Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by reselling stolen bandwidth
Level 3 communications raised a lot of eyebrows earlier this month when it outbid rival Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider Akamai to deliver Netflix content to large parts of the United States.
Groupon Board Will Meet Tomorrow To Decide On Google Deal
Amidst everyone in the world writing about the rumored $5.3 billion dollar Google Groupon offer at the moment, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the deal has not yet been sealed and that Group...
Facebook Engineering Director Aditya Agarwal Departs
Facebook director of engineering and very early employee Aditya Agarwal is leaving the company after more than five years, he announced last night. — In a note published on his Facebook profile, Aga...
New iPhone OS supports our network technology to boost smartphone performance
With its latest iPhone iOs 4.2 software, it looks like Apple is joining efforts to cut smartphone signalling down to size. Tests by Nokia Siemens Networks have shown that iPhone iOs 4.2 supports …
Steve Jobs: AirPlay Video Streaming Coming to Safari and Third-Party Apps in 2011
One of the major new features deployed in iOS 4.2 last week was AirPlay, Apple's solution for streaming video, audio, and photos from portable iOS devices to the new Apple TV for display on users' tel...
Google Set to Launch E-Book Venture
Google Inc. is in the final stages of launching its long-awaited e-book retailing venture, Google Editions, a move that could shake up the way digital books are sold. — The long-delayed venture—Goog...
Mobile OS usage splits the world (chart)
Where do you think Apple's iPhone is the most popular? Where does Nokia's Symbian phones dominate? How is it going for Android in different parts of the world? What about Blackberry? — We're goin...
The Incredible Stupidity Of Investigating Google For Acting Like A Search Engine
I did a search at Google today for “cars” and was shocked. Rather than list links allowing me to search for “cars” on Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Voila, Naver and Yandex, Google instead favored its own searc...
Why Gawker is moving beyond the blog
The 2011 template represents the most significant change in the Gawker model since the launch of Gizmodo and Gawker in 2002. One could go further: it represents an evolution of the very blog form tha...
Dell Inspiron Duo review
When Dell first demoed the Inspiron Duo and its vertically rotating screen on stage at IDF in September, our mouths nearly hit the floor. It looked like a plain old netbook until its 10.1-inch capaci...
Winamp Wants To Be The iTunes Of Android; Now Out Of Beta With Wireless Sync
Today Winamp for Android is coming out of beta, a month after its initial launch and more than 500,000 downloads later. The public Android release lets you manage your music downloads on your Android...
JPMorgan Gives Bankers IPads, Signaling Danger to RIM
JPMorgan Chase & Co. will give its investment bankers iPads to provide an additional mobile tool as Apple Inc. expands its domain to Wall Street, threatening Research in Motion Ltd. in a market it tra...
China arrests hundreds of hackers, says situation “grim”
(Reuters) - China has arrested more than 460 hackers from start of this year to the end of November, but the prospects to prevent future assaults on computer security remain grim, the ministry of publ...
Google Cuts Off AppNexus, and the Ad Tech World Shudders
AppNexus, a high-flying ad technology start-up, just had a bad few days. The next few weeks could be rough, too. — That's because over the weekend, Google suspended the company's access to the ad g...
Microsoft exec says Google is ‘failing’ in the enterprise
In Q&A, Microsoft's Tom Rizzo says Google doesn't understand business needs — Computerworld - Raising the stakes in its war of words, Microsoft today said Google simply doesn't understand what busin...
Visa to Use Your Phone's Location to Prevent Credit Card Fraud
Sure, you like all the great benefits of having your phone know where you are. Looking up directions or local weather information becomes that much faster. But outside companies and agencies are equ...
For Start-Ups, the Ultimate Goal: Becoming a Verb
When starting a new Web site or Internet service, most technologists are aiming to sell to a larger company or gain hundreds of millions of users. But for some there is an even bigger glory than cash...
Google Gearing Up For A Chrome Web Store Launch (For Real This Time)
Back in August, at a conference in Europe, Google showed a little preview of the Chrome Web Store and noted that a launch would probably take place in October. While there were some hints of it comin...
