Silicon Valley Hiring Perks: Meals, iPads and a Cubicle for Spot
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and JENNA WORTHAM — SAN FRANCISCO — Eric Firestone began a new job at a Web start-up here three weeks ago, and he's already thinking about what he might do next. But that's ju...
ICANN asks the US to cut it loose
ICANN has officially requested the loosening of its contractual ties to the US government. — In a letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (pdf), ICANN president Rod ...
iOS 5 Likely Pushed To The Fall After A Cloud Unveiling At WWDC
Many people (including myself) were a bit disappointed that Apple didn't devote any time during the iPad 2 unveiling to talking about iOS 5, the next major revamp of the software. But there may be a ...
Swoopo Quietly Files for Bankruptcy
The site that put the concept of pay-per-bid auctions on the map is now apparently in financial trouble, Technologizer has learned. Although the company's front page claims “technical issues,” docume...
Samsung's Fake Galaxy Tab Interviews: Hey, Those Words Sound Familiar!
When I watched the video interviews with three “true-life” Galaxy Tab users that Samsung showed at its CTIA event, I was observant enough to figure out (with the help of about six minutes of Google re...
Lukewarm Reaction To Playbook Could Force Drastic Measures For RIM
Is Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) turning into Palm (NSDQ: PALM), the next big prize in the mobile industry's consolidation? — Two of the most important companies in the prehistoric era of the mobi...
A Better Way to Measure Twitter Influence
Whether you're a Twitter user like Lady Gaga (millions and millions of followers) or, say, me (2,600 and growing!), you're always aware of roughly how many people follow you. It's just how people kee...
Academic paper on flow of info on Twitter “50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users” http://bit.ly/dWGnak Yahoo Research
Meet ‘Disco’, The Group Texting App Built Secretly Inside Google
It seems like Google has made a foray into the group messaging space today with Disco, a new iPhone app and website. Well, they sort of have. — The service utilizes the Disco.com domain that Google...
4chan Using Fake OkCupid Profiles to Lure Pathetic Singles to Times Square
4chan has been known on occasion to pick worthy targets for its “malwebolence.” This is not one of those times. As part of a campaign to launch an “involuntary” flash mob, 4chan users and people on ...
Cellphones Track Your Every Move, and You May Not Even Know
A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude can inform friends when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has turned reporting these updates into a ga...
THE SEEDY SIDE OF REDDIT: Porn, Racism, And Nazi Memorabilia
Reddit is an amazing creation. — The news aggregator is a great startup success story. It's also a great community site that often bands together in support of worthy causes. It's also a live inte...
Bing Feature Update: Bing News with Real-Time Twitter feed and Enhanced Entertainment Sharing
Over the past few months, we have been working hard to help customers make more informed decisions in search by surfacing the kind of information you can only get from your friends, often in real-time...
Zuckerberg In Zion: Speaks To Senator Hatch, Students At BYU
You might wonder what in the world could bring the Harvard dropout and under-30 founder of Facebook together with the 77-year-old conservative Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) to talk to students and attend...
Spotify splattered with malware-tainted ads
Sounds dodgy — Users of the ad-supported version of Spotify are getting hit by a malware-based attack. — The assault takes advantage of a Java-based exploit to deposit Trojan horse malware or expl...