Draw Something Loses 5M Users a Month After Zynga Purchase
We may be seeing the beginnings of a lesson as to why it's not always the best idea to buy your competition outright. Mobile giant Zynga's game development philosophy has always been, “If you can' be...
The Maturation of the Billionaire Boy-Man
Incredibly, Mark Zuckerberg has grown up to become an ace CEO—one whose way of thinking might drive Wall Street nuts. — If all goes as planned, Facebook will finally pull the trigger later this mont...
BitTorrent Set To Rebrand Itself As Gyre?
A few days ago the latest uTorrent alpha release saw the light. — Among other things, the new version aims to make downloads even faster for users with high bandwidth connections. — But there was ...
Everyone Has Been Hacked. Now What?
The attackers chose their moment well. — On Apr. 7, 2011, five days before Microsoft patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that had been publicly disclosed three months earl...
If VLC can ship a free DVD player, why can't Microsoft?
Summary: Microsoft's decision to remove support for playing DVD movies in Windows 8 has caused some confusion. If the VLC media player can provide DVD support for free, why can't Microsoft? For star...
Apple Must Face Lawsuit Over IPhone Data Collection Claims
Apple Inc. must face a lawsuit over claims it collected data from customers' iPhones while they used applications approved by the company, a judge ruled. — U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, ...
Apple security blunder exposes Lion login passwords in clear text
Summary: With the latest Lion security update, Mac OS X 10.7.3, Apple has accidentally turned on a debug log file outside of the encrypted area that stores the user's password in clear text.
New Start Up CodeNow.Com Lets You Build And Test Code In Real Time, In Your Browser
Trying new APIs is tricky. You can spend hours setting things up, gaining permissions, and learning syntax before you even get to write one line of code. That's why CodeNow.com is cool.