How Fast the News Spreads Through Social Media
Unless you have been totally disconnected from any sort of news over the past 12 hours, you've no doubt heard that Osama Bin Laden has been found and killed. Barack Obama, President of the United Sta...
Sony suffers another major security breach
Nikkei.com on Monday reported that an online Sony gaming network has once again fallen victim to a cyberattack. This time, the attack may have exposed the credit card numbers of thousands of Sony cus...
Preliminary white iPhone 4 teardowns reveal modified lens, proximity sensor
Early teardown images of Apple's white iPhone 4 appear to show a more recessed rear-facing camera lens and a slightly modified proximity sensor. — After a 10-month delay, Apple launched the white iP...
Twitter To Buy TweetDeck For $40 Million - $50 Million
Twitter has acquired TweetDeck, we've heard from a source with knowledge of the deal, and the transaction will be announced in the next few days. The $40 million - $50 million purchase price includes...
RIM announces BlackBerry 7 OS with better browser and BlackBerry Balance, but no legacy support
The BB OS 6.1 update that grew too big for its name has just been made official by RIM as BlackBerry 7. Its ambassador into the wide world of smartphones will be the newly minted BlackBerry Bold Touc...
Wikileaks Founder: Facebook is the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented
Despite awaiting extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is still the subject of much media interest. — Russia Today (RT) interviewed Assange …
Apple's White iPhone is not thicker than black version
Wearing black is the time-honored technique for appearing thinner without shrinking an inch. Apparently it works for the iPhone 4, as well. Recently an avalanche of news and tech sites reported that...
Microsoft's plan to increase its focus on developers: The full internal memo
The move of Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie from the .Net developer platform to heading up the newly created Azure Application Platform team is just one part of the Server and Tools B...
Apple to fix location tracking bug in iOS 4.3.3; due out soon
One of our Apple sources has just informed us that Apple isn't wasting anytime fixing the infamous location tracking issue in the iPhone and other iOS devices — it's going to be addressed in an update...
Sony Declines to Testify at Congressional Hearing
Sony has declined to testify at a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, “The Threat of Data Theft to American Consumers,” that seeks to understand how consumers' private data is protected by corporation...
Fired Facebook Acquisitions Exec Lands at Twitter
Mike Brown, the former Facebook corporate development executive who was dismissed for buying its stock on secondary markets, has taken a similar job at Twitter. — Brown, who had helped negotiate man...
AT&T to Take On Groupon With $10 Promotion for Daily Deal Site
AT&T Inc. (T), aiming to tap the billion- dollar market for online coupons dominated by Groupon Inc., will introduce its own discount site within the coming weeks in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Dallas-Fo...
The New Essential Apps April 2011: iPhone, Android, iPad and Windows Phone
iPhones. iPads. Android. And Windows Phone 7! We've updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps.
Carriers crack down on Android tethering apps, rain on our mobile hotspot parade
Well everybody, it looks like the free ride is over: carriers in the US have started to seriously crack down on Android tethering apps. Head on over to the Android Market site and try to install an a...
Mac OS X Lion to Bring iOS-Like Uninstall Process for Mac App Store Apps
As noted by Apple iGuide (via TUAW), the latest developer build of Mac OS X Lion seeded last Friday brings a new iOS-like mechanism for deleting applications installed via the Mac App Store.
Google Experimenting With Voice Search on Google.com
Google is allowing some users to search the web by voice on their desktop browsers, the company confirmed to us today in an email. Selected users are shown a little grey microphone at the end of the ...
Google takes top spot in reputation rankings; Apple, Intel, Amazon close behind
Google ranked highest in corporate reputation, according to a Harris Interactive survey. Among tech companies, Apple, Intel and Amazon also rated highly. — According to the 12th Annual Harris Inter...
Google's Eric Schmidt Pours $1.5 Million Into An Online Ad Startup
Google chairman Eric Schmidt just invested into Eyeview Digital, an Israeli startup that helps advertisers deliver highly personalized video ads, Globes reports via investor Ouriel Ohayon.
Peel Raises $16.7M To Turn Your Smartphone Into Your Television's Best Friend
Peel, a startup that's looking to turn your iOS device into a super-powered universal remote (among other things), has some big news: it's just closed a $16.7 million Series B funding round led by Rav...
Google Chrome Canary About To Hit OS X — Chrome 16 Due Before End Of Year
Chrome 16 Due Before End Of Year — Users of Google Chrome are probably aware of the three channels you can use depending on how cutting edge you want to be (and how much you mind bugs): Dev, Beta, St...
Lima is a New Browser-Based Cydia Alternative
After Cydia was crippled by the the recent Amazon EC2 outage, jailbreakers have been seeking out alternative options to get their favorite iOS extensions. Currently, Cydia is widely known as the “onl...
Twitter Just Had Its CNN Moment
It's a great time to be working at Twitter. — Remember CNN when the Gulf War started in 1990? Before then, it was watched mostly by obsessive news followers — people in finance and government, poli...
BlackBerry Bold 9900 / 9930 gets official, finally touch and type
After years of waiting from BlackBerry users, the ultimate BlackBerry has finally been made official. We broke the story on the next generation BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930, and we even spent some one-o...
Hackers Hit Guy Who Live-Tweeted Bin Laden Raid
33-year-old IT consultant Sohaib Athar was just hanging out on Sunday at home in Abbottabad, Pakistan, when he heard an explosion and a helicopter hovering above. He started tweeting what was going o...
The New Essential Apps April 2011: iPhone, Android, iPad and Windows Phone
iPhones. iPads. Android. And Windows Phone 7! We've updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps.
Sony Online loses 12,700 credit card account numbers, 24.6 million accounts compromised [update]
Following up on this morning's news that Sony Online Entertainment servers were offline across the board, SOE announced that it has lost 12,700 customer credit card numbers as the result of an attack ...
BlackBerry PlayBook to get Video Chat and Facebook apps in May
Who's going to get the very first “tablet-optimized” Facebook app? Why, it's RIM and the PlayBook! The Canadian company has today revealed it's bringing a native Facebook app to its 7-inch, QNX-base...
DISH And EchoStar Settle Patent Litigation With TiVo, Agree To Pay $500 Million
DISH Network and EchoStar this morning announced that they've agreed to pay TiVo $500 million to settle all of their ongoing patent litigation with the digital video recorder company.
Microsoft's plan to increase its focus on developers: The full internal memo
The move of Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie from the .Net developer platform to heading up the newly created Azure Application Platform team is just one part of the Server and Tools B...
Yep, Google Just Pushed Chrome Canary For Mac Out Of The Nest
This morning, we noted that Google was getting ready to release an OS X version of the Chrome Canary build. Sure enough, just hours later, here it is. — Canary is the pre-Dev build of Chrome meant ...
Despite friction in China, Google digs in
BEIJING — Google may appear to be under siege in China, but a sense of normalcy — Google style — pervades the company's headquarters here. — Googlers, when they are aren't writing codes or working o...
Samsung takes 200K Galaxy S II pre-orders, passes iPhone 4
Samsung claimed an at least initial win for the Galaxy S II. The company took over 200,000 pre-orders across all three major Korean carriers between Monday of last week and the launch on Friday. Abo...
South Korea police say probing Google over private data
(Reuters) - South Korean police said on Tuesday they had raided Google Inc's Seoul office on suspicions the Internet search firm's mobile advertising unit AdMob had illegally collected data, the lates...