4chan rushes to WikiLeaks' defense, forces Swiss banking site offline
The forces of Anonymous have taken aim at several companies who are refusing to do business with WikiLeaks. 4chan's hordes have launched distributed denial-of-service attacks against PayPal, Swiss ban...
An update on Chrome, the Web Store and Chrome OS
On the Chrome team, we're constantly amazed by the speed of innovation on the web. We designed Chrome to make the web shine, and we hope our upcoming efforts will help support this vibrant ecosystem ...
Steve Jobs: MobileMe to ‘Get A Lot Better’ Next Year
Apple's MobileMe service has been a bit of a mixed bag with consumers, with some seeing value in the service's email, photo/file hosting, and syncing capabilities while others feel that the $99 annual...
Google Executive: No Time to Build, So We Buy
As news of Google's attempted acquisition of the daily deals site Groupon ricocheted around the Web, one big question loomed large: Wouldn't it be easier for Google to build out a similar service than...
Every Website Can Now Be a Bookstore
Kindle for the Web enables customers to read full text of Kindle books in their web browser - no download or installation required — Websites are invited to participate in decentralized e-book sales...
Bing's new mall maps: Get in, get out, and the avoid the crowds
Have you ever driven to a mall, parked at one of the big department stores, then discovered the store you needed to go to was on the other side of the mall? What about experiencing the frustration of...
A New Crankshaft for V8
Today we are introducing Crankshaft, a new compilation infrastructure for V8, Google Chrome's JavaScript engine. By using aggressive optimizations, Crankshaft dramatically improves the performance of...
Tracked Down: Google Just Quietly Launched An Official Latitude iPhone App
I guess Google really is in a feisty mood tonight. After the Chrome Web Store, Chrome OS, some leaked Google +1 information, and a Google Groups re-launch, we've just gotten word that Google has laun...
CONFIDENTIAL! Looks Like “Google +1″ Was Just Accidentally Revealed (Pic)
While we haven't 100 percent confirmed it yet (update: we've confirmed with a source), what you see above is what we do very much believe to be a picture of Google's latest social foray.
ChromeDeck: TweetDeck Finally Comes To The Web As A Chrome App
You can get TweetDeck, the popular realtime stream reader, as a desktop client, on your iPhone and iPad, or Android phone. But up until now, there was no Web browser version (unlike Seesmic, which is...
Google's Andy Rubin Gives a Flash of Tablet Future
Although Andy Rubin's keynote at D: Dive into Mobile is scheduled for just before dinner, expect to hear a lot of talk about dessert. On the menu are Froyo, Gingerbread and perhaps even a hint of Hon...
WikiLeaks: British Police Arrest Assange
Andy Winter, Sky News Online — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested by British police over sexual assault claims in Sweden. … The 39-year-old Australian was detained by Scotland Yard o...
MasterCard pulls plug on WikiLeaks payments
MasterCard is pulling the plug on payments to WikiLeaks, a move that will dry up another source of funds for the embattled document-sharing Web site, CNET has learned. — “MasterCard is taking action...
Google Nexus S preview
We're here at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco, and we've just had a chance to lay our ever-loving hands all over Google's latest wunderkind, the Nexus S. As you've probably already...
One Database To Rule The Cloud: Salesforce Debuts Database.com For The Enterprise
Oracle has dominated the database market, especially following its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. But today, its “frenemy” Salesforce.com will become more of a competitor with the laun...
Info pirates seek an alternative internet
After dumping thousands of secret US diplomatic cables in the public domain last week, WikiLeaks ended up losing its web hosting company - twice - and its wikileaks.org web domain to boot as providers...
Facebook: We're Not Kicking Wikileaks Off Our Site
Classified document publishing website Wikileaks has now been kicked off of Amazon, Paypal, its DNS server and its Swiss bank account - but it lives on, including across hundreds of mirrored sites and...
Google Books for Android — a Review
a Review — Google opened its e-book store and released a reader app for Android today. Google Books is a typical no-frills app — common with Google's usual first efforts — but it handles the basic t...
Yahoo Finance Adds Curated Stock Conversations From StockTwits
StockTwits, which curates conversations about stocks, nailed down another impressive business development deal today. Yahoo is now pulling data from the StockTwits API and adding it to individual sto...
Playstation Phone controls spotted lurking in the Android Gingerbread SDK
L1. L2. R1. R2. If those aren't ringing any bells, you've really gotta spend some time with a Playstation. As any kid born in the last few decades could tell you without hesitation, those are the...
Google Says China Is at ‘the Heart’ of the Internet's Future Development
Google Inc. said it has many chances for growth in China, where the company shut down its web-search site in a dispute over censorship, and called the Asian nation the “heart” of the Internet's future...
Toshiba to launch 3 new tablet PCs in 1Q11
Toshiba is aiming to launch three new tablet PCs in the first quarter of 2011 and has outsourced their production to its Taiwan-based partners Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics and Pegatron Technolo...
Google Will Launch Chrome Web Store and Chrome OS Today
Today is an important day for Google Chrome: Google will launch Chrome Web Store, a marketplace for web apps, and Chrome OS, the first browser-centric operating system. Google has uploaded two introd...