Exclusive: Operation Shady rat—Unprecedented Cyber-espionage Campaign and Intellectual-Property Bonanza
Unprecedented Cyber-espionage Campaign and Intellectual-Property Bonanza — For at least five years, a high-level hacking campaign—dubbed Operation Shady rat—has infiltrated the computer systems of na...
Mug-Shot Industry Will Dig Up Your Past, Charge You to Bury It Again
Ex-con Rob Wiggen gets hate mail daily for running a website that hosts 4 million mug shots. Photo by James Branaman/Wired.com — Philip Cabibi, a 31-year-old applications administrator in Utah …
AT&T to offer 4G BlackBerry Torch 9810 in August, Bold 9900 and Torch 9860 to follow
AT&T announced early Wednesday morning that it will offer three new BlackBerry smartphones this year. It will first launch the 4G HSPA+ capable BlackBerry Torch 9810 in August.
Pages are now self-serve! A new home for brands and organizations on foursquare.
Back in January of 2010, Intel became the first organization with a Page on foursquare. We hacked together a new template for them (look at our spec, with our crazy old logo!) and built it out by han...
Mobile Developers See More Promise in Google+ than iCloud
Mobile application developers believe that Google's new social network Google Plus will have more impact on mobile growth and adoption than Apple's iCloud, or even iOS 5's Twitter integration. This i...
Opinion: Will OS X Lion roar in the enterprise?
So far there's been a lot of focus on Lion's new features. But what about the updated version of Mac OS X in the workplace? Computerworld's Ryan Faas takes a look at how Mac OS X Lion will impact co...
Microsoft releases new Zune HD apps. We don't know why
Despite killing off the Zune HD line (effectively) and telling people to buy Windows Phones instead, Microsoft today released a spate of new applications for its old music player line. — Why would i...
Samsung Is Said to Examine InterDigital Patents
Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second-largest maker of mobile phones, is examining InterDigital Inc.'s patent portfolio after being approached to make a bid, according to two people familiar wit...
Verizon loses ActiveVideo patent suit, owes $115m
Video-on-demand technology startup ActiveVideo was awarded $115 million by a jury in a patent infringement against Verizon Tuesday. The decision comes a little more than a year after ActiveVideo took...
Internet Explorer story was bogus
The story claimed that users of internet explorer had a lower IQ than those who opted for other browsers — A story which suggested that users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who cho...
Lookout Report: Android Malware Has Increased Significantly Over Past 6 Months
Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, is releasing the results of its Mobile Threat Report. The report is based on threat and security data from Lookout's Mobi...
When patents attack Android
I have worked in the tech sector for over two decades. Microsoft and Apple have always been at each other's throats, so when they get into bed together you have to start wondering what's going on. H...
Exclusive: Randi Zuckerberg Leaves Facebook to Start New Social Media Firm (Resignation Letter)
Randi Zuckerberg, who is director of marketing at Facebook and also the sister of CEO and Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg — is leaving Facebook after six years to start a new media firm to help companies b...
Look who's talking: Speech in Mango
On a recent run around town with my wife to grab dinner and pick up one of the kids, a text message came in from my son. Not an unusual event in itself, but what made this message interesting is that...
THE BILLION-DOLLAR CLUB: 12 Startups With Skyrocketing Valuations
After watching startups like Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon explode in valuation, VCs are now pouring money into the next crop of startups. — Valuations are skyrocketing as VCs compete to get in the n...
Find My Mac Goes Live For Developers
Find My Mac has gone live for developers beta testing Apple's iCloud service. Find My Mac was officially added to Lion in Developer Preview 4, released after WWDC in June, though evidence of the feat...
Behind The Numbers Of Google+'s Monumental Rise To 25 Million Visitors
This week comScore released findings on Google+'s monumental surge to 25 million unique global visitors. Launched just over a month ago, Google+ has become the fastest social networking service to re...