Libyan Disconnect
Renesys confirms that the 13 globally routed Libyan network prefixes were withdrawn at 23:18 GMT (Friday night, 1:18am Saturday local time), and Libya is off the Internet. One Libyan route originated...
Should Employers Be Allowed to Ask for Your Facebook Login?
The American Civil Liberties Union has taken up the cause of a Maryland man who was forced to cough up his Facebook password during a job interview with the Department of Corrections in that state.
iPad 3 with Retina display, new device sized between iPad and iPod in Apple's pipeline
While conflicting rumors have described both a larger screen and a smaller, cheaper iPhone model purportedly planned for this summer, one connected industry expert tells AppleInsider that Apple …
Anonymous delivers ultimatum to Westboro Baptist Church
Anonymous, a notorious collective of unnamed Internet activists, has put the Westboro Baptist Church on notice. Tuesday, the group Anonymous released an open letter to Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist C...
Apple in the Sky with Diamonds: A Cloud Based Safe Deposit Box
With OS X nearing its launch this summer, we just might have gotten a glimpse at either a Time Machine or MobileMe upgrade in one of this week's patents. Apple wants to beef up sensitive document sec...
The lives and deaths of mobile platforms
When Stephen Elop said that Nokia and Microsoft sought to create a “three horse race” he implied that there were only two viable mobile ecosystems today. With that statement he sought to deprecate or...
Nokia head swaps Microsoft shares for own firm: report
HELSINKI — Nokia chief executive and former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop, who has sealed a tie up deal with the US giant, this week swapped all of his Microsoft shares for Nokia stock, reports sai...
Leaving AOL
Today was my last day at Engadget. — I've been writing for Engadget for more than five years. What an insane thing to be able to say! In my time as Contributing Editor / Associate Editor / Senior ...
Intel Plans to Build $5 Billion Chip Plant in Arizona
Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — Intel Corp., the world's largest chipmaker, announced plans to build a $5 billion plant in Arizona and hire 4,000 employees in the U.S. this year. — The workers will focus on p...
Cerf: 2011 will be proving point for ‘InterPlanetary Internet’
In a Q&A with Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, Vint Cerf discusses how 2011 will be a key year for a ‘disruption tolerant’ Internet that uses spacecraft for nodes — Vint Cerf takes his title of C...
Techmeme Figuring Out the Blend of Real-Time & Published News.
I had the following post written and in the my blog's queue (which is how I usually write / blog).... and then something happened: Twitter and UberTwitter tussled. — And as it broke on Friday, there...
What President Obama's Web-hipster beer hoax tells us
“Pics or it didn't happen,” the kids like to say on Internet discussion boards when confronted with an unlikely scenario that calls for photographic verification. — How about making that “Pics and i...
New high-speed connection tech due from Apple
An announcement from Apple is expected soon about a new high-speed connection technology, a source told CNET. — Whether the new connector tech will be part of the upcoming MacBook Pro update (rumore...