DOJ subpoeans Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers
Last night, Birgitta Jónsdóttir — a former WikiLeaks volunteer and current member of the Icelandic Parliament — announced (on Twitter) that she had been notified by Twitter that the DOJ had served …
Verizon iPhone: everything you need to know
Ah, the Verizon iPhone. In our bizarre careers as tech journalists, if there's one question we've heard more than “When is Verizon getting the iPhone?” we can't think of it. Also, outside the origin...
US DOJ subpoenas my twitter account info
It's a warm and fuzzy feeling to know that somewhere, far away, people are thinking about you. Last night I received this rather interesting e-mail from twitter: … While I was still thinking about wh...
Opinion: Facebook may have already peaked
Editor's note: Douglas Rushkoff is the author, most recently, of “Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take it Back” , and “Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital...
VLC for iOS removed from the App Store
Nearly two months after a licensing issue arose between the creators of the open-source VLC platform and creators of the VLC iOS application, Apple has removed the application from their App Store. T...
SoundCloud announces big-name investment - “The Web should not be mute”
Audio sharing platform SoundCloud has received a huge boost today, confirming that it has received investment from major US tech VC firms Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures. — The value of the...
How Lady Gaga Just Reinvented Eye Contact
Lady Gaga's weirdo Polaroid glasses are about to turn our faces into Facebook feeds and mood rings. — The glasses have two little screens in them. The weird thing is that they face outward. You ca...
Amazon, CouponCabin Threaten As Illinois Moves To Tax Internet Sales
With Republicans now in charge in the U.S. House, the states' hopes that Congress might force Internet sellers to collect their sales taxes have faded. But that's not keeping individual states from m...
Windows Home Server goes mobile... Phone!
[Today's post comes courtesy of Joel Burt who is demonstrating Vail + WP7 at the Microsoft Booth at CES] — This week at CES we unveiled a new WP7 add-in to be soon made available for Windows Home Se...
EBay Augmented-Reality App Lets You Try It On Before You Buy
One of the problems with ordering clothing online is not knowing whether it will fit or look good. — EBay has a technology fix for that using augmented reality on the mobile phone. Now you will nev...
Verizon iPhone to Be Available Around End of January
Apple Inc.'s iPhone will make its way to Verizon Wireless stores around the end of the month, a person familiar with the matter said. — The largest U.S. wireless carrier by subscribers will make the...
Windows Phone 7 using lots of 3G data while idle, even on WiFi?
Complaints seem to be growing among some users that Windows Phone 7 is consuming an abnormally plump quantity of data when you're not doing anything. Granted, there's lots of stuff on the platform th...
New York to displace Silicon Valley
There's been a lot of discussion in the past couple of years about the resurgence of New York City as a tech center (I actually called the comparison to Silicon Valley a silly one about a year ago). ...
A Walled Wide Web for Nervous Autocrats
Beijing and Moscow see American information technology as a threat. They want systems of their own — At the end of 2010, the “open-source” software movement, whose activists tend to be fringe acade...
Twitter Courts Google's Sundar Pichai for Head of Product
Sundar Pichai, the man in charge of Chrome and Chrome OS at Google, is being aggressively courted by Twitter to be its next head of product, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. — H...
DoJ Subpoena Proves Twitter's Value — and Its Weakness
and Its Weakness — Not that long ago, there was much debate about whether Twitter was just a plaything for nerds or a powerful, real-time information network. Now the US Department of Justice has an...
No GPL Apps for Apple's App Store
Some people swore to me that just because the free-software General Public License (GPL) clashes with the Apple App Store's Terms of Service (ToS), didn't mean that Apple would actually pull down GPLe...