Twitter timeline of The Game's ‘telephone flash mob’
Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials are continuing their investigation into rapper The Game and the tweets that sparked a “telephone flash mob” Friday night that jammed emergency phone lines. — A...
Google Steps Up to Defend Android Developers From Patent Lawsuit
Google has intervened in an ongoing intellectual property dispute between smartphone application developers and a patent-holding firm, Wired.com has learned, marking the Mountain View company's first ...
Apple To Eliminate Printer Drivers
Apple has filed two patent applications that describe an approach as well as file formats and APIs to eliminate the printer driver as a requirement for users to access a printer and print documents. ...
Windows Laptop Makers Can't Catch Up to the MacBook Air
The PC world is buzzing lately about how laptop manufacturers are struggling to compete with Apple's MacBook Air, which has exploded in popularity since the introduction of the third-gen model in 2010...
2005 Zuckerberg Didn't Want To Take Over The World
The Huffington Post has come across this fascinating five-minute interview of Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook's Palo Alto office in June 2005. The clip is apparently part of a longer 40-minute-interview ...
Windows Security wrap-up: praise for Vista and a historic first
Summary: At last week's Black Hat conference, a security expert who spent time “beating up Vista” talks about Microsoft's approach to security. Microsoft falls off a top 10 list. And you should visi...
How the NYT paywall is working
When I wrote about the success of the NYT paywall last month, I got a lot of pushback in the comments and on Twitter. Here's a sample: … But of course the paywall is working — with the emphasis very ...
Reddit and community journalism
I've come to love Reddit. What started as a better Digg (and is yet another happy outcome of the remarkable Y Combinator) has turned into a way of sharing and interrogating news. Reddit as it stands...