Lieberman Introduces Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation
Senator Joseph Lieberman and other lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would make it a federal crime for anyone to publish the name of a U.S. intelligence source, in a direct swipe at th...
eBay Buying Milo.com For $75 Million
eBay is acquiring local shopping site Milo.com, we've learned from a reader. We confirmed it with a second source. The price tag according to our sources is $75 million in cash. Milo.com is shoppin...
Making Copyright Work Better Online
There are more than 1 trillion unique URLs on the web and more than 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. It's some pretty fantastic stuff - content that makes us think, laugh, and lear...
LivingSocial Confirms $175 Million Amazon Investment
The rumors are true! Amazon and daily deals site LivingSocial have just officially confirmed their partnership, with the e-tailer investing a whopping $175 million in the latter. This comes at an in...
Android Gingerbread UI Gets Exposed In The Crispest Video To Date
Wow, this went unnoticed for a while, didn't it? On November 23rd, Google's own GoogleinHK YouTube account posted a video walkthrough of the new Google Voice Search in Cantonese. With only 2100 view...
YouPorn, Perez Hilton Exploit Bug to Obtain Your Browsing History
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have discovered a bug that many sites are using to track the browsing behavior of their visitors. The flaw was found on some 485 websites, includ...
WikiLeaks' new home is in a former bomb shelter
WikiLeaks, the website known for publishing top-secret government information, has found a new home for its trove of covert dossiers: inside a Cold War bomb shelter. — Truly the stuff of spy films, ...
AVG Free Update Bricks 64-Bit Windows 7 PCs
If you haven't already downloaded the latest mandatory AVG 2011 Free software update, it may be best not to if you want your computer to turn on again. The December 1 update is causing 64-bit PCs run...
Native apps are always better than Web apps; Psst, the new way has an escape chute
When we talk about the mobile Web being a good candidate to be a unifying platform for mobile and beyond, we often get nay-sayers telling us that there is no chance of this happening. — Their claims...
Google Maps & Label Readability
Why Do Google Maps's City Labels Seem Much More “Readable” Than Those of Its Competitors? — For months, I've been trying to figure out why Google Maps's city labels seem so much more readable than t...
Diller stepping back at IAC? “Ridiculous ... I'm stepping closer”
FORTUNE — Barry Diller it seems has been pondering the future lately. Today he took action. — Every summer Diller takes some time off to do a deep think. “I call it my summer project,” he says in ...
Prosecutors Dismiss Xbox-Modding Case Mid-Trial
LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities in the first-of-its-kind game-console-modding criminal trial abruptly dropped their prosecution here Thursday, “based on fairness and justice.” — “The government ha...
Verizon LTE Blows Through Monthly Data Cap in 32 Minutes
Verizon's new 4G LTE network is so fast that you can use up your entire 5GB, $50 monthly allotment in 32 minutes. — I'm in the middle of testing Verizon's new LTE network, and the 2010-era speeds ar...
Confirmed: Ebay Acquires Milo For $75 Million. Investors Make A Killing.
An update to our post earlier today: We've confirmed that local shopping startup Milo has in fact been acquired by eBay, for $75 million. Business Insider first reported on the possible deal earlier ...
55 people think the iPad is more valuable than the Galaxy Tab (updated)
If you read tech news today, expect to see a story making the rounds concerning a “consumer poll” rating the iPad versus the Galaxy Tab. According to the report, an “overwhelming majority” of consume...
Google to Buy New York Office Building
Google Inc. has signed a contract to buy the building that houses its New York City offices, in a deal that values the property at close to $1.9 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. ...
Amazon Denies Dropping WikiLeaks Because Of ‘Government Inquiry’
Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) says that a “government inquiry” did not drive its controversial decision to stop hosting WikiLeaks' site Monday. In a short blog post, the company says charges that a governm...
10gen Raises $6.5M to Dominate the NoSQL Space
Updated. 10gen, the company providing commercial support for the open-source MongoDB database, has raised $6.5 million in third-round funding led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from prior inve...
iPhone sales in China ‘disappointing’
But they will improve rapidly, says an analyst, now that Wi-Fi and the iPhone 4 have arrived — Click to enlarge. Source: Morgan Keegan — “In general, smartphones have exploded in China this year,...
