Introducing the Nokia N9: all it takes is a swipe!
SINGAPORE - At the Nokia Connection event in Singapore today, Nokia introduced the Nokia N9, the first-ever pure touch smartphone that is all about making things simpler. Nokia N9 focuses on the most...
‘LulzSec suspect’ arrested by New Scotland Yard
New Scotland Yard has confirmed that it has arrested a 19-year old suspected hacker in Essex, UK, in connection with a series of hacks and denial-of-service attacks against a number of organisations. ...
Apple about to drop cheaper AirPort Extreme, 3TB Time Capsule (UPDATE: FCC confirms)
Apple is set to release upgraded models of their AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule products. The brand name wireless routers have been constrained for many weeks now in retail locations across the glo...
Google Street View Stops Driving In India; Bangalore Police
Exclusive: Google has paused it's Street View project in India, the company has confirmed to MediaNama, stating that they received a letter from the Commissioner of Police regarding street view, and d...
The Real Reason There Was No Email On The BlackBerry PlayBook
When Research In Motion shipped the PlayBook without native email support, it was surprising. — After all, RIM's greatest strength is a killer email-application for BlackBerrys. Why didn't it have ...
Windows Phone Mango ‘secret’ features demo [video]
Microsoft's next-generation Windows Phone operating system is slick, full of features and addresses the needs of consumers and businesses every step of the way.
Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone
Not too long ago, theorists fretted that the Internet was a place where anonymity thrived. — Now, it seems, it is the place where anonymity dies. — A commuter in the New York area who verbally tan...
iControl raises $50M from Intel, Cisco, Comcast, Kleiner
On the heels of Silion Valley startup iControl securing a deal to provide its software for Comcast's new home security and energy management service, iControl announced Monday that it has raised anoth...
Apple iOS 5 now outperforms IE9 HTML5 on Windows Phone Mango
Microsoft kicked off a mobile HTML5 performance war back in April. — The software giant demonstrated a Windows Phone Mango device against an Android and iPhone 4. Windows Phone came out on top but ...
“Why Should Somebody Buy This Instead of an iPad?”
It's been fifteen months since the first iPad shipped. Nearly every sizable company that makes anything that looks even sort of like a computer or a phone has rushed into the market that Apple create...
DARPA-Born TrapIt Wants to be Your Personalized Newsreader of the Future
How would you like to have a “cognitive prosthetic” that could “adapt to unexpected events” in situations of “intense information overload”...as a personal newsreader app online? That sounds pretty h...
Meet the Stealthy Start-Up That Aims to Sharpen Focus of Entire Camera Industry
A Mountain View start-up is promising that its camera, due later this year, will bring the biggest change to photography since the transition from film to digital. — Ordinarily, I'm turned off by su...
Yahoo approaches Hulu about possible acquisition
Yahoo Inc. recently approached Hulu to discuss a possible acquisition of the popular online video service, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. — Hulu, which streams television shows ...
Yahoo's 360 Degree Turnaround
Oof, Yahoo. The Alibaba dispute, just the most recent Yahoo trainwreck, is still a fresh wound for shareholders. And things are getting worse. — Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has long promised a turnaroun...
F.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline
Updated Adding that the F.B.I. did not comment. — The F.B.I. seized Web servers in a raid on a data center Tuesday, causing several Web sites, including sites run by the New York publisher Curbed Ne...
Google Notches One Billion Unique Visitors Per Month
Google's websites had more than a billion unique visitors in May, the first time an Internet company has hit that benchmark, according to comScore data released Tuesday. — Over the past year, Google...
Nokia N9 first hands-on! (update: video)
The N9 has arrived. Functional units of Nokia's long-awaited MeeGo smartphone have finally landed into our eager hands and we've got a gallery of images to provide you with below. What we can say fr...