Android bug that sends SMS messages to random recipients is being ignored by Google
According to a report from ZDNet blog Hardware 2.0, Google's Android platform is being plagued by a bug that Google is, for the most part, ignoring. The bug causes SMS messages to be delivered …
New Year's 2011 breaks non-recurring iPhone alarm clocks (update: auto-fixes)
According to multiple users expressing their frustration through Twitter, come New Years 2011 (where ever you are) your iPhone alarm clock won't function correctly. You may recall a similar bug in iO...
The 50 biggest tech stories of 2010
If the year is winding down, and real tech news is slowing to a trickle, you know it's time to reflect on the past 12 months in tech. Again this year we crunched Techmeme's historical data, cancellin...
PSA: iPhone alarms not working come New Year's Day 2011
We're not exactly sure of the cause of this fancy new issue affecting Apple's super cool iPhone line of cellphones, but apparently you've got trouble come 1/1/2011. According to an explosive stream o...
A Snapshot of Facebook in 2010
Happy New Year Democracy UK! — As 2010 draws to a close we can take a look at some data that provides a window into the lives of the millions of people around the world who use Facebook everyday to ...
Borders stalls book payments, doubts survival in e-book era
Borders has been delaying payments to book publishers in signs that it may be one of the first major victims of e-books. Early reports from Publishers Marketplace on Friday said it was putting off th...
Chart: 2010's Best Performing Tech Companies
2010 wasn't a great year for the economy, which puttered along like a zombie from the Walking Dead. But some companies delivered some notably strong performances, and the technology-heavy NASDAQ stoc...
The Mysterious Case of the 'iPad 2′ Cases
WakeMate Warns Users Of Major Safety Issue With Product After One Bursts Into Flames
It was only days ago that we wrote that after nearly a year of delays, the first WakeMate units were finally shipping to customers. And now there's some more bad news — really bad.
Undesigned: The Symbiotic Relationship Of Steve Jobs And Jonathan Ive
or hate it — but you probably don't know much about the man who designed it. — I'm not talking about Steve Jobs. — Behind the scene, Jobs has a partner.
How big was Apple's iPad Christmas?
Unit sales estimates for the quarter that ended Saturday range from 5 million to 7.54 million — Click to enlarge. Source: Company reports, Apple 2.0 — The chatter on Investor Village's AAPL Sanit...
Myspace Mulls Significant Layoffs, With Potential Sale Looming
Myspace-the long-troubled social networking site turned social entertainment hub-is in the midst of planning that could soon result in significant layoffs of its staff, according to multiple sources f...
Twins' Facebook Fight Rages On
SAN DIEGO — Some people go to court hoping to win millions of dollars. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have already won tens of millions. But six years into a legal feud with Facebook, they want to giv...
What 20 Minutes On Facebook Looks Like: 1M Shared Links, 2.7M Photos Uploaded, 10.2M Comments
Democracy UK, a UK-focused political campaigning initiative by Facebook, has just released a number of mind-blowing stats on the massive usage of the network by its 500-plus million members in 2010.
Clearwire Chair Craig McCaw to Quit Today
Cash-strapped Clearwire says no disagreement prompted McCaw's resignation. The company's survival is now in question as it struggles to build a nationwide high-speed wireless 4G network — (Bloomber...
Android SMS bug sends your messages to random contacts
Remember the kerfuffle over the iPhone 4 ‘Antennagete’ and how you could disrupt the antenna by holding the handset the wrong way? Well, there's an SMS bug in Google's Android OS that makes ‘Antennag...
Groupon Draws New Investors and Works on an I.P.O.
Groupon, the social buying site that spurned a $6 billion takeover bid from Google earlier this month, has attracted several big institutional investors, people briefed on the matter told DealBook on ...
BotTorrent? Using BitTorrent as a DDoS Tool
A recent talk at the Chaos Communications Congress revealed how BitTorrent swarms can be exploited to take down large websites with relative ease. A vulnerability in the technology behind so called t...
How We Shared Content in 2010: Still More Facebook, More Email Than Twitter, MySpace Lives On
The link sharing service AddThis, which said this month that it's now tracking the interests of more than 1 billion people across the web, has published an infographic breaking …
Begun The Talent Wars Have - Why Twitter needs a London HQ: Google Engineers
We've reported before about how the escalating war for talent in Silicon Valley is effectively creating a kind of arms race between tech companies. — For example, Google is offering employees a 10% ...
Why Microsoft Should Buy Nokia And Not RIM
If Microsoft decides to boost its smartphone position with a major acquisition, it should buy Nokia, not Research in Motion. — Some would argue that Nokia isn't really a smartphone maker and Symbian...
Why Groupon, Twitter & Other Hot Private Companies Are Cashing Out
Early shareholders in the hottest privately-held technology companies are increasingly finding liquidity without an acquisition or a public offering, with Groupon Inc. being the most recent example.