CIO update: Post-mortem on the Skype outage
As a follow-up to last week's outage, here is a detailed explanation of what transpired, the root cause, and plans to mitigate this from happening again in the future. For starters, it helps to under...
LG Display ships 1.5 million iPad panels in November, Samsung ships 1.2 million units
Shipments of 9.7-inch iPad panels from LG Display reached 1.5 million units in November 2010, and fellow supplier Samsung Electronics' shipments reached 1.2 million units for the month.
Wired's refusal to release or comment on the Manning chat logs
Kevin Poulsen (left), Evan Hansen (right) and Bradley Manning — Last night, Wired posted a two-part response to my criticisms of its conduct in reporting on the arrest of PFC Bradley Manning and the...
Peter Vesterbacka, Maker of Angry Birds Talks about the Birds, Apple, Android, Nokia, and Palm/HP
There are many speculations regarding the cause of the recent global economic recession, but we all know the truth. It was the Angry Birds and their affect on the productivity of the work force.
Evan Williams: The Challenges of a Web of Infinite Info
Evan Williams and I have known each other for a long time. From a struggling entrepreneur who started Blogger, to a successful founder who got liberal funding for his podcasting start-up Odeo, to the...
Memo Pad: iPad Magazine Sales Drop
Remember when Wired's debut issue for the iPad sold more than 100,000 times in June? It looks like it will be a while before that type of performance is seen again. Digital sales dropped toward the ...
Exclusive : This is the new Motorola Cliq 2 , another Android phone for T-Mobile
Yes guys, we did it again. After showing you the first exclusive pictures of the new Dell Streak 7, now we are giving you one present for this 2011. We introduce you the new and better Motorola Cliq...
Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch
Watch out, Silicon Valley: China and India aren't just graduating bad engineers and stealing intellectual property anymore. They're fostering innovations that will shake the world. — Earlier this m...
HTC Evo Shift 4G breaks cover again, with a Jan 9 sale date
We already knew the Evo Shift 4G was coming, and it was priced at $150 (on contract). We also had it on good authority that it was coming on Jan 9, but now we're sure — thanks to the Shack. In an up...
Apple's iTunes rental service believed to be 10% the size of Netflix
Though it is half as old as Netflix, Apple's iTunes rental service is believed to be about one-tenth the size of the competing rental service, one analyst has projected. — Analyst Brian Marshall wit...
Breaking GSM With a $15 Phone ... Plus Smarts
BERLIN — Whatever assurances have been given about the security of GSM cellphone calls, forget about them now. — Use at your own risk. — Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress here Tue...
Irony: Read Kindle Books On Your Rooted NookColor
Just when we thought the NookColor was just a B&N reading device, hackers have rooted the devices and ported the Kindle reading app to the platform, ensuring plenty of migraines around Barnes & Noble ...
Kinect Hacked to Play World of Warcraft: Welcome to the Future of Gaming
Kinect hacks are coming thick and fast, but here is one that will set millions of PC gamers' hearts a-flutter: A hack that lets you gesture control a game of World of Warcraft. — The tech is coming ...
X10 mini successor snapped with Gingerbread and benchmarked
The leaks just keep on coming. This time we have what looks like the successor to the X10 mini or X10 mini pro according to the guy that leaked them on IT168. The images clearly show the unnamed dev...
Nokia and Microsoft, not sitting in a tree
While I'm late to the party commenting on this (holidays, what can you do), you may have seen numerous news reports about Nokia considering Windows Phone 7 as an OS instead of (or in addition to) Symb...
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Over the past few weeks, a lot of fuss has been made over the disclosure of a mobile device's unique identifier to third-parties. Special reports, doomsday headlines... the works. The short version ...
Skype teases its mobile video function with a new landing page
For the past few days, we've been hearing some whispers about Skype bringing a video chat function to the mobile sphere. It seems that those rumors were not so far off, as Skype has just released a n...
Netflix said to be planning 2011 international push
After expanding its streaming service into Canada, it seems Netflix is looking elsewhere internationally to build its business. — Speaking to the CBC last week, Netflix spokesman Steve Swasey said t...
Clooney, Google, U.N. watch Sudan using satellites
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Groups including the United Nations, Harvard University, Google Inc and an organization co-founded by actor George Clooney are launching a project using satellites to “watch” Suda...