Is Wireless Tether About to Get the Android Axe? Carriers Finally Starting to Block it?
If you aren't sure what that picture is saying, let me attempt to break it down for you. After receiving a tip that Verizon may be blocking Wireless Tether from the market, I decided to do a little d...
Apple preparing to introduce Sandy Bridge iMacs early next week - sources
Apple as early as next week will deliver a much-needed refresh to its iMac line of all-in-one desktops, adopting Intel's newest family of Core processors and the latest in personal computing I/O techn...
Workers Leaving the Googleplex
In September 2007 I was hired jointly by Transvideo Studios and Google, both headquartered in Mountain View California. Transvideo had a contract with Google and took care of 100% of their video prod...
What Safari's “Reading List” in Lion means for Instapaper
Mac Rumors reports on a new Safari feature in Lion called Reading List: … I've known about this for a little while (I'm not privy to the Lion betas since I only have the iOS developer membership, but ...
How Many Mulligans Does Color Get?
WARNING: mixed sports metaphors ahead. — How many do-overs does a startup get before users give up on it for good? As far as I can remember, the answer is zero. I can't think of an example where a...
Hey Apple, Sony and Amazon: Crisis Response is Real Time Now Too
We've seen a trifecta of failures and/or screwups over the past couple of weeks, from three of the world's technology giants: Apple was shown to be keeping a log of the location of millions of iPhone ...
Google Will Reveal A Revamped Version Of Google TV Soon
The first version of Google TV may be a dud, but the company is working on the next version and could show it off at its I/O conference next month. — An industry source says the next version of Goog...
Opponents: kill AT&T bid for T-Mobile, Qualcomm licenses at same time
The Federal Communications Commission has launched the pleading cycle for the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile. The union would make AT&T the nation's largest wireless carrier, with over 41 perce...
Wikileaks Cables Show Massive U.S. Effort to Establish Canadian DMCA
Wikileaks has released dozens of new U.S. cables that demonstrate years of behind the scenes lobbying by U.S. government officials to pressure Canada into implementing a Canadian DMCA. The cables inc...
Barack Obama Wants You To Watch His Funny YouTube Video
The White House Correspondent's Dinner, an annual tradition where the media and political elite meet to roast each other, with mixed results, just finished up. Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers hoste...
Hackers run up debt for PlayStation user
An Adelaide PlayStation user whose private details were held by the Sony Corporation has had $2,000 of unauthorised charges run up on his credit card in recent days. — It could be the first document...
Leaked Windows 8 builds reveal Windows Store and its logo
While those screenshots of the supposed “Windows App Store” turned out, as expected, to be fakes, there's no doubt Microsoft is working on something along those lines to deliver in Windows 8. In fact...
Lawsuits Filed Against Twitter, Facebook & MySpace For Confirming That A User No Longer Wanted Text Messages
Ah, class action lawsuits in action. If you want an idea of how the class action lawsuit process is often used for completely ridiculous purposes, just take a look …
Unfollowed: How a (Possible) Social Network Spy Came Undone
It started out with a leggy, bikini-clad avatar. She said she was a missile expert — the “1st Lady of Missiles,” in fact — but sometimes suggested she worked with the CIA. With multiple Twitter and ...
Adobe Flash Player 10.2 spills beans on Android 3.1 video acceleration
A recent Adobe Flash Player 10.2 update has spilled the beans on Android 3.1. The update says that Flash Player 10.2 supports “hardware accelerated video,” provided that a user is running the unannou...
Rumor: Evidence for a Castle in the ‘iCloud’ for Lion
French blog Consomac sent us a heads-up that they've done a bit of digging in the current developer preview, searching for further evidence of the suggested Find My Mac feature in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion a...
Memories Lost to a Whirlwind Alight on Facebook to Be Claimed
The tornado that killed Emily Washburn's grandfather this week also destroyed his Mississippi home, leaving his family with nothing to remember him by — until a picture of him holding the dog he loved...
Ultrafast fibre optics set new speed record
THINK your broadband internet connection is fast? Two separate research groups have just lapped the field, setting a world record by sending more than 100 terabits of information per second through a...