Breaking: Foxconn Chengdu Manufacture Plant Explosion (Videos)!
At around 19:00 in China, Foxconn Chengdu manufacture plant got an explosion, we are not sure actually what cause the explosion and how many casualties had resulted. At the scene, there are currently...
Phishing Site Found on a Sony Server
We know you're not supposed to kick somebody when they're already down... but we just found a live phishing site running on one of Sony's servers. — However, this incident has nothing to do with the...
LINKEDIN: The Truth About What It's Worth
LinkedIn's blockbuster IPO has triggered a predictable reaction: Howls of outrage that the valuation is obviously “insane” and that we're right back in a tech bubble again. — Leaving aside the broad...
Nokia To Use ST-Ericsson Chips For Windows Phone 8 Handsets
When Nokia releases its hotly-anticipated smartphones based on Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, at least some of the devices will be powered by silicon from ST-Ericsson, said Carlo Bozotti,...
Screenshots of Apple's impressive new Daily Download iPad app, more Apple Store 2.0 news
We've gotten our hands on the internal Apple RetailMe iPads and have been rifling through the interesting new features that debuted for Retail employees on Monday. First is obviously the Daily Downlo...
Eureka! Google breakthrough makes SSL less painful
Client-side change cuts latency by 30% — Google researchers say they've devised a way to significantly reduce the time it takes websites to establish encrypted connections with end-user browsers, a ...
Apple Is Said to Secure Music Accords With Labels for ITunes Cloud Service
Apple Inc. (AAPL) has reached agreements with three major record labels to let users of its new music service access their song collections from handheld devices via the Internet, people with knowledg...
Wal-Mart to carry TouchPad, 32GB set at $599 [exclusive]
HP's distribution advantage over some other tablet manufacturers is hard to deny. They have massive inroads with traditional electronics retailers like Best Buy and Amazon, their own online store, an...
Twitter sued for ‘breaking’ UK super injunction. Oh yes.
We've been watching the British legal system turn itself into knots for the last couple of weeks, largely due to the ability of Twitter users to break just about any legal ‘super injunction’ a ‘celebr...
The Sensors Are Coming!
A microscopic view of a gyroscope sensor created by STMicroelectronics. It is as thin as a piece of paper and can detect the movement of a mobile phone. — If you own a smartphone, you probably know...
Bing Director Stefan Weitz: ‘Traditional Search Is Failing’
The End Of Blippy As We Know It
So it turns out that almost nobody wants people to check out their purchases. And also that just adding a social element to a feature isn't enough to make it useful. The lessons of user adoption are...
BlackBerry PlayBook sales miss targets by over 90% at major retailer, ‘much higher’ return rate than XOOM
According to a trusted source from a major big box retailer, sales of RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook have fallen far short of expectations. In addition, we're told that the PlayBook …
Peter Thiel Shuns Hot Idea for Bigger Picture
As investors clamor for shares of social media darlings, Peter Thiel is avoiding the frenzy. — “Is Twitter worth $7 billion?” the venture capitalist said. — “The broader question is, Is it going t...
Apple strikes deal with Sony for streaming iTunes music service - report
Apple has reportedly inked a licensing deal with Sony Corp.'s music division to begin offering the label's catalog in the cloud, leaving Universal Music Group as the last holdout among the major recor...
In the U.S., Tablets are TV Buddies while eReaders Make Great Bedfellows
The Nielsen Company's most recent research on mobile connected devices sheds new light on how consumers are using their tablets, eReaders and smartphones - and where they are using them, too.
Hewlett-Packard's Haas, Iannotti Depart Amid Management Shuffle
Hewlett-Packard Co. senior vice presidents Marius Haas, Tom Iannotti and Gary Budzinski are departing, people familiar with the matter said, adding to an exodus of managers from the computer maker.
Tweet about FCC member's new job at Comcast sets off firestorm
Comcast has absorbed a lot of criticism since its decision last week to hire Meredith Attwell Baker, a sitting member of the Federal Communications Commission. — But one critical remark really got u...
Inside the Other Situation Room
THE DAILY BEAST ON: — The State Department's crisis center has been operating in secrecy for half a century, currently keeping Hillary Clinton and others up to speed on what's going on, from Damascu...
Intel: Apple Transferring Thunderbolt Trademark To Us
In recent days there has been confusion over who exactly owns the trademark to the Thunderbolt brand - it had been revealed that Apple had sent trademark requests for the Thunderbolt name despite Inte...
Apple Alumni Don't Fall Far from the Tree
A wave of star engineers has left to start mobile app companies — After selling mobile ad startup Quattro Wireless to Apple (AAPL) in late 2009, Lars Albright took a job helping the iPhone maker wor...
Apple Denies Amazon's Claim That ‘App Store’ Is Generic Term
Apple Inc., suing Amazon.com Inc. for trademark infringement, denied the retailer's claims that “app store” is a generic term and that the words together stand for a store for application programs.
Google abandons master-plan to archive the world's newspapers
In an email today to publishers including the Boston Phoenix, Google told partners in its News Archive project that it would cease accepting, scanning, and indexing microfilm and other archival materi...
Apple Patent Reveals Aperture Coming to Touch Display Devices
A number of patents have surfaced over the last two years concerning light pens and apps moving to touch screens. While one of the first detailed patents surfaced in 2009 in relation to business form...
Porn, piracy, and personal data: Universities providing more than just education...
HTML5: It's Last Call for Comments
After more than 3 years of development and discussion by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Working Group on the subject, the draft specifications document for HTML version 5 will now be moved into L...
Map to Nowhere
The FCC has now failed twice at producing good broadband data. Time to give someone else a try. — Why is it so incredibly difficult to figure out how much of the nation has access to affordable bro...