LG Miracle Windows Phone Revealed (Image)
LG is preparing a mid-range Windows Phone codenamed LG Miracle — it's actually the same handset we saw in the wild back in December; at the time we speculated that it was another rumored WP7 known as ...
Elite Anti-Terror Police Went After Megaupload's Kim Dotcom
Even after taking in the details of today's 3Newz report several times, it is harder than ever to comprehend what happened at the Dotcom mansion last month. — We knew that dozens of police swooped o...
Max Schrems: The Austrian Thorn In Facebook's Side
Max Schrems, a 24-year-old law student from Austria, has become one of Facebook's most prominent critics — There are likely many things about Facebook that annoy you. Wouldn't it be nice if you cou...
Researchers boost processor performance by getting CPU and GPU to collaborate
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique to take advantage of the “fused architecture” emerging on multicore CPUs that puts central processing units and graphics proce...
Facebook rolls out new photo viewer, similar to Google+
Summary: Facebook has started rolling out a new photo viewer that looks like what Google+ currently offers: image on the left and everything else on the right. Do you have it yet? — Last week, Face...
Rice University And OpenStax Announce First Open-Source Textbooks
When we think about the distribution industry being disrupted, we tend to think about music and movies, whose physical media and vast shipment infrastructure have been rendered mostly obsolete over th...
Flickr wasn't a fan of Snapjoy's Flickraft importing service, cuts off its API access
Earlier, we told you about a new feature from photo hosting site Snapjoy called “Flickraft”. The premise is simple: get all of your photos off of Flickr and onto Snapjoy's platform.
Lady Gaga's New Social Network Resembles Pinterest, Reddit [PICS]
LittleMonsters.com — Pop megastar Lady Gaga has pierced her powerful, digitally-willing paws deeper into the online world with the closed beta launch of her new social network. — LittleMonsters.co...
Will Car-Sharing Networks Change the Way We Travel?
Why would the world's largest car company partner with a tiny, little-known startup that could cannibalize its business by promoting car sharing instead of new-car buying? — According to General Mot...
Google Near Launch of Cloud Storage Service
Google Inc. is close to launching a cloud-storage service that would rival one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups, cloud-storage provider Dropbox Inc., according to people familiar with the matter....
Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, testified in a courtroom Tuesday for the first time in his life. The web pioneer flew down from Boston, where he teaches at M.I.T., to an eastern ...
Foxconn hacked by group called SwaggSec, here's what they are looking at...
Stealing Your Address Book
It's not really a secret, per se, but there's a quiet understanding among many iOS app developers that it is acceptable to send a user's entire address book, without their permission, to remote server...
Why Techmeme now lists events, and how to get your event listed
Events have always played an important role in the tech industry. Knowledge exchange and networking opportunities have long been a key draw, as Apple's history attests. The motivations for meeting h...