Here's The URL That Bank Of America Really Wants To Buy But Can't: BANKOFAMERICASUCKS.COM
Bank of America now has another PR disaster on its hands, one that was completely self-imposed. — By buying up hundreds of domain names like — Bank of America has generated way more bad publicity ...
Why Google Dropped Groupon and Local Just Doesn't Scale
Prolific tech business analyst Paul Kedrosky made a name for himself as the founder of longtime blog Infectious Greed, one of the first editorial sites to cover internet investments and companies. He...
Dell drops ultrathin Adamo 13 to $899
A lower-priced Adamo 13 has popped up on Dell's Web site. The Adamo page is now showing the price of the aluminum-clad ultrathin laptop at $899—and this discount comes with an unexpected bonus, too. ...
Apple TV challenge from Google falls flat in 2010
Logitech has reportedly halted shipments of its Revue Google TV boxes through January while waiting for Google to update its software on the poorly selling units. — According to a report by DigiTime...
Skype finally bringing video calling to iPhone 4, maybe other mobile platforms?
So let us set this up for you: Skype has been telling everyone that it'll be making a “series of video-related announcements” at CES next month... and it's participating in a panel called …
Sightings from the Mac App Store
We just got our hands on some information about the upcoming Mac App Store. First here's a screenshot of the login page you will need to pass through in order to download apps. What's interesting ba...
Apple Invents New Kind of Logo Antenna for Portables
While Apple was undergoing their “Antennagate” moment earlier this year, Apple's engineers were long at work on a new kind of antenna which Apple dubs the “logo antenna.” This new antenna is to hide ...
Digital Nativity Story: See First Christmas Retold Through Social Media (VIDEO)
A festive video called “The Digital Story of the Nativity” tells the tale of the first Christmas as it might be told today—through the eyes of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter …
Venezuela: The bill to regulate internet has been approved
On Monday, December 20th, the Venezuelan Parliament passed the bill that gives the Executive the power to regulate all content accessible in Internet within Venezuela. Through an administrative organ...
Exploit Published for New Internet Explorer Flaw
Hackers have released exploit code that can be used to compromise Windows PCs through a previously unknown security flaw present in all versions Internet Explorer, Microsoft warned today. — Dave For...
Using ‘Likes’ for Gift Ideas
Retailers Are Tapping Social Profiles to Help Customers Shop for Their Friends — Online retailers are experimenting with the idea that friends can make shopping easier. — Companies such as Amazon....
DigiTimes: Android 3.0 due for release in March
In a brief report summarizing the tablet plans of ECS, Asustek, and MSI, Taiwanese blog DigiTimes matter of factly published the release date of Google's tablet-optimized version of its Android operat...
FarmVille co-creator working on stealthy startup BetterWorks
Is your job about to get a lot more addictive? Maybe — Sizhao Yang, one of the original team members behind insanely popular Facebook game FarmVille, is working on a new startup called BetterWorks th...
Merry Christmas, Zynga: CityVille eclipses FarmVille as the world's biggest game
In just 22 days, Zynga's CityVille has eclipsed FarmVille as the world's biggest game. — Today, CityVille added an astounding 6.9 users to end the day at 61.7 million monthly active users …
Why I don't want an Iphone for Christmas.
Under the Christmas tree, some of us will hopefully find an Iphone 4 32G, an Ipad, a Dell computer, a Sony PSP or a Nokia smartphone. On the user manual, it shall be written how to handle it but cert...
Financial Times names Steve Jobs ‘Person of the Year’
Calls his “the most remarkable comeback in modern business history” — The Financial Times has given Apple's (AAPL) CEO the honorific Time Magazine never did. From the citation in the current editio...
Samsung to make system chips for Toshiba: report
(Reuters) - Toshiba Corp will outsource fabrication of system chips to South Korean rival Samsung Electronics Co, freeing up resources for its mainstay memory chip operations, the Nikkei business dail...
Cherokee Nation looks to iPhone app to help save its language
Cherokee Nation tribal officials are hoping that an iPhone app can help save their tribe's disappearing language. — The Associated Press reports that the tribe has worked with Apple to develop Chero...
“Evil” D0z.me URL Shortener Facilitates DDoS Attacks
Conceptual hacker Ben Schmidt has combined his interest in the recent spate of DDoS attacks surrounding the WikiLeaks dump as well as what he holds to be the public's increasing over-reliance on URL s...
Exclusive: MegaUpload Issues Response to RIAA Over Mastercard Cutoff
Yesterday, we reported on the RIAAs efforts to get Mastercard to cut off payments to MegaUpload. Today, we have received an exclusive response from MegaUpload on this news. — Blocking so-called “ro...
HTC: We Will Customize Windows Phone 7 Over Time
One of the great debates surrounding Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system focuses on whether the design guidelines the company set for its manufacturer partners allow for adequate expression. ...
Facebook Overthrows Yahoo To Become The World's Third Largest Website
We've seen this one coming all year. Facebook is now the third largest website in the world, taking the No. 3 spot from Yahoo, according to comScore. Facebook drew an estimated 648 million unique vi...