China paper warns Google may pay price for hacking claims
(Reuters) - Google has become a “political tool” vilifying the Chinese government, an official Beijing newspaper said on Monday, warning that the U.S. Internet giant's statements about hacking attacks...
Apple iOS 5 hands-on preview
iOS 5 won't be ready for the masses until this Fall, but lucky developers — and eager tech bloggers — are able to get in on the action right now. We just got done downloading the 730MB BETA, and have...
Surprise! Facebook Credits and Apple's iTunes Play Nice With Each Other.
Facebook has Credits, Apple has iTunes, and then there's the plethora of points and coins found on the major consoles and online services. — For game players, it's the equivalent of traveling in Eur...
Security ‘Tokens’ Take Hit
RSA Offers to Replace Nearly All of Its SecurIDs in Use or Provide Monitoring — RSA Security is offering to provide security monitoring or replace its well-known SecurID tokens—devices used by milli...
Xbox.com leaks E3 secrets early: Voice Search, ‘new look’ for XBL, Halo 4, and Halo: CE remake
Quick refreshing of Microsoft's E3 landing page has apparently revealed some of the things it will be announcing within the hour at its E3 press conference, including new features for Xbox Live …
What Safari's Reading List means for Instapaper
Before today, I knew that a reading-list feature similar to Instapaper's core bookmark-saving purpose was being added to Safari in Lion, and wrote a big blog post about its potential impact on Instapa...
Working With Lady Gaga to Bridge Music and Technology
Soon after Apple started its music-centric social network Ping last year, Steven P. Jobs reached out to Lady Gaga and her business manager, Troy Carter, for feedback. — At the company's headquarters...
One in four US hackers ‘is an FBI informer’
The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an army of informers among online criminals — The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in t...
Apple faces antitrust complaint over iCloud in Germany
It seems a little odd for an as-yet unrevealed product to be the subject of an antitrust complaint, but that's what appears to have happened in Europe. — Music streaming service Simfy says that it h...
Eric Schmidt And Others Invest In Rich Media Display Ad Startup Spongecell
Spongecell, a startup that places rich media ads in display advertisements, has raised a new round of financing led by Eric Schmidt and Jim Pallotta, Chairman and Managing Director of Raptor Group.
Sina Weibo preparing English site, to go head on against Twitter in 2-3 months
TechWeb reports that according to informed sources, Sina Weibo is “actively preparing” to release its microblogging platform in English to go directly head on against Twitter, in about 2-3 months.
Is YouTube Killing Music Piracy?
The music industry has witnessed some dramatic changes in recent years, even when piracy is left out of the picture. In just a decade the Internet and the MP3 revolution have redefined people's music...
EBay acquires Magento, builds a commerce OS
EBay said it is buying up the rest of ecommerce platform Magento, which it previously had a 49 percent stake in, in a bid to build a broader commerce operating system that spans online, mobile, socia...
In-flight Internet: the view from 35,000 feet and three years
In-flight Internet access has had its up and downs, and, yes, this article will have its share of aviation-related puns. An aborted launch by Boeing in 2004 seemed to ground the idea, but a second at...
Microsoft needs to tell Windows 8 developers now about ‘Jupiter’ and Silverlight
Telling only part of a story can be worse than keeping completely mum, as Microsoft officials seem to be discovering with Windows 8. — Last week during the first public preview of the Windows 8 user...