LulzSec - 1000th tweet statement
Dear Internets, This is Lulz Security, better known as those evil bastards from twitter. We just hit 1000 tweets, and as such we thought it best to have a little chit-chat with our friends (and foes)...
Everything That's Wrong With Research In Motion — An Ex-Employee Tells All
An Ex-Employee Tells All — Research In Motion's collapse can be traced straight to the top of the company, where its execs are woefully out of touch with consumers, says a former employee who wrote u...
a three-dimensional platform
Firefox now includes, on all desktop platforms, support for a technology known as WebGL. WebGL allows web developers to use accelerated 3D graphics, including textures and shaders; it exposes the sam...
Vancouver Rioters Hunted On Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr
There's little anonymity left in rioting these days. Thanks to cameraphones and tagging, police will be able to identify some of the Vancouver hooligans who set fires, smashed storefronts and overtur...
Apple could buy the mobile phone industry
The second quarter ends in less than two weeks. When it does, I expect Apple will have over $70 billion in Cash, Cash Equivalents, Short-term marketable securities and long-term Marketable Securities...
Microsoft gets antitrust approval to buy Skype
(Reuters) - Microsoft has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy the Internet phone service Skype, the Federal Trade Commission said in a website posting on Friday. — Microsoft announced in May it was b...
iOS 5 supports speedy Nitro JavaScript for full-screen Web apps
With the release of iOS 5 for the iPhone and iPad this fall, Apple will bring the Nitro JavaScript engine to full-screen Web applications saved to a user's home screen. — Currently, full-screen Web ...
Temporary Removal of Sony Movies through StarzPlay
Hi, Pauline Fischer, VP of Content Acquisition, here. You may have noticed that Sony movies through StarzPlay are not currently available to watch instantly. This is the result of a temporary contra...
Facebook PR: Tonight We Dine In Hell!
There's currently something going on in the outskirts of the tech world that's a bit sensitive, so no one really likes to talk about it: we (journalists, bloggers, etc) are at war with the PR industry...
Falcone's LightSquared Reaches Network Deal With Sprint
Billionaire Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. reached a 15-year deal with Sprint Nextel Corp. to share network expansion costs and equipment, and to provide high-speed wireless service to the phone c...
New Malware Steals Your Bitcoin
In a sure sign that the virtual currency Bitcoin has hit the mainstream, a new Trojan horse program discovered in the wild Thursday seeks out and steals victims' Bitcoin wallets, the same way other ma...
In a first, a Nook beats the Kindle in our e-book reader Ratings
The Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch Reader is more than merely a worthy competitor to the Kindle, as I wrote when I saw the e-book reader demonstrated late last month. Now that we've tested the devi...
Square to Investors: $1 Billion Valuation? That's So Last Week. Make It $2 Billion.
Square is still working on raising its $50 million-or-so next round of venture capital, and we've heard from several sources why it's taking so long. It seems Square is no longer content …
Average U.S. Smartphone Data Usage Up 89% as Cost per MB Goes Down 46%
Don Kellogg, Senior Manager, Telecom Research & Insights, Nielsen — The mobile Data Tsunami initially described here is still growing at an astounding pace. According to Nielsen's monthly analysis ...
Sequoia Capital To Double Down On Evernote With Big New Investment
Evernote is as hot as any startup in Silicon Valley, even if they don't get quite as much press. Last year they raised $20 million from Sequoia Capital, on top of the $25 million they'd already raise...
“.brands” approach with Internet name shake-up
(Reuters) - Brand owners will soon be able to operate their own parts of the Web — such as .apple, .coke or .marlboro — if the biggest shake-up yet in how Internet domains are awarded is approved. — ...
Spotify, Gearing Up For U.S. Launch, Closes Its $1 Billion Round
More momentum for Spotify: The streaming music service has finalized a huge funding round that gives it a valuation of about $1 billion. — The European company has raised around $100 million from DS...
Apple amends complaint against Samsung, asserts more intellectual property rights against more products
Apple has already put its inevitable defeat against Nokia behind it and is in attack mode again. Yesterday (Thursday, June 16, 2011), Apple amended and expanded its complaint against Samsung …
The Android tablet problem, nicely summarized by one review's conclusion
From Ars Technica's review of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, which exemplifies the softball “please keep sending us gadgets” review so prevalent recently: … Really? Will a lot of customers notice the 2...
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the mind of the man who fired Steve Jobs
This is John Sculley. You might know him as the man who helped Pepsi overtake Coca-Cola, but you more likely recognise him as the infamous Apple CEO who fired Steve Jobs back in the 1980s. — Despit...
Nokia's first Windows Phone 7 handset will launch in 6 European countries first
At the 2011 Mobile Telecompaper conference Victor Saeijs, Vice President, Nokia Europe told attendees that the Netherlands will be included in the first wave to receive Nokia's new Windows Phone 7 han...
Spam clogging Amazon's Kindle self-publishing
(Reuters) - Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging the online bookstore of the top-selling eReader with material that is far from being book worthy and threatening to undermine Amazon.com Inc's publishing ...
Working at the Apple Store: Tales from the Inside
The bright, friendly facade of the Apple store hides some weird stuff, according to current and former employees. Porn-stuffed laptops, positivity police, and an anti-gossip gestapo: Welcome to the r...
NSA allies with Internet carriers to thwart cyber attacks against defense firms
The National Security Agency is working with Internet providers to deploy a new generation of tools to scan e-mail and other digital traffic with the goal of thwarting cyberattacks against defense fir...
Why iTunes Match has indie soul label singing the blues
Apple has managed to get the four major record labels on board with its upcoming iTunes Match service, ensuring that most average users will be able to avoid “weeks” of uploading songs to Apple's iClo...
Exclusive: China software bug makes infrastructure vulnerable
(Reuters) - Software widely used in China to help run weapons systems, utilities and chemical plants has bugs that hackers could exploit to damage public infrastructure, according to the Department of...
American Airlines to save $1.2 million shifting paper flight charts to iPad
American Airlines has started a pilot program to test the use of Apple's iPad running a specialized app providing paperless flight navigation charts, a tool it says will save it over a million dollars...
Falcone's LightSquared in Deal With Sprint
Billionaire Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. reached a 15-year deal with Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) to share network expansion costs and equipment, and to provide high-speed wireless service to the pho...
Motorola's WiFi Xoom gains access to Google Movies, just in time for the weekend
Hard to say why Google chose to roll its Movies app out first to 3G-packed tablets sporting Android 3.1 (a smaller testbed, perhaps?), but it looks as if it won't matter for much longer.
Firms Adjust to Hacks
Armed With Crisis Plans, Companies More Readily Disclose Computer-Security Incidents — When email-marketing firm Epsilon Data Management discovered in March that hackers had stolen consumer email ad...
AOL Hell: An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out
I got the job through a friend. The job was this: I would write about TV for a section of the AOL Television website. In theory, this sounded great. In exchange for writing about “The Simpsons” and...
Special report: Government in cyber fight but can't keep up
(Reuters) - The Pentagon is about to roll out an expanded effort to safeguard its contractors from hackers and is building a virtual firing range in cyberspace to test new technologies, according to o...