Breaking Bin Laden: visualizing the power of a single tweet
A full hour before the formal announcement of Bin-Laden's death, Keith Urbahn posted his speculation on the emergency presidential address. Little did he know that this Tweet would trigger an avalanc...
A Letter from Howard Stringer
Please see below for a letter from Howard Stringer:
Apple to Move from Intel to ARM Processors in Future Laptops?
SemiAccurate claims to have heard that Apple will be transitioning from Intel processors to ARM processors in the not too distant future. — The short story is that Apple is moving the laptop line, a...
Creative Tools
Today was my last day at Facebook. Normally when I leave a job I go out cursing the management and wishing I had left much sooner. In the case of Facebook, I sent heartfelt emails to all of my manag...
Security Vulnerability in Mac Client Has Been Addressed
Last month, we were contacted by Pure Hacking, a group of ethical hackers in Australia, who reported what they believed to be a zero-day vulnerability in Skype for Mac 5.x. This vulnerability, which ...
Windows Phone 7 starting to reverse Microsoft's mobile slide?
Microsoft's share of the U.S. smart-phone market is still in decline, but the rate at which it is happening may be slowing, according to a new report from comScore. — In the first three months of 20...
AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Apple and Google all Scheduled to Appear Before Congress Next Week
There will be no shortage of tech companies speaking in Washington next week, as separate Senate subcommittees hold hearings on two major issues in the tech industry.
No, Apple won't be dumping Intel chips for ARM, you crazies
Here's your latest crazy Apple rumor: Sources say that Apple is looking to move towards ARM processors in its laptops, which will replace the Intel chips its been relying on for the past few years, Se...
IDC says smartphones grew 79.7%, Apple takes #2 spot behind Nokia
Apple outpaced the smartphone industry's average growth of 79.7 percent in the first calendar quarter of 2011 to edge out RIM as the second largest producer of smartphones behind Nokia. — Apple sold...
Researchers Say WSJ's WikiLeaks Copycat Is Full Of Holes
The Wall Street Journal wants a WikiLeaks of its own: a conduit for sources to securely submit large caches of data to the site's reporters. But some security researchers say the Journal has yet to l...
The value of Google Maps directions logs
Ooo, this one is important. A clever and very fun paper, “Hyper-Local, Direction-Based Ranking of Places” (PDF), will be presented at VLDB 2011 later this year by a few Googlers. — The core idea is...
Bin Laden's computers will test U.S. forensics
For the U.S. government, the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan represents a unique opportunity to test advanced computer forensics techniques called “media exploitation” that it's develop...
Why malware for Macs is on its way
Oh, the rationalizations people come up with to explain away what they don't want to hear. — Last week, when I wrote Coming soon to a Mac near you: serious malware, I expected to get an earful from ...
Google Appears To Be Testing A Sparse, Ugly New Results Page
Whoa there tipsters, slow down. We've just been bombarded with tips coming our way that Google has rolled out a new-look search results page. Scanning Twitter, it looks like there are in fact a lot ...
56% of Americans have Internet data caps; FCC asked to investigate
Two prominent Washington DC tech policy groups have asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Internet data caps in the US—with a special focus on AT&T. — New America Foundation and...
Recent Zynga Filing Shows $490 Million in Funding
Following reports in February that Zynga was raising a new round of funding of up to $500 million at a $10 billion valuation, a new filing has emerged showing what appears to be a sale of $490 million...
Matt Zimmerman leaving Canonical
I joined Canonical in June of 2004 as a member of the founding team, before we even had a name for the company. In June 2011, after just over seven years as Ubuntu CTO, I will be leaving Canonical in...
Flipboard Triples Daily Usage in Two Months After Speed Improvements
Flipboard, the leading social news app for iPad, has tripled daily usage in the last two months, CEO Mike McCue said in a chat on Thursday. The app now sees eight to nine million daily “flips.”
T-Mobile loses 471,000 contract customers, cites ‘competitive pressures’
T-Mobile USA saw a spike in contract customer losses as it struggles to compete with other carriers. — The company said Friday that it lost 471,000 net contract customers in the first quarter compar...
Facebook Quietly Fixes its Original Privacy Problem, 5 Years Later
Facebook has quietly enabled a new privacy feature that allows users to hide certain types of updates from their walls and from the newsfeeds of friends. Make a new friend? Planning on going to an e...
Apple's iPad 2 launch in China draws crowds, scalpers
Apple's launch of the Wi-Fi iPad 2 in China on Friday drew customers and scalpers alike, with anecdotal evidence suggesting that the white model is significantly more popular. — The iPad 2 went on s...
S.F. puts cell phone radiation law on hold
San Francisco has rarely shied away from a legal fight over its cutting-edge laws - be it Walgreens suing over the ban on selling cigarettes in drug stores or restaurants taking the city to court over...
Wall Street Journal Issues Statement on its WikiLeaks Clone SafeHouse's Lack of Safety
FishbowlNY wrote earlier about SafeHouse, the Wall Street Journal's WikiLeaks clone, that has been getting some flak for not actually being like WikiLeaks at all with regard to its most important feat...
ASUS HQ Makes Official Statement on Transformer Tablet Shortagea
Living in Taipei we've often noticed that marketing people overseas don't really know what's going on with their products, not like the head quarters does anyways. There have been a lot of rumors flo...
Scammers Swap Google Images for Malware
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a single tainted digital image may be worth thousands of dollars for computer crooks who are using weaknesses in Google's Image Search to foist malicious s...
Impacted By Google's Panda Update? Google Asks You To Consider This...
Amit's goal with this post is to have those webmasters impacted …
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Swears He's Not Going to Kill HBO: “We Compete Like Football and Baseball”
So we've heard what Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes thinks about Netflix. What does Reed Hastings think about Time Warner? — He's full of good will, too!
Game developer David Braben creates a USB stick PC for $25
David Braben is a very well-known game developer who runs the UK development studio Frontier Developments, but is just as well known for being the co-developer of Elite. — Over his career his studio...
Sen. Rockefeller to introduce ‘Do Not Track’ bill
By Cecilia Kang Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.Va) on Friday said he will introduce a “do not track” bill that would allow consumers to block Web sites and marketers from tracking their activity on the In...
UK Journalists' Tweets To Be Regulated
Reporter and newspaper Twitter feeds are expected to brought under the regulation of the Press Complaints Commission later this year, the first time the body has sought to consolidate social media mes...
Rising Costs Leave Facebook Developers in the Lurch
Small Developers Move to Other Markets As Ad Prices and Revenue Splits Make Environment Tougher — As Facebook heads toward 700 million users, one thing seems clear: the gold rush for Facebook app de...
Google Seeks Antitrust Lawyer as It Faces Regulatory Scrutiny
Google Inc. (GOOG), with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said to be preparing an investigation of its dominant position in the Internet search industry, is seeking to hire an antitrust lawyer, accor...
Researcher: Skype for Mac has ‘dangerous’ vulnerability
Skype's Mac client has a serious zero-day vulnerability that the company is yet to fix, a security researcher has said. — Writing on the blog of security firm Pure Hacking, researcher Gordon Maddern...