Exclusive: Sony Considers Offering Reward To Help Catch Hackers
Still coping with the after-effects of a pair of attacks that has compromised as many as 100 million accounts and which caused two online gaming services to be taken offline, the Japanese electronics ...
The Google News “Osama Death” Sample Highlights Some News Coverage Woes
Today, Google News did a post about the death of Osama bin Laden. Disappointingly, it offered no statistics on what was most read, shared, topics most covered. The post did share a “sample” of 100 l...
“Inside Apple” Reveals Steve Jobs Anecdotes, Apple's Little Known Facts
In Adam Lashinsky's latest feature story on Fortune magazine's new issue — available now on the iPad at $4.99 as single in-app purchase, and free for Fortune subscribers — the author reveals several u...
Quora Opens Doors to Self Promoters, Bias and Marketeers
Quora's differentiation from more established but less respected question and answer forums has typically centered around the quality of the discussions and those participating. It's not too infreque...
Apple May Not Have Bought Nuance But...
The Class That Built Apps, and Fortunes
ALL right, class, here's your homework assignment: Devise an app. Get people to use it. Repeat. — That was the task for some Stanford students in the fall of 2007, in what became known here as the...
Redsn0w Untethered iOS 4.3.3 Jailbreak Released For iPhone, iPad, iPod touch. Here's A Complete How-To Video Tutorial
The iPhone Dev Team has released updated version of both Redsn0w and PwnageTool to jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 untethered using i0n1c's untethered exploit.
Amazon Cloud Player Quietly Begins Working On iOS Devices!
Back in March, alongside the roll out of Amazon's new cloud-based music upload/player service, we noted one glaring problem: it didn't work on iOS devices. You might think this had to due with Flash ...
Report: Next-Gen Xbox Already at EA; EA: That's a ‘Total Fabrication’
Now that Nintendo has revealed its plans to jump into the next-generation with a successor to the Wii, will Microsoft and Sony follow suit? A report earlier today from Develop says that not only is M...
What you should know about iTunes' 56-page legal terms
Updates to Apple's iTunes mean users must agree to new legal terms over and over. But does anyone actually read them? — (CNN) — During Saturday's White House correspondents dinner, “Saturday Night ...
Lenovo-backed Video Game System Unveiled in China
A video game system backed by Lenovo is scheduled to be launched in China in the second half of this year. — It will target the local game console market that is barred to the popular devices that f...
Trying to Game Google on 'Mother's Day Flowers'
Mother's Day flowers. — Those words have been typed into search engines by countless Americans in the lead-up to Sunday. What few realize is that an online war over this endearing phrase is being w...
The Tech Press: Screw Them All
Last week I wrote a post about my current investment policy at TechCrunch, and pointing out already disclosed financial conflicts of interest. Our primary duty to readers, as I've said many times, is...
Email: So yesterday?
According to some news reports, teens and the tech-savvy don't care for email so much these days. Some recent headlines may even have you think that the death of email is imminent, now that social ne...
Report: Condé Nast Springs Ahead of Hearst With iPad Subscription Pact
Welcome to the future — it only costs $19.99. — Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ and Wired, is on the verge of announcing a pact with Apple to begin selling digita...
Google, Facebook: “do not track” bill a threat to California economy
Google and Facebook are warning legislators of dire consequences if California passes a “do not track” bill. The proposed law would require companies doing online business in the Golden State to offe...
Apple Moving Macs to ARM? If History is Any Guide, That's...Entirely Plausible
A Web site with the wonderful name SemiAccurate is reporting that it's a “done deal” that Apple will dump Intel chips for ones based on the ARM architecture used in most smartphones and tablets …
Microsoft Patents 3-D Desktop to Compete With Apple
In a TR exclusive, a patent reveals one possible way Microsoft's future OSes will add depth to their interface. — If you thought Apple's purported 3D interface was intriguing, wait until you see Mic...