S.F. subway muzzles cell service during protest
The operators of the Bay Area Rapid Transit subway system asked wireless providers to suspend service last night in four downtown San Francisco stations to interfere with a protest over a shooting by ...
Apple will not hold iPhone 5 event on Sept. 7
Reports began to surface yesterday that Apple would hold a special event on September 7 to launch the new iPhone, but that's not happening. — According to my sources, Apple will not have an event or...
14 Million Americans Scanned QR or Bar Codes on their Mobile Phones in June 2011
Newspapers/Magazines and Product Packaging Most Likely Source of QR Code — QR Code Users Most Likely to Scan Code while at Home or Store — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the ...
Netflix tests new web UI for kids. First look
Netflix has started to test a separate section for children's content on its website with a UI that is optimized to be used by kids themselves. Select Netflix members have been getting a new tab labe...
South Korean Government Pushes To Phase Out Online Real-Name Policy
In the wake of the country's worst online security breach that compromised the personal information of over two-thirds of the population, the home affairs ministry said Thursday it will push to repeal...
Compal to start delivery of Windows Phones to Nokia in September. 2 million units ordered for Q4 2011
We already told you that first Nokia Windows Phones will be made by Taiwanese Compal. Today we have some more info about them. — This has still to percolate to the English speaking part of the net ...
Jeff Bezos wants to put an airbag in your smartphone
Many of us have experienced the problem: We get careless with our mobile phones, they slip out of our hands, and all of a sudden we're back at the store replacing a shattered device. — Well, none ot...
Android steals 20% of tablet market from iPad over past year
Android-powered tablets have taken 20% of the global tablet market from Apple's iPad over the past 12 months according to new data from ABI Research. While Android tablets have collectively managed t...
The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled Was... Disclaimer: The Devil Doesn't Pull Tricks
It looks like Facebook is finally winning a PR battle. Good for them. — Earlier this week, it was brought to light (again) that Facebook uses several of its smartphone apps to take all of your cont...
Björk's “App Album” Shows The Way For Musicians
Icelandic musician Björk recently released what she claims to be the world's “first app album.” It's an iPad and iPhone app featuring 10 songs, each song accompanied by an interactive app. The “moth...
Welcome to the Cloud - “Your Apple ID has been disabled.”
Hello Hacker News and TechMeme. OK, let's make this a movement. Tell me your stories: http://myappleidhasbeendisabled.tumblr. com — So Apple is America's most valuable company. They are, like eve...
Clever Girl: Facebook Lets You Export Friends' Email Addresses, But Makes It Opt-In
It's now possible to export your Facebook social graph. Your real social graph, complete with your friends' emails, which means you can leave Facebook and import your social network into a rival site...
Acer Iconia Tab A100 — the first 7-inch Honeycomb tablet — goes on sale for $330
the first 7-inch Honeycomb tablet — goes on sale for $330 — It hasn't been an easy road for Acer's 7-inch Iconia Tab A100 — its US launch was delayed and it has been patiently waiting on Google's And...
What If Tim Berners-Lee Had Patented The Web?
You may have seen the stories a week or so ago about how it was the 20th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee putting up the first web page. While many, many people still confuse “the web” with “the intern...
How to use Jonathan's card to buy yourself an iPad
Jonathan Stark recently released his Starbucks card to the public as a social experiment. It was quickly picked up by CNN, Time, and many others. For those of you who are living under a rock, here's...
How browsers make money, or why Google needs Firefox
Whenever we write a glowing story about Firefox or Mozilla, the ExtremeTech postbag has a tendency to fill up with letters and missives from concerned readers who are worried about Mozilla's close tie...
Aussie startup recruits Google Maps inventor
THE lightbulb moment for Rebekah Campbell came as she was confronting the awful, imminent prospect of failure. — Tickets to a gig she was promoting were not selling and the band, Evermore, was facin...
