I.M.F. Reports Cyberattack Led to ‘Very Major Breach’
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund, still struggling to find a new leader after the arrest of its managing director last month in New York, was hit recently by what computer experts describe...
Amazon Sales Tax: The Battle, State by State
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Amazon(AMZN) is in the midst of a heated battle with states over whether it should be required to collect sales taxes. — While this has been an ongoing debate, the dispute rec...
Nuance speech-to-text references baked into iOS 5 internal settings
Although it didn't appear in Scott Forstall's presentation and is yet to show up in iOS 5 SDK findings or in the actual developer beta release, references to Nuance integration have appeared in iOS 5′...
1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup.
in America? Yup. — American ISPs have convinced us that Internet access is expensive—getting speeds of 100Mbps will set most people back by more than $100 a month, assuming the service is even avail...
Digital Black Friday: First Bitcoin “Depression” Hits
Currency experiences massive inflation in a single day, markets stay open — The day was October 28, 1929 and the sky was falling. That Monday the DOW Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell 12.82 perc...
When Engineers Lie
Twenty years ago, when I was writing Accidental Empires, my book about the PC industry, I included near the beginning a little rant about how good engineers were incapable of lying, because their work...
Lodsys sues another ten companies including Adidas, Best Buy, Best Western and Black & Decker
After suing ten large companies (including HP, Samsung and Motorola Mobility) in February and seven little app developers at the end of May, Lodsys filed a new complaint yesterday — as usual …
Computer Studies Made Cool, on Film and Now on Campus
NEW HAVEN — When Keila Fong arrived at Yale, she had never given much thought to computer science. But then last year everyone on campus started talking about the film “The Social Network,” and she b...
Apple's 5.7% drop last week was par for the course
Average post WWDC loss: 5.4%. Average gain from the previous year: 56.8% — There was the usual gnashing of teeth on the Apple (AAPL) investor boards when the company's share price dropped $6.18 ($1...
Google, Microsoft hold steady in May search engine rankings
There wasn't much change at the top of the charts in search engine market share. Google remained on top at 65.5 percent, followed by Yahoo at 15.9 percent and Microsoft at 14.1 percent, according to ...
The +1 Button Is Like A Button You Push For A Treat — Without The Treat
Without The Treat — You people confuse me. — Ten days ago we put Google's +1 Button on TechCrunch — because why not? We try basically all these new buttons/counters/commenting systems much to the ...