Facebook forces all users over to @facebook.com e-mail addresses
Facebook began its jaunt as an e-mail service in November 2010, when it started allowing users to make @facebook.com addresses and receive conventional e-mails addressed there in their messages inboxe...
Microsoft to Acquire Yammer
Microsoft extends cloud services with best-in-class enterprise social networking. — Microsoft Corp. and Yammer Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Mic...
Facebook Names Sheryl Sandberg to Its Board of Directors
Facebook announced today that Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer at Facebook, has joined the company's board of directors. — Sandberg oversees Facebook's business operations including sales, m...
On Orbitz, Mac Users Steered to Pricier Hotels
Orbitz Worldwide Inc. has found that people who use Apple Inc.'s Mac computers spend as much as 30% more a night on hotels, so the online travel agency is starting to show them different, and sometime...
Apple Quietly Pulls Claims of Virus Immunity
In the wake of the Flashback botnet which targeted Mac computers, Apple has removed a statement from its messages on its website that Mac operating system X (OS X) isn't susceptible to viruses. — Ap...
Microsoft: We Won't Build Own Windows Phones
Microsoft exec categorically denies reports that the company plans to bring its Surface tablet strategy to the smartphone market. — A Microsoft executive said the company has no plans to manufacture...
165TB of New Imagery Added to Bing Maps
Today we're thrilled to announce the publication of our largest satellite release to date. In fact, this release is larger than all of our past Aerial releases combined! — The latest Aerial release...
Miami Heat Owner Sues Blogger & Google Over ‘Unflattering’ Photo
What is it with super rich sports owners and SLAPP suits? Remember Redskins owner Dan Snyder? Well here's a situation that seems even more ridiculous. Ranaan Katz is a minority owner of the Miami H...
The unedited Q&A: Apple retail employees respond to NYT's profile, share life from inside the Apple Store
Apple retail employees cheering ahead of third-generation iPad launch (SJMN) — Over the weekend, The New York Times profiled Apple's retail operations and controversially touched upon Apple's retail...
In a Big Network of Computers, Evidence of Machine Learning
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Inside Google's secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a s...
I/O Preview: Google Set This Week to Challenge Amazon, Sonos, Apple and ... Oh, Just Fill in the Blank Here
This week, some 5,500 developers will converge in San Francisco for Google I/O to listen to the search giant's latest and greatest plans for Android, Chrome and other products.
Wired and The New Yorker Pull Back on Flipboard
Shelving Efforts to Sell Ads, Curtailing ‘Flip-able’ Content — Some magazines are developing Flipboard fatigue. — Wired and The New Yorker are suspending efforts to sell ads on the platform and re...
New iPhone prototypes have NFC chips and antenna
We've previously been able to pull data from PreEVT iPhone 5,1 and iPhone 5,2 prototypes codenamed N41AP (5,1) and N42AP (5,2), which leads us to believe that the new iPhone will have a bigger 1136×64...
Instagram 2.5 for iPhone adds Explore section, revamps Profile tab, integrates Facebook Likes
Instagram for iPhone just hit version 2.5, which marks the first time the app has been updated since Facebook agreed to acquire it back in April. Instagram 2.5 is mostly a visual update …
eHarmony Password Dump Analysis
Unless you've been hauled up in a bunker, eating MREs and watching Doomsday Preppers marathons, you've likely heard of the recent compromise of over 1.5 million eHarmony password hashes. After a litt...
Google updates Gmail iOS app with Notification Center support, persistent login
The official Gmail client for iOS has been updated today with support for Notification Center, meaning you can now configure the app to display banners, alerts, and lock screen previews of your latest...
Google Offers And Boingo Bring Free WiFi To Manhattan This Summer
In a world where limits go down and pricing goes up, there's nothing better than free connectivity. — Boingo Wireless, in collaboration with Google Offers, is bringing free WiFi to over 200 location...
How close is Windows 8 to being ‘done’?
Summary: When will Microsoft christen Windows 8 as being “done”? At this point in the game, no one from Microsoft has stated this in any official capacity. — Believe or not, folks, Microsoft execs ...
Cdn Fed Court Says No Copyright Infringement For Linking, Posting Several Paragraphs from Article
The Federal Court of Canada has issued an important decision involving copyright and posting content online. The case involves a lawsuit launched by Richard Warman and the National Post …
Why the integrated approach to mobile devices is winning
Until last week's announcement of the new Surface tablet, Microsoft had taken the same approach to mobile devices that they had with PCs: build the software themselves and let partners build the hardw...