Comcast: We bent over backwards to help Level 3! (those bastards)
Level 3's inflammatory Monday afternoon press release, in which it basically accused Comcast of trying to whack Netflix streaming traffic and flout net neutrality principles, certainly started a fire.
Google, the GSA and the Competition
Today, the General Services Administration made the decision to replace several different versions of IBM's Lotus Notes and Domino software with Google for its own email. While we are disappointed we...
Google upgrades its cloud platform
InfoWorld - Google will upgrade on Thursday its Google App Engine cloud platform and its software development kit, adding capabilities for real-time communications and increased data replication. — ...
RIM acquires The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), the SWAT team of UI design
RIM's upcoming QNX-based OS is about to get a swift kick in the UI, as the company announced its acquisition of The Astonishing Tribe on Thursday. Also known as TAT, the team is renowned for its stun...
Making Copyright Work Better Online
There are more than 1 trillion unique URLs on the web and more than 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. It's some pretty fantastic stuff - content that makes us think, laugh, and lear...
BBC Plans Subscription-Only U.S. iPlayer On iPad
This is huge. The BBC will launch the long-awaited global version of its iPlayer TV catch-up service on a subscription-only basis, and initially only on iPad. — The service, carrying BBC shows like...
For Flipboard, Future is HTML5, RSS & New New Advertising
As traditional publishers struggle to find new business models centered on the iPad and other tablets, Mike McCue, the founder of Palo Alto, Calif.-based mobile media company, Flipboard, seems to have...
Liberty Exits IAC For Evite, Gifts.com And $220M In Cash - Diller Steps Down As CEO
Big move for Liberty Media, IAC and the latter's Barry Diller today. The former has exchanged its entire equity stake in the Internet holding company for a combination of assets and cash in a transac...
Gowalla 3.0 Unifies Check-Ins, Places With Facebook, Twitter, And Yes, Foursquare
This past March, I came home from SXSW with a problem. The so-called “location war” hadn't yielded one check-in service to rule them all. In fact, several new ones popped up just at that conference ...
Google Maps Image Sparks International Debate In Iran
Some in Iran are calling for the removal of a Star of David that's still sitting atop the Iran Air headquarters in Tehran, some 30+ years after Iran broke off relations with Israel. The image above s...
Yahoo's M&A Head Andrew Siegel Is Departing the Company
Andrew Siegel-Yahoo's head of corporate development, who is in charge of its mergers and acquisitions strategy-is leaving the company, according to sources. — The former General Electric exec, who c...
Apple TV: Streaming and Renting From Devices
Of all the set-top boxes designed to bring online and computer content to your TV, perhaps the best known is Apple TV. But, unlike its maker's other products, Apple TV hasn't caught on in a big way. ...
Quad-core processors coming to Android devices in the near future
I'm not sure who coined the phrase first, but those “Chuck Norris quad-core processors” that everyone likes to joke about on Twitter could make their way into Android devices sooner than you think.
Are Companies Scanning Open Source Commit Logs And Patenting What They Find?
It's funny how often we hear patent system supporters tell us that if you haven't actually gotten a patent for your invention, it's perfectly reasonable for someone else to go and patent it instead.
Apple TV users reporting long rental wait times, HDMI issues
Early adopters of Apple's second-generation Apple TV are reporting issues with streaming HD rentals and problems completing “HDMI handshakes” between the new Apple TV and their HD TVs. — Several dis...
Password Manager LastPass Acquires Xmarks
LastPass, an online password manager and form filler, has acquired the social bookmarking and browser synchronization service Xmarks. — The San Francisco-based Xmarks has been in the midst of some t...
Tablets
I was thinking recently how inconvenient it was not to have a general term for iPhones, iPads, and the corresponding things running Android. The closest to a general term seems to be “mobile devices,...
Google's Bid for Groupon Portrayed as a Bargain
As investors fret that Google's $6 billion bid for Groupon is too high a price to pay, new details about the company's sales and growth suggest that it might be more like one of Groupon's cut-rate dea...
Motorola eyes home streaming to mobile
(Reuters) - Motorola Mobility plans next year to sell a product that lets consumers stream video to mobile devices such as tablet computers and cellphones in their home, a top executive for the compan...
U.S. General Services Administration is going Google
(Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog) — The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today announced its decision to move 17,000 employees and contractors to Google Apps for Government. GS...