How to avoid or remove Mac Defender malware
A recent phishing scam has targeted Mac users by redirecting them from legitimate websites to fake websites which tell them that their computer is infected with a virus. The user is then offered Mac ...
A First Look at the Next Release of Windows Phone
Windows Phone “Mango” connects smartphone users to people, apps and the Internet faster and easier. — Microsoft today provided the first official look at the next release of Windows Phone, code name...
Google to Unveil Mobile Payments Platform
Google Inc. on Thursday is expected to disclose details about how consumers will be able to make store purchases, redeem coupons, and get loyalty points by waving Android-powered smartphones in front ...
Sarkozy riles Internet CEOs at e-G8
The opening address at the e-G8 conference in Paris from the French president certainly woke up the assembled digerati. — John Perry Barlow, co-founder of open-internet campaigner Electronic Frontie...
Exclusive: Zynga About to File for IPO
Zynga is poised to file for its initial public offering, according to sources close to the situation. — The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission could come as early as this week, or ne...
EXCLUSIVE: Interview With Apple's First CEO Michael Scott
When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in 1976, they couldn't be trusted to run the company. — So, Mike Markkula, Apple's first backer, and the man that guided the company early on, brought...
The Truth About Square
There's lots of talk today on mobile payment processor Square's outstanding results. 500,000 readers shipped, 1 million transactions so far this month, $3 million in transactions per day. — That's ...
Exclusive: Microsoft loses last Xbox founder, mobile PC visionary
It's the end of an era at Microsoft today. — Otto Berkes, the last of the original Xbox founders still at the company, submitted his resignation this afternoon. — Berkes went on to lead developmen...
Barnes & Noble announces new touch-enabled Nook for $139 (video)
Not to be outdone by Kobo which just unleashed it's latest E Ink reader yesterday the folks at Barnes & Noble are back with the latest update to their line of Nook devices. The “all new” Nook is boas...
Hurt Locker Makers Target Record Breaking 24,583 BitTorrent Users
March last year the law firm Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver imported the mass litigation “pay up or else” anti-piracy scheme to the United States. — The initial customers of the lawyers - who are also kno...
Apple forces Samsung to hand over Galaxy prototypes in legal spat
Why two engineers left Apple to build a Flash alternative: The Hype (YC W11) story
Hype is an HTML5 Animation Builder for Mac OS X. It allows you to build interactive sites in HTML5 that rivals Flash. Hype launched last Friday and they are already the top grossing app on the mac ap...
Verizon Droid 3 Details Leak
Rumors of the Motorola Droid 3 has been floating around for a while now, and while pictures have been nice, what's been lacking confirmation on the spec details. Now, thanks to a reliable tipster wit...
T-Mobile doubles 4G network speed to 42Mbps in 55 markets, launches Rocket 3.0 data stick
T-Mobile has just announced that the carrier is doubling the 4G network speed to a whopping 42Mbps in 55 markets. In addition to bumping the network's speed, T-Mobile is also launching a new product,...
Google's Latest Data Center Is Cooled Entirely With Ocean Water
Google has opened the kimono a little bit on its data center design since Facebook launched its open-source data center project a couple months ago. — First, there was an unprecedented video showing...
EXPOSED: The Sleazy Tactics Brokerage Firms Are Using To Make Silicon Valley Employees Rich
Employees at hot Silicon Valley companies are once again getting rich selling stock. — This time, they're doing it even without their companies - Facebook, Groupon, Twitter and others - going public...
Little divides Apple, music publishers on cloud deal
Hopes are high in the music sector that Apple will have all the licenses it needs to launch a cloud-music service in time for the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, which starts on June 6. — ...
Facebook Tests User Page Recommendations
Facebook has begun testing a new feature that enables users to recommend pages to their friends as they're browsing around the site. — While page administrators could always suggest their own conten...
80% of Mobile Video Views Happen on Apple Devices
Mobile video is still a small part of overall online viewing, but it's a part that Apple dominates, according to a new report by video monetization startup FreeWheel. In its Q1 2011 Video Monetizatio...
Getaround, The AirBnb For Cars, Finally Launches
In the collaborative consumption space with startups like AirBnb and TaskRabbit, Getaround is a car rental market place where you can rent a car by the day, hour or week through a smartphone app. Get...
Oh, @#$%, Half Of Facebookers' Walls Have Profanity
Oh, golly! About half of Facebookers' walls have cuss words on them. — That comes from scans of the 30,000-plus Facebook members' walls by Reppler over the past two months. The company found: — 4...
Why The New York Times replaced its Twitter ‘cyborg’ with people this week
The New York Times is turning off the automatic feed for its main Twitter account this week in an experiment to determine if a human-run, interactive approach will be more effective.
Cray launches XK6 “hybrid” supercomputer, 50 petaflops on tap
Seattle supercomputer maker Cray is joining the hybrid craze with an amazing new machine that combines AMD x86 processors with Nvidia graphics processors. — The Cray XK6 scales up to more than 50 pe...
Revamped Yahoo Mail Peels Off Beta Stamp
Yahoo announced late on Monday that it is ready with a final version of its updated mail software in an effort to regain momentum in the free Webmail arena, where it competes with Google and Microsoft...
Apple's iTunes store: 500,000 iOS apps and counting
Less than three years after it opened for business, the App Store hit the half-million mark — Click to enlarge. Source: 148Apps, Chomp and Chillingo — Here's a nice round number likely to be trot...
More Shoppers Trust the Internet Than TV
In the Game of Shopping, the Web Is the Source for Facts — Shopping is no longer a chore. It's a scavenger hunt where the win is defined as consumers finding deals that feel specially tailored for ...
What the e-G8 Could Mean for Internet Development
It's hard to fathom what the two-day e-G8 meeting in Paris, which starts tomorrow, will offer us. It's received only minimal coverage, despite the fact that the attendees include such high-profile pe...
Windows Phone ‘Mango’ search offers location-specific results, app integration (video)
Windows Phone's latest iteration (codename Mango) is all about keeping it in the hood. We had a chance to sit down with a Windows Phone rep before today's big reveal, and they let us in on a couple …
Sony Music Japan hacked through SQL injection flaw
Another day, another attack on Sony. I reported yesterday on the SQL injection attack exposing user information on SonyMusic.gr and today attackers have found flaws in SonyMusic.co.jp. — The Hacker...
Sony shows off, folds up super flexible organic TFT display
E-reader manufacturers are doing their darnedest to get their devices to behave more like the old fashioned books we've all since abandoned, but we won't be happy until we can roll one up and stuff it...
Opera Mini for iPad Now Available
A few months after the first teaser shots and previews that confirmed Opera was working on an iPad version of its alternative browser featuring visual tabs and updated sharing options for the larger s...
Fear of a VC Monoculture
It's a great time to raise money! Or is it? — The venture community is more lively than its been in the last decade. Returns are starting to flow and many are reaping the benefits of a diverse ven...