 7 device or th...
You've Got FMail
The news on Monday appears to be that Facebook will reinvent email. TechCrunch says it's the long awaited Gmail killer. Others say it's Gmail inventor Paul Buchheit's project since he came to Facebo...
Microsoft hosting special Silverlight day to ease worried developers and reveal future plans
Microsoft is planning to dedicate a whole day to the future of Silverlight. — The software giant will host a developer event on December 2 where it promises to reveal the future of Silverlight.
Netflix on Android
Hi, this is Greg Peters, from Netflix product development. We recently announced the availability of Netflix on Windows Phone 7 devices, which, alongside the iPhone, represents the second mobile phon...
IPad Sales May Miss Estimates as Customers Trim Spending
Apple Inc.'s iPad and other tablets may not sell as well as analysts had estimated as customers cut back spending on new technology or opt for new smartphones and laptops instead, according to Rodman ...
Verizon's Pantech and LG LTE modems leak out in ad form
Verizon's promised a 38-city LTE launch by the end of the year, and it looks like things are ramping up — we were just sent this ad for the LG VL600 and Pantech UML290 4G USB modems. We've seen the V...
Researchers take down Koobface servers
Researchers have taken down the command and control servers used by the Koobface botnet. — Security researchers, working with law enforcement and Internet service providers, have disrupted the brain...