Google introduces new I/O live blogging tool
Just days ahead of the yearly Google I/O event, Google has introduced a rather interesting live blogging tool that taps into Google+ page posts and pulls from the I/O live video feed. — This tool, w...
Nasdaq: ‘Arrogance’ Contributed to Facebook IPO Flop
PALO ALTO, Calif.—Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. Chief Executive Robert Greifeld said Sunday that “arrogance” and “overconfidence” among Nasdaq staffers contributed to problems with Facebook Inc.'s initial pub...
Netflix open sources Asgard cloud deployment smarts
Very few companies know how to scale and deploy cloud applications like Netflix, the ginormous movie streaming site. And now it's making some of that cloud management expertise available to the masse...
Nexus 7: This Is Google's New Nexus Tablet
Wondering what Google's flagship I/O Conference announcement this week should look like? Wonder no longer. It's a 7-inch Tegra 3 tablet running Android 5.0 Jelly Bean, and it's set to hit Australia ...
Apple To Feature Yelp Check-Ins Within IPhone Maps App
Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s coming iPhone map application will include Yelp Inc. (YELP)'s “check-in” feature to let users broadcast their whereabouts to friends, according to materials Apple distributed to so...
With Tablet, Microsoft Takes Aim at Hardware Missteps
SEATTLE — Around the time the iPad came out more than two years ago, Microsoft executives got an eye-opening jolt about how far Apple would go to gain an edge for its products. — Microsoft learned t...
Firefox ‘new tab’ feature exposes users' secured info: Fix promised
Unlucky version 13 not ideal, Mozilla admits — Privacy-conscious users have sounded the alarm after it emerged the “New Tab” thumbnail feature in Firefox 13 is “taking snapshots of the user's HTTPS ...
Apple Chomps At App Store Search? Developers See Shift In Search Results
Apple is making potentially significant changes to the search algorithm in the App Store, at least according to some app developers. If you're a developer or publisher counting on a well-chosen name ...
Verizon and T-Mobile To Swap Some Spectrum, if Cable Deal Goes Through
Verizon said on Monday that it has reached a deal to transfer spectrum with T-Mobile USA, provided regulators give the nod to its pending purchase of airwaves from a consortium of cable companies.
The New York Times Brings All Its Content to Flipboard — and Its Pay Wall, Too
and Its Pay Wall, Too — Times Calls Move Part of ‘NYT Everywhere’ Strategy — The New York Times has found a way to finally make all its content available on Flipboard, the popular reading app for t...
Infinite-capacity wireless vortex beams carry 2.5 terabits per second
American and Israeli researchers have used twisted, vortex beams to transmit data at 2.5 terabits per second. As far as we can discern, this is the fastest wireless network ever created — by some mar...
RIM dismisses report of splitting firm in two
Without saying where the information comes from, a report by the Sunday Times of London says that Research In Motion Ltd. wants to separate the hardware side of the business from the services side, or...
Google TV goes international, Sony NSZ-GS7 set-top box up for preorder in the US and UK
Sony mentioned during CES 2012 that it would bring its Google TV-powered hardware to Europe this summer, and now it's official. Along with Google, it's announced preorders are available …
Pinterest to launch on Android at Google IO?
I've just been looking around the Google IO app — released earlier this week. I was checking out the list of Android related exhibitors who will be at Google IO and found an entry for Pinterest. As ...
Location-based app maker Friendthem claims Facebook stole its idea, considers suing
We've talked about how Facebook's latest feature, dubbed ‘Find Friend Nearby’, may put the company at risk of “feature creep”. If it were up to New York-based location-based service provider Friendth...
Exclusive: Dell bids $2.32 billion for Quest Software - source
(Reuters) - Quest Software Inc has received a superior proposal from Dell Inc, the “strategic bidder” that has offered to buy the maker of enterprise management software for about $2.32 billion, a sou...
Stuxnet Will Come Back to Haunt Us
THE decision by the United States and Israel to develop and then deploy the Stuxnet computer worm against an Iranian nuclear facility late in George W. Bush's presidency marked a significant and dange...
Windows 8 RTM build reportedly 8500, announcement coming late July
Pull up a seat if you want to hear about some new information regarding the RTM of Windows 8. Wzor, who has been known to leak Windows information in the past, has just updated a post that says Windo...