Google's Groupon Offer: $5.3 Billion, With $700 Million Earnout
According to sources close to the situation, Google has offered $5.3 billion for Groupon, in what will be its largest acquisition yet if completed. — Sources said the deal for the social buying site...
Google Investigated by European Union Over Online Ads, Search
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. is being investigated by European Union regulators for allegedly demoting rival services in its search results and for restrictions that may prevent websites acceptin...
Rumor: January Windows Phone 7 update to be massive, catches up with iPhone
We've been covering the rumored software update for Windows Phone 7 for sometime now, even having our forum members add some info to the mix. So far, the update is suppose to have the following featu...
Forget Net Neutrality, Comcast Might Break the Web
The fight that erupted today between Level 3 and Comcast involves an esoteric agreement between two of the Internet's big players providers colliding with a series of equally arcane policy arguments, ...
Apple makes PhotoFast stop production of speedy 256 GB MacBook Air SSDs
Back in late October we reported that PhotoFast began producing 256GB SSD upgrade kits for Apple's latest MacBook Air lineup. PhotoFast's third-party SSD upgrade for the new MacBook Airs read and wri...
The Founder Institute Publishes Blacklist Of “Unsavory Characters”
The Founder Institute, a very early stage startup accelerator and entrepreneur training program, was launched in 2009 by Adeo Ressi. The company now has programs in a variety of cities in the U.S. an...
The Men Who Stole the World
A decade ago, four young men changed the way the world works. They did this not with laws or guns or money but with software: they had radical, disruptive ideas, which they turned into code, which th...
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes officially launches Jumo, social network for social activism
Status update from Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook and the social media whiz kid behind Barack Obama's presidential campaign: On Tuesday he officially launched Jumo.
Instagram Captures Their First Big Brand Partner: National Geographic
There seems to be a common cycle for many startups. First, you capture users. Then, you capture brands/celebrities. Then you capture revenues. Most startups never make it past step one, let alone ...
Sandisk, Sony, and Nikon propose 500MBps memory card with more than 2TB capacity
While the CompactFlash Association scoots along at a maximum transfer rate of 167MB per second under its just released CF6.0 specification, Sandisk, Sony, and Nikon are already looking to the future.
Apple Exec Schiller Steps Out On Twitter A Bit More; Answers Questions, Troubleshoots
A week ago, it was revealed that Apple executive Phil Schiller was using Twitter. Actually, he had been on the service for about two years, but he wasn't active, nor was he verified, so no one was su...
Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt
THERE you are, peacefully reading an article or watching a video on the Internet. You finish, find it thought-provoking, and scroll down to the comments section to see what other people thought. And...
How to Make Google Translate Beatbox
Not sure if this falls in the category of Easter Egg or clever manipulation, but either way, there go our afternoons: Redditor harrichr has devised a scheme for turning Google Translate into a makeshi...
iPad 2 Camera Lens Maker Reportedly Selected
Last week a rumor surfaced indicating that the next iPad, so far known as “iPad 2″, will sport new features such as a gyroscope, a Retina Display and USB ports. While we have our doubts about the Ret...
Microsoft's Plan B to Make Money in Phones: Patents
Although Microsoft is still hoping that Windows Phone 7 proves to be a hit, the company doesn't see its success as the only way to make a profit from all those millions it has poured into mobile phone...
Wikileaks evades hackers with shift to Amazon
Website moves front page to Amazon server hire service but keeps US embassy cables out of reach — Wikileaks, the site that has infuriated the US government by releasing thousands of US diplomatic ca...
Researcher Warns of iPhone Phishing Dangers
Malicious Web developers can take advantage of the iPhone's ability to push the Safari's address bar out of view, says independent security researcher Nitesh Dhanjani via a post on his personal blog. ...
Amazon charges Kindle users for free Project Gutenberg e-books
Kindle readers, take note: You may have been paying for books you could legally download for free—in nearly identical editions—elsewhere. The titles in question aren't just public-domain books that h...