LulzSec Hackers Get Personal, Dump 26,000 Porn Site Usernames And Passwords
After high profile takedowns of PBS and Sony, the anarchic hacker group LulzSec now seems determined to maximize its exploits' embarrassment factor. — On Friday afternoon the group announced that it...
The checkered past of Groupon's chairman
Groupon's largest shareholder and chairman, Eric Lefkofsky, has a back story investors might want to know. FORTUNE — “Lets start having fun... lets get funky... let's announce everything... let's be ...
Microsoft reveals Xbox LIVE will be built into Windows 8
Mike Delman, Microsoft's vice president of global marketing in the interactive entertainment business unit, revealed the company's plans in an interview this week.
Spain Detains 3 in PlayStation Cyberattacks
PARIS — The Spanish police said Friday that they had apprehended three people suspected of computer hacking in connection with recent cyberattacks on Sony's PlayStation Network as well as corporate an...
Apple poised to build nearly 400K next-gen MacBook Airs this month
The second-generation of Apple's revitalized MacBook Air notebooks are scheduled to enter mass production during the month of June, with an initial build volume hovering around 400,000 units.
Twitter's Secret Handshake
CHARLIE SHEEN'S meltdown took many forms: a cocaine-fueled rampage in a New York hotel room, an erratic radio rant, a vulgar one-man comedy tour. But his biggest contribution to current culture may h...
Spotify Signs Universal Music, May Really Get to U.S., After All
Spotify has signed an American distribution deal with Universal Music Group, the world's largest music label. The pact means that the streaming music company now has U.S. deals in place with three of...
Apple Recalls “Extremely Small” Number of Verizon iPads Over Duplicate ID Numbers
Apple confirmed to AllThingsD on Friday that it has recalled a very small number of Verizon iPad 2 models after the products were inadvertently shipped with identical electronic serial numbers.
Apple sued by iCloud Communications over iCloud trademark
Well that didn't take long. In a suit filed yesterday in the US Disctrict Court in Arizona, a company named iCloud Communications, LLC has claimed trademark infringements against Apple over the use o...
Samsung Chromebook Series 5 review
For almost two years now, Google's been talking up the idea of always-on, always-connected laptops based on a version of its Chrome browser. Local storage, of course, was not an ingredient in the equ...
Steve Case and Jerry Levin reunite to accelerate health technology
Former AOL CEO Steve Case and former Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin, who together presided over one of the worst mergers in corporate history, are reuniting again to help spur innovation in health and we...
Apple slams Amazon's Android e-store as ‘inferior’
In legal clash, also calls out Android security gaffes, including malicious apps infiltrating Google's download center — Computerworld - Apple this week called Amazon's Appstore for Android “inferio...
I.B.M. Researchers Create High-Speed Graphene Circuits
I.B.M. researchers said Thursday that they had designed high-speed circuits from graphene, an ultra-thin material that has a host of promising applications from high-bandwidth communication to a new g...
Facebook begins testing new real-time “Happening Now” feed [Updated]
Updates at the foot of the post. — Facebook has begun testing a new real-time feature on a small number of user's home feeds, displaying at-a-glance a list of what their friends are sharing, who the...
Foursquare (Finally) Checks In To Its Very Own SOMA Office [Pics]
As Steve Jobs has proven times a million this week, if you want your employees to feel great about working for you, give them a great office. — Foursquare's San Francisco outpost has amazingly enoug...
KinectShop: The Next Generation Of Shopping [Exclusive Video]
A new augmented reality shopping platform for Xbox Kinect will allow users to try on clothes in true 3-D, share photos with friends, and store wish-listed items on smartphones for shopping on-the-go.
Apple [pilfers] rips off student's rejected iPhone app
iOS 5 lifts idea, name, even logo — Apple is famous for going to absurd lengths in its effort to enforce patents and trademarks. It recently sued Amazon for calling its app store Appstore. And it ...
EPIC Draft FTC Complaint Vilifies Facebook's Facial Recognition
Earlier this week Facebook drew significant backlash over a feature that uses facial recognition to help users tag their friends in photos shared on the site. The feature isn't new, but Facebook rece...
Apple enters the fray against Lodsys, files motion to intervene
Nine days after Lodsys sued seven little app developers in the Eastern District of Texas, Apple filed a motion to intervene in the proceedings. I have uploaded the motion and its attachments (except ...
Is Apple recalling Verizon iPad 2s?
Update: We've heard this from an Apple Store employee and have an updated post: … We've gotten numerous tips over the past few hours that Verizon iPads being shipped from China are being being returne...
Are the Carriers Strangling Windows Phone 7 at Retail?
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is just getting started as a platform, but the people actually selling the phones may be favoring its competitors. — Going Shopping for Windows Phone 7 — I did some mys...
Judge furious at “inexcusable” P2P lawyering, nukes subpoenas
There are three quick steps to angering a federal judge: first, launch the country's largest file-sharing lawsuit against 23,322 anonymous defendants, even though most of them don't live where you fil...
Groupon Was “The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner”
Editor's note:This guest post was written by Rocky Agrawal, an entrepreneur who has worked on local products since 1995. He blogs at reDesign and Tweets @rakeshlobster. — “How much is your average ...
Is It Really Safe to Use a Cellphone on a Plane?
Like most airline passengers, you probably have serious doubts about those pre-flight announcements asking you to turn off your cellphones, blackberries, iPods and anything else electronic. — The an...
iMessage, Skype, Google Voice, and the death of the phone number
I hate phone numbers. They're a relic of an outmoded system that both wireless and wireline carriers use to keep people trapped on their services — a false technological prison built of nothing but l...
Charges Dropped In Facebook Spy Vs. Spy Case
Suspect knew ex-wife was behind teen girl's phony online profile … In an embarrassing about-face, federal prosecutors yesterday abruptly dropped criminal charges against an Indiana man who they accuse...
Pandora Ups Price Of IPO To $10 To $12 Per Share, Now Valued At $1.9 Billion
Music streaming service Pandora has just filed a new version of its S-1 that indicates the company will be upping the price range of its stock to $10 to $12 per share, giving the company a valuation o...
Getting to one billion iTunes accounts
There are 225 million iTunes account holders. 25 million joined in the three months. As the iTunes store has been operating since April 2003 it's possible to step back and look at its history and mea...
iOS 5: Know when wife is calling - customize vibration patterns
Custom vibrations in Settings (left) and the new interface to customize vibration patterns (right) — iOS 5 comes with a bunch of accessibility improvements, like the AssistiveTouch feature that lets...
Location-based services worth $10B by 2016
Location-based services are expected to bring in $10 billion in revenue by 2016, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. The biggest chunk, just over 50 percent, will come from location-based ...
Apple ‘spaceship’ site is Steve Wozniak's former HP stomping grounds
Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, has some history with the parcel of land that the iPad maker is looking to build its new “spaceship” headquarters on — he used to work there as an ...
Inside the US-Anglo-French plan to civilize the Internet
Get ready for international Internet regulation; top leaders from the US, UK, and France are making increasingly public statements about their plans to draft new rules that will make the 'Net more sec...