Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay
The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel's never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal. — Ov...
The Ambiguity of “Open” and VP8 vs. H.264
Google has recently announced their intention to remove the H.264 video codec from its Chrome browser. This decision has been smeared as an evil campaign for controlling video on the web, akin to not...
iPad 2 Likely to Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution
There's been a lot of talk about a “Retina” display for the next generation iPad due from Apple in the coming months, but it hasn't been completely clear what resolution the iPad's “Retina” display wo...
Facebook used to get to nude e-mail photos
California man faces six years in prison for computer intrusion, impersonation — Below: — Sometimes social networking makes social engineering very easy. — A California man faces six years in pr...
New Kindle Lending Club Matches E-Book Borrowers and Lenders
A new startup called the Kindle Lending Club has launched in beta this week, aiming to make it easier for Kindle users to take advantage of the new options to loan and borrow their e-books. — The Ki...
Union Square Ventures' New Fund Announced: Here's What You Need To Know
In a blog post by Fred Wilson, top New York venture firm Union Square Ventures has officially announced its new $165 million fund, called The Opportunity Fund. — The fund came to light late last yea...
Project HiJack uses iPhone audio jack to make cheap sensors
Making accessories that tie into an iOS device's Dock connector is an expensive proposition: it requires getting certain components from Apple and applying for a costly “Made for iPhone” (or iPod or i...
Windows Phone 7 Screenshots Not A Microsoft Priority
Whether you're into journalism, app development, support or anything related, a platform's capability to take screenshots is an important tool and you definitely know this the hard way by now, if you'...
Let's Compete on Innovation Rather Than Patents
The next generations of telecom technologies are called “LTE” or “4G”. China's Huawei believes that by 2015, it will hold 15-20% of the worldwide patents in these technologies, and that these will ea...
Intel CEO: How we will compete with ARM
Intel CEO Paul Otellini today spelled out how his company will compete with the burgeoning ARM chip ecosystem, which has taken the lead in tablet designs, during the chipmaker's fourth-quarter earning...
Firefox 4 Beta 9 - a huge pile of awesome
Hello, and welcome to the post for Firefox 4 beta 9. If you're reading this then you're interested in what we've got coming down the pipe for the latest beta for the wonderful browser known as Firefo...
Notion Ink Adam clears FCC, begins shipping ‘around Wednesday’
We don't see it in the FCC database yet but Notion Ink's charming Rohan Shravan just penned a post on the company's blog with news that Adam has official clearance from the US government. That's righ...
The Second Coming Of The Internet IPO
Most of what I've been saying recently about valuations here at AVC has been negative. I think we are in a “focus on the upside” phase in the web investing sector and I've been pretty liberal with my...
Twitter for Mac: ‘Tweet’ from Anywhere in OS X
Just a few days ago everyone (including us) was talking about a simple bookmarklet for Safari that sends the site title and link to Twitter for Mac (Tweetie 2). Last night, I even found a Safari exte...
The Beatles on iTunes - 5 million songs, 1 million albums sold so far
Many music fans finally got what they were asking for in November, 2010 when Apple announced that the music of the Beatles was now available for purchase from the iTunes Store. It's a tribute to the ...
GAO, DOJ seek H-1B visa reforms
Feds want employers to post to Web plans to hire H-1B workers; DOJ seeks labor market test prior to H-1B hires — Computerworld - WASHINGTON — The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a ma...
Android getting Google Music sync in Gingerbread?
Google's been teasing cloud-based music features in Android since its I/O conference last year, and the recent leak of a revamped first-party Music app suggests that the plans haven't evaporated into ...