10.7 Lion allows multi-user remote computing
iMac screen sharing with MacBook Air on a different account — Yesterday we told you that the popular Back to my Mac feature might go free with 10.7 Lion and we also told you the service received a f...
All of Facebook's Like Buttons on Third-Party Sites Now Publish a Full News Feed Story
When users click the Like or Recommend button on a third-party website or within a Facebook app, it now publishes a full news feed story instead of just a one-line Recent Activity story.
Apple testing Android-like gesture-based lock screen for iOS
Apple has been working on a new gesture-based lock screen for iOS devices that works similarly to Android's “dots” lock screen feature. The user sets up a pattern and needs to input that same pattern...
What ‘The Social Network’ Won (Three Awards, But Not Best Picture) #Oscars
Despite losing Best Picture to The King's Speech, Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher's epic Facebook creation myth The Social Network did pick up three Oscars tonight, more than any film about nerds has e...
Saudi King to buy Facebook for $150 billion to end the revolt: Goldman Sachs to advise
In what is being termed as pure Wall street Gordon Gecko tactics, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has decided to make an offer of $150 billion to buy out Facebook. Inside sources within the kingdom sug...
How Chris Sacca And J.P. Morgan Acquired 10% Of Twitter Via Huge Secret Secondary Fund
Lots and lots of buzz today in all the major newspapers about how J.P. Morgan is trying to buy 10% or so of Twitter for $450 million. — As far as I can tell, all of the stories are wrong.
Feature: Anonymous vs. HBGary: the aftermath
The RSA security conference took place February 14-18 in San Francisco, and malware response company HBGary planned on a big announcement. The firm was about to unveil a new appliance called “Razor,”...
BlackBerry PlayBook will support Android apps, RIM rep proclaims [video]
BGR exclusively reported in January that Research in Motion was hard at work trying to add support for Android applications to the BlackBerry PlayBook and its QNX-based OS. The move would be a huge o...
Verizon still mum on iPhone sales
“Usually, if they sell a lot of something, you want to tell everybody.” — Verizon iPhone launch day. Photo: Chris B. — That's what Steve Jobs had to say in 2009 about sales figures for the Kindle...
Apple adds SSD TRIM support to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion beta
Apple has added limited TRIM support to the latest developer release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, which should enhance the long term performance of Solid State Drives. — While Apple has already started in...
I Disagree with Fred; Marketing is for Companies that Have Great Products
One of the people I admire and respect most in the technology, startup world is Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson. A little more than a year ago, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Fred...
Thanks for the Open Letter to RIM Developer Relations
Hi everyone: I'm Tyler Lessard from RIM. I head up our BlackBerry Developer Relations and Developer Programs team. I wanted to take a moment to provide some updates on our PlayBook developer tools, ...
Microsoft Research teases Windows Phones controlling Surfaces and crazy desktop UIs
Hey, look, at this point, we just want ourselves some good, old-fashioned copy and paste — but we'll give Microsoft some credit for looking a year (or two, or ten) beyond that watermark at what could ...
Over 40,000 Does Dismissed In Copyright Troll Cases
These have been some eventful weeks in the world of copyright trolling. Thousands of unnamed “John Does” in P2P file sharing lawsuits filed in California, Washington DC, Texas, and West Virginia have...
NeuAer lets you tag the radio signature of your ex
Dave Mathews, the Dave Mathews who invented the CueCat, is at the Launch Conference today showing off his latest out-there company, NeuAer. He believes that location reporting services on mobile phon...
Mac OS X Lion's Safari is Snappier and More Stable Thanks to WebKit2
Starting in Mac OS X Lion, we've learned that Apple has started utilizing WebKit2 in their Safari web browser. The advanced version of Apple's Webkit engine was first announced in April of 2010.