Amazon Cracks Down on Some E-Book ‘Publishers’
Amazon makes it extremely easy to take a bunch of words and publish them as a book for the Kindle e-reader. And longtime professional writers like Edward Jay Epstein, the author of books on Hollywood...
New Patents Surface for an iPhone Antenna Clip, Solar Energy and a new Oil Resistant Coating for iOS Devices
A number of interesting Apple patent applications surfaced at the US Patent & Trademark Office yesterday. This report will cover three of them.
Chill, Yes THAT Chill, Is A Turntable.fm For Videos
Imagine innocently launching your Facebook app one night and waking up to a bevy of emails saying that Mark Zuckerberg thinks the thing that you built is spamming up HIS precious platform. And let's ...
Demand Media's RSS Graffiti Buy Is Good News for a Demand Media Executive
Demand Media's recent purchase of technology company RSS Graffiti is good news for Michael Blend, who owned 40 percent of the start-up. But the deal doesn't mean Blend will quit his day job — working...
Facebook Quietly Updates Platform Policies - Developers, No Linking To Competitors!
Facebook made some noteworthy changes to its Platform policies on the 27th of July 2011, adding a couple of new terms developers need to take into account when building apps for the Facebook Platform.
Report: Apple A6 production has begun
A report from the Taiwan Economic News claims Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has started trial production of Apple's next generation A6 processor. The A6 is an ARM-based processor that ...
Apple to Hold Media Event on September 7th, 2011?
Kodawarisan offers the first specific date for Apple's fall media event. According to the Japanese site, Apple is planning on holding their usual iPod-announcing event on Wednesday, September 7th. —...
TSMC Kicks Off A6 Processor Trial Production with Apple
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSMC), the world's largest semiconductor foundry by market shares now, has allegedly started trial production of the A6 processor in cooperation with Appl...
#mango Sept 1? Just a rumor.
Did Facebook's Redesign Just Bring Back Viral Spam?
Facebook has launched a major redesign for games, bringing back some viral components that were turned off after users complained about random alerts cluttering their news feeds. — The updates were ...
What If Tim Berners-Lee Had Patented The Web?
You may have seen the stories a week or so ago about how it was the 20th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee putting up the first web page. While many, many people still confuse “the web” with “the intern...
Samsung Finally Plans To Announce The Galaxy S II On August 29 — One Week Ahead Of The iPhone 5
One Week Ahead Of The iPhone 5 — We just got an invite to Samsung's Galaxy S II official U.S. launch announcement. — It's on August 29 at 6 p.m. Eastern. We'll be there live covering the whole thi...
Dell discontinues the 5 inch Streak tablet
Dell has stopped selling the Dell Streak 5 inch Android tablet/smartphone. The original Streak launched last year as Dell's first Android product. It blurred the lines between a tablet and a phone b...
U.S. Judge Slaps Around Brazilian Court In Zynga v. Vostu
Ah, litigation. Nothing ever really gets done, but the lawyers get paid, and there's always drama. The Vostu v. Zynga case exemplifies all of this. And it just got weird to boot. Today a U.S. judg...
Google Unleashes Native Client Into Chrome, Next-Gen Web Apps To Follow?
For well over a year now, Google has been hyping up something called Native Client. It's an open source technology that allows a web browser to run compiled native code. In other words, it's a poten...
Millennial: Android Grabs 53 Percent Of Ad Impressions In Q2; iOS Takes 27 Percent Share
The largest remaining independent mobile ad network Millennial Media has released its 50th report today, and to commemorate this, revealed a number of statistics comparing the growth of manufacturers ...
Unredacted AT&T Filing Shows $3.8B Price Tag
AT&T's pledge to expand its LTE network to an additional 55 million Americans if the T-Mobile USA mega-merger goes through carries a $3.8 billion price tag, according to data accidentally leaked by th...
Opinionaided secures $4.3M for real-time mobile Q&A
The Series A round is led by SoftBank Capital and BlueRun Ventures — Following on the heels of its $1 million seed round in March, mobile Q&A app Opinionaided has announced its $4.3 million Series A...