Foursquare And Glancee Are Cool, But Here's Why I'm So Excited About Using Highlight At SXSW
The crowds and hype of South By Southwest make the massive Austin tech and media conference the perfect place for launching, well, any sort of app that needs crowds and hype to break out of tech circl...
The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network
Easy to overlook, the PwnPlug offers a tiny back door to the corporate network. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired — When Jayson E. Street broke into the branch office of a national bank in May of last y...
Exclusive: Valve said to be working on ‘Steam Box’ gaming console with partners, could announce at GDC
Recently there's been chatter that Valve — the company behind the massively popular gaming service Steam — has been considering getting into the hardware business.
Hey, People Buying YELP At $25 A Share, What On Earth Are You Thinking?
The king of online local restaurant reviews, Yelp, went public this morning. — Its stock is now trading at $25 a share, ~70 percent above the price institutional investors paid for it last night.
Anonymous Members Hacked During Their Own DDoS Attacks
Membership in the Anonymous hacker collective is not without its dangers—and I don't mean just the 25 Guys in custody. Turns out that someone slipped a Trojan into some popular Anon DDoS software and...
Google's Plan To Compete With Apple's Multi-Platform Siri? Google “Assistant”
The tech world woke up today to reports of an imminent Apple TV, as Apple works to solidify deals with content providers. The rumored television product could indeed be ground-breaking, not just for ...
Google+ adds new mask effects for Hangouts, so go turn yourself into a cat
I'm a huge fan of Google+ Hangouts and I think that the company is really onto something when it comes to interaction over video. It beats the absolute crap out of a Skype conversation, and has fun e...
Vortex radio waves could boost wireless capacity “infinitely”
After four years of incredulity and not-so-gentle mocking, Bo Thide of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and a team in Italy have finally proven that it's possible to simultaneously transmit mult...
Twitter and Facebook share a problem: Proving social ads work
There's a been a big focus recently on the advertising strategy at both Twitter and Facebook, with two in-depth profiles of Twitter in the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek that spent a lot of time...
When will tablets outsell traditional PCs?
Question is when? — I began by projecting growth rates of various market participants including the leading Windows PC makers (HP, Acer, Dell, Lenovo and Acer), the combined “others” and the Mac.
Beyond Oblivion: How a Promising Music Startup Imploded
Beyond Oblivion was supposed to save the music industry. — Instead, it lived up to its name, collapsing in dramatic fashion at the end of 2011 when investors lost their patience with a company that ...
Apple's App Store hits 25B downloads right when we predicted, at a rate of 48.6M a day
Apple has announced that there has been 25 billion downloads from the App Store to date. The countdown to 25,000,000,000 apps began on February 17th when Apple said it would give away a $10K gift car...