How Did Egypt Kill the Internet? Possibly With a Few Phone Calls
UPDATE: This post has been updated with more detailed information on the timing of the shutdown. — How do you turn off the Internet in an entire country? — In the case of Egypt, it was probably do...
The Tweets Must Flow
Our goal is to instantly connect people everywhere to what is most meaningful to them. For this to happen, freedom of expression is essential. Some Tweets may facilitate positive change in a repress...
Angry Birds Planning a Trip to Rio
The Angry Birds are headed to Rio. — Rovio, maker of the popular mobile game, announced on Friday that it is teaming up with Twentieth Century Fox to create a version of the game centered on the upc...
Algorithm change launched
I just wanted to give a quick update on one thing I mentioned in my search engine spam post. — My post mentioned that “we're evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels even lower...
‘SNL’ wants Zuckerberg
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is being lured to have the last laugh on Oscar-nominated “The Social Network” by making a cameo on “Saturday Night Live” alongside Jesse Eisenberg, who plays him in th...
War Maneuvers: Android Event Will Battle iPad Event For Press Love On February 2
I love asking companies if the timing of events is on purpose or purely coincidental. Not only do they almost always say that it's purely coincidental, but they often try to claim that didn't even re...
Microsoft: Consumers Should Think Twice Before Broadcasting Location
As more and more services tap into location-based data, consumers need to take steps to make sure they are aware just how broadly they are sharing that information. — That was one of several points ...
How Steve Jobs ‘out-Japanned’ Japan
The better part of a month has gone by, and most pundits have already weighed in on this year's CES — the global gadget extravaganza that makes Las Vegas the gravitational center of the geek universe ...
Facebook awarded over $360 million damages against spammer
Facebook's security team have reason to celebrate as they have claimed another scalp in the ongoing fight against spammers on the social network. — A post on Facebook's Security page announced that ...
Donald LeBuhn Files Class Action Lawsuit
If you own an iPhone 4 and the glass casing has broken, you are not alone. — So many people have complained, in fact, that the phenomenon has even earned the nickname, “Glassgate.”
ZTE displaces Apple as No. 4 phone maker; RIM bumped from top 5
Chinese consumer electronics company ZTE exploded from the “other” category in the fourth quarter of 2010 to displace Apple as the No. 4 cell phone maker in the world. In doing so, the Chinese manufa...
Microsoft warns of new unpatched vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows
Microsoft said on Friday that it is investigating reports of a new 0-day vulnerability across all supported versions of Windows. — The vulnerability affects Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and all supp...
Tunisia, Egypt, Miami: The Importance of Internet Choke Points
The news Thursday evening that Egypt had severed itself from the global Internet came at the same time as an ostensibly far less inflammatory announcement closer to home. Verizon, the telecom giant, ...
Source: SD Card slot on Apple's next-gen iPad just a rumor
With Apple expected to take the wraps off its second-generation iPad in the next few months, talk has focused largely around the potential hardware enhancements to the tablet device, including rumors ...
Can Leo Apotheker make Hewlett Packard a cool company?
Four months ago, Leo Apotheker took charge of troubled computer giant Hewlett Packard. But is he the man to turn things around? — On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Apotheker...
MPAA Takes A Dozen Torrent Sites Offline
The MPAA has managed to take a dozen torrent sites offline in the United States, with help from Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN. The 12 torrent sites - which remain anonymous - were pulled offline by ...
Apple: World's ‘most desired’ brand
But it comes in behind BMW in China, Trader Joe's in the U.S., Singapore Airlines in Singapore and the World Wildlife Fund in Germany, according to M&C Saatchi — Click to enlarge. Source: M&C Saatc...
Intel gifts world open source FCoE
Vows to save 400,000,000 feet of cable — Intel has officially introduced its Open FCoE software stack, based on the native OS Fibre Channel Over Ethernet project it first open sourced in 2007. — I...
Adobe prepping “Creative Suite 5.5 Digital Publishing” for iOS, Android development
Adobe appears poised to rush to market a new bundle of Creative Suite applications ahead of CS6 that it hopes will solidify its Flash and Air technology as an alternative platform for developers looki...
Exclusive: U.S. asks about search fairness in Google/ITA
(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department's review of Google Inc's planned acquisition of airline ticketing software company ITA Software is focusing on making sure ITA's products remain available, even...
CHART OF THE DAY: Microsoft Incinerates ANOTHER $543 Million Online
Every quarter Microsoft reports earnings, and every quarter it reports a massive loss in its online operations. Today it reported a $543 million loss for its December quarter. — This gives Microsof...
What you should know about LinkedIn's IPO
You've probably seen that professional networking site LinkedIn filed for its initial public offering today. Now that the first wave of excitement has died down, let's take a look at the most relevan...
Who Will Win the Android vs. iPhone Race?
Google's mobile OS will be on top by year-end 2012 — The iPhone may have captured the hearts and minds of many tech-savvy early smartphone adopters—not to mention marketers—with its sleek design, mu...
Samsung hits all-time record revenue in 2010; dual-core Galaxy S2 & multiple Galaxy Tabs incoming
Samsung has announced its 2010 financial figures, and there are strong results for the company's mobile business. Mobile device sales in Q4 2010 topped 80.7m, up 17-percent compared to Q4 2009, with ...
Tweetdeck busts the 140-character limit with Deck.ly
Tweetdeck, the software for social-media ‘power users’, is today unveiling Deck.ly, the latest strand of its plan to ease its dependence on Twitter and become a greater platform in itself. — At a ba...
Four Big Projects Facebook Should Launch, and Probably Will-Even Though It Says It Won't
Steve Jobs is famous for publicly dismissing a market shortly before Apple enters it. And Mark Zuckerberg and his team seem to have some Steve Jobs in them: There are several obvious product launches...
Quora stats: 150% growth in January
I ♥ Quora. Oh yes, I'm a fanboy. — As my many of my friends and family know, I love Quora and get a ton of value out of it.
Bono's Silicon Valley Soap Opera
The rocker's days as a tech mogul could be ending: A key founding partner is ditching Bono's private-equity firm, Elevation, in a nasty spat that's going public, just as the company is trying to launc...
90 Percent of AT&T iPhone Subs Still Under Contract
A metric worth mulling as AT&T's previously monogamous relationship with Apple shifts into polyamory: 90 percent of the carrier's iPhone users are still under contract. — That's according to Susqueh...
Microsoft Presses Intel for 16-core Atom Chip
Microsoft has asked Intel to develop a 16-core version of its low-power Atom chip for use in servers, part of a wider effort to reduce power consumption in its massive data centers, a Microsoft execut...
Box.net And The Freemium Business App
Forbes Magazine dated February 14, 2011 — A band of newcomers is changing how business apps are bought and sold. … Aaron Levie is one of those 26-year-old technology chief executives who make no att...