A Case for Pseudonyms
pseu ·do ·nym —noun a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. — There are myriad reasons why individuals may wish to use a name other than the one they were bo...
How The Hell Is This My Fault?
You've doubtless heard about the Airbnb fiasco - being dubbed #ransackgate by some - that's been exploding the last couple of days. If you're not familiar with the story, we first covered it here, an...
Unconfirmed: iPhone 5 May Appear at the End of September
An AT&T employee says that any vacations for the last two weeks of September would be denied “due to an event blackout”. According to him, the only times this has been done in the past was when an iP...
Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged
Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net's most popular sites are using a tracking service that can't be evaded — even when users block cookies, turn off storage in Flash, or ...
A Brief History of Apple Not Buying Things
And so it begins again. BGR has an exclusive scoop from an “unproven” (ooh!) source: Apple is in talks to buy Barnes & Noble, the country's last remaining national bookseller. As BGR points out, the...
AT&T's sleek Samsung slider isn't the Galaxy S II after all
Last week, we exclusively reported that AT&T was planning to launch a variant of Samsung's Galaxy S II with a full QWERTY keyboard. Well, we have good news and bad news: BGR learned on Friday from a ...
Icelanders hand in draft of world's first ‘web’ constitution
REYKJAVIK — A group of 25 ordinary citizens on Friday presented to Iceland's parliamentary speaker a new constitution draft, which they compiled with the help of hundreds of others who chipped in onli...
Apple Extends iTunes Previews to 90 Seconds Internationally
Apple seems to have extended iTunes song previews to 90 seconds internationally. Apple first rolled out 90 second previews in the U.S. back in December, 2010. International song previews had been st...