Hit the deck: LulzSec and Anonymous start trading blows
Hacker group LulzSec has begun publicly attacking hacker group Anonymous, an action that could lead to a civil war of sorts between the two hacker groups that have similar origins. — LulzSec has beg...
Facebook Readies an iPad App, Finally
Facebook had its application for the iPhone ready right when the Apple App Store opened in July 2008. But more than a year after the iPad went on sale, there is still no official Facebook app for it....
Google denies special deal for Barack Obama
Google denied Wednesday that it gave President Barack Obama's re-election campaign special access to a new advertising program, something a sales representative from the search and advertising giant h...
RIM Falls 15%: FYQ1 Rev, Q2 View Miss; Cuts Year View; Plans Job Cuts, Share Buyback
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIMM) this afternoon reported fiscal Q1 revenue below analysts' estimates, but profit a penny ahead, and a Q2 revenue forecast well below estimates, and cut its ye...
CIA Web site hacked; group LulzSec takes credit
The hacker group LulzSec claimed credit Wednesday for taking down the CIA's Web site for a couple of hours, the latest in a string of embarrassing Web site disruptions the group has pulled off — appar...
Senate Committee Votes to Make Illegal Streaming of Movies, TV a Felony
Apple Launches 2011 Back to School Promotion - $100 App Store Credit
Apple has finally launched the Back to School promotion for 2011. … As reported, this year's back to school promotion offers a $100 iTunes/App Store Gift Card with the purchase of a qualifying Mac.
Apple may freeze new Mac introductions until release of Mac OS X Lion
Apple management is so pumped up over the advantages presented by its forthcoming Mac OS X Lion operating system that the company has been holding back the release of at least one new Mac refresh unti...
Tumblr Now Has More Blogs Than WordPress.com
According to their respective websites, 4-year-old microblogging platform Tumblr now hosts more blogs than 8-year-old WordPress.com. — In January, Tumblr had more than 7 million individual blogs. A...
If You're Paying to Watch Web Video, You're Watching Netflix
If you're watching video on the Internet, the odds are very, very good that you're doing it on YouTube. And failing that, on Facebook. — But if you're paying to watch video on the Web, then the odd...
Apple Sued by New York Publisher Over Trademark for Use of Term ‘iBooks’
Apple Inc. (AAPL), maker of the iPad tablet computer and the iPhone, was sued by New York publisher John T. Colby in federal court today for trademark infringement over its use of the term “iBooks.”
Apple gives us a Peek into a New Social Networking App in the Works
Social networking on sites LinkedIn and Facebook are a huge success with today's in-crowd. Today's social apps typically use matching algorithms to match members with members who are deemed compatibl...
Sony S1 and S2 tablets hitting Europe in September?
Last time we heard talk of a Sony tablet, the company was confirming our suspicions about — the existence of the S1 and S2, giving the distinctive Android devices a broad global release time frame o...
Internet users now have more and closer friends than those offline
Have a computer, Internet connection, and no Facebook profile? Now you're the weirdo outcast. In a new study done by the Pew Research Center, collections of data from thousands of participants showe...
Yahoo Builds App Search For PC, AppSpot For iPhone, Android
Shashi Seth, SVP of Search & Marketplaces at Yahoo believes that mobile apps are like websites in the early days of the internet and will only continue to multiply just as websites have done — seeming...
Why Android will gain HUGE tablet marketshare later this year
Today I took a brief break from my family vacation to visit Vizio's and Oakley's headquarters down in Southern California with my friends Marc Ostrick and Sam Levin to get up to date on the latest 3D ...
Tech Leaders Don't Win By Saying They'll Crush Somebody
The best technology companies in the world, be they in hardware, software or Web services, didn't get there by brashly saying they were going to take out #1, kill them or stomp on their grave. If you...
O2, Vodafone, Everything Everywhere Team Up For M-Payment Push In UK
Big news today in the world of mobile payments: the three largest operators in the UK have announced a joint venture to offer mobile wallet services to its customers. O2 UK, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) UK a...
IBM Turns 100 Today, We Look Back
US computing giant IBM celebrates its 100th anniversary today, a century passing since business Charles Flint oversaw the merger of Hollerith's Tabluating Machine Company with the Computing Scale Comp...
Mayor Bloomberg Calls for Immediate Immigration Reform
Mayor Bloomberg today highlighted the essential role of immigrants in America's economic growth and addressed the urgent need for Washington to put aside partisan politics and immediately pass immigra...
Pew report: Facebook users have a higher degree of social well-being
In just seven years, Facebook has connected one-eleventh of the world on a single website whose population is now nearly twice as large as the United States. — By way of explanation, Mark Zuckerberg...
Exclusive: Why did Glam Media spend over $100K on Foodie.com?
The female-focused media and advertising company Glam Media has purchased Foodie.com, potentially as the first step towards launching a new food vertical, VentureBeat has learned. — According to a s...
HomeAway Prices IPO Between $24 And $27 Per Share, Now Valued At $2 Billion
This is no doubt that this is the year of technology IPOs. Vacation home rental service HomeAway has set the price range of its offering, pricing the range between $24 and $27 per share, valuing the ...
China military paper urges steps against U.S. cyber war threat
(Reuters) - China must boost its cyber-warfare strength to counter a Pentagon push, the country's top military newspaper said on Thursday after weeks of friction over accusations that Beijing may have...
O2 UK spurns BlackBerry PlayBook, cites issues with ‘end to end customer experience’
Today is the PlayBook's official launch day in the UK, but one of the island kingdom's biggest mobile players won't be taking part. O2 has apparently been reaching out to subscribers who've expressed...
Kinect for Windows SDK beta available to download this week
Microsoft will release its Kinect for Windows SDK beta this week. — WinRumors understands that the company plans to release the beta bits during a special developer event on Thursday. Microsoft is ...
Citi says 360,000 customers hacked in May cyber attack
(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc said a cyber attack in May affected over 360,000 of its customers, or almost twice the initial number that the bank's figures had suggested. — After a week of being pressur...