An Important Message From Sony's Chief Information Security Officer
We want to let you know that we have detected attempts on Sony Entertainment Network, PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment ("Networks") services to test a massive set of sign-in IDs and p...
iOS 5 Review: Ambitious update rings in the changes
It seems like every time a major software revision comes along, it's described as the “biggest ever.” In the case of iOS 5, though, that might not be hyperbole—there's hardly a part of Apple's mobile...
Millions of BlackBerry users cut off for third day
(Reuters) - Millions of BlackBerry users around the world were left without text communication services for a third day on Wednesday as Research in Motion struggled to fix what it said was a switching...
Siri says some weird things
Look, I'm not going to go into great detail about what I've been doing with Siri during my testing period, but I will tell you this — Siri says some crazy stuff. — Hit the gallery below for a look a...
Sprint won't sell iPhone 4S with unlocked micro-SIM card slot
Sprint customers who buy the iPhone 4S will be able to roam internationally on GSM networks, but will not find themselves with unlocked microSIM slots, a Sprint representative tells Ars. While some i...
Google Engineer: “Google+ is a Prime Example of Our Complete Failure to Understand Platforms”
Last night, high-profile Google engineer Steve Yegge mistakenly posted a long rant about working at Amazon and Google's own issues with creating platforms on Google+.
Opera proposal brings a book look to the Web
OSLO, Norway—Opera Software is a browser company, but its chief technology officer believes the modern Web still could learn a thing or two from publishing technology that's hundreds of years old. — ...
Samsung ambushes Apple's iPhone 4S launch in Sydney
Apple fans queue outside Sydney's Apple store for Friday's delivery of the new iPhone 4S as bargain-hunters queue for the $2 Samsung Galaxy S II, just one shop away. — Samsung has ambushed the launc...
Apple Releases OS X 10.7.2 with iCloud Support
As part of Apple's rollout of its iCloud service today, Apple has just released OS X 10.7.2. The new update includes support for iCloud and will ensure that users have full access to their iCloud-hos...
Apple prepping movie cloud service
Apple Inc. is preparing to put movies in the cloud, entering a market in which it may be both competitor and ally to a similar offering backed by most Hollywood studios. — Representatives of the iPh...
How Gizmodo escaped indictment in iPhone prototype deal
The great iPhone prototype caper of 2010 has finally ended, with the two men accused of shopping the device to gadget blogs sentenced to probation yesterday. — Last year's investigation began with a...
Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011: Computer scientist, Unix co-creator, C programming language designer
Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness. No further details are available at the time of this blog...
The real world, now in real-time! Say hi to foursquare Radar!
[The new version should be available in the App Store soon! Thanks for your patience] — The initial vision for foursquare centered around one question: can we build something to help make the world...
Microsoft to develop Hadoop distributions for Windows Server and Azure
Summary: Microsoft is stepping up its support of Hadoop with new Windows Azure and Windows Server distributions in order to better support users' big data and unstructured data needs.
Samsung says upgrades smartphones to avoid Dutch sales ban
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co said on Wednesday it will soon release upgraded versions of three Galaxy smartphones in Europe to get around temporary sales bans on earlier versions of products tha...
Google Guns for Amazon Web Services with New Storage, App Engine Offerings
Google is turning up the heat with its cloud services for the enterprise. Today the company bundled up several announcements ranging from the Cloud SQL service in limited preview to promoting Cloud S...
What's Next for Apple
I have no inside information or insight, but historically Apple's product improvements have strongly broadcasted where they're going in the future. Here are six things I think are inevitable for Appl...
HP's Layoffs Taking Effect, ~500 Gone From San Diego Group
The “reduction in workforce” telegraphed by HP a few weeks ago appears to finally be taking place, according to a source inside the company. Apparently the formal emails have gone out and the entire ...
Find My Friends app goes live ahead of iOS 5 release
Apple has just released the Find My Friends app which lets you locate your contacts on a map and share your own location with them. The program is not available directly on the App Store. Instead, y...
An Important Message From Sony's Chief Information Security Officer
We want to let you know that we have detected attempts on Sony Entertainment Network, PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment ("Networks") services to test a massive set of sign-in IDs and p...
Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011: Computer scientist, Unix co-creator, C programming language designer
Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness. No further details are available at the time of this blog...
RIM tells BlackBerry users of outage in Americas
(Reuters) - Research In Motion advised some clients on Wednesday that it was dealing with a BlackBerry outage in the Americas similar to service disruptions that have cropped up in other parts of the ...
Facebook Says Some of Your Personal Data Is Its ‘Trade Secrets or Intellectual Property’
A few weeks back, Techdirt posted a story about a European campaign group called “Europe vs. Facebook”, which is trying to find out exactly what information Facebook holds about its users.
Google TV add-on for the Android SDK
A few weeks back we released the preview of the Google TV add-on for Android SDK. Today, we're releasing the final add-on for the upcoming release of Google TV software. — The differences in this v...